
The first television movie took place in Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885 - 1889). Michael Dunn was dead when the first "reunion" movie was made. Another villain on several episodes was Victor Buono as Count Mazeppi (Mazeppi was more pragmatic - he just sought money ), but while Lovelace was usually captured Mazeppi usually got away (once in a balloon). Originally Lovelace wanted to have only the state of California but as he kept reappearing he wound seek the whole country, or the whole world as his goal. The leading villain was Michael Dunn, the sharp dwarf actor. THE WILD WILD WEST was set in the Grant Administration (1869 - 1877) and most of the villains were ego-maniacal types who were determined to take over a territory or the country or the world (or just make money) with some 1870 style devices that would possibly change the world.


THE WILD WEST), a fun send up of the James Bond type of spy stories in the 1960s. In the late 1970s Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reappeared as James West and Artemis Gordon, their roles from THE WILD WILD WEST (a.k.a.
