Rising up, The Wild, Wild West was certainly one of my favourite reveals. I at all times turned it on after coming residence from college — it was the right strategy to decompress after a tough day of studying, writing and just a little little bit of math at West Bountiful Elementary. I beloved watching Robert Conrad and Ross Martin present what it might have been like if James Bond had really been a authorities spy within the wild and woolly West.
My reminiscences, nevertheless, usually are not of its authentic primetime run from 1965 to 1969, however reasonably from the mid-Seventies, when it was featured in reruns on KSTU Channel 20, Salt Lake Metropolis’s first UHF TV station. On the time, I had no thought in regards to the heavy-handed means that the U.S. authorities had focused this action-packed (and, within the minds of many politicians, means too violent) program, and helped it get pulled from the air.