Max and 99 must rescue Professor Phineas Pheasant who is being held captive at KAOS headquarters in a cell made of "nuclear glass". Worse, Max needs a new face to be part of the secret rescue plan after letting his photograph be published.
Several significant changes mark Get Smart's defection to CBS: Max now drives an Opel, the opening credits now begin with opening shots of several Washington monuments, Irving Szathmary's theme music is now rescored with a more contemporary feel, and all identifiying lettering is now a sans serif font, which no longer follow Max behind the closing doors in CONTROL but instead zoom at the screen. And would you believe that this is the only season of Get Smart where episode titles are revealed preceding the writing and directing credits during the sub-main titles?
Given Get Smart's new shooting facilities at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California, CBS makes use of production numbers (beginning with the prefix #1645-), which are listed on the end credits throughout this season, primarily documenting the order in which the episodes were filmed.
99 announces her pregnancy in this episode. Upon hearing the news, Max literally runs into a wall.
Max states that he will have his "son" follow in his footsteps. This wish comes true some twenty-five years later in the Get Smart (1995) series.
In a rare callback to a previous episode, Max states that the only thing he can play on the piano is "Chopsticks". He was seen doing just that in Episode #26: "Hubert's Unfinished Symphony".
Max and 99 travel to The Moon to get their briefling from the Chief, who also travels there. Although this is the only time this occurred in the series, Max hints that prior meetings have occurred there over the preceding four years, but the Chief says now successful manned moon landings have occurred, CONTROL won't have it to itself anymore (a reference to both the TV series' debut in 1965, and the real-life Apollo landings).
After the Moon briefing, Max and 99 offer the Chief a ride back to Earth, but he declines saying, "I'm not going that way." Whether this means he had more business on the Moon or was headed to another celestial body is left a mystery.
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The title refers to the culinary dish of the game bird pheasant served under a glass dome.
