1x16 The Night of the Steel Assassin - The Wild Wild West Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x16

Episode: 01x16
Title: The Night of the Steel Assassin
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 6516
First Aired: Jan. 07, 1966

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The Wild Wild West - 01x16 The Night of the Steel Assassin

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Who appeared in this episode?

Artemus Gor&hellip

Guest Stars:

Jim West	played by Robert Conrad
Torres	played by John Dehner
Nina Gilbert	played by Sue Ane Langdon
Dr. Meyer	played by Arthur Malet
Lopez	played by Allen Jaffe
Maria	played by Sara Taft
R.L. Gilbert	played by John Pickard
Mayor	played by S. John Launer
Saloon Girl	played by Phyllis Davis

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

DATE: West breaks into the home of Torres only to set off what appears to be a fairly modern alarm system - featuring a panel of zone entry warning lights using flashing miniature electric light bulbs accompanied by the unmistakable sound of an intermittent buzzing sound generated by an electromagnetic speaker. Torres beat out Thomas Edison along with Alexander Graham Bell, by decades, not to mention Miguelito Loveless.
CONT: In the opener West shoots a portion of the forehead skin from Torres' skull revealing steel beneath it. Afterwards over the course of days, weeks or even months later when Nina arrives in town and goes out to his house, the wound to Torres' forehead is no longer visible. While Torres is quite the genius inventor, one thing that is apparently beyond his years of laboring is the mastery of plastic surgery - evidenced by the steel plates and scars along the side of his face. Yet in weeks or possibly months, he has chosen to repair that one spot while with years to work on it, the rest of his face is a mess.
CONT: The burn rate of the fuses together with their length and distance from the rockets is such that it would be impossible for Torres and West to have such a lengthy conversation without the rockets igniting. As a result, the same footage of the burning fuses is looped over and over again between shots - the fuses never ending up any closer to the rockets during their conversation. Later when West is psyching out the henchman left to guard him, new footage of the fuses is inserted. Now the fuses can be seen clearly reaching the rockets, but they do not ignite because that footage is looped a few times until the henchman flees the room and West makes his move.

TRIVIA

Torres uses wireless remote control to control his lethal rockets. While this is one of those fun anachronisms of the series, it is interesting to note that while wireless remote control was a capability in the 1960s, it wasn't widely used. Outside of radio controlled toys and novelties, wireless mechanical control isn't even widely used today. Hardwired and not wireless electromechanical controls remain the most common and economical technology to mechanically control devices.

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