6.5/10141 votesLoading...#1 - The Night of the Cossacks
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/1969
West and Gordon are mixed up in the affairs of the royal family of Karovnia when they come to the US fleeing from assassins in their home country. The agents find that the evil Count Balkovitch is pursuing them, looking for an icon he needs to possess to hold power in Karovnia. Of course, the Count is not acting alone and the agents must discover who is assisting him before his dastardly plans are accomplished.
Director: Mike Moder
Writer: Oliver Crawford
6.6/10140 votesLoading...#2 - The Night of the Plague
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1969
West deals with the kidnapping of the Governor's daughter while Gordon rushes to find Jim to inoculate him from the disease one of the criminals was carrying. The disease proves to be the turning point in the fight between the feds and the criminals as Gordon convinces the gang to turn themselves in exchange for the cure to the disease.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
6.8/10201 votesLoading...#3 - The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1966
West tries to protect a pleasure-loving prince who insists on visiting a plush spa---where assassins eagerly await his arrival.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10150 votesLoading...#4 - The Night of the Tycoons
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 4/11/1969
West becomes involved with the Jupiter Corporation after the director of the board and two others are killed. West exposes a deep plot by the late director's sister,Amelia,to dump stock,cause a panic,then make tons of money off of the cheap stock. West's investigation leads him to an odd bar with a cirus theme and animals who like to throw bombs. West uncovers Amelia's plan to kill off the rest of the board and is able to save the rest of the members.
Director: Mike Moder
Writer: N/A
6.9/10233 votesLoading...#5 - The Night of the Dancing Death
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1965
To rescue a kidnapped princess, Jim runs into a booby-trapped doorknob and a fully armored man wielding a mace.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg
6.9/10258 votesLoading...#6 - The Night of the Golden Cobra
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1966
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: N/A
6.9/10162 votesLoading...#7 - The Night of the Arrow
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1967
Strong Bear's Sioux Indians are making noises about breaking the peace treaty. President Grant's first three messengers failed to return from meetings with the Indian leader; now it's up to Jim and Artemus to find Strong Bear and to keep peace in the territory.
Director: Alex Nicol
Writer: Leigh Chapman
6.9/10174 votesLoading...#8 - The Night of the Juggernaut
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1968
Someone is trying to run settlers off their land,buying some of them out,scaring other away,and even murdering those who refuse to leave. The government sends Jim and Arte in to investigate the situation and to stop whoever is behind this.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.0/10197 votesLoading...#9 - The Night of the Flaming Ghost
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1966
Jim is assigned to stop abolitionist John Brown. The only problem - he was pronounced dead 20 years ago.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.0/10163 votesLoading...#10 - The Night of the Iron Fist
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1967
At the request of the Bosnian government, Count Draja is to be turned over for extradition. Learning of a plot to free the Count, Jim and Arte make plans to see that Draja reaches his destination. While Jim escorts Draja through 100 miles of no-man's land, they'll all meet up in Buffalo Springs-but there is the little matter of the $500,000 the Count hid somewhere in the U.S.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10138 votesLoading...#11 - The Night of the Spanish Curse
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1969
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: N/A
7.1/10192 votesLoading...#12 - The Night of the Freebooters
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1966
West poses as an ex-con to gain admittance to renegade Army leader Thorald Wolfe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10218 votesLoading...#13 - The Night of the Green Terror
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1966
The evil, diminutive Dr. Loveless impoverishes an Indian tribe so that he can become their benefactor -- and their god.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10202 votesLoading...#14 - The Night of the Infernal Machine
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1966
Time is running out for Judge M'Guigan, who is threatened by a bomb-throwing clockmaker.
Director: N/A
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
7.1/10180 votesLoading...#15 - The Night of the Gypsy Peril
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1967
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 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10175 votesLoading...#16 - The Night of the Cadre
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/24/1967
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
7.1/10158 votesLoading...#17 - The Night of the Headless Woman
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1968
On a dusty Californian trail,Jim and Artemus intercept a stagecoach whose driver has been hired to smuggle boll weevils. Quickly theorizing that someone is trying to destroy the country's cotton crop,they set out to find the mastermind of the operation and destroy his distribution system before his plan succeeds.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.1/10168 votesLoading...#18 - The Night of the Gruesome Games
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1968
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
7.1/10148 votesLoading...#19 - The Night of the Pelican
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1968
West and Pike receive a note to meet a woman at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco with a promise of information about the militant Din Chang who has recently stolen a supply of fulminate of mercury from a military arsenal. Unfortunately, the woman is killed before they can talk to her and the only word she utters is "Pelican". To further complicate matters, the only person they manage to capture is supposedly still serving time at Alcatraz. Since it seems that Alcatraz and the woman are the two pieces they have of the puzzle, the two split up to track down Chang before he can use the volatile mercury.
Director: Alex Nicol
Writer: Richard H. Landau
7.2/10237 votesLoading...#20 - The Night of the Human Trigger
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1965
A demented geologist can set off earthquakes where he chooses as part of an elaborate extortioin scheme. So West and Gordon head for Ellenville--the next town on the mad genius's list.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
7.2/10202 votesLoading...#21 - The Night of the Fatal Trap
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1965
Jim goes to arrest a Mexican bandit disguised as a notorious outlaw...but the villain's girlfriend recognizes him.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
7.2/10196 votesLoading...#22 - The Night of the Druid's Blood
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1966
West is furious: his superiors have refused him permission to investigate the murder of a close friend who was burned to death before his eyes.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
7.2/10179 votesLoading...#23 - The Night of the Sudden Plague
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/22/1966
West finds Willow Springs looted and its citizens completely immobile---victims of a mysterious paralysis.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.2/10200 votesLoading...#24 - The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1966
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: N/A
7.2/10177 votesLoading...#25 - The Night of the Tartar
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1967
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, are 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 R. Rondeau
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
The Worst Episodes of The Wild Wild West
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Night of the Cossacks" is the worst rated episode of "The Wild Wild West". It scored 6.5/10 based on 141 votes. Directed by Mike Moder and written by Oliver Crawford, it aired on 3/21/1969. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Night of the Plague".