Season 2, Episodes 5-13

Having a lot of fun marching through Season 2 . . . 

Episode 5: Maxwell Smart, Alias Jimmy Ballantine

Max's car has a Motorola radio. The Galvin Manufacturing Company was founded in Chicago in 1928, and their first product was a car radio called Motorola (a hybrid of motor and Victrola). The company's name was changed to Motorola in 1947. The company eventually pivoted to other forms of mobile communications, most notably the first portable telephone in 1973. They manufactured their last car radio in 1984. The company still exists today, with a variety of mobile communications devices.

Some more product placement - a box of Parliament cigarettes on the Chief's desk.

The Statue of Liberty calendar with the pictures of the Presidents is interesting, especially when you consider that the page has days and dates but no month!

Episode 6: Casablanca

Here's a flight insurance vending machine from Continental Insurance. The prop department was careful to tape over the Continental name and logo.

Here's an example of what the full sign looked like. Continental was one of several insurers to operate vending machines selling life insurance policies to anxious passengers. These were common in airports from the 1950s to the 1970s, when the practice was disbanded, in part due to the extremely high premiums, and in part due to fears of plane sabotage for the purposes of insurance fraud. Continental was established in 1897, and was later known as Continental National American, and still operates with those initials, as CNA. 

The props department also finally got around to taping the lockers, after giving American Locker some free publicity in a few episodes.

Note the poster in the background with the cowgirl.

It's a TWA poster for Arizona, but the props department cut off the TWA logo.

Nice establishing shot of Casablanca.

The Cafe Creme sign might just be a random prop, though there was a small cigarette company with that name.

Episode 7: The Decoy

Professor Carlson is standing next to a 1944 WM Welch Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations, which would often be seen in CONTROL Lab scenes, even when the lab moved to a trunk backstage of the Golden Rooster Follies.

Here's the chart. They don't make them like this anymore.

Another great poster is visible in the newsstand scene. It features the Ford Cobra at the 1964 Sebring Grand Prix.

Here's the full poster.

Later we see some images of the Gemini spacecraft in the lab. These would also be seen throughout the next few seasons.

Episode 9: Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Three Spies in a Sub

The submarine scenes were filmed on the set constructed for the Sinatra movie Assault on a Queen.

Here's a photo from that movie, looking very similar to the Get Smart set.

I don't have any information on the Navy footage.

Episode 10: The Greatest Spy on Earth

Some tent establishing shots. I don't know what circus.

 

That metals poster on the wall is in a few episodes.

Circus tents in the day. I wonder if the flags are a clue as to what circus this was.

Max and 99 walk past a poster for Adah Isaacs Menken in the 1860s play Mazeppa. For a short time Menken and her play were some of the biggest stars (and scandals) in show business, though that fame (and Menken's life) proved to be short. 

In the background here are two signs that actually go together - Exotic Dancers and Mijanou the Palmist.

Both are from the 1964 Elvis movie Roustabout. Here you can see the Exotic Dancers . . . 

. . . and here is Mijanou.

Episode 11: Island of the Darned

I don't know where the location shots were filmed, presumably somewhere in southern California.

Episode 12: Bronzefinger

The US Supreme Court Building is obscure enough that it was used as an establishing shot for a museum in both this episode and The Mummy, and as a local courthouse in The Whole Tooth And . . . 

Here's a current view of the building from a similar angle.

Episode 13: Perils in a Pet Shop

Ending here with another question. Where is it? Somewhere in California again, presumably.