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 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) – 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 (1966) – The Decoy, Hoo Done It, and Rub-A-Dub-Dub… Three Spies in a Tub
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) is The Decoy in this episode, written by Sydney Zelinka and Ronald Axe. It first aired on 29 October, 1966. While Agent X carries the plans to a distant meeting, Agent 86 is to pose as the decoy and draw the attention of KAOS. The Chief (Edward Platt) plants information to…
Get Smart (1966) – Anatomy of a Lover, Strike While the Agent is Hot, and A Spy for a Spy
Don Adams had a very short summer break between seasons one and two of Get Smart. The first season, with a staggering thirty episodes, came to a close in the first week of May 1966. By 17 September, 1966, Maxwell Smart (Adams) was continuing his spycraft. The first episode of the season, Anatomy of a…
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924) – Fritz Lang
I knew going into this next recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book for my viewing of Intolerance that I would love it. Fritz Lang directed it, and helped adapt it to the screen, basing it on the epic German poem of the same name; and I loved his Metropolis,…
The Mind Reels 