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The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Eccentrics
A government agent turns up dead at a circus warehouse, and when Jim and Artie investigate they find themselves up against the Eccentrics, a band of trained assassins and performers led by the malevolent magician, Count Carlos Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x1 Production Number: 3224-0308 Airdate: Friday September 16th, 1966 |
Recap
Secret Service agent Vance Markham cautiously enters a circus warehouse and looks around. The lights come up, revealing a chuckling man dressed as a magician seated in a throne. Markham draws a gun and prepares to shoot him, but the man in the throne calls to Julio... a ventriloquist dummy belonging to Villar. Villar knows that Markham is a Secret Service agent as does the magician. The light on Villar fades out and then comes up on Tony, a man with a knife. Tony figures that the agent is Jim West, but the magician knows better. The next light comes up on Miranda, who whips the gun out of Markham’s hand...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Corner slides:
Lower left: Jim being told he must assassinate Artie.
Upper right: An irritated Manzeppi lighting his cigar from a magician’s flash pan.
Lower right: Deadeye with his Juarez disguise mostly removed.
Upper left: Manzeppi leaves a smiling portrait of himself behind.
Lower left: Jim being told he must assassinate Artie.
Upper right: An irritated Manzeppi lighting his cigar from a magician’s flash pan.
Lower right: Deadeye with his Juarez disguise mostly removed.
Upper left: Manzeppi leaves a smiling portrait of himself behind.
Music
| Artist | Song Title | Played When |
| Frederic Chopin | Nocturne in E-Flat | Manzeppi plays the violin |
Episode Quotes
Villar: (through his dummy Julio) Golly golly golly. What's Mr. Markham going to do now?
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Well, what can he do now, Julio? Nothing. Except die.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Well, what can he do now, Julio? Nothing. Except die.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Allow me to present myself. I am the Count Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi, adventurer, poet, and lover of all that is corrupt, forbidden, and blasphemous.
James: Charmed, I'm sure.
James: Charmed, I'm sure.
James: Well, I'm flattered. Are you asking me to join your group?
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Why not? You have much to offer us. Oh, a certain flair for assassination. A charming capacity to overcome odds. In short, style. We can use you.
James: You'll, uh, you'll turn my head, Count.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Why not? You have much to offer us. Oh, a certain flair for assassination. A charming capacity to overcome odds. In short, style. We can use you.
James: You'll, uh, you'll turn my head, Count.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Mr. West! You have succeeded in making me lose my temper!
James: Is that bad?
Count Carlos Manzeppi: For you it will be highly traumatic.
James: Is that bad?
Count Carlos Manzeppi: For you it will be highly traumatic.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Now you are in the cradle of Limbo. Suspended halfway betwixt Elysium and Hades.
James: Oh. I always did want to get away from it all.
James: Oh. I always did want to get away from it all.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Oh, I wish I could stay and watch, but unfortunately the smell of scorched people disagrees with me.
(after shooting a man)
Deadeye: Fall down, Tony… you're dead.
Deadeye: Fall down, Tony… you're dead.
Artemus: If I make a small suggestion… you're a Count. Count.
Count Carlos Manzeppi: Act one to you, Mr. West. But when the mists rise and the sudden silences fall… look for me.
Episode Goofs
When Jim is up on the stage and kicks Deadeye, he roundhouse kicks him very lightly, and striking right to left. However, Deadeye goes flying as if struck with considerable force, to the right opposite the direction of the blow.
When Tony throws his knives at Jim in a demonstration, in the Eccentrics' HQ, he hits the wall over Jim's left shoulder. But when Jim runs to grab a knife a minute later, the knives are now over his right shoulder.
Manzeppi claims he studied the works of Van Der Graff to make his electrical field. However, Van Der Graff wasn't born until 1901.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Michael Garrison |
| • Producer | Michael Garrison |
| • Associate Producer | Leonard Katzman |
| • Casting | James Lister (2) |
| • Unit Production Manager | Lee H. Katzin |
| • Music | Richard Shores |
| • Set Decorator | Raymond Molyneaux |
| • Director of Photography | Ted Voigtlander |
| • Art Director | Albert Heschong |
| • Film Editor | Grant Smith |
| • Assistant Director | Charles Scott, Jr. |
| • Assistant To The Producer | Joe Kirby |
| • Story Consultant | Henry Sharp |
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