"Get Smart" One Nation Invisible (1968)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Harry Falk

Writers:

Lloyd Turner (written by) and
Gordon Mitchell (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

28 December 1968 (Season 4, Episode 14)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

A scientist who shows up at Max's apartment invisible. When she finally appears she is a beautiful woman that 99 catches Max with. |

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Secret Agent | Gadget | Shoe | Secret Plan

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
Lyn Peters	...	Dr. Canyon
Eddie Ryder	...	Vacuum Salesman
Dick Latessa	...	Woodman
Ed Kovens	...	Moorpark (as Edward Kovens)
Patricia Ann Conway	...	Operator (as Patti Conway)

Runtime:

30 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

Talent Associates

Trivia:

The title is from a line in the American Pledge of Allegiance, "One nation indivisible."

Quotes:

Maxwell Smart: Wait a minute, these are the wrong papers!
# 99: What do you mean, Max?
Maxwell Smart: Why, these are the Gottlieb papers.
Chief: No Max, those are the Ginsburg papers.
Maxwell Smart: But it says right there, Gottlieb.
Chief: Ginsberg changed his name.

I'm Looking Through You

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

So so episode by Turner and Mitchell has beautiful KAOS scientist Dr. Canyon (lovely Lyn Peters, last seen in "Get Smart" as Mrs. Neal in their "Avengers" parody) invent an invisibility spray and defect to CONTROL. The first half of the episode is kind of a bedroom farce with Max afraid 99 will discover him with the invisible (and unconscious) Dr. Canyon and get the wrong idea, while the second half of the episode Max uses the invisibility spray to infiltrate KAOS and get the Ginsberg papers before KAOS can send them out of the country.

The whole episode seems a bit forced and uneven. While Admas gets to do a number of nice slapstick bits (a neat fall and bounce back, a bit with a cigarette lighter), his character is once again written as stupid rather than a bumbler. This is a frequent season four/five mistake. The scene where Max confronts Woodman and Moorpark thinking he's invisible when he's not should have been much funnier than it is.

The series eventually rediscovered itself and its rhythm later in the season, but at this point, they were merely hitting singles than home runs.