JD Spydo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 2:55 amThe "Wild, Wild West" was truly so far ahead of it's time that I have no other Western to compare it with. And Robert Conrad and Ross Martin were two great actors and I doubt that their work could be duplicated today. The famous villain in that show was Dr. Miguelito Loveless played by the midget actor Michael Dunn who also did work with the original Star Trek and a few others>> but he was great in that show Wild Wild West.James Y wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:20 amMy favorite TV western was also The Wild, Wild West, because of all the gadgets. Then my second-favorite might have been High Chaparral. But overall, I don’t think I was a big fan of TV westerns as a kid. My dad was really the one who watched them, though I remember it was my brother and I who watched Wild, Wild West.JD Spydo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:33 amI still think that the "Outer Limits" in some respects not only competed with the "Twilight Zone" but there were a few episodes that were even better. There were so many great TV Shows from the 50s-60s era that it's easy to see how some of them could be completely overlooked like the "Outer Limits" obviously were.
I've often wondered why "westerns" died off the way they did :confused: ? Because back in those days every network had it's own top notch "western" show. Shows like Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide ( Clint Eastwood fame), and even a really funny one like Laredo. But in today's politically correct climate they might be stepping on toes But I really enjoyed a lot of the westerns back in the day. Probably my all time favorite was "The Wild, Wild West" with Robert Conrad.
I don't think that Robert Conrad did another show that was as good as that one was IMO. We still get the reruns here in the KC area on the ME TV Channel and I do get to watch it occasionally. The showed depicted two Secret Service Agents during the President Grant era. There was no other show like it and I doubt if there ever will be either. It would be a great show to make a modern movie of IMO.
They did make a movie out of it and it sucked bigtime just like the Maverick movie...
Just like almost all movies they tend to make based on the older shows these days.
They just don't get it so they screw them up, I don't know if they are stupid, ignorant or just completely brain dead.