"At one o'clock Maxwell Smart will be dead. Only his legend will live on". - Maxwell Smart.
"You're wasting precious time. Play fair with me, and I'll play fair with you". - Mr. Hercules.
Get Smart Episode #72, Season Three #12.
Plot[]
Maxwell Smart learns that he has swallowed a delayed-action poison and has only until 1:00 PM the next day to live. He determines to use his remaining time to track down the KAOS agent responsible, a gym owner known as Mr. Hercules.
Synopsis[]
Characters[]
CONTROL[]
- Maxwell Smart - Don Adams
- Agent 99 - Barbara Feldon
- The Chief - Edward Platt
- Dr. Steel - Ellen Weston
- Larrabee - Robert Karvelas
- Elwood Box - Shelley Berman (uncredited)
KAOS[]
Others[]
- Happy (Proprietor) - Anthony Jochim
- Receptionist - Allison Price
- John (Janitor) - Mousie Garner
- Abbott Norman, M.D. - John Hoyt (uncredited voice)
Locations[]
Quotes[]
- Max: "Could you please hurry, Doctor?"
Dr. Steele: "Uh, one does not hurry the process of scientific research, Mr. Smart."
Max: "Well, would one remember that one is going to die at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon, and I'm the one who's the one?!" - Max: "What are you, some kind of a nut that likes to see people die?!"
Mr. Hercules: "Yes...it's such a marvelous contrast to my own splendid health." - Agent 99: "Max, you just can't take your death lying down!"
Trivia[]
- This episode was co-written by David Ketchum, best known to Get Smart fans as Agent 13.
- The name of the doctor Max consults, Abbott Norman, is an obvious play on the name of the episode's director, Norman Abbott.
Reality Check[]
This episode is a parody of the 1950 film D.O.A.