"Get Smart"
Dr. Yes (1967)

Director:

James Komack

Writers:

William Raynor (writer) and
Myles Wilder (writer) ...

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

25 November 1967 (Season 3, Episode 9)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Max and 99 are looking for the man that is sabotaging missile launches. |

Plot Keywords:

Suicide Pill | Automobile | Funny Nazi | Secret Plan | Gun

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart - Agent 86
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
Donald Davis	...	Dr. Yes
Andre Philippe	...	Toulouse
Todd Martin	...	Himmel
Margaret Mason	...	Natasha
Robert Terry	...	Putney
Ref Sanchez	...	Lopez
Will Warren	...	Professor Kroeger

Filming Locations:

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

Goofs:

Although Max and 99 wear dark wet suits, when they show the footage of them underwater they are wearing white wet suits.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Dr. No (1962)

The Doctor is In...Sane!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Terrific episode that is more a parody of old "Fu Manchu" movie serials than the James Bond movie, "Dr. Yes". This shows off one of the best parts of the "Get Smart" series--the mixture of genuine peril with off the wall humor. The show begins with a great cold opening that has Max, 99 and the Chief at a rocket launch. When the missile goes awry, a double agent shoots the General who knows where the self-destruct button is. Max then shoots the double agent--the only other one who knows where the self-destruct button is! Wally Cox has a extended cameo as a TV repairman.

The diabolical fiend behind the series of missile mishaps is the KAOS madman, Dr. Yes (Donald Davis). Wearing a Fu Manchu outfit, mustache and impossibly long (and deadly) fingernails, Dr, Yes has a multi ethnic team so when they answer him he hears "Yes" in 4 different languages (Jawohl. Oui. Da. Si.) Although he's part Harry Hoo ("moment please. It is written...) and Craw, Davis does a nice job of giving us a new villain and its too bad he didn't get to reprise his role in another episode.

There's a lot of good jokes in this one including a nod to Dr. Strangelove about American scientists who speak German, Adams is in the zone comedically and Feldon looks breathtaking wearing a skin tight wet suit as they swim to Dr. Yes' secret underwater headquarters. Seeing Feldon in that wet suit is an eye opening experience.