Getting Smart about Death

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The oldest and frailest in our society are becoming less visible as many who need the most support, such as those with dementia, are either in care homes or less able to get out and about. But their voices are crucial to shaping end-of-life care services. In our latest research , we had conversations about care experiences and preferences with 33 women and men aged at least 95, some over , and 39 of their relatives or carers. Death was part of life for many of the older people who often said they were taking each day as it comes and not worrying too much about tomorrow.

Most felt ready to die and some even welcomed it: Others were more desperate in their desire to reach the end. Others begged not to be left to live until they were a hundred, saying there was no point to keeping them alive.

Most were concerned about the impact on those left behind: The dying process itself was the cause of most worries. A peaceful and painless death, preferably during sleep, was a common ideal. Interviewees mainly preferred to be made comfortable rather than have treatment, wishing to avoid going into hospital. For instance, one person said they wanted to have treatment for as long as they could, while their family member believed they would prefer palliative care.

This highlights the importance of trying to talk options through with the older person rather than assuming their family knows their views.

How the older old feel about dying

We found most discussed end-of-life preferences willingly and many mentioned previous talk about death was uncommon, often only alluded to or couched in humour. The deadliest of the species. A woman pretends to love Max so she can kill him. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet!

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Hodgkins is seen as the Chief's assistant in five early episodes of the series. He was played by Bryan O'Byrne , who was a school teacher before he embarked on acting. Carlson Stacy Keach Sr. While inspecting the gadgets, Max usually creates minor mayhem. Cornthwaite , and Parker Milton Selzer. Steele is an intelligent, extremely attractive woman whose cover is a chorus dancer at a high-class burlesque theater. The entrance to her laboratory is through a large courier box sidestage. Dr Steele often performs complex scientific procedures while wearing her revealing performance costumes.

She is often seen explaining her findings while warming up for her next dance, and then suddenly departing for her performance.

Steele is replaced with the similar Dr. Simon Ann Elder , who appears in two episodes of season four and is mentioned once in season five. Hoo's introduction usually creates confusion in the manner of Abbott and Costello 's " Who's on First? Hoo always analyzes a mystery by presenting "two possibilities", of which the latter if not both is absurd. Max likes to upstage Hoo by jumping in with "two possibilities" of his own, which are even crazier than Hoo's. Hoo responds with "Amazing! Initially, the character was a lampoon of Chan, but in a later episode Hoo appeared rather more brilliant and resourceful; while Max, though helpful as always, appearing more so as a contrast.

They were supposed to be, but Brooks and Henry were so busy, they forgot to have the names stand for anything. In a series episode, after making a series of demands in a recording, the speaker mentions the demands are from "KAOS, a Delaware Corporation ". When Smart asks the chief about this, he mentions they did it for tax reasons. He only appears in the black-and-white pilot episode, and is killed by his own doomsday death ray.

A few nameless KAOS chiefs appear in subsequent episodes. Siegfried is Maxwell Smart's "opposite number" and nemesis, even though the two characters share similar traits and often speak fondly of one another—even in the midst of attempting to assassinate each other.

Ve don't [some action] here! Shtarker King Moody is Siegfried's chief henchman. Shtarker is an overzealous lackey whose most notable trait is his abrupt personality change from sadistic villain to presumptuous child, interrupting conversations to helpfully elaborate, using silly vocal noises to imitate things such as engines or guns.

This prompts Siegfried to utter his catch phrase, "Shtarker Ve don't [weakly imitates Shtarker's sound effect] here! He was played by Ken Davitian in the film. In place of the Claw's left hand is a powerful magnetic prosthesis with immobile fingers and an occasional attachment, hence his name although when Smart first meets him, the Claw asks "Do you know what they call me? Smart helpfully suggests "Lefty? Sometimes the Claw would accidentally nab something with it, creating confusion. Like Siegfried, he has a huge, dimwitted assistant, named Bobo.

Natz [25] or Spinoza [26] Ted de Corsia is a villain who was arrested by Max at an unknown point and desires revenge for it. Later, Spinoza hatches a plan to destroy Hymie using a new robot named 'Groppo', though this plan, too, ultimately fails. Doctor Ratton survived the wound to construct the robot Groppo for Spinoza. Doctor Yes Donald Davis , who appears in "Dr. Yes", is a parody of James Bond's Doctor No. He captures Max and 99 in this episode, and accidentally kills himself—when stung by an "electronic mosquito", he scratches his face with his poisonous fingernail.

In Get Smart , telephones are concealed in over 50 objects, including a necktie, comb, watch, and a clock. A recurring gag is Max's shoe phone an idea from Brooks. To use or answer it, he has to take off his shoe. There were a number of variations on the shoe phone. In "I Shot 86 Today" season 4 his shoe phone is disguised as a golf shoe, complete with cleats, developed by the attractive armorer Dr. Smart's shoes sometimes contain other devices housed in the heels: Agent 99 Barbara Feldon had her concealed telephones as well.

She had one in her makeup compact, and also one in her fingernail. To use this last device, she would pretend to bite her nail nervously, while actually talking on her "nail phone. On February 17, , the prop shoe phone was included in a display titled "Spies: Flinders University in South Australia has researched medical applications for Shoe Phone technology after being inspired by the show. Gag phones also appear in other guises. In the episode "Too Many Chiefs" Season one , Max tells Tanya, the KAOS informer whom he is protecting, that if anyone breaks in to pick up the house phone, dial , and press the trigger on the handset, which converts it to a gun.

The phone-gun is only used that once, but Max once carried a gun-phone, a revolver with a rotary dial built into the cylinder. In the episode "Satan Place", Max simultaneously holds conversations on seven different phones: Other unusual locations include a garden hose, a car cigarette lighter hidden in the car phone , a bottle of perfume Max complains of smelling like a woman , the steering wheel of his car, a painting of Agent 99, the headboard of his bed, a cheese sandwich, lab test tubes Max grabs the wrong one and splashes himself , a Bunsen burner Max puts out the flame anytime he pronounces a "p" , a plant in a planter beside the real working phone operated by the dial of the working phone , and inside another full-sized working phone.

Other gadgets include a bullet-proof invisible wall in Max's apartment that lowers from the ceiling, into which Max and others often walk; a camera hidden in a bowl of soup Cream of Technicolor that takes a picture with a conspicuous flash of the person eating the soup with each spoonful; a Mini Magnet on a belt, which turns out to be stronger than KAOS's Maxi Magnet; and a powerful miniature laser weapon in the button of a sports jacket the "laser blazer". Another of the show's recurring gags is the " Cone of Silence ".

Smart would pedantically insist on following CONTROL's security protocols; when in the chief's office he would insist on speaking under the Cone of Silence—two transparent plastic hemispheres which are electrically lowered on top of Max and Chief—which invariably malfunction, requiring the characters to shout loudly to even have a chance of being understood by each other.

Bystanders in the room could often hear them better, and sometimes relay messages back and forth.

Kiss of Death

The Cone of Silence was the idea of Buck Henry, though it was preceded in an episode of the syndicated television show Science Fiction Theatre titled "Barrier of Silence", written by Lou Huston, that first aired on September 3, , ten years ahead of Get Smart. The car that Smart is seen driving most frequently is a red Sunbeam Tiger two-seat roadster.

This car had various custom features, such as a machine gun, smoke screen, radar tracking, and an ejection seat. The Sunbeam Alpine , upon which the Tiger was based, was used by customizer Gene Winfield because the Alpine's 4-cylinder engine afforded more room under the hood than the V8 in the Tiger. It is the only kit of the Tiger, and has been reissued multiple times as a stock Tiger. Don Adams received the Sunbeam and drove it for 10 years after the end of the show.

It was wrecked and repaired several times, and its current whereabouts are unknown. In the opening credits, the Tiger was used for seasons 1—2. In seasons , Smart drives a light blue Volkswagen Karmann Ghia , because Volkswagen had become a sponsor of the show. In the short-lived TV series , Smart is trying to sell the Karmann Ghia through the classified ads. Smart steals the Karmann Ghia to continue his escape.

KAOS is a Delaware corporation for tax purposes. In another episode, Siegfried and Max casually discuss the various flavors of cyanide pills they have been issued. In the same episode, Max and Siegfried have a show and tell of various weapons they have; Max boasts of having a deadly non-regulation pistol from a Chicago mail order house. The prop used is actually an Borchardt C pistol. Cover names were common. In "The Man Called Smart, Part 1", a phone call is announced for an alias, and Max identifies himself as the person in question.

Second and third calls come in, each with its own alias, the last of which is his own real name of Maxwell Smart, which he initially does not answer. Smart tells the skeptical gallery owner that those are his names as well, making it obvious to any spy that he is taking calls from fellow agents and informants. Smart then makes himself even more visible by tangling the handset cords of the three phones.

We need to talk with the older old

CONTROL has a policy of burning pertinent documents after cases are closed; the reasons were detailed in their Rules and Regulations book, but nobody can read them, since they burned the only copy. Get Smart used several familiar character actors and celebrities, and some future stars, in guest roles , including:.

The series featured several cameo appearances by famous actors and comedians, sometimes uncredited and often comedian friends of Adams. Johnny Carson appeared, credited as "special guest conductor", in "Aboard the Orient Express". Carson returned for an uncredited cameo as a royal footman in the third-season episode "The King Lives? Actress Rose Michtom the real life aunt of the show's executive producer Leonard Stern appeared in at least 44 episodes—usually as a background extra with no speaking role.

The series was broadcast on NBC -TV from September 18, to September 13, , after which it moved to the CBS network for its final season, running from September 26, to September 11, with total episodes produced. During its five-season run, Get Smart only broke the top 30 twice.

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