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…
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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…
Get Smart (1969) – Physician Impossible, The Apes of Rath, and Age Before Duty
Physician Impossible first aired on 21 November, 1969. It was written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell. Early in the day, while working undercover, Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) shoots and injures a high profile criminal, Big Eddie Little (Henry Corden). Later, when he goes to visit 99 (Barbara Feldon) and the twins in the hospital,…
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) – To Sire With Love: Part 1, Part 2, and Shock It to Me
The King of Caronia, a dead ringer for Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), except for the moustache (which Max is required to add), is in Washington, and is staying with the Smarts. Wackiness ensues for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that 99 (Barbara Felon) can’t tell them apart. Written by Arne…
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…
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