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Get Smart (1965) :: Ship of Spies (1) (01x27)
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| Title: | Ship of Spies (1) |
| Episode #: | 01x27 |
| Production Number: | 027 |
| Original Airdate: | Saturday April 02nd, 1966 |
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Max visits a seedy bar to meet an informant. This informant can tell Max who stole the plans to the nuclear amphibian battleship and how those plans will be smuggled out of the country. The informant appears, but before Max can alert The Chief, the informant leaves. Two gunshots ring out and the informant is dead. Max’s only clue to the killer is a strange “clip clop” sound that recedes into the fog. The dying man’s final words, “Evening Star sails at midnight” send Max to the Evening Star, a freighter carrying just a half dozen passengers. His mission: find and recover the plans before the ship makes port. But once aboard, Max hears the strange “clip clop” and discovers a number of possible sources...
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Gadgets: Phone disguised as a gun; umbrella with hollow handle storing files.
| This episode won Leonard Stern and Buck Henry an Emmy Award.
| Harold Stone is credited, but his character Captain Groman does not appear in this episode.
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Max: Hey, this isn’t tomato soup!
Bartender: (as he adds several dollops of ketchup) Now it is.
| The Chief: Who did this? Can you tell us? Who stole the plans?!?
Informant: (dying of gunshot wounds) Drink... please... drink.
Max: Here you are, fella... drink this milk.
Informant: Is it regular? Or skim?
Max: It’s regular... go ahead, drink it.
Informant: (shaking his head) Strict diet... only drink skim...
The Chief: Can’t you tell us anything?!?
Informant: Evening Star... sails at midnight...
| The Chief: We just want you to get on board and find the plans before the boat reaches its destination.
Max: Right, Chief.
The Chief: Now, do you want anyone to go with you and show you were the Evening Star is tied up?
Max: Don’t be ridiculous, Chief. I know this part of town like I know the back of my hand.
(Max leaves. The Chief and 99 wait expectantly. A few seconds later, Max returns.)
Max: Can somebody show me to the back of my hand?
| (Agent 44 has snuck up from the hold and now clings to the outside of the hull.)
Max: Oh, are there fish down there?
Agent 44: Sure, take a look.
Max: Oh, yes, I see them. Quite a bit of them, too. What are they?
Agent 44: Sharks. Nothing to worry about – they’re just waiting around for something to eat.
Max: Like what?
Agent 44: Like me.
| (Agent 44 has handed Max a list of suspects.)
Max: 44! This looks like the complete passenger list!
Agent 44: Well, it is. Don’t you know what they call this freighter?
Max: What?
Agent 44: Ship of spies!
| Max: (Grabbing an assailant’s gun hand.) There’s only one way to break this hold!
(The assailant covers him with another gun.)
Max: That’s the way.
| Agent 99: Captain Harvey Wolf Groman.
Max: Wolf? Is that what the crew calls him?
Agent 99: No. Wolf is his given name. The crew calls him Harvey. He’s seen over thirty years maritime experience. He’s lost two ships in the last war.
Max: Allied or enemy?
Agent 99: One of each.
Max: Hmmm. A man of divided loyalty...
| (Max and Agent 99 discover Inspector Sehokian with a knife in his back.)
Agent 99: Max! Whoever did this hit me and left the cabin just after we arrived! I heard a clip clop go down the hallway.
Max: Do you think he’s dead?
Agent 99: Yes. What do you think?
Max: Yes.
Sehokian: No.
Max: Well, that’s two for and one against.
| Sehokian: (his dying words) The plans... they are not plans... they are...
| (Max and Agent 99 watch a wheelchair bound man enter his cabin.)
Max: Who is that man?
Agent 99: Well, according to the passenger list his name is Hector Bacardo. He’s the famous Portugese polo player.
Max: I know this is a stupid question, 99, but how does he play polo?
Agent 99: With great difficulty.
Max: I knew it was a stupid question.
| Max: Listen 99, just remember this: a coward is a frightened man who’s scared to be brave, but a brave man is only a coward who isn’t scared to be frightened.
Agent 99: Thank you, Max! I’ll remember that!
| Max: I can just barely make out someone standing up there.
Agent 99: That must be Captain Groman.
Max: Uh huh. Well, now there’s someone standing right next to him.
Agent 99: That must be Captain Groman’s Oriental servant!
Max: So that’s Groman’s Chinese...
| Agent 99: Maxxxxxxx! Where are you?!?
Max: I’m down here, 99!
Agent 99: Where, Max?
Max: In the water!
Agent 99: What do you want me to do, Max?
Max: Have you got the Control files handy?
Agent 99: They’re in my cabin!
Max: Get them!
(Agent 99 retrieves the files.)
Agent 99: I’ve got them!
Max: Look up my record!
Agent 99: Right here, Max! What do you want to know?
Max: Did I pass the Control swimming test?
Agent 99: Nooooooo!
(Max sinks under the waves and ‘TO BE CONTINUED’ flashes onto the screen.)
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When agent 99 suggests a figure standing on the ship’s bridge is Captain Groman’s Oriental servant, Max says, “so that’s Groman’s Chinese.” In 1926, Sid Grauman (in partnership with several movie stars) began construction on what would become Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Hollywood. In May of 1927 the theater opened with a showing of DeMille’s King of Kings. The theater is legendary, especially for the large number of hand prints outside it, all from famous performers.
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