Category Archives: Get Smart

Television Stars Book Circa 1967

This Television star book is a veritable who’s who of TV stars of the year containing photographs or features off or on: The Saint, I Spy, Batman, The Man and Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Emergency Ward 10, The Human Jungle, The Munsters, The Power Game, The Avengers, The FBI (This is of interest to 77 Sunset strip fans as it is about Efrem Zibalist Jnr who stared in that), Take your Pick, Double your Money, The Prisoner, Morecambe and Wise (This features a photograph of Sean Connery visiting the lads on set), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Bonanza, Honey West, Dr Finlay’s Casebook, The Baron, The Big Valley, T.H.E. Cat, Peyton place, Man in a suitcase, Public Eye, Lost in Space, The Virginian, Daktari, Get Smart, The Fugitive, No Hiding Place, Redcap.

There are several books or annuals of this type in the collection, but none have quite as an impressive selection of so many of this type of Cult TV show within their pages.

Published by Purnell & Sons ltd, no year is given but given the contents this has to be from around 1967.

Superman No 204

DC comics Feb 1967. This issue has a full page colour advert for Aurora model motoring on its back cover, using Don Adams from Get Smart.

Original Price 0.12c

SFX magazine Aug 2015

SFX magazine Aug 2015. Features a Man from U.N.C.L.E.  cover with feature on the new movie. Also feature on new Mission Impossible movie and small piece on spy shows including U.N.C.L.E., Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible, Flint, Matt Helm, The Avengers, Alias, Danger Man and Get Smart. Also a feature on James Bond in Spectre.