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Speaker 1: Let's get back to night's side. Morgan White is in
Speaker 1: for Dan Dan Watkins WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 4: It's Night Size with Dan Ray unbilling bas Boston's News Radio,
Speaker 4: Final hour of nights, siright, and it's been a very
Speaker 4: very busy night, and.
Speaker 5: I expect this hour to be just as busy. If
Speaker 5: you've always wanted to speak to the woman who played
Speaker 5: ninety nine and get smart, Barbara Feldon, she is here
Speaker 5: She's had a very interesting career more than just that
Speaker 5: one TV show. How many people remember the Top Brass
Speaker 5: commercials she used to do, Hey tiger, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 5: I don't have her voice, I don't have her presentation,
Speaker 5: So let's just bring her in and maybe she'll help you.
Speaker 5: Remember that commercial from Good Grief a long long time ago. Barbara,
Speaker 5: thank you for saying yes. You know how much I
Speaker 5: appreciate you when you come up.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's such a pleasure to talk to you. And
Speaker 6: you do have a good voice. You don't need that
Speaker 6: sort of sexy kitnish voice that I used back then,
Speaker 6: but you have a great voice.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you. Can you approximate the tops commercial tagline
Speaker 5: you used to do?
Speaker 6: Well, let's see. I mean it started, I went a
Speaker 6: word with all you tigers and then she growled, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: At the end she said, let's see, and you see
Speaker 6: I don't regard myself as her her. She said, so
Speaker 6: use top bras and sick of them.
Speaker 5: So that's that's what the character said. And people have
Speaker 5: to understand when we see commercials and we watch a
Speaker 5: movie or a TV series, this is an actor that
Speaker 5: we are witnessing performing what someone has written for them
Speaker 5: to perform, and a lot of people get confused by that,
Speaker 5: don't they.
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, you know, and I do too, as as
Speaker 6: a viewer, say of when I get addicted to some
Speaker 6: the streaming series or something and I'm just totally enamored
Speaker 6: with the main character, and then you're just sort of
Speaker 6: shocked to find out that that's just a character, that's
Speaker 6: not the actor. The actor is another person, and that
Speaker 6: I mean, certainly they use parts of themselves to put
Speaker 6: into the character, but that is not who they are.
Speaker 6: And I mean, I know that's happened the other way
Speaker 6: around with me, where I was the character and people
Speaker 6: thought I was in ninety nine and they attributed all
Speaker 6: kinds of wonderful things to ninety nine, So I got
Speaker 6: her glory.
Speaker 5: Well, you got a paycheck every week or every month
Speaker 5: whenever to portray words that somebody put down on a
Speaker 5: piece of paper a script, and it was up to
Speaker 5: you to interpret those words and convince us at home
Speaker 5: that you were this spy, that you were this temptress
Speaker 5: in a commercial. But that was a tribute to how
Speaker 5: good of a performer you were.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's one of the things, one of
Speaker 6: the reasons actors love acting is that we all sort
Speaker 6: of kind of design our own persona through life, from
Speaker 6: the time where children, we have sort of a basic personality,
Speaker 6: and then we kind of add and substract from it
Speaker 6: according to what's getting a good result. So then we
Speaker 6: solidify it into saying, well, this is me, this is
Speaker 6: who I am, but it really isn't. I mean, it
Speaker 6: is a amy, but it's not all of you know,
Speaker 6: we are so much more than the persona that we
Speaker 6: use every day. So the actor gets a chance to
Speaker 6: explore all these other selves and that's what I think
Speaker 6: so much fun to act.
Speaker 5: I like it when you said it's a me, but
Speaker 5: it's not all of me. Yeah, that's an accurate way
Speaker 5: to look at it. Now, As you were a little
Speaker 5: girl growing up in the forties and fifties, who were
Speaker 5: some of your favorite performers that inspired you to do
Speaker 5: an acting job.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure that I didn't see a lot of
Speaker 6: movies when I was little. Pinocchio was the biggest, the
Speaker 6: biggest influence on me because a friend of my mother's
Speaker 6: took us to see Pinocchio, and so he was my
Speaker 6: kind of role model. I wanted to be Pinocchio and
Speaker 6: I would go around Stuard gargling, you know, underwater looking
Speaker 6: for geppetto the same old geppetto, or you know, you
Speaker 6: know when Pinocchio was in the whales Belly or something.
Speaker 6: I don't remember the story that.
Speaker 5: Well, let me take you back, because in a way,
Speaker 5: there was a song in that movie that may have
Speaker 5: inspired you to get into the business. Hi did le
Speaker 5: d an actor's life for me? Honest, John the Fox
Speaker 5: was misleading Pinocchio down a crooked.
Speaker 7: Path and that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Maybe.
Speaker 6: So there was that beautiful song when you wish upon
Speaker 6: the Stars from Cliff Edwards.
Speaker 5: Yes, Cliffs was the voice of Jimminy Cricket.
Speaker 6: All right, yeah, I know these things, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6: Do you know the words? Do you want to sing it?
Speaker 5: I could, but they don't pay me to sing. They
Speaker 5: pay me not to sing. I'll have radios turning off
Speaker 5: all of thirty eight states. When you was upon a star,
Speaker 5: there's no difference in who you are. Anything your heart's desire.
Speaker 10: Can come come.
Speaker 6: To you, to you you. Yeah, it's a beautiful, lyric
Speaker 6: and wonderful for children.
Speaker 5: So give me another film or performer that inspired you.
Speaker 6: I wanted to be Margaret O'Brien. I don't know how
Speaker 6: many people even know of Margaret O'Brien now unless they're
Speaker 6: my age. But she always played orphans. I mean not always,
Speaker 6: but she was always like a way. She was this
Speaker 6: little she was adorable and she had this little wafy voice.
Speaker 6: And I and she always, like Charles Boyer would save
Speaker 6: her when she was a little orphan in the Canterbury
Speaker 6: something that give her time.
Speaker 5: Well, you would tell she would teget your heartstrings.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she would always always you always got daddy character
Speaker 6: to save her. And I was looking for a daddy
Speaker 6: character to save me. And I definitely wanted Margret O'Brien.
Speaker 6: And she was always praying, and.
Speaker 11: So I would.
Speaker 6: I would just pray all the time, you know, in
Speaker 6: the little quavering voice, and wear little white Peter Pan
Speaker 6: collars a little Mary Jane shoes, and I could pretend
Speaker 6: that Markearet O'Brien.
Speaker 5: Well, let me take my first break of the hour.
Speaker 5: Give the phone numbers. I already have a caller on hold.
Speaker 5: Perhaps you can join them six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 5: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine
Speaker 5: ten thirty. I've got Barbara Feldon here, probably most notably
Speaker 5: remembered for the TV series Gets Mart, but she sent
Speaker 5: other things as well, and we're going to talk about
Speaker 5: the two books she has written when we come back
Speaker 5: on nights Side Time and Temperature eleven fifteen forty seven degrees.
Speaker 8: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 8: nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 5: This is night Side. Dan Ray will be back on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: I'm Morgan, Morgan White Junior. I've been here for the
Speaker 5: past seven shows, being tonight and tomorrow. But Gary is
Speaker 5: in Wooburn and he wants to speak to Barbara Feldon Carrie.
Speaker 5: Welcome aboard, Happy.
Speaker 12: New Day, exacularly Barbara, what a thriller is for you
Speaker 12: to be on the airways again with Morgan. It's so
Speaker 12: nice of you to say yes. My question is to
Speaker 12: you because it's an easy answer. It's probably like, oh,
Speaker 12: I don't have time for that. Why don't even more celebrities?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I don't know if you get asked to want to
Speaker 12: even do what you're doing right now a little interview.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, say the question again.
Speaker 5: I'll repeat the question. He wants to know, why aren't
Speaker 5: more of your contemporaries doing radio interviews. A lot of
Speaker 5: contemporaries of yours just once the role is over that
Speaker 5: made them famous, they necessarily don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think that a lot of people who do
Speaker 6: series were ambivalent about the characters that they did because
Speaker 6: it kind of type casts them. I don't feel that way.
Speaker 6: I feel very grateful, oh more than grateful, that I
Speaker 6: had an opportunity to be in a series that was
Speaker 6: so well written and also that stayed on long enough
Speaker 6: so that it would give me a career. Being a
Speaker 6: woman that's not as easy as if you're a guy,
Speaker 6: and especially back in that time, there were many more
Speaker 6: rules for men than women, as there still are. But
Speaker 6: I was very fortunate. So I'm I'm very grateful. But
Speaker 6: to be on the show. I've been talking to Morgan
Speaker 6: for years, right.
Speaker 5: Fourth or fifth time I've had you on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So whenever he calls, I say, yes, it's fun,
Speaker 6: yea anything else?
Speaker 12: Absolutely. My question is to you, Barbara, is back in
Speaker 12: your day when you're doing Gates gets including right now
Speaker 12: in your life, have you been part of the autograph shows? Also,
Speaker 12: he is a travel.
Speaker 6: I've done some of the autograph shows. Mostly the ones.
Speaker 6: There's one here in New York called Chiller, which I've
Speaker 6: done a few times. I know, I have not done
Speaker 6: like circuits of autograph shows. I don't know they they're
Speaker 6: I'm not that interested in being in the public. But
Speaker 6: whenever I've done them, it's been very sweet to meet fans,
Speaker 6: and it's really four fans, you know. They get kick
Speaker 6: out of seeing people in person. Whether that may be
Speaker 6: disappointing or not, I don't know. But occasionally I've done them,
Speaker 6: but no, I don't seek them out, and mostly I
Speaker 6: turn them down.
Speaker 5: It's funny because you're always going to be nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty six or so in their minds, and let's
Speaker 5: be honest, one's going to look that way after fifty
Speaker 5: sixty years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's part of it, but they don't
Speaker 6: seem to care about that. They want pictures of you
Speaker 6: when you were in the show, so that's the pictures
Speaker 6: they buy, and who's you know. That's fine. I'm ambivalent
Speaker 6: about doing them, but as I must say that, when
Speaker 6: I've done them, I've met such sweet people that I've
Speaker 6: been happy to have done them. But I'm not really
Speaker 6: motivated to seek them out.
Speaker 5: And Barbara, I know that you haven't come to Boston,
Speaker 5: but I've given you a standard open carpet invitation. If
Speaker 5: you know you're coming to Boston, please call me. I
Speaker 5: will take you out for lunch and it would be
Speaker 5: my treat. And I'm not going to put you in
Speaker 5: the middle of a media frenzy with two or three
Speaker 5: or four photographers. Say it'll be just you and I
Speaker 5: for lunch.
Speaker 6: That would be a nice treat. I thank you very much,
Speaker 6: and I'm going to just file that invitation in a
Speaker 6: very good place.
Speaker 5: Okay, Gary, anything else a questions?
Speaker 12: Here we go, Barbara. My question is this Don Adams,
Speaker 12: ed Platt and other people that you work with and
Speaker 12: so forth?
Speaker 5: What he is.
Speaker 12: I'm sure you probably kept in touch and you guys
Speaker 12: were friendly and so forth. What I wanted to know
Speaker 12: was this, Who were the women and men that you
Speaker 12: kept in touch with in Hollywood that became got even
Speaker 12: more work and work, work, work, and you just stayed
Speaker 12: in good correspondence with Who are your friends with?
Speaker 5: Okay, good question, Garry, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 6: Happy New Year.
Speaker 13: Gary.
Speaker 6: My friends, mostly, I mean where I lived my life
Speaker 6: in la was mostly with a small group of very
Speaker 6: close friends, and one of them was a man who
Speaker 6: was producer. I think he was the vice president of
Speaker 6: one of the movie companies. Another wash Well one that
Speaker 6: I stayed very close to was the guy who produced
Speaker 6: Gats Smart, who I lived with for eleven years after
Speaker 6: I met him on the show. But mostly my friends
Speaker 6: were not in the business. They were artists and or
Speaker 6: they were in the producing And I didn't have any
Speaker 6: actor friends. And the only actor friend I have left
Speaker 6: from the Guts Smart Time is Bernie Cappel.
Speaker 13: Oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a very close friend.
Speaker 13: Create.
Speaker 6: I know he'd love to do your show.
Speaker 5: And you know what, you've got my phone number? Ask
Speaker 5: him and give him my phone number, or get permission
Speaker 5: for you to give to me his phone number. I
Speaker 5: would love to have him.
Speaker 7: Oh, okay, you to coordinate.
Speaker 6: Okay, great. I don't know if I have your phone
Speaker 6: number written down. It's usually on my phone log, but
Speaker 6: I'm not sure it stays on the log for months.
Speaker 5: I will call I will call you with it tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Great, leave it for me, Tom. That would great. I
Speaker 6: know he would love it. He loves to talk about Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'd love to have it anyway. Bernie is a great friend,
Speaker 6: but he's the only one from the show that I
Speaker 6: stayed in touch with. The funny thing about my career
Speaker 6: at that time is that I was always hired to
Speaker 6: be the skirt. In other words, I was the I
Speaker 6: was the companion to the male lead. And consequently, I
Speaker 6: think in my entire career out there, I may have
Speaker 6: acted with a woman once or twice in all of
Speaker 6: those years. So I didn't have any girlfriends from the shows.
Speaker 6: So I just had friends outside of that kind of
Speaker 6: realm that we're just and stayed very very close friends,
Speaker 6: and many of them are no longer living.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go to another call in Wellesley. Robert,
Speaker 5: you are speaking with Barbara Feldon here on nights Side.
Speaker 13: Hello Robert, Oh, Hello, good evening, Morgan, And to your
Speaker 13: guest Barbara Feldon, I can't believe I'm I'm speaking, and
Speaker 13: thank you for having her as a guest on your show.
Speaker 13: Again the I thank you, and I want to thank
Speaker 13: the coler mentioned Bernie Cappell. I hope I'm pronouncing the
Speaker 13: name right.
Speaker 12: Played playing a part of Sacred and.
Speaker 13: I was wondering how interactive was Mel Brooks.
Speaker 14: Was he producer but also director?
Speaker 6: Now Mel UoT it with Buck Henry. They collaborated on it,
Speaker 6: and then I think during the course of the five years,
Speaker 6: Mel directed one show and he wrote one show, so
Speaker 6: he was not very hands on. The person that we
Speaker 6: were most close to, of course, was Buck, because Buck
Speaker 6: was there every day for two years. He stayed as
Speaker 6: the story editor, and Mel just very very occasionally. I
Speaker 6: mean I got to know Mel a little socially, but
Speaker 6: but not from the show.
Speaker 13: The writing was I thought was fantastic, and the the
Speaker 13: inside jokes were amazing. The inside jokes about government and
Speaker 13: intelligence work I were seemed to be whether subtle and
Speaker 13: I'm just they after I used, of course to watch
Speaker 13: it as a kid, but I want when I waiter
Speaker 13: watch it again as a as more of an adult.
Speaker 13: I just there were a lot of things that I
Speaker 13: didn't see the first time first time around.
Speaker 6: That, Yeah, it worked for kids on a kid level,
Speaker 6: and it worked for adult on a level, you know,
Speaker 6: on a more sophisticated level. Yeah, the humor was wonderful.
Speaker 6: I'm in the I forget totally the scripts, and occasionally
Speaker 6: I will come across one and I watch it like
Speaker 6: I'd never like I wasn't in it, and I find
Speaker 6: myself laughing out loud, and they're just so sharp, and
Speaker 6: the style of it was so specific, and it was
Speaker 6: just a little gem. I think maybe I'm prejudiced.
Speaker 13: Oh wow, you agree one hundred percent. I was wondering,
Speaker 13: as a matter of trivia, did ninety nine have a
Speaker 13: name before she became missus Maxwell Smart?
Speaker 5: Oh, here we go. I'll let you answer it. But
Speaker 5: you know we've talked about this before.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, very curious. I had lunch with Buck Henry
Speaker 6: about ten years ago and I said, you just clear
Speaker 6: this up, because everybody asked this question. And he said, no,
Speaker 6: she was never intended to have a name, and at
Speaker 6: first her number was going to be one hundred because
Speaker 6: they were going to make her perfect. But he said,
Speaker 6: you know, a hundred didn't He said, it didn't sound
Speaker 6: like a girl's number. Ninety nine sounded like a girl's number.
Speaker 6: But I really think that they used ninety nine because
Speaker 6: of the rhythm of it, you know, not ninety nine
Speaker 6: is a very easy thing to say. A hundred is awkward.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, no, she had a cover name, Susan, but
Speaker 6: it was only a cover and when she got married
Speaker 6: and the priest to Max and the priest said, will you,
Speaker 6: And when he says her supposed name, somebody in the
Speaker 6: audience coughs, and so you can't hear the name.
Speaker 5: Robert. A lot of people you go to a convention
Speaker 5: or you're playing trivia with a bunch of friends, they'll
Speaker 5: say her name, as Barbara just said Susan, Susan Hilton
Speaker 5: hilt In like the hotel chair. But that was a
Speaker 5: cover name. And at the end of the episode where
Speaker 5: that was mentioned it, Max says, I never knew your name,
Speaker 5: and the character ninety nine said you still don't because
Speaker 5: that's a cover name. Max, right right, terrific.
Speaker 13: Oh, thank you for thank you for taking my call
Speaker 13: and uh and giving these great answers.
Speaker 5: Robert, thank you for making the call. Happy New Year
Speaker 5: to you. Bye bye now, Alan Danvers, I've got a
Speaker 5: news break to take, so I promised you will be
Speaker 5: next with Barbara Feldon. Do not hang up during the news.
Speaker 5: Anyone else wants to call in six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 5: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty,
Speaker 5: this is your chance to speak with ninety nine from
Speaker 5: Get Smart Barbara Feldon and on that note, time and
Speaker 5: temperature here in BZ eleven thirty forty seven degrees.
Speaker 4: It's Nightside with Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 5: Dan is off obviously for the rest of the show,
Speaker 5: which ends at midnight, and I'll be here tomorrow night, Tuesday,
Speaker 5: Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. But Dan, we'll be back
Speaker 5: on Wednesday, eight pm. Nightside the first of January twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five, Dan, We'll be back. My name is Morgan.
Speaker 5: My show Saturdays from nine to midnight is when you'll
Speaker 5: find me doing The Morgan Show. Right now, I've got
Speaker 5: Barbara Feldon as a guest. We've got people calling in
Speaker 5: to speak with her. So let's go to al In Danvers.
Speaker 12: Happy New Year, now, Happy New Year?
Speaker 11: Ow, yes you too on the show? Did you have
Speaker 11: a compact like and it was a fall has a fun?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: There were all the devices that the spy shows of
Speaker 5: that era where what was a normal everyday device was
Speaker 5: more than that. And I remember on let's say Honey
Speaker 5: West and Francis who was Honey West, had a compact
Speaker 5: that she could communicate with her partner Sam Bolt. And
Speaker 5: I think I was referring to ninety nine having something
Speaker 5: with which she could communicate with Max, because Max used
Speaker 5: his shoe.
Speaker 6: But oh, oh yeah, sure, I know sure that she
Speaker 6: had a lipstick transior transistor lipstick. And certainly she had
Speaker 6: a ring special ring unless I'm remembering that from my
Speaker 6: childhood from Jack Armstrong or No Dick Tracy or what
Speaker 6: was it were you you wrote in and you got
Speaker 6: a ring that told secret mess It was.
Speaker 5: Oval team Jack Armstrong, Jack Armstrong, the All American boy.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, but but Max got most of the cool props.
Speaker 6: I mean Max got to be in the Cone of Silence.
Speaker 6: Ninety nine never did except when they years and years
Speaker 6: later when they made a remake for ABC as an
Speaker 6: ABC movie, ninety nine got to be in the in
Speaker 6: the Cone of Silence. But during the show, during the
Speaker 6: five years, ninety nine was never invited into this cone
Speaker 6: of It's a good.
Speaker 5: Thing because that thing never worked. You didn't want to
Speaker 5: be dripped in that.
Speaker 6: She was too smart to get in it.
Speaker 10: Yes, now anything else, Oh, it was just yeah, the
Speaker 10: chief fan he had all like the cool Kaz Mustang
Speaker 10: shall be.
Speaker 11: I saw like a couple of the shows you. I
Speaker 11: was souped up once.
Speaker 9: The cars.
Speaker 6: He had an don I think had an Austin Austin
Speaker 6: Martin is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had a sunbeam sunde.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we almost backed off a cliff and at once.
Speaker 6: I remember it very clearly.
Speaker 5: Oh what in real life?
Speaker 6: No, you put the garden the verse? Okay, putting it
Speaker 6: going straightforward didn't happen.
Speaker 7: It was okay, all right, now anything else.
Speaker 11: She's just a great a secret agent.
Speaker 5: It was a great secret agent. As an actress. She
Speaker 5: is superb.
Speaker 6: Yeah, secret agent for sure.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, thank you, bye bye. Okay, let's let's
Speaker 5: go to Ohio and speak to Duke Duke. Happy new
Speaker 5: Year to you.
Speaker 9: How are you doing, Barbara? How are you?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 9: Great, happy to happy to get a chance to talk
Speaker 9: to you.
Speaker 12: Hey.
Speaker 9: My favorite character on Get Smart was Simon the Likable.
Speaker 9: Can you tell us about working with Jack Guilford?
Speaker 6: Oh I don't. I'm not sure I ever did any
Speaker 6: scenes with him.
Speaker 9: You did know what I'm talking about, though. He was
Speaker 9: the chaos agent who was just so nice that people
Speaker 9: could not turn him down. And every time they would
Speaker 9: show him, he would smile and both his teeth and
Speaker 9: his eyes would sparkle.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that I don't remember that.
Speaker 9: Any remember him? Morgan?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he had a wonderful actor and he was hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and you know how to.
Speaker 5: Play that scene for laughs.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, And then quickly somebody mentioned Max's cark. Did
Speaker 9: he at one point in the series try about Carmen Gia.
Speaker 5: No, he drove a Sunbeam, a Triumph, and a Buick
Speaker 5: Opal over the five years of the show.
Speaker 9: I'm sure that he wore he drove a Carmen Ghea
Speaker 9: and at some point. And the reason I know that
Speaker 9: is because the teacher I had at the time had
Speaker 9: one as well, and I don't know, four through fifth
Speaker 9: grade whatever Euro was, and we talked about that in
Speaker 9: class because he was explaining to us that this was
Speaker 9: a German car, and you know, history was exactly.
Speaker 5: But the thing of the Carmen Gea. Maybe my mind
Speaker 5: is playing a trick on me. But the three cars
Speaker 5: I mentioned, because they had different opening scenes over the
Speaker 5: five years that they were just a little living and
Speaker 5: tucking here. And the last car he drove was a
Speaker 5: Buick Opal. He drove Triumph, and he drove a Sunbeam.
Speaker 9: Maybe I remember both of those, but I do not
Speaker 9: remember the Buick. And I remember that at least the
Speaker 9: first season, you would see Mark, you would see Max
Speaker 9: Glatt and get in a car and drive away like
Speaker 9: he was leaving, and he would just do a U
Speaker 9: turn in park and go into the building.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: Hold. On nineteen sixty seven, mac Max acquires a blue
Speaker 5: Volkswagon Carmen Gea, although he is seen driving it only
Speaker 5: once in the opening credits seasons four, he retains a
Speaker 5: possession of the vehicle until nineteen ninety five, when he
Speaker 5: finally sells it. Uh and there's no answer. Nancy looked
Speaker 5: that up. So there you go, proof, Duke that he
Speaker 5: drove a Carmen Gia.
Speaker 9: Wow, I learned something, my good grade teacher, I remember
Speaker 9: so well discussing that in the classroom. And that's been gosh,
Speaker 9: sixty years.
Speaker 5: Ago, yeah, exactly sixty years.
Speaker 6: Two years ago that the show started. Yet I just
Speaker 6: learned that today. That's pretty sobering.
Speaker 5: Yes, and now I appreciate you.
Speaker 9: Talk to you again. I'm sorry, Roby, Barbara.
Speaker 5: You're only thirty nine years old right now.
Speaker 6: No, how could that bee? That's really weird arithmes.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 5: It's weird arithmetic. And I'm going with that me too. Okay,
Speaker 5: to thank you for the.
Speaker 9: Call, Thank you, good night, good night, right.
Speaker 5: All right, and I'm going to say this, rob Let's
Speaker 5: take that break a minute or so early. Anyone who
Speaker 5: wants to jump on is room for you? Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 5: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine,
Speaker 5: ten thirty. There is one line available? Nope, now there
Speaker 5: are two. Somebody was on it and hung up, and
Speaker 5: Michael and Boston, let me get the breakout of way,
Speaker 5: out of the way, and you will be next here
Speaker 5: on night side time and temperature eleven forty three forty
Speaker 5: seven degrees.
Speaker 8: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 8: Light Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 5: I've got three people on hold. I'm going to do
Speaker 5: the best I can to get all three on, so
Speaker 5: I get a chance. Michael and Boston, you're next with
Speaker 5: Barbara Feldon.
Speaker 14: By your kid.
Speaker 9: How are you to get?
Speaker 14: Curious as to whether Barber was aware that Get Smart
Speaker 14: was shot the year before it became Get Smart in
Speaker 14: New York as a pilot with another star, it was
Speaker 14: called Detective at Large with mel Brooks and Buck Henry
Speaker 14: and so forth, and the network liked it and said,
Speaker 14: we've got this guy that we're paying the army I
Speaker 14: believe was his last name, Your star and they said,
Speaker 14: let's reshoot it because the money is down the drain.
Speaker 14: He's got a contract, we've got to pay him, so
Speaker 14: let's use him for something. Are you aware of that
Speaker 14: or were you part of that original pilot.
Speaker 6: No, that's the first I've heard of that. I mean,
Speaker 6: the story I know and that I know from the
Speaker 6: people who produced it and created it, is that when
Speaker 6: the James Bond movies were so popular, Dan Melnick, who's
Speaker 6: the head of Talent Associates, who which was the production
Speaker 6: company that made it, hired Mel Brooks and Buck Henry
Speaker 6: to create almost a comic strip extension of of seven
Speaker 6: you know, of the of the James Bond franchise and
Speaker 6: that and mel sat down and created it, and I
Speaker 6: handed it to them and then they cast it. And
Speaker 6: that's the story I know. But there may have been
Speaker 6: a precursor that that inspired the second script. I'm not sure.
Speaker 14: I was told by uh, the person who was cast
Speaker 14: in that Tom Post and he was a part of it,
Speaker 14: and it was called Detective at Large and they liked it,
Speaker 14: but they wanted to use Don Adams because he was
Speaker 14: under contract. But anyway, the other question I had, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I had heard that Tom Post and was considered first
Speaker 6: for Maxwell Smart. That's that I heard. There's I'm sure
Speaker 6: we could straighten the story out if we had more time.
Speaker 14: Okay alive, he tells me.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 14: The other question I had very quickly is were you
Speaker 14: the first doing or Get Smart? Did you have to
Speaker 14: compete with other known actresses or unknown actresses at the time.
Speaker 6: Or were you no id An auditioned for it because
Speaker 6: they had seen me do a similar role in another
Speaker 6: one of their shows, where I played an industrial spy
Speaker 6: who was kind of sexy, and and so when they
Speaker 6: saw the when they saw the script, they right away
Speaker 6: thought that that was the character. They had seen me
Speaker 6: do this other character, and they wanted that performance, so
Speaker 6: they just gave it to me.
Speaker 5: Michael, take care, Michael, Paul, and Beverly you are next
Speaker 5: here a night side. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yes, I'm just so happy to speak to Baba. Can
Speaker 15: you hear me? Yeah? I just want to say, yeah,
Speaker 15: I just want to say I don't I mean in
Speaker 15: a good way. I was very young, but you, to me,
Speaker 15: you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
Speaker 15: You were on television, not in person, and it's probably
Speaker 15: true too. And you know, I think probably the first
Speaker 15: woman I was in love with. Of course, I was
Speaker 15: very young, and I don't want to say it in
Speaker 15: the wrong way, and I was thinking you always had
Speaker 15: I'm telling the truth, though, but I always saw that
Speaker 15: to me, you had like a wonderful smile. It made
Speaker 15: me think of a word or a smile. It's usually negative,
Speaker 15: but it was actually a wonderful type of smirk. I
Speaker 15: would think, and it's not the right word, but I
Speaker 15: was just thinking, if it could be a good mile,
Speaker 15: you turn that into a you know, and you look
Speaker 15: like you were happy while you were acting, and you know,
Speaker 15: I was aware, although as a young boy, that you
Speaker 15: were an actress also playing that character. So to me,
Speaker 15: you were ninety nine and an actress playing ninety nine,
Speaker 15: and it's just wonderful. I just wanted to say, you know,
Speaker 15: it's just really just wonderful for me, and it means
Speaker 15: a lot to me to actually speak to you. At
Speaker 15: that time, I wouldn't have thought I'd ever get to
Speaker 15: speak to you. Thank you so much, and Morgan.
Speaker 6: Here, thank you.
Speaker 5: If you take the first line of the Mary Tellermore show,
Speaker 5: it's a perfect description to Barbara Feldon, who can turn
Speaker 5: the world on with her smile.
Speaker 15: Yeah, absolutely, I agree with you. Thank you all.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad I had a little fan out there.
Speaker 6: You were probably what about years old or.
Speaker 15: So well, I thought I was maybe twelve years old
Speaker 15: or something. It's not important. It was a very nice thing,
Speaker 15: you know, to feel and once hard anyways, you know, so.
Speaker 5: You know how we twelve year old boys can be
Speaker 5: when we're smitten with someone.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you said, all right, take care, God bless.
Speaker 5: And now too. And most of you know when I
Speaker 5: say this, who it is. Somehow she usually manages to
Speaker 5: be the last call of the night. Karen in Wisconsin,
Speaker 5: Hello Karen.
Speaker 6: By Karen, Karen, Oh you're bad.
Speaker 5: Yes, we're here. You're on.
Speaker 6: Get me back, Yes, Karen, you're.
Speaker 5: On the air. Karen, You're on the air with Barbara Feldon.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you. I have never seen the good
Speaker 7: uh what Get Smart show. I've always heard of ninety
Speaker 7: nine and didn't know who you were. But when you
Speaker 7: start talking about Pinocchio, I've been looking for that album
Speaker 7: instead of listening to the show, and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 7: But I love that album too, so now I have
Speaker 7: a to you.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it was. It was such a sweet movie
Speaker 6: for kids. It yeah, it makes such an impression on
Speaker 6: you when you're that age.
Speaker 5: Story is an old story, going back to.
Speaker 7: Oh really, the original story, the original story. Yes, what
Speaker 7: was I got that album somewhere, but if you got it,
Speaker 7: I wasted my time.
Speaker 5: Read the read the liner notes, he's got that album handy.
Speaker 7: I will anything else. Sorry for being late that I
Speaker 7: was busy looking for instead of listening. But it was
Speaker 7: nice to me too. And have a good New Year year,
Speaker 7: both of you. Thank you, and with the.
Speaker 5: Minutes that we have left, tell people the two books
Speaker 5: and it is too that you have written, and maybe
Speaker 5: they can go out and find them.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, maybe if they're in need of them. The
Speaker 6: first one was Living Alone and Loving It, which is
Speaker 6: a series of essays on how to live alone happily,
Speaker 6: which I have done since, oh my gosh, for decades.
Speaker 6: But it's really about friendship and taking responsibility for your
Speaker 6: own happiness and making sure you have plenty of friends.
Speaker 6: And the other book is called Getting Smarter, which is
Speaker 6: really the story of sort of quasi funny, quasi discomforting
Speaker 6: story about my marriage to a guy who was kind
Speaker 6: of a con man and very lovable and how that
Speaker 6: came about and how I'd thought I was being followed
Speaker 6: by the KGB and it was like imitating Get Smart,
Speaker 6: if I.
Speaker 5: Remember the story correctly, didn't he rip you off as well?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: He did because I won a lot of money on
Speaker 6: a game show and I gave it to him to invest,
Speaker 6: and he invested it at the racetrack, which I didn't
Speaker 6: know for years. I always thought it was in a
Speaker 6: trust fund. But that was that was a small part
Speaker 6: of it. The bigger part of it was I thought
Speaker 6: he was a spy working undercover for the CIA, and
Speaker 6: that I was being followed. And it's quite an amusing
Speaker 6: story and it was so much fun to write, and
Speaker 6: it was a great adventure for me at the time.
Speaker 14: And what game show?
Speaker 5: Pardon me, what game show did you win money?
Speaker 6: Sixty four thousand dollars question? And I was quite young
Speaker 6: and gave him the money to him and the money
Speaker 6: was gone in six weeks, which by the way, is
Speaker 6: not unusual for people winning great amount of money, great
Speaker 6: amounts of money, and that it I think if they
Speaker 6: ever did a book and followed up on all the
Speaker 6: people who have won vast fortunes, and that was back
Speaker 6: then a pretty big fortune. That it's gone fairly shortly.
Speaker 5: Family or relative or spouse.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some people are extravagant. But I just wanted to
Speaker 6: save it. But I saved it in his pocket, which
Speaker 6: was had a hole in it unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Now I'm going to call you tomorrow to give you
Speaker 5: my phone number, and please pass it on to Bernie.
Speaker 6: Oh I will. I'm going to call him anyway, So
Speaker 6: I'm giving your number.
Speaker 5: All right, Robert, thank you very much for being on.
Speaker 5: I want to thank as well Cleio Campbell, and I
Speaker 5: want to thank Joanne Desmond without forgetting mister Rob Brooks,
Speaker 5: Nancy and Mike cat Gray. Bye, Boston,