Get Smart - Die, Spy

Edward Platt (Cheif), Don Adams (Maxwell Smart), Stu Gillian (Samuels), Barbara Feldon (99)

Die,Spy
Airdate: Saturday, March 30, 8:30 PM
Teleplay: Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan
Story: Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso
Director: Gary Nelson
Carl's Rating: ****

Get Smart - Die, Spy - Ping Pong Scenes - wmv Video - (55 Mbytes, 9:30 Minutes)

Ping pong paddle short wave radio

Ping pong paddle - Gun

Ping pong ball grenada

At the funeral of a double agent, someone attempts to kill the Chief and KAOS' Chief. Only one agency could be responsible, the new third spy network, ACB (Atrocities, Cruelities, Brutality). Its leader is Kubacheck, who is offering CONTROL agents the choice of joining his network or dying. Kubacheck's one weakness is an inability to get over a loss at ping pong to The Masked Marvel. Max goes undercover as the marvel to smoke out Kubacheck, and he's accompanied by Samuels, a new CONTROL agent. In Istanbul, Samuels reveals himself as Kubacheck and he forces Max to play a game of ping pong and the winner gets to live.
The ACB reference is for ABC, the third broadcast network (yes, there used to only be three), which finally was starting to pick up in the ratings.
This episode is a brilliant parody of I Spy as Max plays Robert Culp and Samuels plays Bill Cosby beautifully.
Robert Culp has an absolutely hysterical cameo as a waiter - "but me no buts, sir."

DIE, SPY Saturday, 8:30 P.M. March 30, 1968
A KAOS agent quit when refused a promotion, tried without success to join CONTROL, then formed his own band to destroy both agencies. Max, along with a new recruit named Samuels, travels the world in search of this nemesis who has changed his face through plastic surgery but can be flushed out by his passion for Ping-Pong. The episode echoes "I Spy", with "I Spy" star Robert Culp in a cameo as an Istanbul waiter.

Max tests out the Shortwave Ping Pong Paddle Radio.

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Smart confuses the real balls for the grenades.

The Chief shows 86 the special grenade ping pong balls.

99 inspects the gun blades.

Max tries to play in his bullet proof lead lined sweater.

99 and 86 tour the World in and exhibition Table Tennis Tournament. From London,

to Paris,

to Venice,

then Istanbul.

Maxwell Smart (86) plays as the Masked Marvel in an attempt to out the ACP agent.

Max bows to the crowd after his win over Agent 99.

Smart warns 99 that she is getting too good as the matches are getting harder for him to win.

Samuels fills in for 99 after she is injured.

Samuels turns out to be a competitive opponent for Smart.

99 notices Samuels is able to play with both hands, just like the agent they are trying to smoke out.

86 attempts to detain Samuels with a shortwave radio paddle which he mistakes for a gun.

Samuels explains 86 has the wrong blade.

Samuels points the Gun Paddle at Smart and asks 99 and 86 to switch to his third organization, the ACP. Max agrees to play for their lives and asks if they can put an additional $5 on the match to make it interesting.

Max plays for their freedom.

Max lobs to Samuels.

99 notices Samuels can't hit a lob.

Max plays to Samuels' weakness by lobbing again.

Samuels breaks their agreement.

The Chief comes to save the day.

Samuels points the ping pong gun and 99.

Samuels decides to kill 99, 86 and the Chief with a Ping Pong Ball Grenade.

Max swings at the grenade.

The grenade ping pong ball flies through an opening above the door.

Max explains how he just aimed at hitting the ball out of the window to the side, swung... and then it went out the doorway in front of them.

LOS INVENTOS

Al igual que 007, 86 tenía toda una serie de extraños aparatos que le servían para cumplir sus misiones. Los dos principales eran el inservible "cono del silencio", inventado por el doctor Cono, y el glorioso zapatófono. Otros implementos de comunicación fueron: el encendedor de un auto, un tubo de ensayo, un encendedor, un par de anteojos, portaligas, un cinturón, un extinguidor de incendios, un leño de hogar, un teléfono (o sea, un mini teléfono dentro de un teléfono común y corriente), un maletín, un cuerno de vaca (que se usa para hablar con la Casa Blanca), un calentador de Bunsen, un microscopio, un sandwich (con audífono en una papa frita), radiador de un auto, un girasol, un reloj de cucú, una revista, un sandwich de queso, una guía telefónica y una pezuña de mula (ambos teléfonos usados por Kaos). En cada episodio se solía presentar un nuevo 'gadget'. También son recordados aquellos utilizados como armas de fuego. Tras la famosa pistola de dedo (de dos tiros) tenemos el violín que dispara, la pata de palo de Kaos, el paragüas de fuego (que también tenía una cámara), la llave inglesa de Kaos, paleta de ping pong, la ametralladora silenciosa y la mini-mauser del profesor Peckinpah (oculta en el toupee del Jefe). Otras armas (no de fuego) eran: el encendedor que dispara gas venenoso, el anillo suicida de Sigfrido, el bolígrafo desintegrador de bolsillo, el pastel de cumpleaños explosivo, los cigarrillos-granada de mano, la granada de pie, el bolígrafo que dispara gas lacrimógeno, el láser de control remoto, el mosquito eléctrico, la pelota de ping-pong-granada, la pluma estilográfica venenosa, el lápiz labial venenoso (cuya única protección son los labios falsos de Maxwell Smart), la pelotita de golf nuclear (usada por Kaos)...

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