Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) is back in One of Our Olives is Missing. And also along for the ride this time? Carol Burnett! She plays country singer Ozark Annie in this episode written by Jess Oppenheimer (the creator of I Love Lucy), who also served as the director. First premiering on 4 November, 1967, the story…
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Get Smart (1967) – The Spirit is Willing, Maxwell Smart, Private Eye, and Supersonic Boom
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) have to dabble with the paranormal for information in The Spirit is Willing. First airing on 14 October, 1967, this episode was written by Arne Sultan. A seance needs to be conducted to get information from a dead informer. Wackiness ensues. Ann Ferris (Ina Balin) meets with…
Get Smart (1967) – The Spy Who Met Himself, Viva Smart, and Witness for the Persecution
Season three of Get Smart got underway on 16 September, 1967. It was written by Phil Leslie and Keith Fowler. The impersonator division of KAOS is going to cause Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and CONTROL a lot of problems as they infiltrate the spy agency. There are doubles running around everywhere, and who can be…
Get Smart (1967) – A Man Called Smart: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
KAOS is up to such a dastardly plan, it had to be turned into a three-parter to finish off the second season of Get Smart! A Man Called Smart is a trilogy of episodes, the first one aired on 8 April, 1967 and was written by Leonard Stern. It was originally designed to be a…
Get Smart (1967) – How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying, Appointment in Sahara, and Pussycats Galore
Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) wants to defect to CONTROL and leave KAOS behind in How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying. Written by Mike Marmer this episode first aired on 11 March, 1967. Can he be trusted? He convinces the Chief (Edward Platt) that KAOS is going to launch an attack on Fort…
Get Smart (1967) – Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho, Where-What-How-Who Am I?, and The Expendable Agent
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) has an unusual assignment on his hand this time. He has to track down an enemy agent that is destroying buildings. Unfortunately CONTROL can’t figure out how he’s doing it. Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho first aired on 18 February, 1967 and was written by Arne Sultan. To find out…
Get Smart (1967) – The Man From Yents, The Mummy, and The Girl From KAOS
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) is given bodyguard duty when he’s assigned to protect an Arabian Prince (Walker Edmiston). He and 99 (Barbara Feldon), who goes undercover in the harem, pair up with Agent 498 (Alan Oppenheimer), from the YENTA agency (a little jab at the Man From UNCLE, which aired on a competing network.) Of…
Get Smart (1967) – It Takes One to Know One, Someone Down Here Hates Me, and Cutback at Control
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) has his hands full this week in It Takes One to Know One. Written by Gary Clarke, this episode first debuted on 7 January, 1967. Max is trying to stop a female KAOS agent, Octavia (Gayle Hunnicut). She’s been taking out the number two man, and the subsequent replacements at CONTROL….
The Producers (1967) – Mel Brooks
Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder star in Mel Brooks’ Oscar winning comedy The Producers. Scoring the Academy award for Best Original Screenplay, this one is a hoot from beginning to end. It also saw Wilder get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Mostel stars as Max Bialystock, a producer, who will do anything to make…
Star Trek: The Planet of No Return (1967)
I always love my Trek, but there are times when I just cannot get enough of it. I’ve been listening to the scores, whistling Fred Steiner, watching Strange New Worlds, revisiting The Original Series, digging back into the novels, and it struck me… I haven’t really done much on the blog with the comics. So…
The Mind Reels 