Get Smart (TV Series)

Appointment in Sahara (1967)

Don Adams: Maxwell Smart

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• Chief : All we know is that they threatened to wipe out the city containing our finest intellectual minds and greatest leaders.

  Maxwell Smart : Well at least Washington is safe.

• Chief : Max, this will undoubtedly be the most dangerous mission you've ever gone on. You probably won't get back alive.

  Maxwell Smart : If you're trying to scare me, Chief, you're wasting your time. I don't know the meaning of the word fear.

  Chief : You'll have to parachute from six thousand feet.

  Maxwell Smart : I think I just learned it.

• Maxwell Smart : [caught in a sand storm]  Listen 99, I know this is a long shot, but I gotta ask ya anyway...

  # 99 : [shouting to be heard over the storm]  What is it, Max?

  Maxwell Smart : You don't happen to have a can of cold beer on ya, do ya?

• Hassein : Would you like a camel?

  Maxwell Smart : Eh, no thanks, I'm trying to cut down.

• # 99 : [having just witnessed a nuclear explosion]  Oh Max, what a terrible weapon of destruction.

  Maxwell Smart : Yes. You know, China, Russia and France should outlaw all nuclear weapons. We should insist upon it.

  # 99 : What if they won't, Max?

  Maxwell Smart : Then we may have to blast them. It's the only way to keep peace in the world.

• Chief : Well, I'm sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night, but we're facing a terrible crisis, the possible destruction of the entire world.

  Maxwell Smart : Well couldn't it have waited until morning?

  # 99 : What happened Chief?

  Chief : KAOS has a nuclear bomb.

  Maxwell Smart : Doesn't everybody?

• Chief : Max, have you ever jumped from a plane?

  Maxwell Smart : Yes Chief, once, during the war.

  Chief : When?

  Maxwell Smart : Just before it took off for overseas.

• Carlson : Here something you could eat in case of an emergency.

  Maxwell Smart : Our uniforms?

  Carlson : No, the buttons.

  # 99 : [tasting a bit of button]  Hmm! Salted. Good!

  Carlson : Yes, well, in extreme heat salt is essential to the diet. But be sure you don't eat the top button of the uniform, 86.

  Maxwell Smart : Why?

  Carlson : It's a geiger-counter. When you come close to where the missiles are buried it will start beeping.

  Maxwell Smart : Oh, the old beeping button trick.

• # 99 : [Max and 99 wake up in a tent]  Max, where are we?

  Maxwell Smart : [looking up to see two veiled women]  Heaven?

  # 99 : I don't think so.

  Maxwell Smart : Then it must been an Arabian Playboy club.