History Trivia / TheWildWildWest

* YouLookFamiliar: Rampant throughout the series, e.g. Joan Huntington being the GirlOfTheWeek on three separate occasions ("The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen" (with Toian Matchinga, who also appears in three episodes), "The Night of the Bottomless Pit" and "The Night of the Circus of Death"). Most striking example: when Dimas appears in "The Night of the Simian Terror," neither of our heroes notices how much he looks like Dr. Loveless's assistant Voltaire. Victor Buono plays the show's second recurring villain Count Manzeppi, but also played Wing Fat in the series premiere, and Dr. Henry Messenger in the show's second TV movie. Veteran actor Nehemiah Persoff player General Andreas Cassinello in the premiere, but also Adam Barclay and Maor Hazard in subsequent episodes.

** A more straightforward example is [[UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant President Grant]]. In the pilot episode, he is played by James Gregory; in every future appearance he is portrayed by Roy Engel.

** When Creator/RossMartin died, there were plans in the works for a third reunion movie or even, according to some sources, a revival of the series. Network executives proposed continuing without Martin by either writing out or killing off Artemus Gordon, but Creator/RobertConrad refused to do the show without his old co-star. In a sense, the series itself died with him.

* AwardCategoryFraud: Creator/AgnesMoorehead took home an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward as Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series for "The Night of the Vicious Valentine," although she was a guest star. Then again, the Emmys didn't have a category for guest performers until the mid-1980s.

** In ''The Wild Wild West Revisited'' Miguelito Loveless Jr. tells our heroes that his father passed away (due to ulcers brought on by his 0 for 10 record in dealing with West and Gordon). Michael Dunn (Loveless Sr.) left us in 1973.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://wildwildwest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West_Wiki The Wild Wild West Wiki]].

** Creator/{{CBS}} had hopes of having a BreakawayPopHit as [[Series/{{Rawhide}} another CBS-produced Western]] had, so Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Paul Francis Webster commissioned, coming up with a theme song called "The Ballad Of Big Jim West". Michael Garrison absolutely refused to use it, feeling it didn't the fit the "espionage in the Wild West" vibe of the series. Creator/LaLaLandRecords included the rejected theme in vocal and instrumental forms on their 4-CD box set of music from the series. Creator/SilvaScreenRecords recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNjYMICIy4 an instrumental version]] for their collection of Tiomkin music.

** Creator/{{CBS}} had hopes of having a BreakthroughPopHit as [[Series/{{Rawhide}} another CBS-produced Western]] had, so Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Paul Francis Webster commissioned, coming up with a theme song called "The Ballad Of Big Jim West". Michael Garrison absolutely refused to use it, feeling it didn't the fit the "espionage in the Wild West" vibe of the series. Creator/LaLaLandRecords included the rejected theme in vocal and instrumental forms on their 4-CD box set of music from the series. Creator/SilvaScreenRecords recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNjYMICIy4 an instrumental version]] for their collection of Tiomkin music.

** John Kneubuhl, one of the series' regular writers (in its first two seasons), wanted to write an episode specifically for Music/{{Liberace}} to guest star in. Michael Garrison loved the idea - as did Liberace himself - but as Kneubuhl told Susan Kesler in her book about the series, "[[ExecutiveMeddling CBS killed the idea right then and there]]" (for reasons due to Garrison's homosexuality).

* NamesTheSame: In "The Night of the Raven" Loveless calls one of his plants Marcia--this is also what his snake goes by in "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth."

** In ''The Wild Wild West Revisited'' Miguelito Loveless Jr. tells our heroes that his father passed away (due to ulcers brought on by his 0 for 10 record in dealing with West and ([[AbsenteeActor except once]]) Gordon). Michael Dunn (Loveless Sr.) left us in 1973.

* YouLookFamiliar: Rampant throughout the series, e.g. Joan Huntington being the GirlOfTheWeek on three separate occasions ("The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen" (with Toian Matchinga, who also appears in three episodes), "The Night of the Bottomless Pit" and "The Night of the Circus of Death"). Most striking example: when Dimas appears in "The Night of the Simian Terror," neither of our heroes notices how much he looks like Dr. Loveless's assistant Voltaire.

* AwardCategoryFraud: Creator/AgnesMoorehead took home an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series for "The Night of the Vicious Valentine," although she was a guest star. Then again, the Emmys didn't have a category for guest performers until the mid-1980s.

** When Ross Martin died there were plans in the works for a third reunion movie or even, according to some sources, a revival of the series. Network executives proposed continuing without Martin by either writing out or killing off Artemus Gordon, but Robert Conrad refused to do the show without his old co-star. In a sense, the series itself died with him.

* YouLookFamiliar: Several actors came back as different characters. Creator/LanaWood, for instance, was in both "The Night of the Firebrand" and "The Night of the Plague") as Sheila O'Shaughnessy and Averi Trent, respectively.