Episode
The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Arrow
Overview
Strong Bear's Sioux Indians are making noises about breaking the peace treaty. President Grant's first three messengers failed to return from meetings with the Indian leader; now it's up to Jim and Artemus to find Strong Bear and to keep peace in the territory.
Details
- Series
- The Wild Wild West
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1967-12-29
Episode context
The Night of the Arrow is Episode 16 in Season 3 of The Wild Wild West. It aired on 1967-12-29.
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Episode 15: The Night of the Running Death
Agent James West attempts to rescue a man called Mr.Markham from a masked assailant who flees the scene of the crime. As Markham lays dying,he utters two words-""enzo"" and ""silver"". Meanwhile,Agent Artemus Gordon has joined a troupe of entertainers traveling to Denver under the leadership of casino operator Kohner. Gordon,who is posing as a Shakespearean actor,learns that a man called Enzo has a girl friend,Topaze. She is a dancer with the troupe,probably working under an assumed name,and is on her way to meet Enzo in Denver. Dierdre,a dancer,attempts to pass some information to West but a jealous Kohner interrupts them and engages the agent in a fight with him and El Bardhoom,a huge weight lifter. Later,Artemus hears a strange voice of Markham's masked Killer. When West goes to meet Dierdre at midnight,he discovers that she too been slain by unseen assailant.
Episode 17: The Night of the Headless Woman
On a dusty Californian trail,Jim and Artemus intercept a stagecoach whose driver has been hired to smuggle boll weevils. Quickly theorizing that someone is trying to destroy the country's cotton crop,they set out to find the mastermind of the operation and destroy his distribution system before his plan succeeds.
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Episode 14: The Night of the Iron Fist
At the request of the Bosnian government, Count Draja is to be turned over for extradition. Learning of a plot to free the Count, Jim and Arte make plans to see that Draja reaches his destination. While Jim escorts Draja through 100 miles of no-man's land, they'll all meet up in Buffalo Springs-but there is the little matter of the $500,000 the Count hid somewhere in the U.S.
Episode 18: The Night of the Vipers
The Vipers are a gang of ruthless crooks who have been looting a string of Kansas towns,robbing banks and killing citizens. They even robbed the Cottonwood bank while James West was trying to convice the sheriff of the danger. Now the trail leads to Freedom,Kansas,where Jim and Arte must stop the Vipers before the Vipers stop them.
Episode 13: The Night of the Turncoat
The stress of Secret service work appears to be finally getting to Jim as his temper flares and he makes mistakes. As West is being recruited by some member of the underworld who seeks to capitalize on his misfortune,Artemus and Conel Richmond struggle to find out exactly who,for what,and why.
Episode 19: The Night of the Underground Terror
During Mardi Gras West is grabbed by Major Hazard: the leader of a gang of crippled Civil war soldiers seeking revenge on the camp's commandant, Mosely. Jim reluctantly agrees to help them, only to have Mosely taken from him by the soldiers. He tracks them to the abandoned camp, where it turns out that Hazard and his men aren't crippled. They were in league with Mosely, who stole a shipment of gold and hid it. Mosely double-crossed Hazard and his men, so now they want the gold. Thanks to a diversion by Artie (as a geologist who can find gold with a divining rod), Jim escapes and in the ensuing fight, Hazard is killed when the gold falls from its hiding place: the camp's water tower.
Episode 12: The Night of the Legion of Death
West and Gordon take on the power-crazed secretary to a Territorial Goveror. The secretary controls the Governor and has plans to take over the US Goverment and the Presidency as well. To make things more difficult, his Black Legion troops do not take kindly to the two agents interferring.
Episode 20: The Night of the Death Masks
An escaped murderer plots a bizarre scheme against agent James West, the man who had imprisoned him several years earlier. Attacked and knocked unconscious, West awakens in a stange deserted town filled with assailants wearing masks in the likeness of Stark. Gordon searches for his lost partner and soon finds himself in a similar predicament. West and Gordon must avoid deception to find and take out the real Stark.
Episode 11: The Night of the Cut-throats
Something is happening in the small town of New Athens. residents are leaving in droves,scared off by a band of seedy cut-throats gathering just outside the town limits. And then there's Michael Trayne,back in town after three years in jail. Can Jim and Arte figure out what's happening and save the town before everyone leaves permanently?
Episode 21: The Night of the Undead
The guys become involved with a voodoo ceremony and the walking dead as they try to track down a missing scientist.
Episode 10: The Night of the Falcon
James West and Artemus Gordon help evacuate the town of Tonka Flats before it is destroyed by a cannon shell. Afterwards, they are notified that a man identified as "The Falcon" has threatened to obliterate Denver unless the U.S. government pays him $1,000,000. "The Falcon" is also in cahoots with syndicate leaders from Turkey, Spain, Prussia and England. During their investigation, Gordon is threatened by a whip-wielding Spaniard named Munez who suspects Gordon knows too much about the top secret weapon. West rescues Gordon from Munez, who is then killed by an explosive meant for the two agents. While searching Munez's body, West and Gordon find an invitation from "The Falcon". Gordon, disguised as Munez, prepares to attend the meeting while West attempts to penetrate the stronghold where the cannon is housed.
Episode 22: The Night of the Amnesiac
A stage coach carrying the western states entire supply of smallpox vaccine is attacked and the drug stolen. Furman Crotty, a convicted criminal serving time in Leavenworth, is demanding his release from jail with a full pardon and a ransom for the safe return of the drug. While Jim West, injured in the attack on the stage, struggles with amnesia, Artemus tries to find both his friend and the drug before a full-scale epidemic hits.