Episode
Get Smart: Is This Trip Necessary?
Overview
Everyone important in Washington suffers bad dreams and the president orders CONTROL to discover why. At that moment, KAOS' Mad Pharmacist Jarvis Pim appears on TV to demand $50 million in ransom. If he doesn't get it, he'll use his new hallucinogenic drug on the entire population of the city. Max and 99 track Pim to the Dartfoot Spring Water Company, where Pim captures them using "the old mortar in the mortar trick."
Details
- Series
- Get Smart
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1969-12-12
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Is This Trip Necessary? is Episode 12 in Season 5 of Get Smart. It aired on 1969-12-12. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 11: Age Before Duty
Max is bewildered when his young contact dies of old age.
Max goes to meet CONTROL Agent Carruthers and finds Carruthers dying of old age. The problem is that Carruthers is only 28 years old. After that, more and more agents are rapidly aging and dying, thanks to a new invention by KAOS, Dorian Gray Paint. The paint ages the real person once it's put on a picture of that person. They turn Max, 99, and the Chief into senior citizens right before they locate KAOS HQ.
Episode 13: Ice Station Siegfried
99 and CIA agent Quigley run into Siegfried and Starker while on a case in Canada. Meanwhile, Max and the Chief are snowed in at Miami, thanks to a KAOS plot.
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Episode 10: The Apes of Rath
Several agents have been murdered by someone with incredible strength. The only clue is an empty banana peel. It is soon deduced that the killer is an ape.
CONTROL agents are receiving bananas in the mail and then being murdered, completely puzzling CONTROL. What they don't know is KAOS is using Chucko, an ape made to look like a human being, as the assassin. The plot thickens when Max receives a banana in the mail and a new agent, Chuck Armstrong, is assigned as his protector. Unfortunately, Armstrong is actually Chucko the Ape. Before Max discovers Armstrong's real identity, Armstrong reverts back to Chucko and takes 99 to the roof of Max's building, just like in King Kong.
Episode 14: Moonlighting Becomes You
99 moonlights as the secretary of a radio personality to discover a secret KAOS code.
Episode 9: Physician: Impossible
Mistaken for a doctor and his nurse, Max and 99 are kidnapped and forced to operate on a wounded gangster.
CONTROL is transporting vicious killer Big Eddie Little to jail by pretending to run in a marathon with him. Little breaks away from Max, but not before Max shoots him in the shoulder. Little gets away, vowing to kill Max. Max ignores his threats and goes to visit 99 and the twins in the hospital. Dressed in hospital scrubs, Max and 99 are taken for a doctor and nurse by KAOS and taken to a remote cabin to remove the bullet from Little's shoulder. Only by pretending to remove the bullet can Max escape from the cabin alive.
Episode 15: House of Max (1)
Max and 99 go to London to investigate a modern-day Jack the Ripper.
Episode 8: And Baby Makes Four (2)
CONTROL must defeat Simon the Likable while 99 delivers twins.
Max and 99 escape and manage to get to the correct hospital in time for her to have twins, a boy and a girl. While everyone is congratulating Max, Simon tries to escape until he runs into the one person who doesn't like him, 99's mother.
Episode 16: House of Max (2)
Max poses as a wax sculpture of Hitler to spy on a KAOS scientist who brings waxworks to life.
Episode 7: And Baby Makes Four (1)
Max and 99 follow the wrong map and end up at KAOS's new HQ instead of the maternity ward.
99 is incredibly close to giving birth, which is making Max nervous and unable to pay attention to his job. He spends all of his time trying to find the shortest way to get 99 to the hospital. At the same time, CONTROL is desperately trying to find the new location of KAOS HQ. It's made more urgent because Simon the Likable is coming to town to steal the Huffiker Plans from the Pentagon. Simon is unstoppable because everyone that sees him instantly likes him and will do anything for him. Max and Simon get their directions mixed up and Simon goes to the maternity hospital while Max takes 99 to KAOS HQ, Sunny Slope Sanitarium.
Episode 17: Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
Max is serving as a courier on board an airplane when he is forced to release his package from the plane, sending it to land on the roof of Hester Van Hooten's mansion. The only problem is Van Hooten hasn't allowed visitors to her house in 20 years and she and her brother aren't about to start now.
Episode 6: Smart Fell on Alabama
Because he failed to retrieve a little red book from a Kaos carrier,Max has to train,and recruit three convicts to break into a highly fortified Mansion where the Red Code Book is.
Episode 18: The Mess of Adrian Listenger
While attending the funeral of the latest Control Agent who was mysteriously killed,Max,99,and The Chief are shocked to find a carved Headstone with Max's name on it.