"Get Smart" A Man Called Smart: Part 2 (1967)

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Director:

Earl Bellamy

Writers:

Leonard Stern (writer) and
Mel Brooks (creator)

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

15 April 1967 (Season 2, Episode 29)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

KAOS threatens the USA to dry up its entire water supply. CONTROL is temporarily taken over by its original chief Admiral Hardgrade. |

Plot Keywords:

Number 99 | Secret Service | Television Series | Number 86 | Pistol

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart - Agent 86
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
Howard Caine	...	Bediyoskin / Dr. Smith
Maxine Stuart	...	Nurse #1
Marj Dusay	...	KAOS Girl
Grant Sewell	...	KAOS Announcer (as Grant Sewall)
William Schallert	...	Admiral Hargrade

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Trivia:

This three-part episode was originally written as a script for a feature-length "Get Smart" movie for theatrical release, but Paramount decided against that in the wake of only fair box office returns for Munster, Go Home! (1966), Batman (1966), and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965).

Goofs:

Continuity: Actually a post-production error in editing, this being the middle of a 3 part episode, at the end "Chief" is shot by a young man in a wheel chair, yet in the recap at the start of the following episode, he is wounded by an older man with his shooting crutch.

Quotes:

Maxwell Smart: The old gun in the crutch trick!

Get Smart: The Movie Part Two

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Part two of what was supposed to be the original "Get Smart" movie is just as funny as part one, as Max and 99 continue to seek out the diabolical KAOS killers who threaten to evaporate all the water in the US unless they are paid one billion dollars. The KAOS broadcasts have so alarmed the American public that the President has decided to relieve the Chief of CONTROL and bring in the country's grand spy master and original chief of CONTROL, the Admiral (William Schallert). The Admiral is 91 years old, smart and sharp as ever only...he has a little trouble standing up and sitting down. William Schallert must have LOVED playing a character as rich as this after a career in roles where he plays Patty Duke's dad or Gidget's dad or other straight parts, because he creates a really memorable and funny character here (that would return at least one more time in the series). It's a shame they did not try to reinstate the Admiral when they did "The Nude Bomb" or "Get Smart Again" or the ill-fated 1990 series (or even the new movie) when they needed to replace the late Ed Platt. Speaking of Platt, he does some nice work in the hospital scenes. The episode ends in another cliffhanger, with the Chief apparently falling dead into 99's arms.