Season 5, Episode 14

Moonlighting Becomes You, my favorite episode, especially the scene where Max is the foley artist for the radio show.

A rare time where the stock footage is correct! National Museum, Cairo is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. 

 

Here it is today, looking a lot pinker.

 

I like the old-style phone number in the booth - SPhinx 54-1000.

 

This may just be a studio, but the apartment footage looked quite realistic this episode.

 

That's a Picasso in the Smarts' apartment!

 

Jug, Candle and Enamel Pan, 1945. 

 

The radio studio is in the Barclay-Vesey Building, on Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan, right by the site that would become the World Trade Center. At the time it was the home for New York Telephone.

 

Here it is today.

 

 

Season 5, Episodes 9-13

 Physician Impossible (Episode 9)

Bayonne, NJ?

 

Most likely Throckmorton Avenue in Mill Valley, CA. Here it is in the 1940s:

 

And today:

 

According to IMCDB, this is the original Leave it to Beaver house. 

 

It certainly looks like it could be.

 

One-Way Al's car is polished so well that you can see the reflection of the lighting.

 

Despite the cover that says "Beer", Cortez is clearly holding a can of Budweiser.

 

Apes of Rath (Episode 10)

A lifeboat from the the S.S. Minnow from Gilligan's Island.

 

The small TV in Webster's trunk is actually an Ohio Art toy TV.

 

Here's an example of one of the toys. Either there was also a much more realistic model made by Ohio Art, or the art department did a great job of making this one look real.

 

Dodgers star Maury Wills is CONTROL Agent Roberts, and he appears to have a baseball bat in his umbrella stand.

 

Chucko destroys a Miller Meter. Miller was one of the leading brands of parking meters.

 

Here is a similar meter. A few years later the Miller company was bought by the Duncan Yo-Yo company.

 

A city street at night. No idea where.

 

Age Before Duty (Episode 11)

Caruthers's body is laid out on a Match Bowler game.

 

This was produced by Chicago Coin in 1952. The same machine can be found in the bar in Ice Station Siegfried.

 

Felix retouching a 99 photo.

 

Here is almost the exact same Barbara Feldon headshot.

 

We don't usually see an exterior shot for KAOS Headquarters. Looks like a nice respectable city apartment building.

 

Is This Trip Necessary (Epsiode 12)

The opening image of Dartfoot Springs. Presumably a warehouse in California, possibly even CBS Studios.

 

Later in the episode when Max and 99 enter Dartfoot Springs, it's clearly the same location as the TV station in The Impossible Mission - the side entrance to the CBS Studio Center, 4115 Radford Avenue. 

 

Here it is today, still looking largely the same.

 

A few shots later we get to look down Radford.

 

It looks like the chain link fence with barbed wire has been replaced with more brick sections.

 

Here's a look from the front. You can even see some of the dirt that Luden would eat.

 

The building looks the same today, though a newer building has gone up next to it.

 

Perhaps appropriately enough for a pharmacist, Jarvis Pym has a poster with the International Metric System hanging in his lab.

 

Ice Station Siegfried (Episode 13)

The episode starts off with shots of Washington landmarks all scene in other episodes, but this time in a blizzard. Starting off with the Capitol.

 

Senate.

 

Supreme Court.

 

State Department.

 

Whitehorse, Canada is actually Mackinac, Michigan, as evidenced by the sign for Famous Mackinac Fudge.

 

The Mackinac Island website has a shot from almost the exact same location today.

 

 For completeness sake, here's the Google Maps view as well.

 

Earlier we had a Budweiser can. Here's a Dos Equis bottle - no attempt to hide it, either. A Mexican beer in Canada!

 

A photo of Queen Elizabeth II can be seen in the bar.

 

A Rand McNally World Portrait Map hangs in Professor Stanislavsky's lab.

 

Here's an example of a complete map.

 

 

Season 5, Episodes 6-8

 Smart Fell on Alabama (episode 6)

Like Schwartz's Island, this episode was partly filmed at the Gilligan's Island lagoon.

 

Col Kirby's plantation house is the Dunleith Historic Inn in Natchez, MS.

 

Here it is today.

 

We get a close up of Max's wrist communicator at one point. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but a very interesting compass with city names is a part of it.

 

And Baby Makes Four - Part I (episode 7)

We've seen this road in previous seasons; somewhat new look to get the Opel in there.

 

Next we see the Opel drive past this structure. Interesting building, presumably in DC but I don't know where.

 

All of the other driving scenes in these two episodes take place at CBS Studios, and we see a lot of the backlot, both residential and commercial. Sometimes we even see locations that clearly are just studio backlot, like this one. In this scene the image is actually reversed, with the bump on the hood that is in front of the passenger seat appearing to be in front of the driver.

 

Interesting that the backlot has a pharmacy with a real Coca-Cola sign for added veracity!

 

Yet another episode with a slightly different version of a shot that I believe is from the inside of LAX.

 

The stakeout scene begins with a callback to the very first scene in a Get Smart episode, the Capitol at night.

 

Not sure what this location is, but there appear to be palm trees making L.A. more likely than D.C.

 

A Red Cross poster outside the coffee shop.

 

I couldn't find the exact same poster, but this one has all of the same elements.

 

What to Name Your Child ? 99 had this book in Widow Often Annie. Getting a closer look here, with the tape on the binding I wonder if this was even a real book, or just something kludged together out of different parts of other books.

 

The brief flashbacks during Simon the Likeable's trial have a lot interesting shots. Starting off with the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.

 

Best I could get for today from Google Maps.

 

The safecracking stock shot just looks really cool.

 

Is the check possibly signed by art director Carl Braunger?

 

The bridge explosion looks like it might be a model. There is some weird glare in the upper left.

 

If you are curious, the dollar bill with Simon the Likeable is from 1965, with Treasurer Kathryn O'Hay Granahan and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Fowler.

 

This appears to be the headshot that the art department used to create the dollar bill.

 

Simon walks past a US Army recruiting poster.

 

Here is the full poster, from 1963.

 

A box of Johnson & Johnson bandages can be seen in the supply closet Max and 99 are locked into.

 

Here's a close-up look at one.

 

When "Max" falls through the closets it's pretty clearly a dummy when viewed in slow motion. Watch the legs swing wildly . . . 

 

. . . and has gray arms!

 

A stock shot of a hospital, I don't know which one.

 

Check out the calendar by Miss Hoskins.

 

Here is an example of the calendar. The art is Whoa-a-a Boy by Duane Bryers.