The Wild Wild West (TV Series) The Night of Fire and Brimstone (1968) User Reviews

Madness In the Mines

[drmality-1 · 8/10 · 7 October 2018]

This is one of the fourth season's most fun and exciting episodes. The pace never flags from the pre-credit scene until the end and there's always something going on. You can find plot holes for sure, but that was true of just about every WWW episode.

Jim and Artie are summoned to a ghost town by a professor promising important information, but when they arrive, they find the town overrun by outlaws led by smarmy intellectual Zack Morton and his ruthless henchman Mr. Roach. The badly wounded professor is found in the smoldering coal mines beneath the town of Brimstone. Artie runs to fetch the nearest doctor, only to find the doctor himself is a sick man. Meanwhile, West is left to dodge the outlaws in the mine and encounter the crazy old Confederate soldier who haunts the underground.

Good character actors help the episode immensely, but the great Dabbs Greer really stands out as the insane Captain Lyman Butler, who guards a secret treasure with the help of his "sergeant", a skeleton. The ending scene with Butler is genuinely touching. Velvet-toned Charles Macauley is very condescending as Morton and Bill Quinn has a dignified turn as Dr. Sloane.

Good fun here!

Mine adventure

[searchanddestroy-1 · 8/10 · 30 March 2019]

The particularity of this episode is that it takes place almost entirely in a mine.and the overall topic is not so bad. It doesn't look as a kind of manufactured product, as many TV shows propose in their episodes. It is a question of hidden treasure, but we discover the explanation only at the end of the story. One of the villain, wearing a black suit, looking like a kind of Michael Pate, is particularely good. It reminded me some characters in one of John Sturges' westerns.especially one where it was played by William Campbell.