The Wild Wild West TV intro (1965)
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. Half science fiction and half western, the Artemus designs a series of interesting gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget proud.
RIP Robert Conrad.
You’re a hero who will be missed.
Greatest intro for any show. Loved watching when I was a kid
Remember watching this when I was a kid back in the late 60's early 70's. Loved it! Dr. Loveless was the best villian of all time.
@ ole 9421: Oooo darn you! Darn you, Mr. West!😠
i was a little boy watching Wild Wild West on monday nights with my dad.....and its been over 40 years since...
one of the best action show's ever !!!!!! long live the wild wild west !! james and artie !!
One of the best t.v, shows ever, needs to be remembered much more than it does and it deserves much more credit
This was certainly a different kind of western than what people were used to in the 50's and early 60's. Extraordinarily entertaining.
One of the very best themes (and TV show) of all time!
One of the great westerns of all time.
ecwdown Not to mention one of the great SF shows.
Right there with "The Rifleman", "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "The Lone Ranger", and "Rawhide"!😎
James Bond of the Old West! What good childhood memories from watching this.
This is season 1's opening. From 2-4 he punched her. Serves her right after pulling a knife on him.
that intro was so much better, knock a bitch out. that will teach her to try to knife james west
Mary Ann Millhouse
color episodes were better especially the fighting scenes
I'll never forget watching with my family the premiere of the 2nd season, and seeing him punch the treacherous gal with the dagger, and we're laughing and asking each other: "What? He didn't do that last year!" Good change; served her right.
Oh yeah!! I remember that! 😅
LOL! I remember that! I was 10. I thought,"Oh, he punched her!"
This show was so much better than the 1999 feature film with Will Smith. They really need to stop turning classic tv shows into feature films. They were good as they were.
After the film's release, Will Smith publicly apologized to Robert Conrad and the original crew of the WWW.....I would love to see a MUCH better version redone...(hell they've rebooted Spiderman and Batman, why not James West? and do it RIGHT like the show? Especially if they are going to have a Loveless, make him what he was in the show and not the *%$&%@*($_$^@@ awful idiot in the last film!)
Seconded. Leave greatness the hell alone.
Bubba Hubba This will probably sound really strange, but . . . I thought that the Robt. Downey Sherlock Holmes movies were exactly what the Wild Wild West film should have been: the perfect combination of action-hero machismo, "noir"-like darkness and mystery, surrealism, and dark comedy. I thought they did NOT do justice to Sherlock at all -- he was an intellectual, not a strutting macho martial arts maven -- but I could definitely have seen Jim and Artie cast and played exactly the way Holmes and Watson were here. And the overall atmosphere -- dark, brooding, mysterious, but laced with wonder -- was perfect for what the Wild Wild West captured at its best.
Why would they have a colored boy in a western? Political correctness run a muck, I suppose.
You are correct!
This is one of my favorite shows of all time. I have all 4 DVD sets. The DVD for the first season have the original black and white pilot(called only The Wild West) intro showing West punching the lady. This changed for first season and changed back in the second season.
My grandfather was a big western fan. He watched most all of the television westerns at the time. So, when he heard this show was coming on, he was ready. Well, it just wasn't what he thought it would be. No indians or the traditional bad guy. Just this dapper dressed good guy, his very capable and quite resourceful compadre and a gaggle of unique crime fighting gadgets, most powered by steam. He just couldn't get into the premise. My dad tried explaining it, but to no avail. I really don't know if grandpa didn't get the spy genre rampant at the time or if he just was disappointed it wasn't a western as he thought it would be. As for my dad and myself, we loved the show.
Boy, what a flashback.
This brings back memories.
My favorite show of all time. Thanks for the post.
I used to watch with my grandpa! Sweet, sweet memories!
Mine too!!!#😘
This is a fantastic TV theme-song. It was my favorite show as a child. It wouldn't go over so well today because Jim socks a woman in the face at the end of the opening.
She was trying to kill him with a large hair-pin, what's he supposed to do?
Ha ha! Whatever.
This deserves a “those were the damn days.” For sure.
Yeah, I remember that too!! I thought that was funny as hell, when I watched this as a kid - the intro was the best part of the show . . .
This was one of my favourite shows...it was so cool...feel very nostalgic now.
I loved this show when I was a kid. I grew up on westerns.
Loved this show growing up. The producers were brilliant...bring James Bond to the American West.
Great TV for us in the 60's, I would love to have a suit like Jim West ,full of all the tools of the Secret Service agent! I have the first season on DVD. The Intro music is so distinctive, you can never make a mistake of what show is playing!
James Bond in the 1860's and 70's, I loved that show
Great series , at least 30 years ahead of its time. This is Steampunk before there was Steampunk !
Great show ahead of it's time
Great animation by DePatie Freleng! Truly awesome titles!!!
This show was a HOOT. It led off one of the best Friday nights in television, followed by Route 66, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents on CBS. James West was the James Bond of his day -- and to boot, used inventions in this post Civil War drama that were not to be invented for another 60-90 years! Amazing, hahaa! And after all, a show that featured villians like Dr. Miguelito Loveless and Zacharia Skull could NOT have been anything short of GREAT !
Of all the intros, this was my favorite.
coolest show out there back then...thanks for the memory
I always liked the theme song. I'm still a very big fan of The Wild Wild West.
idolized him as a kid.... even had a deringer cap gun that looked real... kept it up my sleeve like he did until i lost it playing guns with friends... never found it again.....was heartbroken...still am 😢
Titles (for both versions) designed and animated by DePatie-Freleng (the "Pink Panther" studio.)
Robert Conrad was the ultimate in cool! Kicked butt, had perfect hair and remember those boots? Great tv program.
i just learned that Ross Martin spoke seven different languages and was an accomplished violinist and age eight. he was amazing.
My favorite TV show of all time. Robert Conrad is one bad-ass dude!!
@odiemodie1
watching Martin act on this show really brightens my day. I love his character so much and he plays it so well.
Friday nights, New York City, and This song, and GREAT television show. Just think, in '65 t.v. before it SUCKED...The Man From UNCLE. McChale's Navy, The Defenders, Perry Mason, Elvis movies, Soupy Sales, Chuck McCann, Shindig, Combat...and so much more. I, too feel the need to time travel. The music and the t.v. will never be equaled, ever.
I simply loved this when I was younger! Thank you for the memories! :)
When you were a kid, you knew it was Friday because this was on.
Spies, the Old West, and two cats with their own PRIVATE TRAIN! The latter was the ultimate in cool!
Great!!!
I remember the KNOCK OUT also.
my fave movie when i was tennage so long time ago... thanks for very nice nostalgic moment....
God I feel so old! I used to watch this every Saturday! man.. they sure don't make good tv any more huh..
Que de bons souvenirs ! What a good period it was !
I loved thi sshow. Robert Conrad was so cool here and in Centennial (1978)
I remember the batteries commercial he did too, and Baa baa black sheep.
this movie was fantastic
some intelligent stories and funny
congratulations
nilo vieira
This was actually one show that wasn't ruined by the batman effect that took out so many other promising shows just as they were taking off! Even now, if it was put back on the air i think many people would find it still well done and just as entertaining. That's a rare compliment for a show of that period.
Love the theme, the animation, and the series.
I was too young to apperciate this in it's 'original run, but when I was in middle school in the mid seventies they used to show it at 11:00 PM on a UHF station and I'd watch it on an old black and white set in my bed room. One of the best and most unusual westerns ever made.
Still A Great Show!!!
i was a kid watching this show in 1965 at age 11.james west was my hero,a real cool guy!
Great intro.
What I remember is the 80's, every news item, every song in the alternative play-list, because all we did was do low-alcohol white wine and cocaine from little pill-boxes, so our memory was perfect...hahahaha.
I never forgot the graphic style of this title sequence. I think it also creeped me out a little as a kid.
I liked the introduction of "The Wild Wild West" quite well. The black and white version of the opening to the show was done well. Respectable And Not Overdone!! A Solid 4!! The sad part: the show should have been on television until the end of the 1972-1973 Television Season. The last year of the series should have been titled as this: "The Wild Wild West -- A Lorimar Production."
the memories this brings back..I was 7 yrs old when this first came on tv...my fav show..conrad was "the man"....
I remember that program. Memories come flooding back.
I have all episodes on cd,what a joy to watch anytime I choose
My favorite show of all time, too. I watched it faithfully every week as a kid. I remember, like yesterday, I came home one night to watch it and it wasn't on. It was canceled. The Tom Jones show took its place. " It's not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die." I wasn't happy. I didn't like Tom Jones for a while. As a kid, I blamed him. I found out later that a politician made the network take the show off the air because he thought it was too violent. It was number 1 when it was canceled, sadly.
I loved that show.
@bugsbunnybuddy, This actor was so versatile and accomplished at what he did, it was absolutely incredible. I wish they'd let Robert Conrad do some more work on t.v. (if he wants to that is).
I wish they had stayed closer to the original story for the movie.
brilliant casting for the two lead characters
You're correct in that is the original opening for the series. However, the original opening for the pilot "The Night of the Inferno" actually occurred after West says, "Good morning, President Grant," when the planned title of the series was "The Wild West." It's actually a black & white version of the openings of seasons 2 through 4, with the same music and the "femme fatale" getting slugged.
you are the best picture to see. I love it. Just do the best you can
I loved this show as a kid. And yes, in at least one of the season intors he does punch the lady who tries to stab her, knocking her down.
James Bond in the Old West, with Q as his sidekick. I loved this show,and I agree with the posters here like Dr Loveless as one of the greatest bad guys ever on tv.
One of the best shoes!
The original "The Wild West" pilot opening and scene bumpers are included on Disk 1 of the Season 1 DVD set of "The Wild Wild West." Incidentally, "Jim West" in the pilot animation and 1st season opening appears much taller than the later seasons and resembles Clint Eastwood. That's because Eastwood was indeed CBS's first choice as a star vehicle follow-up to "Rawhide." When Robert Conrad walked in, however, in spite of his 5' 8" height, he was seen as a total natural. Eastwood headed for films.
I used to watch this as a kid and act out all the scenes of the intro.
James West is now a ghost rider in the sky. RIP.
@bondurango You're partly correct. This IS the original opening when the series finally aired as "The Wild, Wild West." However, when the series was originally to be tiled "The Wild West", the pilot's opening had the opening theme arrangement and the femme fatale being decked used in the subsequent color seasons 2-4. Note also how tall the James West figure is. Clint Eastwood and Rory Calhoun were had been considered to play James West. In the color opening he was modified to Robert Conrad.
Artie had the countenance of compassion & friendliness written all over his face. He was absolutely great alongside James West!
I guess we could characterize his character as part chameleon, but mostly racoon.
Chameleon because of his penchant for transformation, but mostly racoon because of his wit, cleverness, slyness, & tendency to hide behind a "mask".
Artie, while in disguise, almost had this Charming Trickster or Charming Jester kind of quality to him...great character!
Great show; that's interesting; in this intro he did not punch the femme fatal, but later on he did.
It was on CBS Friday nights at 7:30, back then network prime time started earlier than it does today. I probably watched every episode.
I've been a fan of the series since 9/17/65. I have a detailed book on the series written by Susan Kessler and I have the first 3 seasons on DVD.
It finally was deemed TOO VIOLENT for family viewing in 68 and was cancelled! What a deal!
Just watch the marathon on decades.
great TV show, great theme music. Bit of trivia : one of the few TV show openings to show people being murdered.
My brother-in -law was assigned to the VIP protection unit of the Baltimore Police Department back in the '70's. I remember him telling me had to guard Robert Conrad once. Said he was a royal asshole!
lol i grew up on this show. interesting intro for sure
Some posters have commented correctly that they animation was updated with the punch of the girl. You might also remember that each square was "filled in" with a still from the end of each 15 minute scene--a cliffhanger typically- before the commercial--ingenious. If I remember correctly, the first season the stills were photographs, in the other seasons the film image freezes and "morphs" into a drawing of the shot. How many others remember that tidbit?!
James West = the James Bond of his time.
what memories!!!!!!!!!!!
As we all know on the right, RUclips puts up links to similar videos that just played. Take a good look at all the great theme shows: Wild Wild West (color), Barnaby Jones, Maverick, Hogan's Heroes, Peter Gunn, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii 5-0, Rockford Files, I Spy, It takes a Thief, Mannix, Mr. Ed, and The Rat Patrol.
NOTHING today compares to these theme songs.
Actually, there were three versions, if you count the original unused opening of the pilot when the planned series title was to be "The Wild West." It's posted on RUclips and uses the same title theme arrangement and the "femme fatale" bring decked as the subsequent color seasons. The hero in the first season was taller and intended to resemble Rory Calhoun, the original choice for James West. He was re-drawn for the color shows to more closely resemble Robert Conrad.
the later shows just seemed so serious.
take for example N.O.T. Casual Killer, the first season. One of my favorites, has some good action scenes, but I really like the how west & gordon are poking fun at one another.
I love this theme song.
James West- Robert Conrad: you can be small and handsome and still pack a punch.
That would be a great trick since he was born decades later....
I never saw the 'still photos', but the drawn images were so cool...Anyway, everything was so cool...the opening, the gadgets, the train, and the freezing square drawings.
I remember watching the color version of the show in the 90's
What a memories...
Excellent theme song.
such a classy theme song - subtly sophisticated, silly light fun, and when it breaks into the big sound, I am released in big freedom :)
I remember watching this at John Connors mom's house when we had sloppy Joes at an outing for us grade school Church boys; back in the mid
1960's in Doolittle Missouri on old Route 66.
Robert Conrad was a bad azz. I grew up wanting to be just like him, including the quick draw Derringer strapped to his forearm.
WOW, that was great. Great up watching this
Amazing how a comment about the opening credits of an old tv series can turn into a debate of sociological ideology! I was going to write than although I never saw the show, I rememebered the song. My Nonna used to watch it. However, the other comments amused me so, had to comment on that first. Thanks.
This is the original opening for season 1. The early episode "The Night of the Inferno" when the story broke away for a commercial break, each square was hand drawn with the freeze frame. Also the square containing West is filled with a freeze frame. Its the only instance. Check it out its pretty cool.