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Retro TV The Wild Wild West 

This video is part of an ongoing project to build a retrospective TV archive made for the LL community on my Retro TV channel at

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Aired from 1965 to 1969 with 104 episodes. The western genre had lost much ground by this time. Spy and sci-fi shows were on the rise. In that light it sort of makes sense that this show had a little of everything, western, espionage, intrigue, sci-fi, beautiful women and comedy. It almost seemed like the producers didn't want to guess which genre to take the show into exactly. Whatever path they took it led to awesomeness. If you love zany bad guys this series is for you, Michael Dunn as Dr. Loveless = epic. A partial list of notable guest stars who played villains on the show - Leslie Nielsen, Martin Landau, Burgess Meredith, Boris Karloff, Ida Lupino, Carroll O'Connor, Ricardo Montalban, Robert Duvall, Ed Asner, and Harvey Korman.

The show is available everywhere you look practically. The DVD collection is a nice piece of work.

Mr Clean commercial, yep that's Marion Ross better known as Mrs Cunningham of Happy Days.

The Linit fabric softener commercial was done by Jim Henson's company, as if you couldn't tell. That's basically Ernie in a can, the character voice I'd say is closest to Henson's Rowlf character. It's interesting to see the genesis of his creations. Henson's unique style of humor comes through in it too. Always loved the Muppets.

The Oscar Meyer commercial. What an unfortunate haircut.


Added: Aug-10-2012 Occurred On: Aug-10-2012
By: Rikki_Tikki_Tavi
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Tags: Retro TV, TV, retrospective, The Wild Wild West, TV intro, opening, closing, theme,
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  • Yep that's what I saw back then... along with two other channels, one rerun channel and one or two UHF channels depending on the time of day... PBS could be found in some areas but not all back then too!

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      People grow. You might come round to it again. Maybe not, sometimes it's best just to keep the memories of how you liked it. I've ruined many a show I was fond of by watching it again years later lol.

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  • I always found the Mr. Clean commercials with an actual bald guy scary. I prefer the cartoon replacement, he looks friendlier.

    <EDIT> And as always, good job RTT.

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  • --this was one of my favorite shows when i was a kid--a science fiction western---and then they make that movie--an abortion--with will smith--

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  • West always got the babe. Felt bad for Artie.

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  • Dammit, who is the girl in the Linit commercial? I know, but it just wont come to me!

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