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''The Wild Wild West'' is an American television series that ran on the CBS network from 1965 to 1969. During its four-season run a total of 104 episodes were broadcast. ''The Wild Wild West'' blended Western (genre), Westerns – hugely popular on television at the time (''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Rawhide (TV series), Rawhide'', etc.) – with spy film, spy adventure, which came into vogue in the wake of the highly successful James Bond in film, James Bond films, resulting in such spy-oriented series as ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'' and ''Danger Man, Secret Agent''. ''The Wild Wild West'' is set in the 1870s and deals with the exploits of James West (played by Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin), two agents of the United States Secret Service who work directly under the command of President Ulysses S. Grant. James West is presented as a sort of "James Bond of Western United States, the West", i.e. the hand ...
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