Investigating a murder, West falls into
the hands of the Eccentrics, a group of assassins controlled by the
vicious Count Manzeppi. Guest star Victor Buono who was in the first
episode of The Wild Wild West returns, but as a different character.
And yes that is Richard Pryor as one of Count Manzeppi's henchmen who
was totally wasted in this episode.
Director: Robert Sparr, Writer: Charles Bennett
Guest starring: Victor Buono, Richard
Pryor, Anthony Eisley, LeGrand Mellon, Frank Sorello, Andi Garrett,
Michael Masters, Roy Jenson, Harry Ellerbe, Paul Wallace
2.
The Night of the Golden Cobra
September 23, 1966
Maharajah Singh (Boris Karloff) kidnaps
West for very unprincely reasons: West is to tutor Singh's assassin
sons in the ways of Western combat.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Henry Sharp
Guest starring: Audrey Dalton, James
Westmoreland, Michael York, Morgan Farley, Jose DeVega, Asoka,
Sujata, John Alonzo, Boris Karloff, Simon Scott
3.
The Night of the Raven
September 30, 1966
Dr. Loveless takes a giant step in his
plan to rule a world of "little people" by reducing West to
a six-inch miniature.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Ed DiLorenzo
Guest starring: Michael Dunn, Phyllis
Newman, Howard Hoffinan, Sandy Josol
4.
The Night of the Big Blast
October 7, 1966
A mad scientist (Ida Lupino) has invented
a human bomb that looks exactly like West (Robert Conrad).
Director: Ralph Senensky, Writer: Ken Kolb
Guest starring: Ida Lupino, Patsy Kelly,
Melville Ruick, Rita D'Amico, Michael McCloud, Robert Miller
Driscoll, Mala Powers
5.
The Night of the Returning Dead
October 14, 1966
While trying to solve a murder, West is
charged by a bullet-immune "ghost rider" (Sammy Davis Jr.).
Director: Richard Donner, Writer: John Kneubuhl
Guest starring: Frank Wilcox, Alan Baxter,
Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Hazel Court, Ken Lynch
6.
The Night of the Flying Pie Plate
October 21, 1966
West gets involved in a bizarre scheme: a
green girl emerges from a fallen spaceship claiming she needs gold
for fuel.
Director: Robert Sparr, Writer: Daniel Ullman
Guest starring: Ford Rainey, Leslie
Parrish, William Windom, Pitt Herbert, Woodrow Chambliss, Cindy
Taylor, Arlene Charles, Whitey Hughes
7.
The Night of the Poisonous Posey
October 28, 1966
While on vacation, the agents receive an
odd welcome when they pass through the town of Justice, Nevada. The
town turns out to be the hangout for a group of internationals
criminals assembled by Lucrese Posey. West and Gordon discover that
Lucrese is planning on heading a world-wide criminal organization.
After dealing with the other criminals, the two agents find
themselves left with only Lucrese to deal with, a proposition not
nearly as simple as it seems.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. / Donn
Mullally, Writer: Leigh Chapman
Guest starring: Shug Fisher, Christopher
Cary, Delphi Lawrence, Eugene Iglesias, George Keymas, Hal Lynch,
Andre Philippe, Percy Rodriguez, H.M. Wynant, Michael Masters
8.
The Night of the Bottomless Pit
November 4, 1966
West (Robert Conrad) poses as a prisoner
at Devil's Island. His assignment: rescue a secret agent who is
marked for execution by a savage commandant.
Director: Robert Sparr, Writer: Ken Kolb
Guest starring: Theodore Marcuse, Joan
Huntington, Gregg Martell, Ernie Misko, Chuck O'Brien, Fred Carson,
Seymour Green, Steve Franken, Mabel Albertson, Tom Drake
9.
The Night of the Watery Death
November 11, 1966
A mysterious dragon-like creature is
blowing up American ships, and West and Gordon must determine the cause.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Michael Edwards
Guest starring: John Ashley, John van
Dreelen, James Galante, Forrest Lewis, Jocelyn Lane
10.
The Night of the Green Terror
November 18, 1966
A mysterious plague is killing off all
plant life, and the Indians in the area are becoming restless. Jim
and Artie are sent to investigate, and find themselves up against a
knight and his band of "merry men". The knight is a powered
suit used by their nemesis Dr. Loveless, who created the plague and
is using it and shipped food supplies to force the Indians to do his
bidding. They're not too happy with the whole situation, and think
Loveless is the representative of the "Lord of the Forest".
After a capture-and-escape or two, Jim challenges the knight to a
duel. Loveless tries to rig the fight with an exploding mace, which
West avoids. Loveless prepares to send his plague on balloons across
the country. The Indians turn against Loveless, and he and Antoinette
are seemingly destroyed by a fire. They hide in a secret compartment,
for Loveless to return to fight another day.
Director: Robert Sparr, Writer: John Kneubuhl
Guest starring: Michael Dunn, Anthony
Caruso, Paul Fix, Peggy Rea
11.
The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse
November 25, 1966
Fabian Lavender (Carroll O'Connor) is a
master of disguises, but West is not fooled. Neither is Lavender, who
locks West in one of his gas-filled crypts.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Ken
Kolb / Bob Wood
Guest starring: Carroll O'Connor, Alan
Bergmann, Karen Sharpe, Jack Perkins, Gene Tyburn, Andi Garrett,
Daniel Ades, Patricia Huston
12.
The Night of the Man-Eating
House
December 12, 1966
Wild Wild West meets the Twilight Zone.
West (Robert Conrad) witnesses eerie phenomena when he takes refuge
with a sheriff and his prisoner in an abandoned bayou mansion.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Writer: John Kneubuhl
Guest starring: Hurd Hatfield, William Talman
13.
The Night of the Skulls
December 16, 1966
In the opening sequence Jim shoots Artie!
Escaping, he is declared a wanted man, and goes to Gordon's
funeral... where Artie in disguise is acting as the minister. It's a
ploy to allow West to track down the mysterious disappearance of
nineteen other wanted men. Jim is spotted and runs, taking refuge in
a carriage where he is gassed, taken to a mysterious underground
base, and put on trial. Upon being found guilty, the jury (made up of
the other missing criminals) roundly congratulates him. While Gordon
follows the trail of the carriage, Jim meets with the leader, a
masked man known as ""Skull."" Only three men can
go on the next assignment: to kill the President and the other head
politicians of the U.S. There is an
""elimination"" (literally) and Jim manages to
stay alive. It turns out Skull is Senator Fenlow, who plans to take
over the government when those above him are killed. After Jim is
exposed and the guys escape, they thwart the killers, get to Fenlow,
and trick him into confessing.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Writer: Earl
Barret / Robert C. Dennis
Guest starring: Donald Woods, Anne Doud,
William Bagdad, Calvin Brown, Francis DeSales, Kem Dibbs, Lisa Gaye,
Robert Herron, Michael Masters, Quinton Sondergaard, Madame Spivy,
Sebastian Tom
14.
The Night of the Infernal Machine
December 23, 1966
Time is running out for Judge M'Guigan,
who is threatened by a bomb-throwing clockmaker.
Guest starring: Bill Zuckert, Elaine Dunn,
Jon Lormer, John Harmon, Michael Pate, Will Kuluva, Ed Begley, Vito
Scotti, Bill Gwinn
Untitled
15.
The Night of the Lord
of Limbo
December 30, 1966
A crippled Confederate colonel, Vautrain,
plans to use his power to travel through time to use Jim and Artie to
alter history and restore his legs.
Director: Jesse Hibbs, Writer: Henry Sharp
Guest starring: Harry Harvey, Sr., Ricardo
Montalban, Dianne Foster, Tyler McVey, Gregory Morton, Felice
Orlandi, Ed Prentiss, Davis Roberts, Will J. White, Howard Wright
16.
The Night of the Tottering Tontine
January 6, 1967
West and Gordon are assigned to protect
Dr. Raven, who is developing a secret weapon. Raven is a member of a
tontine, an investment group whose by-laws state that the surving
member of the group gets the assets of the group. When one of the
tontine's members is killed and an attempt is made on Raven's life,
the agents decide to investigate. They find a house full of traps and
two members of the tontine looking to "survive" the group
and take the money for themselves.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Norman
Hudis / Elon Packard
Guest starring: Robert Emhardt, Harry
Townes, Henry Darrow, Lisa Pera, Steve Gravers, Mike Road, Arthur
Space, Ted Stanhope, William Wintersole, Wilhelm von Homburg
17.
The Night of the Feathered Fury
January 13, 1967
An organ grinder and his monkey launch an
attack: the man is no less than Count Manzeppi, trying to gain a
small wind-up bird toy. The toy contains the Philosopher's Stone,
reputed to transmute base elements into gold. The race is on as West
and Gordon track Manzeppi to his lair. After repeated setbacks and
escapes, Manzeppi is forced to escape in a balloon while his
henchwoman Gerda is transformed into a gold statue, and the bird and
its stone are seemingly destroyed. At the end, the stone
reconstitutes itself on the guys' train after they leave for the night.
Director: Robert Sparr, Writer: Henry Sharp
Guest starring: Michele Carey, Hideo
Inamura, Perry Lopez, Oliver McGowan, George Murdock, Georgia
Schmidt, Victor Buono, Audrey Lowell
18.
The Night of the Gypsy Peril
January 20, 1967
West and Gordon are escorting the Sultan
of Ramapur and his gift to the President, a sacred white elephant.
Bandits intercept the train and steal the elephant, and the Sultan
demands one million dollars in recompense. West follows the the trail
to a gypsy camp, where the elephant appears to have been colored grey
as a disguise. Artie sneaks in as a peddler, and they try to recover
the elephant. They soon discover that the elephant is not disguised,
but instead is actually grey: it has been painted white and
proclaimed sacred by the Sultan, who planned to extort the U.S.
government all along. Confronted with the evidence, the Sultan is
deported and the gypsies get to keep the elephant.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Writer: Ken Kolb
Guest starring: Ruta Lee, Ronald Long,
Arthur Batanides, Nick Cravat, Andi Garrett, Charles Horvath, Johnny
Seven, Mark Slade
19.
The Night of the Tartar
February 3, 1967
President Grant gives orders to agents
James West and Artemus Gordon to deliver prisoner Rimsky to
Vladivostok, Russia, in a prisoner exchange for American vice-consul
Millard Boyer. When Rimsky dies in an escape attempt, Gordon assumes
his identity. The agents are drugged en route and when they come to,
led to believe they're in Russia. West is imprisoned and forced to
reveal Rimsky's whereabouts. His captors tie him to a stake while
saber-swinging Cossacks ride straight for him. Still in disguise,
Gordon meets Rimsky's contact Sazanov, in an effort to uncover the
Russians' racket.
Director: Charles Rondeau, Writer: Earl
Barret / Robert C. Dennis
Guest starring: Susan Odin, Andre
Phillipe, Martin Blaine, John Astin, Nancy Dow, Chubby Johnson,
Louise Lawson, Michael Panaieff, Malachi Throne, Wendy Stuart, Walter
Sande, Larry Anthony, Lola Bell
20.
The Night of the Vicious Valentine
February 10, 1967
Agents West and Gordon are sent to
investigate the killings of wealthy industrialists and find that all
are linked back to an evil matchmaker, Emma Valentine. She sets the
rich men up with her young female employees, then kills them to gain
their money and power. West and Gordon manage to escape from the trap
she lays from her and must prevent her next target from getting married.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Leigh Chapman
Guest starring: Agnes Moorehead, Diane
McBain, Sherry Jackson, Shephard Menken, Mitzie Evans, Quinn
Cunningham, Don Delavay, G. Edward McKinley, Walter Sande, Henry
Beckman, Mickey Daniels
21.
The Night of the Brain
February 17, 1967
A mysterious figure in a secret cave makes
moves in a chessboard, using a figure of James West. The agents
starting getting newspapers predicting the death of friends that
haven't occurred yet. They are unable to stop the deaths, but find
the shop where the newspapers are printed. Following the trail, Jim
is lured into the lair of Mr. Braine, a crippled criminal mastermind
who gets about in a steam-powered munitions-armed wheelchair. Braine
has planned their every move and response, and wants Jim to join him
in his plan to kill world leaders and replace them with lookalikes.
He already has a double of Artemus Gordon. Braine has anticipated the
real Artie sneaking in and taking the place of the lookalike, but
Gordon double-bluffs him with a mask underneath his mask. taking
advantage of the distraction, Jim confronts Braine and manages to
defeat him, blowing up the wheelchair and Braine. Braine's steam
powered wheelchair is a preview of the wheelchair used by Loveless (Kenneth
Branagh) in the Wild Wild West movie with Will Smith.
Director: Larry Peerce, Writer: Calvin
Clements Jr.
Guest starring: Edward Andrews, Margaret
Mason, Phil Arnold, Brioni Farrell, Allen Jaffe, Jay Jostyn, Don
Rizzan, John Warburton
22.
The Night of the Deadly Bubble
February 24, 1967
On the trail of the source of mysterious
tidal waves, the guys finds a fanatical marine environmentalist at
the heart of the mystery.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Michael Edwards
Guest starring: Alfred Ryder, Judy Lang,
Nacho Galindo, Mickey Golden, Dick Cangey, Robert Herron, Kai
Hernandez, Nelson Welch, Whitey Hughes, Lou Krugman
23.
The Night of the Surreal McCoy
March 3, 1967
Agents West and Gordon are guarding a
museum containing the famous Herzberg jewels but someone still manges
to steal the gems. Afterwards, a famous painting of a Western scene
is removed from the museum by its wealthy rancher-owner. Gordon
becomes suspicious and notifies West who discovers that the rancher
is partners with Miguelito Loveless, the evil inventor-doctor. His
latest invention is a machine that moves real people in and out of
paintings. Miguelito's plan is to transpose murderers into famous
paintings, distribute the paintings to the rulers of the world and
have them all killed!
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Writer: John Kneubuhl
Guest starring: Michael Dunn, John
Doucette, Ivan Triesault, John Alonzo, Noel Drayton, Quinton
Sondergaard, Jorge Moreno
24.
The Night of the Colonel's Ghost
March 10, 1967
West and Gordon escort President Grant to
San Fransisco to dedicate a statue of the late Colonel Wayne Gibson
in Gibsonville. West rides ahead to check out the town and finds that
it is plagued by a series of broken neck murders and arguments over
lost gold. A further investigation yields the fact that the Colonel
is not as dead as was previously thought and that his statue is far
from ordinary.
Director: Charles Rondeau, Writer: Ken Kolb
Guest starring: Kathie Browne, Lee
Bergere, Alan Hewitt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Walker Edmiston, Roy Engel,
Gordon Wescourt, Ralph Gary, Billy Shannon
25.
The Night of the Deadly Blossom
March 17, 1967
Agents West and Gordon report to Admiral
Agnow's San Franisco headquarters,only to find him and three officers
dead. The agents believe that the admiral's death ties in with the
recent,mysterious sinking of the cruiser Youngstown. West and
Gordon's next assignment is to guard the Hawiian king,due to arrive
secretly by ship. West encounters Barclay,a Chinese expert on
Hawaii,to discuss the king's upcoming visit. But the supposed advisor
drugs the agent and announces his plan to sink the ship carrying the
Hawaiian king.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Writer:
Daniel Mainwaring
Agent James West goes to see Warden
Primwick,who releases condemned murderer Ralph Kleed in his presence.
Kleed blows a whistle,and the warden attacks West with his cane. West
restrains the warden,who dies from the exertion. Kleed
escapes,leaving behind a whistle that has a special pitch,apparently
only heard by dogs and wardens. Through the warden's autopsy,agent
Artemus Gordon discovers that a franconium crytal has been implanted
in the warden's brain,prompting violent behavior when Kleed blew his
whistle. West falls into the hands of master criminal Titus Trask,who
intends to implant a crystal in the agent's brain and,in turn,have
West do the same to President Grant so Trask can rule the country.
Director: Leon Benson, Writer: Digby Wolfe
Guest starring: Don Gordon, Richard
Jaeckel, Sheilah Wells, Ken Drake, Tol Avery, Vince Howard
27.
The Night of the Wolf
March 31, 1967
Assigned to protect Stefan, who is to be
crowned king in place of his late brother, the agents must deal with
the sinister Mr. Talamantes. Talamantes wants Stefan to renounce the
throne and will do anything to accomplish this goal. This includes
kidnapping Stefan's daughter, Leandra, and manipulating her to do his
bidding whenever she hears or reads a certain word.
Guest starring: Eddie Fontaine, Joseph
Campanella, John Marley
28.
The Night of the Bogus Bandits
April 7, 1967
Dr. Loveless is back with another plan to
take over the world. This time he is using mock-ups of the treasury,
prisons and armories to train his men to be able to take over these
resources upon his command. After gaining control, Loveless will be
instituted as dictator. However, his plan to get rid of West and
Gordon goes foul and soon the agents are in hot pursuit of the little villain.
Director: Irving J. Moore, Writer: Henry Sharp
Guest starring: Michael Dunn, Marianna
Hill, Patsy Kelly, Grace Gaynor, Don 'Red' Barry, Walter Sande,
Roland La Starza, Charles Wagenheim, William Challee, Murray Alper,
Troy Melton, Charles Fredericks, Jack Orrison, Jack Rigney, William
Massey, Frank Sully
