WILD WILD WEST, THE: THE NIGHT OF THE GOLDEN COBRA (TV)
Summary
One in this drama series about the adventures of Jim West and Artemus Gordon, two undercover government agents working in the old American West on secret assignments for President Ulysses S. Grant.
The story begins as Jim and Artemus are ordered to report to the Pawnee Native American reservation in Oklahoma. Once there, Jim meets up with Colonel Mayo, the local overseer of the reservation. Without warning, the two of them are attacked by lancers on horseback, and Colonel Mayo is incapacitated. Jim encounters a snake charmer who commands a cobra to bite him, rendering him unconscious.
When Jim awakens, he is in what appears to be a maharaja’s palace. It belongs to a man named Mr. Singh, a man from India who long ago traveled to the United States and built an Indian-style palace in Oklahoma. Jim encounters Mr. Singh’s three bloodthirsty sons and his beautiful daughter Veda, who offers to help him rescue Colonel Mayo, but then appears to double-cross him. While imprisoned, Jim and Veda secretly plot an escape, but Jim is still intent on rescuing Colonel Mayo. Veda professes that she only betrayed Jim to save him from slaughter, and that her father intends for them to marry. Meanwhile, Artemus decides to look for Jim after being told by a native about a supposedly haunted castle nearby. Artemus encounters Veda and is led to the palace.
At the palace, Jim joins Mr. Singh for an evenings’ entertainment. Artemus, disguised as a magician, infiltrates the palace and provides an escape route for Jim. Jim tells him to take Veda and go while he deals with her three brothers. They fight and Jim finally confronts Mr. Singh, only to be held at gunpoint by a revived Colonel Mayo. Mayo and Mr. Singh have been working together the whole time to perpetrate a scheme, but Mr. Singh grows incensed when Mayo captures and threatens Veda. Mayo knocks Mr. Singh out and reveals his scheme to Jim: the palace is built atop a massive oil well, which Mayo hopes to use to get rich. He hopes to convince Jim to persuade the local Pawnees to move off the reservation, but Jim refuses. Mr. Singh arrives, injured, and with his final breath topples Mayo into the oil pit, where he suffocates and dies. The story ends as Jim and Artemus ride off on their train, accompanied only by a parting gift from Veda. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 23, 1966 7:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:50:11
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:56640
- GENRE: Drama, police/private detective; Drama, western
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/private detective; Drama, western; Indigenous Peoples Collection
- SERIES RUN: CBS- TV series, 1965-1969
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Michael Garrison … Producer, Created by
- Leonard Katzman … Associate Producer
- Irving J. Moore … Director
- Henry Sharp … Writer
- Richard Markowitz … Music by, Composer
- Robert Conrad … Cast, Jim West
- Ross Martin … Cast, Artemus Gordon
- Boris Karloff … Cast, Mr. Singh
- Audrey Dalton … Cast, Veda Singh
- Simon Scott … Cast, Colonel Stanton Mayo
- James Westmoreland … Cast, Chandra
- Michael York … Cast, Gupta
- John Alonzo … Cast, Sarrkan
- Sujata … Cast, Hindu Dancer
- Asoka … Cast, Hindu Dancer
- Jose de Vega … Cast, John Mountain-Top
- Morgan Farley … Cast, Mudjaz