Season 5, Episodes 22-26

Final post, finishing off the run . . . 

Smartacus (Episode 22)

The "Roman Baths", an interesting blend of old and new architecture.

 

This is actually the Mark Taper Forum in L.A.

 

What's It All About Algie? (Episode 23)

The fertilizer hit a CBS fan.

 

Hello Columbus, Goodbye America (Episode 24)

A very fancy looking museum building.

 

This is actually the Pacific Union Club in San Francisco.

 

Max and 99 admire a Van Gogh.

 

The real one looks a little different.

 

Another Dulles image with the Opel.

 

Today.

 

Lots more travel posters in this episode. New Orleans and Paris here.

 

Full New Orleans poster.

 

Full Paris poster.

 

Chile (along with Gemini reading a prop magazine).

 

Full poster.

 

Holland.

 

Full poster.

 

Norway and India posters.

 

Norway.

 

India.

 

Another interesting looking KAOS headquarters.

 

Do I Hear a Vaults? (Episode 25)

See Revolutionary Art Exhibit. Mentions real Black Power artists Emory Douglas and Elaine Brown.

 

This episode famously re-uses the downtown LA scene in The Treasure of C. Errol Madre. However, some of the shots are different in this episode. Here is a great shot of the Orpheum Theater.

 

As late as 2015 the Optometric Eye Institute with a similar glasses sign was still there.

 

Today that business is gone.

 

Later we pass the Forum Cafeteria, 620 S. Broadway.

 

Same spot today.

 

At one point in the truck window there is the reflection of a sign that says Times Furniture. There was a business with that name in L.A. but it was not near this area. Perhaps they had another location.

 

The establishing shots of the bank later in the episode are a different building from the one at the beginning of the scene.

 

This bank was Security National Bank. Now the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

 

Some prison shots in this episode, starting with an exterior.

 

Tug of war on a baseball field.

 

Prison guard on patrol.

 

I am Curiously Yellow (Episode 26)

Wing Woh Lung in New York's Chinatown, corner of Bayard and Mott in New York's Chinatown. Phillies truck rolling by.

 

Today.

 

Season 5, Episodes 15-20

There were lots of location shots in the first half of the season. Perhaps budget went down by the second half as it became clear the show was nearing an end. Still lots of fun things to spot, though.

House of Max, Part I (Episode 15)

The opening shot of London looks awful lot like a matte painting.

 

More foggy London - Scotland Yard. The white lights give it an eerie effect.

 

Here it is today.

 

According to IMDB, the London Underground map can't be any later than 1959.

 

The camera follows a bus around a curve . . . 

 

. . . near a round park. This is actually a longer version of a clip from the movie If It's Tuesday, This Must be Belgium. The tour bus plays an important part in the movie.

 

According to London on Location, this is Grosvenor Square. That does appear to be correct.

 

Another interesting London street. I don't know where this is.

 

The hotel where Max and 99 are staying . . . 

 

. . . later seen at another angle.

   

It's not in London, nor is it a hotel! This is La Fontaine, an apartment house on Crescent Heights Boulevard In West Hollywood.

 

House of Max Part 2 (Episode 16)

This is probably a sound stage, but looks just real enough to make me wonder.

 

Rebecca of Funny Folk Farm (Episode 17) 

A yellow and red box in a photo studio would seem likely to be a Kodak box. Can't say for sure though.

 

The Mess of Adrian Listenger (Episode 18)

The same apartment footage we saw in Moonlighting Becomes You, but this time it's reversed!

 

We see Max reading a fashion magazine . . . 

 

. . . with a whisky ad on the back.

 

It's the March 1969 issue of Harper's Bazaar . . .  

 

with an Inver House ad on the back.

 

The Chief has a real Western Union telegram.

 

I wonder if this is a real hotel. $3/day.

 

As a matchbook collector myself, I wish we got a better look at these.

 

Witness for the Execution (5-19)

Dietrich's plane flying over a lake in the desert.

 

Another shot over the desert, with the wing of the camera plane in view.

 

The hidden mike bit gives us a rare look at the papers on the chief's desk. First there's the real mike.

 

Flipping the photo reveals some kind of geography/maps based quiz. Certainly would make sense for spies. I would guess it might be military in nature in real life.

 

Then there's the microphone cufflink.

 

Real insurance papers from The Travelers Insurance Company. I like the old Hartford 15 address. By this time the transition to zip codes was taking effect but lots of old style addresses were still used. Maybe workers comp claim from an injured CONTROL agent?

 

Vogel & Sons funeral home is actually . . .

 

The Barkley Mansion from The Big Valley.

  

How Green was my Valet (Episode 20)

Very fancy building for the Bulmanian Embassy.

 

It is actually the Budapest Opera House. (In Do I Hear a Vaults it is the Washington Library). Here it is today.

 

That's a box of Kingsford Corn Starch that the Chief and Larrabee used for the diaper change.

 

Here's an example of a box.