Max: "Are you trying to tell me that there's an ape roaming around the streets of Washington, feeling free to kill CONTROL agents whenever he wishes and nobody notices him?
Chief: "That's right, Max."
Max: "I'll buy that."
Get Smart Episode #122, Season Five #10.
Plot
Six CONTROL agents are murdered after receiving a banana in the mail and the evidence suggests that the killer is an ape.
Synopsis
Characters
CONTROL
- Maxwell Smart - Don Adams
- Agent 99 - Barbara Feldon
- Chief - Edward Platt
- Larabee - Robert Karvelas
- Chuck Armstrong aka "Chucko" (Agent 77) - Charles Bateman
- Webster - John Barbour
- Roberts - Maury Wills
KAOS
Others
Weapons and Gadgets
Locations
- Pittsburgh (mentioned)
- Kensington Building (mentioned)
Trivia
- Get Smart concluded its 5-season, 2-network run with a repeat of "Apes Of Rath" on CBS, September 11, 1970. It was replaced by the short-lived medical drama The Interns.
Reality Check
- The title refers to the 1939 novel and 1940 film "The Grapes of Wrath".
- The episode's closing scenes parody those of the 1933 film "King Kong" in which a giant ape carries the leading lady to the top of New York's Empire State Building.