James West was the American Bond on horseback.
When he rode on screen in the 1965 delirious madhouse CBS series Wild Wild West, he, in the person of the dashing Robert Conrad, gave Americans a welcome refuge from days filled with Cold War anxiety of nuclear annihilation.
Creator Michael Garrison latched onto the spy craze that began when President John F. Kennedy revealed his love of
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