Talk:The Wild Wild West
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[edit] Citation needed
The article states that CBS bowed to pressure from watchdog groups and cancelled the series. I dispute this- I've never heard anything other than the show was cancelled due to low ratings as the secret agent boom came to an end (only Mission Impossible survived into the 1970s). I have flagged this as a fact that needs to be sourced, or removed. 23skidoo 03:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- As no one has added a citation to back this up, I have deleted the statement. 23skidoo 19:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I have restored the statement because it was made by the series producer, Bruce Lansbury, in Susan Kesler's book, "The Wild Wild West: The Series."
- Looks good - thanks! 23skidoo 16:13, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Well now, hold on a minute. It's Bruce Lansbury's opinion that CBS cancelled the show due to outside pressure. But Lansbury has absolutely no proof that this was the case.
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- Unless there's a CBS source that can confirm the show was cancelled due to outside pressure (which frankly, seems unlikely), I don't think this statement belongs. 172.130.253.189 (talk) 02:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Jon E Lewis and penny Stempel recite this story in their Cult TV Guide and attribute the decision to Dr Stanton, Head of CBS at the time. I have to say that I do not regard Stempel and Lewis as %100 percent reliable, however, as they make numerous mistakes in this volume, including getting Pamela Stephenson confused with Pamela Anderson! There can be no dispute (there isn't amongst fans) that in Season 4 the quality of Wild Wild West underwent a massive downturn, obviously due to the litany of disasters that hit the show - primarily Ross Martin's heart attack that left him absent for many episodes and resulted in what are obviously hasty, unsatisfactory rewrites. Add to this Robert Conrad throwing himself about doing stunts that must have made the insurance people blench ( he ended up in a coma for a week or so after an accident at the end of season three) and you have a situation where T3W must have been an easy bone to throw to whatever moral panic groups were protesting at the time. I understand that it's rating held up but that is an easy thing to check with the Nielsen people, I would have thought?
Tanyajane (talk) 15:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Are reviewer comments NPOV?
Question regarding NPOV of this sentence in the article: A review at the Mile High Comics site praises it thusly: “This mini-series perfectly captures the fun mixture of western and spy action that marked the ground-breaking 1960s TV series.” Just in case, I went to the Mile High Comics website, found the synopsis with the above sentence and went ahead and added the link to the article as the source of the comment. Alan Smithee 03:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Similar naming conventions
Is the section about other television programmes with 'similar episode naming conventions' really particularly relevant to this show? --90.240.102.48 17:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First two agents
I know the Will Smith movie ended with West and Gordon being named as the first two Secret Service agents, but I don't recall the series ever gave the characters that distinction. Sir Rhosis 22:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
-In the show, they may have been the first agents, but they weren't the ONLY agents. A few examples: in The Night of the Eccentrics (ep. 29) Jim and Artie are supposed to meet another agent, who is killed. In The Night of the Bottomless Pit (ep. 36) they are sent to rescue a fellow agent from prison.
[edit] Steampunk
In the Backgound section, paragraph six, there is the following parenthetical clause, "(in a similar vein to steampunk)." The clause is being presented as a clarification of the term "science fiction/alternate history ideas." The term steampunk is far more obscure than either science fiction or alternate history. As the steampunk clause does not substantively add to the sentence and appears to be a non sequitur, it should be removed. --72.10.223.116 (talk) 05:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
- The word means nothing to me, so I second the motion. Ted Watson (talk) 21:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
