| The Night of the Bleak Island | |
|---|---|
| Season Four, Episode 21 #101 | |
| Air date | March 14, 1969 |
| Written by | Robert E. Kent |
| Directed by | Marvin Chomsky |
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The Night of the Bleak Island is the 21st episode of Season Four and the 101st overall episode of the 1965 TV series The Wild Wild West. Written by Robert E. Kent and Michael Garrison and directed by Marvin J. Chomsky it originally aired on March 14, 1969.
Plot[]
Agent West is sent to an Island to recover a priceless diamond--and also stop a criminal mastermind named Calender. As Agent Gordon doesnt appear, West's partner is British detective Sir Nigel Scott...but things aren't always what they seem...in fact at the end Nigel Scot is exposed as "Calender"; before he can kill West, Scot/Calender is knocked over a cliff to his doom..by a gigantic hound!
Villians[]
- Sir Nigel Scott/Callender...John Williams
Trivia[]
The scene of the boat going to the Island is the same footage of the SS Minnow in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the comedy series Gilligan's Island.
The theme of a phantom dog haunting a heir is borrowed from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Bloopers and continuity errors[]
The caretaker of the Island is killed by Calender's thugs in the beginning teaser-in fact almost practically under the eyes of Agent West as he steps ashore...yet in the dinner scene later it is remarked that the caretaker had "disappeared" months before.