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Morgan White is in 33 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.079 for Dan Dan Watkins WBZ, Boston's news Radio. 34 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:45.640 It's Night Size with Dan Ray unbilling bas Boston's News Radio, 35 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:52.719 Final hour of nights, siright, and it's been a very 36 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.040 very busy night, and. 37 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.480 I expect this hour to be just as busy. If 38 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:03.519 you've always wanted to speak to the woman who played 39 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.280 ninety nine and get smart, Barbara Feldon, she is here 40 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:13.120 She's had a very interesting career more than just that 41 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:17.240 one TV show. How many people remember the Top Brass 42 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.520 commercials she used to do, Hey tiger, I'm talking to you. 43 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.719 I don't have her voice, I don't have her presentation, 44 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:31.560 So let's just bring her in and maybe she'll help you. 45 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:37.560 Remember that commercial from Good Grief a long long time ago. Barbara, 46 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.280 thank you for saying yes. You know how much I 47 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.319 appreciate you when you come up. 48 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.879 Oh, it's such a pleasure to talk to you. And 49 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.199 you do have a good voice. You don't need that 50 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.520 sort of sexy kitnish voice that I used back then, 51 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.639 but you have a great voice. 52 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.039 Well, thank you. Can you approximate the tops commercial tagline 53 00:02:59.039 --> 00:02:59.680 you used to do? 54 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.840 Well, let's see. I mean it started, I went a 55 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:11.639 word with all you tigers and then she growled, oh yeah. 56 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.879 At the end she said, let's see, and you see 57 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.039 I don't regard myself as her her. She said, so 58 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.280 use top bras and sick of them. 59 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.319 So that's that's what the character said. And people have 60 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:33.280 to understand when we see commercials and we watch a 61 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:37.840 movie or a TV series, this is an actor that 62 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:42.719 we are witnessing performing what someone has written for them 63 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:47.039 to perform, and a lot of people get confused by that, 64 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.199 don't they. 65 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.960 Oh gosh, you know, and I do too, as as 66 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.120 a viewer, say of when I get addicted to some 67 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.439 the streaming series or something and I'm just totally enamored 68 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.639 with the main character, and then you're just sort of 69 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.479 shocked to find out that that's just a character, that's 70 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.879 not the actor. The actor is another person, and that 71 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:19.800 I mean, certainly they use parts of themselves to put 72 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.120 into the character, but that is not who they are. 73 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.680 And I mean, I know that's happened the other way 74 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:31.639 around with me, where I was the character and people 75 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.680 thought I was in ninety nine and they attributed all 76 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.800 kinds of wonderful things to ninety nine, So I got 77 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.079 her glory. 78 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.120 Well, you got a paycheck every week or every month 79 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:50.319 whenever to portray words that somebody put down on a 80 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.360 piece of paper a script, and it was up to 81 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.160 you to interpret those words and convince us at home 82 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.079 that you were this spy, that you were this temptress 83 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.879 in a commercial. But that was a tribute to how 84 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.439 good of a performer you were. 85 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.240 Well, I think that's one of the things, one of 86 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.439 the reasons actors love acting is that we all sort 87 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:21.600 of kind of design our own persona through life, from 88 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.720 the time where children, we have sort of a basic personality, 89 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.360 and then we kind of add and substract from it 90 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.959 according to what's getting a good result. So then we 91 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.680 solidify it into saying, well, this is me, this is 92 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:39.399 who I am, but it really isn't. I mean, it 93 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:45.720 is a amy, but it's not all of you know, 94 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:51.160 we are so much more than the persona that we 95 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.600 use every day. So the actor gets a chance to 96 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.800 explore all these other selves and that's what I think 97 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:01.279 so much fun to act. 98 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.519 I like it when you said it's a me, but 99 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:10.800 it's not all of me. Yeah, that's an accurate way 100 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.720 to look at it. Now, As you were a little 101 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.279 girl growing up in the forties and fifties, who were 102 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.600 some of your favorite performers that inspired you to do 103 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:23.560 an acting job. 104 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.480 I'm not sure that I didn't see a lot of 105 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.600 movies when I was little. Pinocchio was the biggest, the 106 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.600 biggest influence on me because a friend of my mother's 107 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:40.240 took us to see Pinocchio, and so he was my 108 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.399 kind of role model. I wanted to be Pinocchio and 109 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:49.319 I would go around Stuard gargling, you know, underwater looking 110 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.439 for geppetto the same old geppetto, or you know, you 111 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.560 know when Pinocchio was in the whales Belly or something. 112 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:58.920 I don't remember the story that. 113 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.639 Well, let me take you back, because in a way, 114 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.639 there was a song in that movie that may have 115 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:10.480 inspired you to get into the business. Hi did le 116 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.519 d an actor's life for me? Honest, John the Fox 117 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.959 was misleading Pinocchio down a crooked. 118 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.199 Path and that. 119 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.600 Yeah, yeah, I remember that. 120 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:27.879 Yeah. 121 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:28.399 Maybe. 122 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:32.839 So there was that beautiful song when you wish upon 123 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.439 the Stars from Cliff Edwards. 124 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.639 Yes, Cliffs was the voice of Jimminy Cricket. 125 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:50.319 All right, yeah, I know these things, Yeah, I know. 126 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.120 Do you know the words? Do you want to sing it? 127 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.279 I could, but they don't pay me to sing. They 128 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.720 pay me not to sing. I'll have radios turning off 129 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.240 all of thirty eight states. When you was upon a star, 130 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:09.360 there's no difference in who you are. Anything your heart's desire. 131 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.759 Can come come. 132 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:18.199 To you, to you you. Yeah, it's a beautiful, lyric 133 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:19.920 and wonderful for children. 134 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:25.879 So give me another film or performer that inspired you. 135 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:31.839 I wanted to be Margaret O'Brien. I don't know how 136 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.080 many people even know of Margaret O'Brien now unless they're 137 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:40.120 my age. But she always played orphans. I mean not always, 138 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.600 but she was always like a way. She was this 139 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:47.480 little she was adorable and she had this little wafy voice. 140 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.759 And I and she always, like Charles Boyer would save 141 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:57.120 her when she was a little orphan in the Canterbury 142 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.960 something that give her time. 143 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.320 Well, you would tell she would teget your heartstrings. 144 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.519 Yeah, she would always always you always got daddy character 145 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.480 to save her. And I was looking for a daddy 146 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:15.320 character to save me. And I definitely wanted Margret O'Brien. 147 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.600 And she was always praying, and. 148 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:18.200 So I would. 149 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.960 I would just pray all the time, you know, in 150 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.720 the little quavering voice, and wear little white Peter Pan 151 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.960 collars a little Mary Jane shoes, and I could pretend 152 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:31.159 that Markearet O'Brien. 153 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:34.080 Well, let me take my first break of the hour. 154 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.679 Give the phone numbers. I already have a caller on hold. 155 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.080 Perhaps you can join them six one, seven, two, five, 156 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.919 four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine 157 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:50.639 ten thirty. I've got Barbara Feldon here, probably most notably 158 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.200 remembered for the TV series Gets Mart, but she sent 159 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.759 other things as well, and we're going to talk about 160 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.919 the two books she has written when we come back 161 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:06.120 on nights Side Time and Temperature eleven fifteen forty seven degrees. 162 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.600 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 163 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.240 nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 164 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.840 This is night Side. Dan Ray will be back on Wednesday. 165 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.120 I'm Morgan, Morgan White Junior. I've been here for the 166 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:29.080 past seven shows, being tonight and tomorrow. But Gary is 167 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:34.039 in Wooburn and he wants to speak to Barbara Feldon Carrie. 168 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.559 Welcome aboard, Happy. 169 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:41.200 New Day, exacularly Barbara, what a thriller is for you 170 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.440 to be on the airways again with Morgan. It's so 171 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.840 nice of you to say yes. My question is to 172 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.159 you because it's an easy answer. It's probably like, oh, 173 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.080 I don't have time for that. Why don't even more celebrities? 174 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:54.000 Yeah? 175 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.679 I don't know if you get asked to want to 176 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:58.879 even do what you're doing right now a little interview. 177 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.759 Wait a minute, say the question again. 178 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.559 I'll repeat the question. He wants to know, why aren't 179 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.960 more of your contemporaries doing radio interviews. A lot of 180 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.320 contemporaries of yours just once the role is over that 181 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:19.399 made them famous, they necessarily don't want to talk about it. 182 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:25.039 Yeah. I think that a lot of people who do 183 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:28.639 series were ambivalent about the characters that they did because 184 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.440 it kind of type casts them. I don't feel that way. 185 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.639 I feel very grateful, oh more than grateful, that I 186 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:40.639 had an opportunity to be in a series that was 187 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.759 so well written and also that stayed on long enough 188 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:49.120 so that it would give me a career. Being a 189 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.759 woman that's not as easy as if you're a guy, 190 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.399 and especially back in that time, there were many more 191 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.000 rules for men than women, as there still are. But 192 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.960 I was very fortunate. So I'm I'm very grateful. But 193 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.960 to be on the show. I've been talking to Morgan 194 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.200 for years, right. 195 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:13.840 Fourth or fifth time I've had you on. 196 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:21.200 Yeah, So whenever he calls, I say, yes, it's fun, 197 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:24.480 yea anything else? 198 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.480 Absolutely. My question is to you, Barbara, is back in 199 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.240 your day when you're doing Gates gets including right now 200 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.799 in your life, have you been part of the autograph shows? Also, 201 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.080 he is a travel. 202 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.879 I've done some of the autograph shows. Mostly the ones. 203 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:47.720 There's one here in New York called Chiller, which I've 204 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.480 done a few times. I know, I have not done 205 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:58.600 like circuits of autograph shows. I don't know they they're 206 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.320 I'm not that interested in being in the public. But 207 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:10.679 whenever I've done them, it's been very sweet to meet fans, 208 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:15.200 and it's really four fans, you know. They get kick 209 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:19.559 out of seeing people in person. Whether that may be 210 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:25.840 disappointing or not, I don't know. But occasionally I've done them, 211 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.159 but no, I don't seek them out, and mostly I 212 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:29.919 turn them down. 213 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.240 It's funny because you're always going to be nineteen sixty five, 214 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.559 nineteen sixty six or so in their minds, and let's 215 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.360 be honest, one's going to look that way after fifty 216 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.639 sixty years. 217 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.879 Yeah, I mean that's part of it, but they don't 218 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.559 seem to care about that. They want pictures of you 219 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.159 when you were in the show, so that's the pictures 220 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:05.440 they buy, and who's you know. That's fine. I'm ambivalent 221 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.440 about doing them, but as I must say that, when 222 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:14.240 I've done them, I've met such sweet people that I've 223 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.840 been happy to have done them. But I'm not really 224 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.399 motivated to seek them out. 225 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.519 And Barbara, I know that you haven't come to Boston, 226 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:31.320 but I've given you a standard open carpet invitation. If 227 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.720 you know you're coming to Boston, please call me. I 228 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.320 will take you out for lunch and it would be 229 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.679 my treat. And I'm not going to put you in 230 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.480 the middle of a media frenzy with two or three 231 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.720 or four photographers. Say it'll be just you and I 232 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:48.320 for lunch. 233 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.279 That would be a nice treat. I thank you very much, 234 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.679 and I'm going to just file that invitation in a 235 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:56.519 very good place. 236 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.519 Okay, Gary, anything else a questions? 237 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.360 Here we go, Barbara. My question is this Don Adams, 238 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:06.840 ed Platt and other people that you work with and 239 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:07.279 so forth? 240 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:07.759 What he is. 241 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.120 I'm sure you probably kept in touch and you guys 242 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.399 were friendly and so forth. What I wanted to know 243 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.679 was this, Who were the women and men that you 244 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:20.440 kept in touch with in Hollywood that became got even 245 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.960 more work and work, work, work, and you just stayed 246 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.840 in good correspondence with Who are your friends with? 247 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.039 Okay, good question, Garry, Happy New Year to you. 248 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:33.399 Happy New Year. 249 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:33.759 Gary. 250 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.159 My friends, mostly, I mean where I lived my life 251 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:46.360 in la was mostly with a small group of very 252 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.919 close friends, and one of them was a man who 253 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:55.440 was producer. I think he was the vice president of 254 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:01.639 one of the movie companies. Another wash Well one that 255 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.080 I stayed very close to was the guy who produced 256 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.080 Gats Smart, who I lived with for eleven years after 257 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:12.639 I met him on the show. But mostly my friends 258 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:17.840 were not in the business. They were artists and or 259 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.559 they were in the producing And I didn't have any 260 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:26.960 actor friends. And the only actor friend I have left 261 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.799 from the Guts Smart Time is Bernie Cappel. 262 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:30.840 Oh. 263 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.440 Yeah, he's a very close friend. 264 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:34.679 Create. 265 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:36.919 I know he'd love to do your show. 266 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.799 And you know what, you've got my phone number? Ask 267 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:46.120 him and give him my phone number, or get permission 268 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.799 for you to give to me his phone number. I 269 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.279 would love to have him. 270 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.919 Oh, okay, you to coordinate. 271 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.600 Okay, great. I don't know if I have your phone 272 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.279 number written down. It's usually on my phone log, but 273 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:06.680 I'm not sure it stays on the log for months. 274 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:09.759 I will call I will call you with it tomorrow. 275 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.000 Great, leave it for me, Tom. That would great. I 276 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:16.359 know he would love it. He loves to talk about Yeah, 277 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.960 I'd love to have it anyway. Bernie is a great friend, 278 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.759 but he's the only one from the show that I 279 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.720 stayed in touch with. The funny thing about my career 280 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.359 at that time is that I was always hired to 281 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.119 be the skirt. In other words, I was the I 282 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:43.160 was the companion to the male lead. And consequently, I 283 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.759 think in my entire career out there, I may have 284 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.720 acted with a woman once or twice in all of 285 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:55.319 those years. So I didn't have any girlfriends from the shows. 286 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.279 So I just had friends outside of that kind of 287 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:04.519 realm that we're just and stayed very very close friends, 288 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:06.799 and many of them are no longer living. 289 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:07.000 Now. 290 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.000 All right, let's go to another call in Wellesley. Robert, 291 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:15.640 you are speaking with Barbara Feldon here on nights Side. 292 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:20.400 Hello Robert, Oh, Hello, good evening, Morgan, And to your 293 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:24.480 guest Barbara Feldon, I can't believe I'm I'm speaking, and 294 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:26.960 thank you for having her as a guest on your show. 295 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.720 Again the I thank you, and I want to thank 296 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:36.799 the coler mentioned Bernie Cappell. I hope I'm pronouncing the 297 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:37.240 name right. 298 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.960 Played playing a part of Sacred and. 299 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.440 I was wondering how interactive was Mel Brooks. 300 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:46.640 Was he producer but also director? 301 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:53.680 Now Mel UoT it with Buck Henry. They collaborated on it, 302 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:58.400 and then I think during the course of the five years, 303 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:03.519 Mel directed one show and he wrote one show, so 304 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.559 he was not very hands on. The person that we 305 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.160 were most close to, of course, was Buck, because Buck 306 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:13.720 was there every day for two years. He stayed as 307 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:20.119 the story editor, and Mel just very very occasionally. I 308 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:23.720 mean I got to know Mel a little socially, but 309 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:24.920 but not from the show. 310 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.680 The writing was I thought was fantastic, and the the 311 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:33.759 inside jokes were amazing. The inside jokes about government and 312 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:38.920 intelligence work I were seemed to be whether subtle and 313 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:43.359 I'm just they after I used, of course to watch 314 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.160 it as a kid, but I want when I waiter 315 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.519 watch it again as a as more of an adult. 316 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.720 I just there were a lot of things that I 317 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:57.039 didn't see the first time first time around. 318 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:59.480 That, Yeah, it worked for kids on a kid level, 319 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:02.279 and it worked for adult on a level, you know, 320 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:07.200 on a more sophisticated level. Yeah, the humor was wonderful. 321 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.839 I'm in the I forget totally the scripts, and occasionally 322 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.519 I will come across one and I watch it like 323 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:21.359 I'd never like I wasn't in it, and I find 324 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:27.680 myself laughing out loud, and they're just so sharp, and 325 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:33.480 the style of it was so specific, and it was 326 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.359 just a little gem. I think maybe I'm prejudiced. 327 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:40.359 Oh wow, you agree one hundred percent. I was wondering, 328 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.200 as a matter of trivia, did ninety nine have a 329 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:46.640 name before she became missus Maxwell Smart? 330 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:52.079 Oh, here we go. I'll let you answer it. But 331 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.359 you know we've talked about this before. 332 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.440 Oh, yes, very curious. I had lunch with Buck Henry 333 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:02.960 about ten years ago and I said, you just clear 334 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.480 this up, because everybody asked this question. And he said, no, 335 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.960 she was never intended to have a name, and at 336 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.519 first her number was going to be one hundred because 337 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.759 they were going to make her perfect. But he said, 338 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.440 you know, a hundred didn't He said, it didn't sound 339 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.839 like a girl's number. Ninety nine sounded like a girl's number. 340 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.160 But I really think that they used ninety nine because 341 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.759 of the rhythm of it, you know, not ninety nine 342 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:34.440 is a very easy thing to say. A hundred is awkward. 343 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:34.839 Right. 344 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:41.079 Yeah, So, no, she had a cover name, Susan, but 345 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.640 it was only a cover and when she got married 346 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:47.880 and the priest to Max and the priest said, will you, 347 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:53.160 And when he says her supposed name, somebody in the 348 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:56.039 audience coughs, and so you can't hear the name. 349 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:01.799 Robert. A lot of people you go to a convention 350 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:05.680 or you're playing trivia with a bunch of friends, they'll 351 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:10.480 say her name, as Barbara just said Susan, Susan Hilton 352 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:14.119 hilt In like the hotel chair. But that was a 353 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.200 cover name. And at the end of the episode where 354 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.599 that was mentioned it, Max says, I never knew your name, 355 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:25.599 and the character ninety nine said you still don't because 356 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:29.759 that's a cover name. Max, right right, terrific. 357 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:32.799 Oh, thank you for thank you for taking my call 358 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:35.559 and uh and giving these great answers. 359 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:38.200 Robert, thank you for making the call. Happy New Year 360 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:42.720 to you. Bye bye now, Alan Danvers, I've got a 361 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.079 news break to take, so I promised you will be 362 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:50.160 next with Barbara Feldon. Do not hang up during the news. 363 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:54.039 Anyone else wants to call in six one, seven, two, five, four, 364 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:57.920 ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty, 365 00:22:58.119 --> 00:23:02.920 this is your chance to speak with ninety nine from 366 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:08.759 Get Smart Barbara Feldon and on that note, time and 367 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:17.519 temperature here in BZ eleven thirty forty seven degrees. 368 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.799 It's Nightside with Ray on Boston's news radio. 369 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:26.480 Dan is off obviously for the rest of the show, 370 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.880 which ends at midnight, and I'll be here tomorrow night, Tuesday, 371 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:36.079 Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. But Dan, we'll be back 372 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:42.680 on Wednesday, eight pm. Nightside the first of January twenty 373 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:46.160 twenty five, Dan, We'll be back. My name is Morgan. 374 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.839 My show Saturdays from nine to midnight is when you'll 375 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:54.119 find me doing The Morgan Show. Right now, I've got 376 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:57.279 Barbara Feldon as a guest. We've got people calling in 377 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:04.799 to speak with her. So let's go to al In Danvers. 378 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:08.319 Happy New Year, now, Happy New Year? 379 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:17.319 Ow, yes you too on the show? Did you have 380 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:28.599 a compact like and it was a fall has a fun? 381 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:29.200 Yeah? 382 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:29.839 Yeah. 383 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.079 There were all the devices that the spy shows of 384 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:39.279 that era where what was a normal everyday device was 385 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:43.359 more than that. And I remember on let's say Honey 386 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:47.519 West and Francis who was Honey West, had a compact 387 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:52.400 that she could communicate with her partner Sam Bolt. And 388 00:24:52.920 --> 00:25:00.559 I think I was referring to ninety nine having something 389 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.599 with which she could communicate with Max, because Max used 390 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:05.200 his shoe. 391 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:10.839 But oh, oh yeah, sure, I know sure that she 392 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:18.400 had a lipstick transior transistor lipstick. And certainly she had 393 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:24.119 a ring special ring unless I'm remembering that from my 394 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:28.599 childhood from Jack Armstrong or No Dick Tracy or what 395 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:31.920 was it were you you wrote in and you got 396 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:34.599 a ring that told secret mess It was. 397 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:38.839 Oval team Jack Armstrong, Jack Armstrong, the All American boy. 398 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:46.279 Yeah. Yeah, but but Max got most of the cool props. 399 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:49.920 I mean Max got to be in the Cone of Silence. 400 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:54.039 Ninety nine never did except when they years and years 401 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:59.319