Episode
The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Human Trigger
Overview
A demented geologist can set off earthquakes where he chooses as part of an elaborate extortioin scheme. So West and Gordon head for Ellenville--the next town on the mad genius's list.
Details
- Series
- The Wild Wild West
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1965-12-03
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Night of the Human Trigger is Episode 12 in Season 1 of The Wild Wild West. It aired on 1965-12-03. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 11: The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen
West is sent to infiltrate an army of fanatics dedicated to overthrowing the U.S. Government. Getting in is no problem...but if he tries to leave he'll be shot.
Episode 13: The Night of the Torture Chamber
Jim and Artie take on an obsessed museum curator who has private designs on the state treasury.
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Episode 10: The Night That Terror Stalked the Town
West is lured to a ghost town peopled with lifelike dummies as part of an elaborate trap set for him by his nemesis Dr. Loveless.
Episode 14: The Night of the Howling Light
West is captured by a doctor who uses Pavlovian training to condition the Secret Service agent into becoming an assassin.
Episode 9: The Night of the Double-Edged Knife
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Episode 15: The Night of the Fatal Trap
Jim goes to arrest a Mexican bandit disguised as a notorious outlaw...but the villain's girlfriend recognizes him.
Episode 8: The Night of the Dancing Death
To rescue a kidnapped princess, Jim runs into a booby-trapped doorknob and a fully armored man wielding a mace.
Episode 16: The Night of the Steel Assassin
A series of mysterious deaths of military personnel bring Jim face to face with the indestructible Col. "Iron Man" Torres. Crippled in an explosion that he blames on the other men of his company, Torres rebuilt himself as a 19th century "cyborg", and is seeking revenge on those he thinks wronged him...and President Grant was one of the men he served with.
Episode 7: The Night of the Glowing Corpse
Jim and Artemus try to recover stolen radioactive materials nad have only one clue - a set of fingerprints found on the ankle of a pretty secretary.
Episode 17: The Night the Dragon Screamed
Jim and Artie have only one clue to track down the smugglers of opium and Chinese aliens: a fortune cookie.
Episode 6: The Night of a Thousand Eyes
Ships along the Mississippi are being attacked by a gang of pirates known as the "Thousand Eyes". After Jim ducks an assassin, an attractive woman, he finds the leader of the Eyes: Captain Ansel Coffin, who was blinded and now seeks revenge. His gang use false lights to lead ships astray and crash them, and then plunder them. Jim is captured by Coffin and manages to escape a cage rigged to a lightning rod. He is blinded by a powder flash, and for a time he is at a decided edge against Coffin (who has long adapted to his blindness). Coffin manages to accidentally kill his wife. Enraged, Jim is saved by his recovering eyesight: he ducks, and Coffin falls into a pit to his death.
Episode 18: The Night of the Flaming Ghost
Jim is assigned to stop abolitionist John Brown. The only problem - he was pronounced dead 20 years ago.