Chief: "[T]hey'll brainwash us . . . We'll be returned to Washington where we will resume our duties as CONTROL agents but we'll really be working for KAOS, and we'll be helpless to do anything about it."
Max: "Chief, let's look at the bright side of things."
Chief: "What bright side?"
Max: "I understand that KAOS pays a lot more than CONTROL."
Chief: "Max!"
Max: "Besides that, they have a great health and welfare plan."
Get Smart Episode #112, Season Four #26.
Plot[]
With his ruse uncovered, Max joins the kidnapped CONTROL agents in attempting to escape from the KAOS prison camp where they are being held.
Synopsis[]
Characters[]
CONTROL[]
- Maxwell Smart - Don Adams
- Agent 99 - Barbara Feldon
- Chief - Edward Platt
- Michael Kendall - John Ragin
- Penwick - Victor Bozeman
- Henderson (uncredited)
- Wilkins (uncredited)
- Prisoner (Smith) - John Flinn
- Note: Larabee (Robert Karvelas) does not appear in this episode, but is seen in the recap sequence from part one.
KAOS[]
- Siegfried - Bernie Kopell
- Starker - King Moody
- Major Fritz Kessler (mentioned)
Weapons and Gadgets[]
Locations[]
Trivia[]
- This is the final episode of season four, as well as the last new Get Smart episode on NBC.
- Get Smart's final broadcast on NBC was, appropriately, a repeat of "The Not-So-Great Escape, Part II," on September 13, 1969. It was replaced by The Andy Williams Show. Get Smart defected to CBS on Friday nights at 7:30 (as a replacement for the late Wild, Wild West) for one more season.
- The episode ends with the lights literally going out. This would be the appropriate, if somewhat unintentional, reflection of the fact that lights went out for Get Smart on NBC due to this being the final NBC episode.
Reality Check[]
- This episode is a parody of the 1963 film The Great Escape about an escape by Allied prisoners from a German POW camp during World War II.
- William Yarmy, the "old timer" in the prisoner lineup, is the father of Don Adams and Dick Yarmy.
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