The Wild Wild West TV Show Goofs
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- Explore goofs from the TV show the Wild Wild West from the 1960's which starred Robert Conrad as Jim West or James West and Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon, also known as Artie. The show was an action packed western with a little bit of sci-fi and James Bond spy drama throw into the mix. It involved a lot of dangerous stunts that Robert Conrad the actor did himself, for the most part, until he had a serious injury toward the end of the series.
Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon was the master of disguise. The pace of the show was fast and so must have been the shooting schedule as a few puzzling goofs managed to creep into the series over time. Some of these goofs or bloopers may not have been worthy of reshoots like a small airplane, jet, car, or truck in the background, but a couple really affected the continuity.
As we look for goofs see stunts go wrong, modern vehicles in a western, and weird continuity issues that affected the story and even one that should have changed the outcome. This television series ran from 1965 to 1969 and provided a unique look at the old west. It stands even with a few goofs, mistakes, and bloopers as a part of classic television history.
0:00 Intro
0:40 Stunt gone wrong
1:40 Self cleaning suit
3:15 Punch misses by a mile
3:25 Vehicles and planes on a western
4:15 Scuba diver shows
4:59 The episode, "Night of the Iron Fist" goes from day to night from interior and exterior shots several times
5:47 The Constitution
6:10 Fake Ross Martin aka Artie stand in and his health issues
6:32 Gilligan's Island location connections and guest appearances 
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I just loved THE WILD WILD WEST, it was the 007 of the old west
Love the series. No one could replace Conrad and Martin
I loved this show as a kid. I don’t mind giving these old shows a free pass when errors become apparent. Part of their charm.
Right? This is camp, through and through. If something like a jet in the background is enough to ruin it for somebody, then the intentional gags probably wont land either.
I loved this as a kid.
I’m 64 and have loved it since 9/17/65.
@@wildforthecats661 57 here
When this TV show started, I was smashed up in a horrible wreck. Broke both legs, knees, ankles, I was like a sack full of broken glass! All I had was a TV, with NO cable! What a drag! This show was my salvation. I rigged a special antenna which gave me a watchable picture on a station a hundred miles away that showed WWW on a different night than my local CBS affiliate, so I could watch each episode twice. I think I actually preferred it in b&W to the color shows which came later. Ross Martin had terrible health problems, so there were a couple of regular stand-ins for him. One in particular who's name escapes me just now. I loved this show& the stunts were terrific!
Alan Hale Jr.
aka "The Skipper."🛥
Robert was a role model for many boys in the 60's. He was clean cut, tough,& humble. They don't make them like that anymore.
And a roll model for stuntmen everywhere
The character, Jim West was a good role model.
@@TheBlueDogMan My x GF saw him many times like 1980 hung out at a 4* bar in Chicago.She didn't like him Ahole and she was Very Good Looking..😁😁😁
Pretty soon it will be the Transgender Wild Wild West. Now that will be wild. RIP the good old days.
Omg….he was HOT! I remember my crush on him as a young boy.
I just turned 60, and both Gilligan's Island and The Wild,Wild West were among my favorite TV shows! I too have noticed lots of gaffs on my HD big screen in old shows that we wouldn't have noticed on our "little" 19" diagonal color or black and white sets back then. Still love the good old days programs, but on a much better TV!
The W.W.W. & Gilligan's Island, two of my favs as a kid! Great attention to detail on the "goofs"!
Thanks!
James West was a super hero of mine as a kid and honestly still is. Lol one of the best of all time. Like Bond.
Robert Conrad was prolific back then. I loved him in Baa Baa Black Sheep -A.K.A.- Black Sheep Squadron in the '70's!
LOVED that show-- it's what got me into govt. work.. started military- recruited to bodyguard work due to my specialty... and hostage recovery agent/security specialist...
Interesting to hear this. I too was impressed and influenced by James West, which helped give me the courage to pursue and accomplish becoming a military policeman in the U.S. Army for 3 years. What a positive role model that character was for a skinny, glasses wearing young kid.
I never would have noticed any of this as a kid in the 60's and 70's, loved the show, wanted to be James/Robert. Brings back so many memories.
Interesting how you share those goofs with us that many of us never noticed!
WW West was one of my favorite shows in the 60s. Trust me, a lot of those goofs were never noticed on our 15 inch Black and White TV with Rabbbit Ear antennas.
Oh my gosh, how'd you miss one of the biggest goofs this show is known for: Robert Conrad repeatedly ripping his too tight pants in those numerous fights of his, sometimes to shreds.
My brother and I watched this show on weekdays in reruns. It's still an enjoyable show.
This show is one of my favorites. I always make sure I catch it on Saturday mornings on MeTV. Great job, as usual, Tvcrazyman!
I hope you all enjoy these interesting goofs I found on the Wild Wild West TV series. Robert Conrad sure did do some pretty rough stunts which looked like a lot of fun until the one where he hit his head.
Nice job, some I’ve seen before and knew about. It was a game as an adult later to spot screw ups and messed up stunts or weird things or out of place things like a plane or power line etc, makes a good drinking game and funny things we usually didn’t notice when we watched these shows as kids!
I admire actors who are so dedicated to do their own stunts, but common sense should prevail when there are professionals available. Risky work even for professionals.
Love this show! This, Kung-Fu, UFO, The Chanmpions... Better days.
As a little kid I saw an old pickup truck in the background of some early sixties western. For years I had the idea - floating around in my head - that the modern pickup truck was patterned after a horse-drawn wagon of peculiar design. I must have been fifteen when it finally occurred to me, "Wait, that was just a pickup truck."
It’s probably a little bit of both.
Thanks for pointing out Gilligan's island similarities
Loved this show. When it first ran, it was on Friday nights at 7:30 on CBS. I’d watch it, then flip over to ABC and watch “Honey West” with Anne Francis, then switch to NBC and watch “T.H.E. Cat” starring Robert Loggia. I was 11. 🤣😉
Honey West and Thomas Huwitt Edward Cat were favorites. Honey was probably related to Jim West and probably related to Maj Don West from Lost in Space.
Wow, I was 12 and did the same thing
You have good taste!
Ditto on T.H.E. Cat. I've been wanting to buy it on quality DVD but can't find it. Why hasn't it been on MeTV.
@@joetoyota7903 The series only lasted a year with 26 episodes. Back then a series usually needed 3 seasons or 75 episodes to get picked up for syndication. It had poor ratings, unfortunately.
@@Primus54 These sub channels could rotate the one season TV shows adding variety. I'm sick of the same tired re runs of gilligans island, andy griffith, hogans heroes, etc, etc. In my dvd collection I've got 1 or 2 seasons shows like Man With A Camera, The Dakotas, Crime story................etc etc. Play these short season shows, a different one every night. They just keep rotating the same ol' hash. How come so many people remember T.H.E. Cat, and speak highly of it, yet you say it had poor ratings? It may gain a new audience in re-runs.
As a kid, this was probably my #1 favorite show. What a team they were. Artie was like Q- always inventing the coolest shit! Thanks for this- it was so much fun!
Love this. Fun fact it was shot at WB studios in Burbank that’s right in the flight path of Burbank Airport.
Well done! THe WWW is the best show ever! I saw contrails in an episode where Jim and Arty were tricked to think they were in rRussia, At the end, during their escape from whatever captivity, jet condensation trails are visible in the sky.
I really enjoyed Wild Wild West back in the day. For the technology of the time it was a pretty good show. Also the plots and acting were less 'vapid' than stuff like Gilligan's Island.
60s baby and come from the 3 and 4 TV channel era. I loved this show. West and Gordon 👍
One of my favorite series ever! So much better than 99% of the garbage on TV today. You have a good eye on those goofs, thanks!
Appreciate it!
I don't remember which episode it was but Jim is underwater and comes up for air, his hair is dry and combed with a part, hes dives down again and comes back up with dry hair and his hair now combed back. Love that show!
Such a great fantasy!!! I so loved everything they did!!!! Great stunts ....as he did his own stunts and he trained his horse and was an expert on a horse....when he passed...we all learned how diligent he was with his character....you can say it ain't so....but after his death we know it to be true.......R.I.P. James West and Artemis Gordon! Thanks for the great memories......
Loved the show growing up, about eight years old. When asked by a teacher what tv shows I watched,
I proudly responded "Wild Wild West". I still remember the look of horror on her face!
She said she had a Nielson box, and would switch from the show when it came on.
Read the obit for there show's studio musician a few years back. Loved the music. Had that guitar riff in my head when climbing and sneaking around. Saw Conrad on Merv Griffin years later, lamenting about fitting into "those little blue pants", made me laugh. All Conrads characters influenced me growing up as a Male. Too bad his life turned out the way it did.
I guess she was one of those that thought the show was too violent which is really hard to conceive of today,.
In all of the old TV shows, you can tell when it's filmed on a studio set because there is more than one shadow.
There is also a rare book about the series which describes some of these bloopers and more.
I watched this as a kid . I loved it all the gadgets and advanced tech. Never thought about what a tool Conrad was. He was just cool but really a tool.
Loved that show when I was a kid!
I've got all the seasons of this on dvd that stunt look painful some stunts are dangerous to do love these stunts awesome show
Are used to watch the wild wild West late at night when I was a teenager. Honestly, I hadn’t seen it in a long time. Maybe I can catch it on Hulu or something like that.
Funny how Robert gets cleaned up in the next scene. Kind of like KITT not getting a scratch or a dent.
The part where they had Skipper on it.
3:40 You're right. 1960s TV sets didn't have enough resolution to show the plane in the background, or a lot of other things that wouldn't cut it today.
The actor who looks like Mr. Clean is wearing the painted brown tunic thing that was originally created for John Wayne's costume in 'The Conqueror' and went on to be worn by the spy disguised as an Andorian in the Star Trek original series episode 'Journey to Babel.'
Nice job, well done!
Thanks!
When I was in college, I was involved in a couple of amateur _Doctor Who_ movie productions. Some scenes were supposedly on a deserted planet. To our annoyance, we ended up with contrails in the sky that we hadn't noticed while filming. I feel better knowing that the professionals could get the same sort of background goofs.
After school viewing. Mandatory.
the dust is coming from the horse with the cameraman on it! lol
Loved this TV show!!!!!
I never heard of this show. Im def buying the dvd set! This show looks awesome! Thanks
LOVE how each episode was named "The Night of the X-Y-Z"!
About thirty years back my grandfather got confused by a night scene that was filmed at night.
Conrad was the star of the made for tv movie “Hard Knox” . Conrad was a retired marine who took over a delapitated school. The movie was filmed in Mount Carroll Illinois where I grew up. The school was the former Shimer College that had been abandoned for several years.
I loved that show still do and the stunts were incredible I used to imitate James west and Artemis gordon
My favorite show
Fun series. Conrad and Martin never mailed a performance in.
I always love the song when he’s putting together his gadgets I’ve got to the point when I’m doing something like that I remember the theme song. 😂
Loved that show. Maybe that stuff was some of Dr. Lovelaces inventions.
It’s called suspension of disbelief. The ability we allow ourselves to dispense with logic for the sake of entertainment
That first stunt they show Robert Conrad had gotten what they called a double concussion. I never figured that out.
Both Gilligans Island and WWW were produced by CBS at their own studio facility in Studio City CA - not too far from Universal. CBS acquired the facility in the early 1960s and literally hundreds of shows have been produced there from that point through to today - both by CBS owned shows and as a rental studio for independent productions.
The "lagoon" was actually a permanent lake on the CBS back lot and was dressed as required for any show that needed it. - including that background house, which was just a facade that could be set up on the lake, the sound stage, the back lot, or taken out to an actual location. The CBS studios are not too far off of the flight path to Burbank airport roughly five or so miles away - hence the occasional plane in the sky in any number of shows filmed there.
At some point in the '90s, CBS expanded and remodeled the entire facility and the whole back lot was re-developed into offices, parking structures and other necessary departmental structures.
Love your humor as you point stuff out.
Thanks
Love the wild Wild West, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Pretty great stuff..the inside western set looked like the Gunsmoke set(front street) at CBS , back in the day.😊 same as the lagoon scenes. I swam in that lagoon.
I noticed on the tv western "Bat Masterson" at the beginning credits for the first episode when the train is moving up the tracks you see off to the side in a ditch a "modern" bulldozer..Im surprised they
didn't put a tarp over it to hide it better.
excellent!...thank you
Wild Wild West
Alias Smith and Jones
Here Come the Brides
Great shows
When I was a kid I saw a plane on Bonanza once.
The house you see in rhe background of the Lagoon is a ranch house in The Mansion complex...aka The Big Valley. Big Valley was just through the trees from Gilligan as the Lagoon was dug in the backward of the ranch complex.
One time Backus and Hale were killing time chipping golfballs into the lagoon. They bet each other about who could hit distance and started firing them over the pond....
A studio guard came eushing in on a golf cart asking who the hell was hitting golfballs into the parking lot for rhe Big Valley crew. (Source: Dawn Wells)
I guess a lot of shows filmed very close to each other back then.
The little *dink* when the grappling hook hits the brick 😂😂😂
I guess I was too busy watching Robert Conrad…whew..
There was a great line from the movie Once Upon a Time in hollywood. "And Bob Conrad with his tight pants"
The dust in front of Robert Conrad is coming from the film truck.
4:26 Isn't that a big tank Jim & the scuba diver are swimming in? You can see the sides of it here.
Years ago I was watching a John Wayne movie and in the background was a Semi Truck driving from Right to Left on the Highway behind John in the distance.
I think a lot of people must have seen that one. My mother always brings that one up.
It was the best TV show of the 1960s ,when it went off TV I stop watching TV until 1980s
Do you all like the episodes better that were more like traditional westerns or the ones with more of a sci-fi spy feel to them?
sci-fi spy which set it apart. I enjoyed seeing the various gadgets. The many beautiful actresses didn't hurt either!
I've often noticed on these old shows that the night shots were filmed with a filter. It's dark out but we magically have shadows!
Your clip of Jim West under water with the scuba diver in the background also seems to show a row of windows below the water line. If I were to venture a guess, I would say that this scene was filmed at the now long gone Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, California. The show tanks all had windows like these so that guests could see sea life and whales under the surface. We used to go there all the time when I was a kid. Marineland closed in 1987 after being purchased by Sea World in San Diego.
Cool!
Another connection between The Wild Wild West and Gilligans Island is the cinematography Richard L Rawlings.
They had scuba divers are there in case the actors start to have trouble. They just didn't have cgi back then to hide the divers lol
Dr. Loveless was one of the great villains.
Good show!
He hurt his back on the chandelier fall.
Alan Hale replaced Artie on one or two episodes while he was dealing with his heart attack.
The John Wayne movie, The Undefeated, you can see a Truck in the background in one scene. The Big Valley you can see a Volkswagen in the background in an episode.
I was a very young lady but no doubt I missed details on the sides. I was very much focused on Robert Conrad…one of the handsomest actors ever. I’m glad my Mom was always busy when that show came on..I never watched it at night though. Maybe it was in reruns.
Well we can call,those vehicles in the sky U.F.O.s ! 😁
This show was so silly, almost ridiculous, the special effects were embarrassing, but it was like Gilligan's Island, you got hooked on it and couldn't stop watching. When Ross Martin missed some episodes, the ones he wasn't in was hard to watch, Ross was a great part of the draw to the show.
You didn't realise how much he made the show until he wasn't in it. The rapport between Martin and Conrad is gorgeous to watch.
@@karenseery5064 Ross Martin, in my opinion was the most important character, the episodes where he wasn't in it was terrible, The chemistry between the other actors wasn't there.
@@docbrown6550 yes, they really felt hollow, didn't they. TNOT Diva, where Martin returned after illness, is so good as we see the joy in Artie's face.
@@karenseery5064 Some actors have a chemistry, such as Abbott and Costello as an example, Lou Costello made a movie The Bride of Candy Rock, it was ok only, but not anywhere near the greatness the duo had when both were together. The same was with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. 👍👍
It was a great show
As a kid, I didn't catch this stuff. But I did catch that a lot of Big Valley, Gunsmoke etc towns were on this show.
Great show. Campy as it was I still love it. The movie remake with Will Smith was crap.
There was an episode of Gunsmoke where you seen an airplane, a 747 air plane behind James Arness and you can't help not noticed it.
There were a lot of vehicle traffic in the vicinity of Malibu State Park observed in The Rifleman episodes particularly in scenes filmed on the hills above Lucas’ homestead
On Hogan's Heroes I wish somebody could tell me what the blue box is next to the door in the barracks. It made me for matches but I can't tell for sure
The jet went through Bermuda triangle and ended up in the past. 😂
That sounds like a good story! 😀
Dr. Loveless has to be behind that one lol
I just bought this on DVD. It's fun to watch. In one scene West rips his pants in front showing his whities, later they're ripped in a different place. He never loses his composure and keep in character. In another scene in a different episode he rips his pants in the rear. I think they magically repair themselves.
I wondered why he never got either looser pants or pants that were more flexible and tougher because I think that happened a lot.
if you look very carefully, you can see where he's wearing larger pants that have padding in them for when he's doing floor falls and banging into stuff. Then magically he's back in those fantastic tight pants that we girls loved seeing him in, and it's no coincidence we got so many rear end views...whoa. @@tvcrazyman
In my alternate reality Viggo Mortensen played Jim and Tony Shalhoub played Artie in the 1999 film.
The government said this show was too violent, and it was cancelled. But look what they allow today.
Looks a fun series. Don't think it was ever shown here in the UK. Conrad wasn't a well known actor this side of the pond, but i remember him from a mid-70s spy show A Man Called Sloane.
Definitely was shown in UK, but couldn't tell you the station or the night, and not sure we got all the seasons.
@@grahamnash9981 I see. I'd have been too young to watch it first time around, and it's never had a repeat to the best of my knowledge.
Great video...👍
Thanks
If robert tessier would have actually connected that punch would have been all Conrad needed for another hospital stay
1st, they were not planes, they were eagles🤣🤣. And I believe they interstate they were by was the 99/I-5
Loved the Wild Wild West, The TV show, (not the movie)
Both Wild Wild West and Gilligan's Island were co-produced by CBS Productions, so they likely used some of the same production assets and actors from time to time.
my favorite show
If Dr. Lovelace invented a jet during time of President Grant he kept it a secret.
It was Loveless, not Lovelace.😅