Season 3, Episodes 11-19

Moving through Season 3 with some fun locations . . .

Episode 11: The Mild Ones

This is one of several episodes to use the "airport entrance". In this one we get a nice view behind the entrance. Looks a lot more like TV studio buildings than airport buildings.

The diner overrun by the bikers has some interesting props. Like the pinball machine, which seems to mix a circus and train theme.

Here we see a poster for Motorcycle Racing at the Sportatorium. There were arenas called Sportatorium in both Texas and Florida.

Also a poster for the 1959 film Surf Safari. Here is the full poster.

A Coca-Cola ad is visible here. We'll get a better look at it in another episode at the end of this post.

Episode 12: Classification Dead

This episode introduces the new CONTROL Labs and Dr. Steele. You can see the electromagnetic radiation chart in the background. According to the Recycled Movie Costumes website, this costume was originally worn in the 1955 movie Guys and Dolls.

Here you can see it in the movie.

The farkleberry juice bottle appears to have a label that says Farkleberry. I always thought it was made up but apparently it's a real plant. More used in pies and jellies than juices, though.

Episode 13: The Mysterious Dr. T

The establishing shot of the apartment building looks like a real city building, but I don't know where.

The orange painting of the woman in the professor's apartment looks familiar, but I can't place it.

Episode 14: The King Lives

The Summer Palace at Lindahoff. I wonder what castle this actually is.

The train scene was filmed in the varnish train car built for The Wild Wild West. The JTW monogram over the door stands for James T. West.

Here is an example from Wild Wild West. It has appeared in many other shows as well, such as Gunsmoke, Big Valley and Barbary Coast. 

Episode 18: Don't Look Back

Back to the diner set seen earlier in The Mild Ones. We can see signs with sandwiches: Cheeseburger, Egg Salad, Liverwurst.

These were part of a larger series of sandwich-themed advertising signs from Coca-Cola.

A few more are visible in this shot.

A National Cash Register. The National Manufacturing Company was founded in 1879 to manufacture the first mechanical cash register. In 1884 they changed their name to National Cash Register. After helping the war effort in World War II with codebreaking machines, they became an important computer manufacturer in the decades after the war. The company was bought by AT&T in the 1980s, who shortened the company name to NCR. A few corporate changes later, NCR Atleos remains today as a manufacturer of ATMs.

In this episode we get a montage of Max on the run, filmed in L.A.'s Skid Row. This appears to be the corner of Wall Street and 5th Street.

Here is that corner today.

The clue that allowed me to figure out the locations in this shot was the sign for the Bixby Hotel.

Here's the location today, Wall St and Winston St. The hotel has closed but a sign remains, though it is not the same on as in 1967.

Crossing E. 5th St.

Today.

Frank's Chinese Laundry. Looking at old L.A. phone books, there were three laundries with this name. Fortunately there was one within a block of the other shots, at 223 E. 5th.

There is a different building at that address today.

The episode features a cameo by Milton Berle, reading a comic book. That comic is Tales of the Unexpected #104 (December 1967/January 1968) published by DC Comics, with the story 24-Hour Nightmare by Jack Abel. Comic books at that time usually were dated well in advance of the month they were listed as, so that one had probably come out in late summer or early fall of 1967.

Here is the cover for that issue.

 

Episode 19: 99 Loses Control

Nice establishing shot of a yacht at dusk. Location unknown . . .

The photo in the frame is from the episode Our Man in Toyland. You can even see Little Miss Echo a.k.a. Polly Dolly.

KAOS gets their world map . . . 

. . . from National Geographic.

Victor Royal is using Steamboat 999 playing cards. Steamboat 999 is the budget brand of cards produced by the US Playing Card company. The company was founded in 1867 and their first Steamboat cards came out in 1883. These were cheap flimsy cards, not what you'd see in a fancy casino.