"Get Smart" To Sire, with Love: Part 2 (1969)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Jay Sandrich

Writers:

Gloria Burton (written by) and
Don Adams (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Get Smart" (1965)

Original Air Date:

22 February 1969 (Season 4, Episode 21)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

The King of Caronia, Max's double, is in Washington staying with the Smarts. Even his wife 99 can't tell them apart. |

Plot Keywords:

Agent | Secret Agent | Gadget | Shoe | Secret Plan

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Barbara Feldon	...	Agent 99
Edward Platt	...	Chief
Robert Karvelas	...	Larabee
Keith Hefner	...	KAOS Agent
Allan Kent	...	Delivery Man
John Doucette	...	Colonel Von Klaus

Runtime:

Argentina:30 min

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

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

Trivia:

The title is based on the movie To Sir, with Love (1967).

Quotes:

King of Caronia: What is that terrible smell?
99: Eh, horseradish.
King of Caronia: Horseradish? Smells more like a tarantula.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs To Sir, with Love (1967)

All Hail the King!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

If anything, part two of this two parter is even better than the first one. Written by Adams and his sister, the story picks up where part one ended-with a deadly tarantula on 86's arm! After escaping this "Perils of Pauline" hazard, 86 begins to get jealous over his wife's constantly mistaking the King for him, so he pretends to be the King and comes on to her. But 99 discovers its really Max and not the King, so she decides to teach him a lesson. This scene is not only funny, but also has a nice heartfelt ending that says a lot about their relationship.

Max then rushes to the embassy to save the King from Rupert (James Caan) and recover the royal scepter. One of Rupert's henchmen is Adams' best friend Don Rickles, making a cameo appearance.

Max and Rupert have a great swashbuckling sword fight (and there does NOT seem to be any use of obvious doubles in this at all) and a face off over a vat of lava or acid or something like that (there's a great bit involving Rupert's henchman opening and closing the vat door).

Just like part one, Adam seems totally re-energized and committed to the comedy in ways not always seen in season four. His performance hearkens back to the best of seasons one and two when the whole thing must have been so fresh and new to him. Caan is great and shows a comic flair he did not often get to display in features.