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"The Wild Wild West" (1965) More at IMDbPro »

• Charles Aidman was added to the cast to fill in while Ross Martin was recovering from a mild heart attack.
  
  
• Rory Calhoun was originally cast to play Jim West.
  
  
• Miguelito Loveless' middle name is Quixote.
  
  
• Jim West's birthday is July 2, 1842. He was named after his father's brother.
  
  
• Jim and Artie had two different trains. The first was a dark-paneled model used in the seasons the show was filmed in B&W. The second was a more functional model decorated in green and gold. It's this train, which houses the unique gadgets associated with the show, that most people remember.
  
  
• Jim West was a captain in the army before he joined the Secret Service.
  
  
• The series was ultimately canceled due to CBS being uncomfortable with the "excessive" violence of the series, rather than declining ratings.
  
  
• Though Richard Markowitz wrote the theme, he wasn't credited for it on any episode of the series (or on the 1999 movie).
  
  
• The name of Jim and Artemis's rail car was The Wanderer 1.
  
  
• Miguelito means "little Michael".
  
  
• Robert Conrad did all his own "fight choreography", including the stunts, until he almost killed himself when one of them backfired.
  
  
• Robert Conrad (5'8") wore 3" heels as Jim West and the CBS casting office had orders not to hire any women over 5'6" for the show.
  
  
• Ross Martin read the script. Then he did a pen and ink drawing of the character he was going to play, down to the last detail, glasses, mustached, clothes, posture, shoes, etc. Then he brought sketch to make-up man Don Schoenfeld, and together they molded his face until it looked like the drawing.
  
  
• The only episode whose title doesn't begin with "The Night..." is "Night of the Casual Killer."
  
  
• The show was originally titled "The Wild West West" but was renamed when it was decided that The Wild Wild West sounded better.
  
  
• Television shows of the era that filmed at the same studios often shared minor cast members. It is common to see familiar faces in episodes of "Star Trek" (1966), "Batman" (1966), "Mission: Impossible" (1966) and "The Wild Wild West" (1965).
  
  

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