"Get Smart" The Mess of Adrian Listenger (1970)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Charles R. Rondeau

Writers:

Chris Hayward (written by) and
Mel Brooks (creator)

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

30 January 1970 (Season 5, Episode 18)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

Every player on the CONTROL baseball team are dead except Max and the Chief and they suspect each other. |

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Secret Agent | Gadget | Shoe | Secret Plan

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
Tommy Farrell	...	Tuttle (as Tom Farrell)
Robert Karvelas	...	Larabee
Patricia Ann Conway	...	Receptionist (as Pat Conway)
Pat Paulsen	...	'Ace' Weems

Runtime:

30 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Talent Associates-Norton Simon

Trivia:

The title comes from an anagram of the film The List of Adrian Messenger (1963).

Quotes:

Chief: [having been handed a picture] Why for crying out loud, this is the baseball team I coached when I was an instructor at the Control training school.
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86: Well for heaven's sake. Which one is you, Chief?
Chief: [points] Right there.
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86: Oh, the one with the black baseball cap on.
Chief: That's not a black baseball cap, that's my hair.
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86: Oh really? How come it's got an initial on it?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

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Mostly weak episode that mainly acts as a vehicle for comedian Pat Paulsen as Ace Weems, an insurance investigator who is looking into the deaths of all the men in a photograph belonging to Adrain Listenger.

After Listenger is reported dead, the last two men in the photo are Max and the Chief. They quickly suspect each other as the one who has been killing all the others in the photo of the CONTROL academy baseball team for some unknown reason.

The first half of this episode is kind of funny in introducing Paulson, but once its Max vs. the Chief, the laughs come to an end. There's also some sloppy writing with Max mistaking the Chief's hair in the picture for a hat. Max was in the photo. He'd know. Every once in awhile they make the mistake of making him too stupid, particularly in season five.