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An Exclusive Report on Robert Conrad — Star of “The Wild Wild West”
It Was An Honor To Have Him Guest On My TV Show
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“I’m not debonair. I’m not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.” — Robert Conrad
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Robert Conrad — you were one tough nut to crack.
But I loved having you on my show, “Then Again with Herbie J Pilato,” which ultimately became your final on-screen appearance.
What an honor — and what a blast it really was.
You joked — and you razed me, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Rest well, tough guy.
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Whether in fiction or in reality, no male TV character of the 1950s, ’60s, and ‘70s came any tougher than Robert Conrad as James West on the unique sci-fi western, The Wild Wild West, which originally aired on CBS from 1965 to 1969.
The fact that Conrad portrayed a character named West on a series that was set in the Old West served both as a metaphor and as a wink to the program’s loyal fan-base who came to love the show’s frequent use of…
