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: silly
Captain Ron (1992) – Thom Eberhardt
Kurt Russell lets out his goofy side in Captain Ron, which he made with Martin Short, and this makes for a wondrful pairing, and really lets Russell be silly and (mostly) charming. Short plays Martin Harvey. He and his family, wife Katherine (Mary Kay Place), daughterCaroline (Meadow Sisto), and son Ben (Benjamin Salisbury) are off…
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…
National Lampoon’s: Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) – Gene Quintano
I hadn’t watched this one since it came out, and I don’t remember loving it. That was over twenty years ago, and I watched it anew. And man, I loved it. It’s so funny. The sight gags are great, the cameos are hilarious, and the cast is perfect. Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson lead…
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….
Anaconda (2025) – Tom Gormican
Rebooting the Anaconda series as a comedy with horror aspects was a pretty clever idea. And the film delivers a silly and relatable story, and it lets Paul Rudd and Jack Black have a good time together. There’s an earnest story here as the pair play childhood friends, alongside Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton, who…
Star Trek: Prophet of Peace (1976)
August of 1976 saw issue 39 of Gold Key Comic’s Star Trek series on comic spinners. Titled Prophet of Peace, it was written by Arnold Drake and featured art by Alden McWilliams and Jose Delbo, with yet another cover painting by George Wilson The splash page shows the aft section of the Enterprise as Kirk,…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) – Michael Pressman
With the success of the first Turtles movie, things got kicked into high gear immediately for a sequel. Unfortunately, the second film lost some of the charm of the first movie and decided to go for a more silly, kid-friendly approach (something that would plague the third film as well). There are some change-ups in…
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…
Smallville (2002) – Red, and Nocturne
Comic legend Jeph Loeb pens Red, which first aired on 15 October, 2002. It also introduces a new variety of kryptonite to the series, one that has an adverse on Clark (Tom Welling), red kryptonite. It’s time for class rings and Smallville High, and everyone is happy to get them. What they don’t know is…
The Mind Reels 