Season 1, Episodes 11-18

Some more interesting odds and ends, from the middle of Season 1 . . .

Episode 11: Too Many Chiefs

Among the many disguises of KAOS agent Alexi Sebastian, is Johnny Carson.

The photo is similar to this one that was used as a Johnny Jigsaw Puzzle.

Sebastian was also David Brinkley at one time. Or was it Chet Huntley? We're still not sure.

Here's the full photo. Looks like Huntley is subtly giving the finger to the photographer.

Episode 12: My Nephew the Spy

Here's the first instance of something that was used a lot in the first season - a prop newspaper. For a TV show or movie, only the headline is important, so the studios had the same boilerplate for the rest of the paper, including the other headlines. Here we see the headline: "Giant Plane Found, All Aboard Safe."

That headline got used a lot. A  LOT.

In no particular order:

Batman

The Astro-Zombies

The Invaders

The Fugitive

M*A*S*H

Bob Hope Comedy Special

Hotel

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

The Monkees

Project X

Episode 13: Aboard the Orient Express

"Cross Word Puzzle Book". I am thinking this is a real book, though I couldn't find an exact match.

The inside is tantalizing: "Swimming Shorts by Charles . . . " I can't make out the last name.

Episode 14: Weekend Vampire

Like most episodes this season, even the "exterior" shots were done indoors. However there is a fun goof in this one. When the lightning flashes, you can see the top of the sound stage above the "sky".

Episode 15: Survival of the Fattest

Establishing shot of a hotel. Any idea as to what hotel this is?

Episode 16: Double Agent

This is the first of several episodes to feature an Aristocrat slot machine. Founded in Australia in 1953, Aristocrat remains one of the world's largest manufacturers of slot machines and other gaming products.

Break the Bank appears to be one of many versions of the same basic machine. In most later episodes, that covering was removed, showing the blank surface underneath.

Here is a vintage ad for the machine, the Aristocrat "Nevada".

Wall paintings were a common set decoration, and I imagine are prints of well-known paintings. I was able to ID this one.

It's Dempsey and Firpo, painted in 1923 by George Bellows.

Episode 17: Kisses for KAOS

What fancy building was used for the exterior of the art museum?

It's the exterior of Sunset Bronson studios! Looks pretty much the same today.

Episode 18: The Dead Spy Scrawls

This episode introduces another prop staple for the show: travel posters. Many episodes had scenes in bus stations or airports, and real travel posters were used as decoration. In some episodes they didn't make much sense (i.e. posters for distant countries in a bus station), but for the bus station here they used real Greyhound posters!

Starting off with one of the Pacific Northwest.

 

See Your U.S.A.: Washington.

Go Greyhound . . . and leave the spying to us

The U.S. Army recruitment poster dates to the Korean War.

Back-to-back Canada posters behind Leonard Nimoy.

Finally, Arizona.