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Why was The Wild Wild West TV series Cancelled? ›

Martin said the series was dropped while it was still a ratings hit. It turns out an anti-violence campaign had scared CBS into reconsidering the show's value. While it was ultimately canceled, Ross said that CBS would've kept The Wild, Wild West on the air if they could've found a later time slot for it.

Another episode revealed another of Martin's talents: he was a concert-trained violinist. In 1968, Martin broke his leg and then suffered a near-fatal heart attack, forcing The Wild Wild West to replace him with other actors, including Charles Aidman, William Schallert and Alan Hale Jr for nine episodes.

The song plays during the film's closing credits. The single samples Stevie Wonder's 1976 hit song "I Wish" and includes parts of the chorus from Kool Moe Dee's song of the same name. Kool Moe Dee re-performed the chorus for the song, and additional guest vocals are provided by Dru Hill.

Set during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877), the series followed Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) as they foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over part or all of the United States, protected the President, and solved crimes.

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and produced on a $170 million budget (making it one of the most expensive films ever made when adjusting for inflation at the time of its release), Wild Wild West was a commercial failure, grossing only $113.8 million domestically and $108.3 million overseas for a worldwide total of $222.1 million.

On The Wild Wild West (1965) he did most of his own stunt work, resulting in several injuries during the course of the show. During one episode's shooting he slipped while performing a stunt and fell head- first onto a concrete floor 12 feet below.

In 1965, Conrad began his starring role as government agent James West on the weekly series The Wild Wild West, which aired on CBS until its cancellation in 1969. He made $5,000 a week.

According to the 1979 television film The Wild Wild West Revisited, in 1880, Loveless eventually died of ulcers resulting from anger and frustration at having his plans consistently ruined by West and Gordon, while in reality his actor, Michael Dunn, died in 1973.

"Wild, Wild West" is a song by British pop rock band the Escape Club from their debut studio album, Wild Wild West (1988). The single reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 the week of 12 November 1988, making the Escape Club the only British artist to have a No.

What was the end of the Wild West? ›

The wild west ending can be estmaited as many sources say that it ended in 1895 or 1900 but by those times many outlaws were still running around the US, So the most likely date would be 1914 or 1918 as by that time civilization and the law had modernized to the point were it was big enough to outright tackle any ...

The Golden Age of the West is usually held to have lasted from the American Civil War to the admission of most western states into the union around 1890. As the Civil War began in 1861, the northern states came to control the Congress, which could pass resolutions to colonize the western territories.

The groundbreaking stand-up comic appears in "The Night of the Eccentrics," the season two premiere and first episode broadcast in color.

The period of the Wild West was between the years 1865 and 1895—only 30 years! This was very brief for so many iconic characters that still serve as role models among American heroes.

Arliss Loveless is the main antagonist of the critically-panned 1999 film Wild Wild West, based on the 1960s old west TV series The Wild Wild West.

The heyday of the Wild West shows ended in 1913, when Cody and Lillie dissolved their merged Two Bills show, though Wild West shows continued through the 1930s in combination with rodeos and circuses. Financial problems and the cinema's growing popularity contributed to the shows' demise.

In 1966, Pryor was a guest star on an episode of The Wild Wild West. In September 1967, Pryor had what he described in his autobiography Pryor Convictions (1995) as an "epiphany".

The period of the Wild West was between the years 1865 and 1895—only 30 years! This was very brief for so many iconic characters that still serve as role models among American heroes.

You can still find Old West towns to visit throughout the U.S., including Deadwood, SD; Cody, WY; Silverton, CO; and Sisters, OR. Some major cities, like San Diego, San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Jackson, also have Old Town Districts and historic sites commemorating their wild west history.