This is it, the last trio of episodes of Don Adams’ Get Smart. Will we get some kind of series round up, or will it just end? Let’s find out. The first episode this week is Hello, Columbus, Goodbye, America. Written by Pat McCormick, this episode was first broadcast on 1 May, 1970. Gino Columbus…
Tag: 1970
Get Smart (1970) – And Only Two Ninety-Nine, Smartacus, and What’s It All About, Algie?
Arne Sultan wrote And Only Two Ninety-Nine, which was first broadcast on 20 February, 1970. 99 (Barbara Feldon) is replaced with a duplicate who is slowly poisoning Max (Don Adams). The Chief (Edward Platt) contacts Max about it, and despite having escaped, he orders 99 back to where she was being held by KAOS, so…
Get Smart (1970) – The Mess of Adrian Listenger, Witness for the Execution, and How Green Was My Valet
The Mess of Adrian Listenger first aired on 30 January, 1970 and was written by Chris Hayward. It’s baseball season, and the CONTROL team are all dead but for Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and the Chief (Edward Platt) and they begin to suspect one another. The pair are forced to work together, to find the…
Get Smart (1970) – House of Max: Part 1, Part 2, and Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
House of Max is a two-parter, which, if you can’t tell, riffs on House of Wax. It was written by Chris Hayward and was first broadcast on 9 January, 1970. Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) find themselves heading to London (read as the studio backlot) to investigate the impossible… Jack the Ripper…
Get Smart (1969/1970) – Is This Trip Necessary?, Ice Station Siegfried, and Moonlighting Becomes You
Is This Trip Neccessary? was written by Dale McRaven and debuted on 12 December, 1969. Is there something in the water? It seems everyone at CONTROL is suffering bad dreams, and it may be because KAOS is putting something in the water at the Dartfoot Spring Water Company. It will be up to Maxwell Smart…
M*A*S*H (1970) – Robert Altman
I grew up with the television series and when I first saw the film, it wasn’t my jam. So what did I think of it now, having rewatched it a number of years ago (and apparently previously written about it – too late now, I already wrote this one!). I greatly enjoyed it. I didn’t…
Star Trek: The Youth Trap (1970)
In September of 1970, Dick Wood and Alberto Giolitti delivered issue number eight of the Gold Keys Comics Star Trek series. And while it makes no sense in relation fo the series, I do like the image of the captain’s log being transcribed into an actual log book. Though the stardates are still ridiculously wrong….
Star Trek: The Voodoo Planet (1970)
Of all the Gold Key stories I’ve read so far, I like this one the least. It’s not very Star Trek, it’s just an issue of silliness using voodoo dolls, chants and magic potions. Not very Trek at all. The writing is once again by Dick Wood, and Alberto Giolittie continues to deliver the art…
They Call Me Trinity (1970) – Enzo Barboni
They Call Me Trinity is a spaghetti western that riffs slightly on the classic Seven Samurai story, but is filled with lots of comedic moments, and is led by a pair of charming actors, Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer. It gently pokes fun at the tropes of the genre, plays to them, and enjoys them,…
TIFF ’23: The Holdovers
Director Alexander Payne reunites with his Sideways star, Paul Giamatti in this earnest and laugh-out-loud dramedy that takes us back to the winter of 1970 and Barton, a boy’s prep school where Paul Hunham (Giamatti) teaches Ancient Civilizations and often finds himself clashing with not only his fellow teachers but his students as well, particularly…
The Mind Reels 