Ross Martin

Ross Martin plays Artemus Gordon on The Wild Wild West, the disguise wizard beside Robert Conrad's James West. Gadgets, masterminds, Western scenery — secret-service fantasy in a train car full of toys. Martin sells proto-steampunk before the term existed: a new face every week, cowboy sci-fi that treated makeup as a gadget. The stunt was Conrad's; the transformation was Martin's.

Ross Martin's Artemus Gordon sits in the CBS window (1965–1969) on The Wild Wild West. Viewers who want a door more than a recap still use s01e01: The Night of the Inferno boards the gadget train: secret-service fantasy in Western scenery, toys in the car from the first night.

The hour needed a man who could vanish in a hat. On TV Flash Martin is 1960s adventure craft: the partner who made a gadget Western photograph as theater, then left the bravado to the other bunk.

Ross Martin plus The Wild Wild West is the filing; go to s01e16 when you already know the door — The Night of the Steel Assassin — Conrad's stunt bravado meeting machine menace, cowboy sci-fi before anyone had the term. s03e01 keeps a sideways coordinate — The Night of the Bubbling Death opens season three on-brand: title as pulp poster, Martin's disguise wizardry as the other engine. Supporting, and load-bearing. Artemus Gordon is not the logo of The Wild Wild West; Ross Martin is why the marquee still has a world. The extras are noise.

Ross Martin is here because The Wild Wild West still needs Artemus Gordon in the shot — 1965–1969 on CBS, 1960s craft that photographs as a person instead of a pitch. s01e01 shakes hands; s01e16 still shows the turn. That is the whole passport.