Get Smart
The Day Smart Turned Chicken
Season 1, Episode 8 · Aired 1965-11-06
Synopsis
Smart is to testify against KAOS soon, so they devise situations to show that Smart is losing his mind. A dying cowboy comes to Max's apartment to reveal a plot to poison the Morovian Ambassador at a costume party that night. Max calls the Chief, but when help arrives, the dead cowboy is missing and there's no proof of his ever having existed. Max dresses as a giant chicken and attends the costume ball at the embassy in order to protect the ambassador, but it's not a costume party and there's no poison in the ambassador's drink. It's all a KAOS plot to convince everyone that Max is crazy and discredit his testimony in an upcoming court case.
In the series
This episode is part of Get Smart (1965–1970) on NBC/CBS.
Spy satire so sharp it still works when the gadgets look quaint.
Key cast
- Don Adams as Maxwell Smart
- Barbara Feldon as Agent 99
- Edward Platt as The Chief