Robert Conrad is Jim West and Ross Martin is Artemus Gordon, retired secret service agents.
West is enjoying a life of leisure with four pretty senoritas south of the border. Gordon is trying his hand at acting in a traveling show currently stopped in Kansas City.
Then they’re summoned out of retirement for a dangerous assignment.
Seems the son of their longtime nemesis, Dr. Loveless, has hatched a plan to conquer the world.
Dr. Miguelito Loveless Jr. has somehow captured the king of Spain, queen of England, tsar of Russia and president of the U.S., replacing them with look-alike imposters.
He’s also created an atomic bomb and buried one in an Eastern U.S. city, promising to detonate it if those nations don’t surrender to him.
And since he’s of small stature, he’s created an extra layer of protection at his hideout beneath a windmill in Wagon Gap, Arizona.
He’s created two $609 people, one male, one female. They’re robots with superhuman strength. And his personal protection force.
So armed with their usual assortment of disguises and gadgets, West and Gordon head to Wagon Gap.
But their assignment might be complicated by secret agents from Russia and England, who have also sprung into action.
Robert Conrad as Jim West, lured out of his leisurely life in Mexico to take on a madmen determined to rule the world in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon, his new acting career interrupted by the evil mind of Dr. Loveless II in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Review:
Ten years after “The Wild, Wild West” TV series ended a four-year run on CBS, Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprised their roles as secret agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon in a pair of TV movies.
This is the first of the two, and it’s more of the campy fun fans of the TV show would expect, though perhaps not quite as clever as one would imagine.
As the son of the duo’s longtime nemesis Dr. Loveless, Paul Williams is more comic book villain than truly villainous.
And his $609 dollar people — yep, “The Six Million Dollar Man” had just completed its five-season run on rival ABC — are played more for laughs than fright.
Producers fill the screen with plenty of eye candy too, including Jo Ann Harris as doe-eyed Carmelita, sister of Loveless Jr., who’s smitten with Jim West.
Then there’s Trisha Noble as Penelope, a busty British babe — okay, secret agent — who carries a silencer as her other weapon and takes a liking to Artemus Gordon.
Conrad and Martin were back again the following year in “More Wild, Wild West,” trying to stop another villain from taking over the world. Any plans for further adventures ended when Martin died of a heart attack in 1981 at age 61.
Paul WIlliams as Dr. Miguelitio Loveless Jr., the small man who wants to rule the world in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Jo Ann Harris as Carmelita, sister of Dr. Loveless II, finding herself smitten with Jim West in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Directed by:
Burt Kennedy
Cast:
Robert Conrad … Jim West
Ross Martin .. Artemus Gordon
Paul Williams … Dr. Miguelito Loveless Jr.
Harry Morgan … Robert T. Malone
Rene Auberjonois … Capt. Sir David Edney
Jo Ann Harris … Carmelita
Trisha Noble … Penelope
Jeff MacKay … Hugo Kaufman
Susan Blu … Gabrielle
Pavia Ustinov … Nadia
Robert Shields … Alan
Lorene Yarnell Jackson .. Sonia
Wilford Brimley … President Cleveland
Ted Hartley … Tsar Nicholas of Russia
Skip Homeier … Joseph
Jacquelyn Hyde … Queen Victoria
Joyce Jameson … Lola
Albert Morin … King Alphonso
Mike Wagner … Deadwood
John Wheeler … Henry
Jeff Redford … The Kid
Runtime: 96 min.
Harry Morgan as Secret Service Chief Robert T. Malone, putting West and Gordon on the Loveless case in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Jeff McKay as Hugo Kaufman, the incompetent nephew of Secret Service boss Malone in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Memorable lines:
Mexican bandit: “Four women is too much for one man, senor.”
Jim West: “For some men, four women is barely enough.”
Dr. Miguelito Loveless Jr.: “I call Alan and Sonia my $600 people. Why do I call them my $600 people? Because that’s what it cost to build them. Six hundred dollars — $609, if you must know the truth.”
Dr. Miguelito Loveless Jr.: “You saw the explosion. I have harnessed the very energy that is the source of our universe.”
Artmeus Gordon: “But you still don’t know anything about people, junior.”
Loveless: “I know this much about people: They don’t like to die.”
Atemus Gordon: “Don’t move, Penelope. I want to remember you always the way you are right now: puzzled.”
Penelope, after she and Sir David Edney outwit the American special agents: “Don’t move, Mr. Gordon. I want to remember you always they way you are right now: speechless.”
Wilford Brimley as President Grover Cleveland, a captive of Dr. Loveless II in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Trisha Noble as Penelope, a British agent interrupting the investigation by West and Gordon in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Susan Blu as Gabrielle, daughter of one of Jim West’s lovers and now a grown up saloon girl herself in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Pavia Ustinov as Nadia, head of the Russian agents trying to free the tsar in The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
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