Smart Fell on Alabama aired on 31 October, 1969. It was written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell. Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) finds himself working and training some convicts so that they can break into a mansion, and help him steal a codebook to keep it out of a KAOS agent’s, Colonel Kyle K. Kirby…
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Get Smart (1969) – The Not-So-Great Escape: Part 2, Pheasant Under Glass, and Ironhand
Season 4 of Get Smart ended on 29 March, 1969. Chris Hayward and Arne Sultan penned the script, and Don Adams once again directed the episode. Smart (Adams) and his fellow CONTROL agents are planning to escape the KAOS prison camp in New Jersey, and there will be lots of riffing on the classic film….
Get Smart (1969) – Leadside, Greer Window, and The Not-So-Great Escape: Part 1
Leadside debuted on 8 March, 1969. It was written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell. Leadside (Ronald Long) is a wheelchair bound mastermind who is working to destroy CONTROL and kill Maxwell Smart (Don Adams). Max has apparently ruined a number of Leadside’s plans before, and now, Leadside is going to take on CONTROL one…
Get Smart (1969) – Tequila Mockingbird, I Shot 86 Today, and Absorb the Greek
When a CONTROL agent is killed attempting to retrieve it, Max (Don Adms) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) head south of the border to retrieve the Tequila Mockingbird. Written by Chris Hayward and Arne Sultan, this episode debuted on 18 January, 1969. It riffs on The Maltese Falcon, while the title skewer’s Harper’s classic novel. The…
Get Smart (1968/1969) – One Nation Invisible, Hurray for Hollywood, and The Day They Raided the Knights
One Nation Invisible delivers another bit of domestic trouble story for Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon). Written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell, this episode was first broadcast on 28 December, 1968. Trouble arrives in the form of an invisible female doctor, Canyon (Lyn Peters). She arrives in Smart’s life as part…
Get Smart (1968) – The Farkas Fracas, Temporarily Out of CONTROL, and Schwartz’s Island
We get more domestic stories with The Farkas Fracas. 99 (Barbara Feldon) is playing housewife, sigh, what a waste, as Max (Don Adams) and the Chief (Edward Platt) take on KAOS agents. The story, written by Allan Burns, Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan, and Leonard Stern first aired on 7 December, 1968. Mx invites the Chief…
Get Smart (1968) – The Return of the Ancient Mariner, With Love and Twitches, and The Laser Blazer
The marriage of Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) is only days away at this point, but duty constantly calls. The Return of the Ancient Mariner first aired on 9 November, 1968 and was written by Allan Burns, Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan and Leonard Stern. An enemy agent known as The Chameleon is…
Get Smart (1968) – Snoopy Smart vs. The Red Baron, Closely Watched Planes, and The Secret of Sam Vittorio
I’m huge fan of the Snoopy vs. The Red Baron song, and this episode of Get Smart riffs on that. Written by Mike Marmer this episode debuted on 28 September, 1968. Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), 99 (Barbara Feldon) and the Chief (Edward Platt) end up in potato country to investigate KAOS new plan to sabotage…
Get Smart (1968) – Die, Spy, The Reluctant Redhead, and The Impossible Mission
Die, Spy is the penultimate episode of season three of Get Smart. It was written by Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan from a story by Dee Caruso and Gerald Gardner. It is meant to riff on the classic spy series I, Spy. As such, Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) finds himself paired with a new partner….
Get Smart (1968) – Spy, Spy, Birdie, Run, Robot, Run, and The Hot Line
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) find themselves in a temporary detente with Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) and Straker (King Moody) in Spy, Spy, Birdie. Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder, the episode was first broadcast on 9 March, 1968. The agents of CONTROL and KAOS are on the lookout for A.J. Pfister…
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