Mr. Henry and Mr. Brooks are masters of their craft! The majority of TV writers today don’t even approximate their talents.

Though today her role seems largely limited to standing adoringly at Max’s side, Ms. Feldon was hugely popular with women viewers.

Umm...somehow I don’t think that was the main source of her fans.

Barbara Feldon was a natural choice to play a role combining beauty and brains...she won the $64,000 question on the category “Shakespeare”.

Barbara Feldon later played of one of Sam Malone’s girlfriends in Cheers.  Ted Danson performed the role of Sam the bartender.

I didn’t know Get Smart was out on DVD.  This goes on my Christmas list.

I once lived in a place where one of the TV networks featured, every weekday afternoon, Get Smart directly followed by the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. It was great!

I was in a raffle recently to get the DVDs of the episode.  I had ticket 723434443 and the winner was ticket 723434434. 

Yep.  “Missed it by that much.”

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

First remeber Feldon doing a shaving cream commercial.  Don’t recall the brand but do remember her husky voice saying “Take it off-Take it all off”.

Phil:  Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

I always wondered if Agent 99 (Barbara) was 99 because in German that would be No-No!

Sorry about that, Chief!  I find I still use that!  While we aren’t talking into our shoes, we all look like we are.

Piedmont - My father was a Strategic Air Command pilot and I was taught that “close only counts in jarts, darts, horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear devices.” I later learned (to my chagrin and the loss of a few dollars) that close decidedly does not count in “darts.” For the youngsters among you, “jarts” was a game somewhat popular in the 60s and 70s.  It involved two hula-hoop sized rings and several sharp pointed “lawn darts” (each about a foot long with a 2-3 inch sharpened, weighted metal point).  The object of the game was to throw the dart (under handed) so that it arc’ed and landed in the center of the target without landing in the center of one of the opposing players.  The sale of this fun family game was outlawed in 1988.  Here is the Wikipedia entry on Lawn Darts.

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

The sale of this fun family game was outlawed in 1988.

No doubt it was banned because of injuries it was causing children but my hunch is that TEC most likely petitioned its demise due to the harm all those nasty darts were doing to the lawns of God’s creation....Golfers beware.  Divots will soon get you excommunicated, you nasty sinners, you.

#7--The brand was Noxema, but the lady was a Swedish model named, IIRC, Gnulla Knudsen.  (My dad worked for the ad agency that came up with it, and was involved with running focus groups, etc.)

Thanks #11.  Age + memory, what a wonderful thing. In my case anyway.  Am I right in recalling that the theme music to that commercial was “The Stripper”?

#13-- I don’t think so--but age+memory aren’t working so well for me, either!

Dont tell me a movie is coming out based on the series.
I ASKED you not to tell me that!

I wonder if we could put the PB in the “cone of silence”

Piedmont,
“Missed it by that much” was one of many ‘catch phrases’ from the show.

“Sorry about that, Chief”

“That’s the second biggest _______ I’ve ever seen”

“the old hidden _________ trick, and I fell for it—again.”

Chief: “Max you’ll be in great danger.” Max: “AND Loving it!”

“Would you believe _____?”
(For example:
Max and 99 are captured by KAOS:
Max: “Would you believe that right now, we are surrounded by 5 companies of Marines with tanks and bazookas?”
KAOS agent: I find that hard to believe.
Max: How about one company of marines with machine guns?
KAOS: Sorry.
Max: How about A boy scout with a very sharp stick?)

Great show. None of the remakes so far or even the reunions have come close to the original, probably because neither Mel Brooks nor Buck Henry took an active role.

Peace
Jim Elliott