Dr. Loveless

Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a villain who appeared in 10 episodes of the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. He is a brilliant (though insane) character born with dwarfism, portrayed by character actor Michael Dunn , chronologically listed as follows:

As a mad scientist, Dr. Loveless conceived numerous plots which were always foiled by Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, though he always escaped capture.

Loveless' family had received a valuable land grant in California from the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico. Their land was taken back by the Spanish Crown; and then irretrively lost however, when California became part of the United States. His original goal was to recover his family's property and create a haven where the disadvantaged (presumably financially and, like himself, physically) could live without torment from society. As the series progressed, however, he became more and more megalomaniacal. In "The Night of the Bogus Bandits" Loveless greatest fear is not death, but the fact that once deceased, Loveless cannot continue his plans of revenge against society which he hates so much.

Loveless was created by writer John Kneubuhl after he read a magazine article about Dunn. The character was introduced in the 1965 episode "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth," which was the show's third televised episode (although it was produced sixth). Loveless became an immediate hit and Dunn appeared in ten episodes over four seasons. Kneubuhl wrote five of them.

Loveless was known as a technological genius, producing gadgets far ahead of his time-which his enemy James West acknowledges {"The Night Dr Loveless died"}.Dr Loveless is addicted to the very rare Napoleon Brandy Le Grande {"The Night of Miguelito's Revenge"}. In the series' first season, his inventions were more practical, anticipating the cathode-ray tube, airplane and a synthesized LSD-like hallucinogen. In the second season, the inventions became more fantastic and included a powder that shrank Jim West to one-twelfth his original size and a device that allowed people to enter paintings. Perhaps the most phantasmagorical of his methods for avoiding capture was when he and his lovely assistant Antoinette (Phoebe Dorin) escaped West and Gordon by shrinking themselves and flying away on the back of a swan. {"The Night of the Raven"}

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