Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Washington 4, Indians 3," intrepid Agent Maxwell Smart is sent to dissuade a band of Indians intent on getting their country back by use of a secret weapon...
What difference had a year made? NBC, among major advantages, still boasts No. 1 Bonanza, twice as much color programing, and 15 attention-attracting new shows, including Get Smart! (TIME, Oct. 15). CBS, ahead by a whisker last season, is still in the running. It has six of Nielsen's first ten shows and the two most popular new ones to date, fifth-place Hogan's Heroes and No. 8, Green Acres. CBS, further more, is striking fastest in cutting its losses: Slavery's People (92nd of 98 in the ratings) will die in November, Rawhide (84th...
...enemies-other than his left foot and his right foot-are the kind of men who are more often rubbed out by network censors than by heroes. The first episode featured a villainous dwarf, the second a one-armed Chinese (The Claw) with a magnetized prosthesis. When he asked Smart, "Do you know what they call me?" Smart thought it over, replied: "Lefty...
Brooks and Henry originally took Smart to ABC, where network officials pronounced the script "too wild" and demanded a lovable dog to give the show more heart. Brooks and Henry went back and perversely put in a cowardly, mangy, wheezy dog that chased cars and bit strangers. "The executive who read the script, I'm told, screamed, 'It's un-American!' " recalls Henry. Adds Brooks: "They wanted to put a print housecoat on the show. Max was to come home to his mother and explain everything. I hate mothers on shows. Max has no mother...
Everyone in the industry has his own pet theory for the show's success. Some believe that Smart is like one of his enemies, a freak, a mutation that has no ancestors and will have no descendants. Others feel that he is the first eccentric ripple in a new wave of insane, absurd television comedy. If they are right, by next season the screen will be Smarting with maimed heavies and mentally defective detectives. And so it will go, until one day someone looking for Big Money in television comes up with a new idea: "People are tired...