Secret Service Agent Encyclopedia, and some of Don Adams's

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The following table summarizes the numbered agents of the Secret Service that appear in the plot-

Record some scattered, their own experience watching the show.

TV series filmed between 1965-1969. Except for certain things in the play, such as phone booths, there is almost no sense of alienation from the times during the viewing of the play. The aesthetics of the characters' clothing, the decoration of the shrewd residence, and the ideological aesthetics shown in the whole play are almost the same as today's mainstream aesthetics half a century later.

There are many current events. For example, in 1966, Ronald Reagan, who was an actor, was elected governor of California, and he used this as a stalk twice in "The Confused Detective". Another example is that on July 20, 1969, man landed on the moon for the first time; at the beginning of the fifth season, episode 1, which started on September 26, 1969, the director, shrewd and 99 rushed to the moon (replacing the soundproof cover) to conduct secret talks. There should be more current affairs stalks, I didn't see it.

In addition to expressing the "business" field of the agents, there are also many jokes in the "administrative" field. For example, the Secret Service has labor negotiations with the Secret Service; the Secret Service provides attorneys' benefits to the Secret Service, and even a breakdown of divorce lawyers; the Secret Service's budget cuts by higher authorities, etc.

"Confused Detective", from season 1 to season 5, has obvious changes.

The most obvious, seasons 1 and 2, shrewd jokes, mainly in logical brain holes. Seasons 4 and 5 have massively added bumbling based jokes. The shrewdness of the first two seasons is still a professional agent, but his ideas are too peculiar. The shrewdness of the last two seasons will make people wonder how such a stupid person got into the Secret Service.

Compared with the first and second seasons, the plot mode of the fourth and fifth seasons also showed a very obvious difference.

Season 3, the first half and the second half, the difference is also more obvious. Think of it as a transition between the first two seasons and the last two. Guessing by myself, what should have happened during the period led to the change of the entire script mode.

For example, the shrewd classic "syllogism" -

"Would you believe..."

Since the second half of the third season, it has rarely appeared. Instead, the new "syllogism"—

Smart: "Don't tell me XXXXXXX?"

Others: "XXXXXXX."

Smart: "Tell you not to tell me XXXXXXX!"

In the next two seasons, 99's role has been reduced. The role of the secretary of the director has greatly increased, and he has almost become a supporting role on an equal footing with the director. The logical brain hole before being shrewd was also undertaken by the secretary of the director.

In the process of sorting out Secret Service agent numbers. In the initial stage, I thought that the screenwriter would gradually fill up all the agents within No. 100. At the same time, it is speculated that Agent No. 1 will have a special plot. From the appearance of the first repeated number without a plot explanation, I had a bad hunch - the number of the agent may be randomly generated by the screenwriter, and the number is not intended to be used as a stalk. Until the fourth season, numbers with decimal points and numbers other than 100 appeared, and I gave up the expectation of numbering stalks. In the last two seasons, a large number of agents who could have used numbers in the mode of the first two seasons used their names directly.

Throughout the five seasons, only one main meme has been retained and used frequently, and that is the various telephones. I only realized this in the third season. Taking into account the review of the first two seasons, the project is too large and has not been sorted out for the time being. This drama will definitely be reviewed in the future, and screenshots will be taken to sort out various phone calls. By the way, make up the hiding places of Agents 34, 44 and 13.

What impressed me the most was the sixth episode of the first season.

Don Adams opted for a low salary and a one-third stake when filming the Confused Detective series. So, Don Adams has been having a steady income with the reruns of Detective Confused. However, Don Adams' main income comes from stages and nightclubs.

Don Adams is an avid gambler. In the words of his old friend Bill Dana: "Don's whole life was focused around gambling."

Don Adams died in 2005 at the age of 82. He had 7 children, a daughter died a year before him and a son died a year after him.

The following is the obituary published by the Associated Press at the time -

Don Adams' cemetery at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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Get Smart quotes

  • Maxwell Smart: [Repeated line] Don't tell me...

  • Maxwell Smart: [Repeated line] Missed it by THAT much.

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