Edward Andrews was one of the most typecast actors on TV He almost inevitably played a stuffy executive or banker. In "Night of the Brain", he gets to play a thoroughly diabolical villlain with a steampunk twist and he cuts loose with an enjoyably dastardly performance. I always hoped that Mr. Braine would be a recurring villain like Dr. Loveless.
Someone is sending Jim and Artie newspapers with the next day's date on them. The newspapers describe the deaths of men they know and that that they were helpless to prevent. Those forecasts come true in every detail. Some evil genius is manipulating the secret agents with ease.
That genius is Braine, who uses a steam-powered wheelchair loaded with death traps to get around. He uses the chair "to conserve energy". Braine plans on using West and Gordon's security knowledge to substitute duplicates for world leaders, leaving him to pull the strings.
As Braine, Andrews is chillingly unpredictable...jovial one minute, ice cold the next and capable of exploding in rage. He is such a calculating adversary that I sense the writer had trouble coming up with the proper ending. He is undone by his own sadism.
Like most episodes of "The Wild Wild West", you can poke holes in the logic of the episode, but this is one of my favorites
Someone is sending Jim and Artie newspapers with the next day's date on them. The newspapers describe the deaths of men they know and that that they were helpless to prevent. Those forecasts come true in every detail. Some evil genius is manipulating the secret agents with ease.
That genius is Braine, who uses a steam-powered wheelchair loaded with death traps to get around. He uses the chair "to conserve energy". Braine plans on using West and Gordon's security knowledge to substitute duplicates for world leaders, leaving him to pull the strings.
As Braine, Andrews is chillingly unpredictable...jovial one minute, ice cold the next and capable of exploding in rage. He is such a calculating adversary that I sense the writer had trouble coming up with the proper ending. He is undone by his own sadism.
Like most episodes of "The Wild Wild West", you can poke holes in the logic of the episode, but this is one of my favorites