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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The heroic cowboy who's meant to represent Jim West in the AnimatedCreditsOpening is dressed practically like any other cowboy and punches a woman who was going to stab him. In the show proper, West favors expensive suits and WouldntHitAGirl.

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''The Wild Wild West'' is a 1965-1969 Creator/{{CBS}} TV series created by Michael Garrison that combined two then-popular genres: TheWestern and SpyFiction ("Franchise/JamesBond on horseback" as Garrison summed it up). It follows the anachronistic adventures of two Secret Service agents roaming the [[TheWildWest Western United States]] during the UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant administration. James West (Creator/RobertConrad) is a borderline [[TheAce Ace]], the ladykilling ActionHero, while his partner Artemus Gordon (Creator/RossMartin) is TheSmartGuy, a GadgeteerGenius and a MasterOfDisguise.

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''The Wild Wild West'' is a 1965-1969 Creator/{{CBS}} TV series created by Michael Garrison that combined two then-popular genres: TheWestern and SpyFiction ("Franchise/JamesBond ("Film/JamesBond on horseback" as Garrison summed it up). It follows the anachronistic adventures of two Secret Service agents roaming the [[TheWildWest Western United States]] during the UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant administration. James West (Creator/RobertConrad) is a borderline [[TheAce Ace]], the ladykilling ActionHero, while his partner Artemus Gordon (Creator/RossMartin) is TheSmartGuy, a GadgeteerGenius and a MasterOfDisguise.



* AcidPool: The villain of "The Night of the Bubbling Death" has stolen the original Constitution of the United States and hides it in his labyrinthic ElaborateUndergroundBase. The last obstacle before the room he's put the precious document in is a long corridor the bottom of which is a pool filled with boiling red acid. West uses a gadget zipline conceived by Artie to cross it the second time (for his first time there, he was brought there {{blindfolded|Trip}} using a removable bridge) to retrieve the Constitution. As expected, the villain dies by falling in the pool.



* RecycledINSPACE:
** It's Franchise/JamesBond IN {{THE WILD WEST}}!
** Due to airing at about the same time (its success taking off just a year before ''WWW'') and featuring similarly outlandish plots, it's also very much "''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}'' IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA!" (with two dudes instead of a male and female agent).

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