"Get Smart" And Only Two Ninety-Nine (1970)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Don Adams

Writers:

Arne Sultan (written by) and
Mel Brooks (creator)

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

20 February 1970 (Season 5, Episode 21)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

KAOS kidnaps Mrs. Smart (99) and replaces her with an exact duplicate that is feeding Max poison bit by bit. |

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title | Agent | Secret Agent | Gadget | Shoe

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
H.M. Wynant	...	Melnick Archer
Nicholas Georgiade	...	Marcus
Robert Karvelas	...	Larabee

Runtime:

Argentina:30 min

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

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

Trivia:

When "Sonya" uses her real voice, it is provided by June Foray, the voice of Natasha Fatale in the Bullwinkle Show.

Quotes:

Chief: [Max is constantly falling down] Max, I think you're coming down with something.
Maxwell Smart: Yes, well, if I am, Chief, I'm coming down with it a lot.

Missed it by THAT much!

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Barbra Feldon finally gets to do something after a season of more or less playing mom to the twins. She plays a dual role as 99 and as KAOS lookalike Sonja, who plans to replace 99 then poison Max and frame her for the murder. Why KAOS doesn't just shoot 99 while they have her prisoner and kill Max while he thinks Sonja is his wife is left unanswered.

Despite the strange logic of the situation, the main thing is the script is very funny and the direction by Adams is again crisp and well done. Robert Karvelas gets even more moments than usual in this one, as the one spy even dumber than Max. Adams even delivers a line about how many people have asked if they're related (played for a joke here, but Karvelas was his real-life brother in law). H.M. Wynant returns to the series as bad guy Melnick Archer after playing a KAOS club owner in "Pussycat Galore" in 1967.