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The Best Episodes of The Wild Wild West

Every episode of The Wild Wild West ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Wild Wild West!

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The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James

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#1 - The Night Dr. Loveless Died
S3:E49/29/1967
The agents travel to Hayes City to identify the body of their archnemesis, Dr.Loveless. While there, they meet up with Miguelito's next of kin, Dr.Liebknicht, a Swiss neurologist. However, as they pursue the origin of a key found on the body, they find that Loveless is hardly dead and has plans to use his neurologist guise to give Jim a lobotomy!
Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Henry Sharp
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Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Henry Sharp
7.0/10(1 votes)
#2 - The Night of the Hangman
S3:E710/20/1967
During a stopover in a small Kansas town, the agents become involved in a murder investigation. After a man is found guilty and sentenced to hang, the agents uncover valuable information that points in an entirely different direction. Of course, this information puts our agents into quite a bit of danger, but, as we know, they can handle themselves relatively well in these sorts of situations.
Director:James B. Clark
Writer:Unknown
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Director:James B. Clark
Writer:Unknown
7.0/10(1 votes)
#3 - The Night of the Amnesiac
S3:E222/9/1968
A stage coach carrying the western states entire supply of smallpox vaccine is attacked and the drug stolen. Furman Crotty, a convicted criminal serving time in Leavenworth, is demanding his release from jail with a full pardon and a ransom for the safe return of the drug. While Jim West, injured in the attack on the stage, struggles with amnesia, Artemus tries to find both his friend and the drug before a full-scale epidemic hits.
Director:Lawrence Dobkin
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Lawrence Dobkin
Writer:Unknown
7.0/10(1 votes)
#4 - The Night of the Simian Terror
S3:E232/16/1968
A visit to the plantation of a US Senator reveals a myterious family past that intersects with a doctor infamous for his experiments with apes. The agents are lucky enough to arrive just as the Senator's forgotten giant son and his friend, a giant ape, are rampaging through the plantation.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.0/10(1 votes)
#5 - The Night of the Gruesome Games
S4:E510/25/1968
While on the trail of a scientist who has stolen a vial of deadly germs, the agents are pulled into a night of deadly parlor games. West and Gordon must recover the vial before it bursts and releases a veritable plague while managing to live though the games of their host.
Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Jackson Gillis
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Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Jackson Gillis
7.0/10(1 votes)
#6 - The Night of the Camera
S4:E1011/29/1968
Agent West raids a local warehouse in an attempt to apprehend a suspected opium gang member. As he struggles with the suspect, a new secret agent named Bosley Cranston rushes in and attempts to help. Unfortunately, he only makes matters worse, accidentally toppling a piano crate on the suspect and killing him. Cranston, however, is not the meek incompetent he appears and later surprises his colleagues with his karate skills and his popularity with beautiful women.
Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Unknown

The 20 WORST Episodes of The Wild Wild West

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#7 - The Night of the Sabatini Death
S4:E172/7/1969
Jim meets with crime czar Sabatini, who asks him to travel to Calliope, MO to protect a lady and give a man called Swanson a key. Accompanied by government chemist Ned Brown, Jim travels to Calliope (where an Army finance officer died after stealing half a mil). Swanson is killed and the lady turns out to be Sabatini's ward blind Sylvia. It turns out Sabatini was the officer and Sylvia was the daughter of Boorman, Sabatini's partner in the robbery. Dodging Boorman, Jim and Ned find Sabatini's deed leaving all of his property to Sylvia.
Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#8 - The Night of the Inferno
S1:E19/17/1965
Jim is set up as a renegade as a cover for him and Artie to sneak into Texas and track down General Juan Manolo, who is trying to take over the region.
Director:Richard C. Sarafian
Writer:Gilbert Ralston
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Director:Richard C. Sarafian
Writer:Gilbert Ralston
6.0/10(1 votes)
#9 - The Night of the Deadly Bed
S1:E29/24/1965
Facing execution at the hands of a madman, West learns the crazed assassin plans to reclaim Mexico---as the new Napoleon.
Director:William Witney
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Witney
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#10 - The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth
S1:E310/1/1965
West tries to protect Prof. Nielsen, a demolitions expert. But he fails: Nielson is blown up by the evil Dr. Miguelito Loveless.
Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#11 - The Night of the Golden Cobra
S2:E29/23/1966
Maharajah Singh 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:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#12 - The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse
S2:E1111/25/1966
Fabian Lavender 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:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#13 - The Night of Montezuma's Hordes
S3:E810/27/1967
An ancient Aztec map leading to the lost treasure of Montezuma is discovered in Mexico and points to a location in Texas. In order to ensure that a diplomatic incident does not ensue,West and Gordon team up with Colonial Sanchez of Mexico and a noted archeologist in a dangerous trip across the Texan desert in search of the treasure.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#14 - The Night of the Death Masks
S3:E201/26/1968
An escaped murderer plots a bizarre scheme against agent James West, the man who had imprisoned him several years earlier. Attacked and knocked unconscious, West awakens in a stange deserted town filled with assailants wearing masks in the likeness of Stark. Gordon searches for his lost partner and soon finds himself in a similar predicament. West and Gordon must avoid deception to find and take out the real Stark.
Director:Mike Moder
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Mike Moder
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#15 - The Night of the Sedgewick Curse
S4:E410/18/1968
Investigating the disappeance of a correspondent of James West's, the agents come upon a bizarre family scheme. West's associate had a rare disorder that caused rapid aging, similar to that of the Sedgewick family. In an attempt to cure the disorder, the family physician has been kidnapping people with the similar disorder and using them to test a serum he has prepared. It is up to West and Gordon to stop his tests and bring him to justice.
Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Paul Playdon
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Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Paul Playdon
6.0/10(1 votes)
#16 - The Night of the Fugitives
S4:E711/8/1968
In the town of Epitaph, owned by Epitaph Mines, agents James West and Artemus Gordon arrest Norbert Plank, chief bookkeeper for the powerful syndicate that owns the mining company. Through Plank, the agents hope to get their hands on records that could build a case against the organization. The whole town turns out to free Plank, whom West has hidden in a church bell tower, while Gordon masquerades as lay-preacher Hallelujah Harry. Gordon hopes to get to the head of the syndicate, Diamond Dave Desmond, and walk off with the ledgers. But Diamond Dave's girlfriend, Rhoda, has the same idea and blackmail on her mind.
Director:Mike Moder
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Mike Moder
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#17 - The Night of the Spanish Curse
S4:E141/3/1969
West and Gordon are called into Mexico to investigate a group of bandits who are attacking and terrorizing border towns. They track the bandits to a Mexican Village where the theives are hiding under the guise of an old Mexican legend about Cortez. Jim and Arte,not believing in the return of the god Cortez,are determined to find their way into the dorment volcano where the thugs are hiding.
Director:Paul Stanley
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Paul Stanley
Writer:Unknown
6.0/10(1 votes)
#18 - The Night of the Janus
S4:E182/14/1969
A melody holds the clue West needs to trap a departmental traitor.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Leonard Katzman
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Leonard Katzman
6.0/10(1 votes)
#19 - The Night of the Pistoleros
S4:E192/21/1969
Gordon and West head to a lonely outpost to battle a terrorist gang.
Director:Bernard McEveety
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
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Director:Bernard McEveety
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
0.0/10(0 votes)
#20 - The Night of Sudden Death
S1:E410/8/1965
Jim West suspects his search for counterfeiters is getting warm when he's shot at with arrows---and thrown to the crocodiles.
Director:William Witney
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Witney
Writer:Unknown
0.0/10(0 votes)
#21 - The Night of the Casual Killer
S1:E510/15/1965
Jim and Artie set out to penetrate the stronghold of a corrupt political boss and return him to Washington for trial.
Director:Don Taylor
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Don Taylor
Writer:Unknown
0.0/10(0 votes)
#22 - The Night of a Thousand Eyes
S1:E610/22/1965
Ships along the Mississippi are being attacked by a gang of pirates known as the "Thousand Eyes". After Jim ducks an assassin, an attractive woman, he finds the leader of the Eyes: Captain Ansel Coffin, who was blinded and now seeks revenge. His gang use false lights to lead ships astray and crash them, and then plunder them. Jim is captured by Coffin and manages to escape a cage rigged to a lightning rod. He is blinded by a powder flash, and for a time he is at a decided edge against Coffin (who has long adapted to his blindness). Coffin manages to accidentally kill his wife. Enraged, Jim is saved by his recovering eyesight: he ducks, and Coffin falls into a pit to his death.
Director:Richard C. Sarafian
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Richard C. Sarafian
Writer:Unknown
0.0/10(0 votes)
#23 - The Night of the Glowing Corpse
S1:E710/29/1965
Jim and Artemus try to recover stolen radioactive materials nad have only one clue - a set of fingerprints found on the ankle of a pretty secretary.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
0.0/10(0 votes)
#24 - The Night of the Dancing Death
S1:E811/5/1965
To rescue a kidnapped princess, Jim runs into a booby-trapped doorknob and a fully armored man wielding a mace.
Director:Harvey Hart
Writers:Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg
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Director:Harvey Hart
Writers:Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg
0.0/10(0 votes)
#25 - The Night of the Double-Edged Knife
S1:E911/12/1965
An Indian demand for gold must be met: they've threatened to kill five railroad workers a day until it is paid.
Director:Don Taylor
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Don Taylor
Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Night Dr. Loveless Died" is the best rated episode of "The Wild Wild West". It scored 9.5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr. and written by Henry Sharp, it aired on 9/29/1967. This episode scored 2.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Night of the Hangman".