response 32 of 348:

Jul 2 21:47 UTC 1999

The original _West_ was almost before my time, but I remember a few bits and
pieces about it.

* They had a private train which also served as their base of operations. All
   you ever saw was the caboose, which looked *enormous* on the inside. I
   wondered how that caboose managed to fit on the tracks.

* West had a small two-shot pistol in a power holster, and a few other hidden
   devices.

* The railroad car was equipped with a "telegraph" that I thought would have
   had to be a radio tranceiver. How do you connect to wires from a moving
   train?

* The plots often involved fighting villians who were inventing various 20th
   Century devices to use in various attempts of world domination and other
   mischief.

* There was a Time Travel episode (an ex-Confederate general tryinmg to change
   the outcome of the Civil War), and an episode with Space Aliens! (details
   forgotten.)


I don't know why I lost track of this one. I think I'd watch it if it showed
up on broadcast television. There have already been a couple of movies made,
both of them shown on television, which I thought were okay.