"Next stop was NBC, which wanted to build a show around Mr. Adams, a onetime standup comic who was then playing a house detective on “The Bill Dana Show,” about a stereotypical Mexican bellhop named Jose Jimenez. Mr. Adam’s character, Byron Glick, spoke in an officious quack meant as a parody of William Powell in the “Thin Man” movies. The voice was so obnoxious that even Mr. Adams considered dropping it – until Mr. Dana told him that a line that was only sort of funny in Mr. Adams’s normal speaking voice became hilarious when he let fly with the Powell squawk. Mr. Adams plugged in the voice for Maxwell Smart, and it became a comedy classic that he would summon in two other successful shows, the “Tennessee Tuxedo” and “inspector Gadget” cartoons. It wasn’t only the voice that was recycled. When stuck in a tight spot, the Glick character would essay some ridiculous lie, smugly punctuating it with a rhetorical, “Would you believe it?” When the straight man said he found it hard to believe, Glick would progressively scale back the original boast a couple of times. Messrs. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry wrote the gag from the other show into their pilot. “It starts out as a bluff,” the show’s executive producer, Leonard Stern, once explained, “and then he plea bargains.” When Smart thinks he’s going to be executed by Mr. Big, he declares that he is about to be rescued by seven Coast Guard cutters. No one believes him. “Would you believe six?” replies Smart. “ How about two cops in a rowboat?” became a catchphrase of the “Get Smart” series, as did Smart’s oft-deployed apology, “Sorry about that, Chief.”
Emmy nominated episode! Jose gets caught breaking the house rules; he's keeping bunnies in his room. At the zoo, where Jose has gone to give up the bunnies, he meets Mr. Vanoff who's distressed because his wife is taking their baby from him. Jose agrees to let the poor guy hide the baby in his room. It turns out that the baby is a baby elephant. Jose's pals come up with an idea to"Gaslight" Phillips into thinking he's seeing things. It's a mammoth farce! Alsostars Cliff Norton and Maggie Peterson.
Jose and Phillips are at odds again. To make matters worse, Jose's niece is getting married and Phillips denies Jose the use of the Banquet Room. When Jose climbs out a window to rescue a cat, the staff things he's trying to end it all. Jose cleverly uses this error to get his niece a full blown wedding reception.
Crooks staying at the hotel dupe Jose and hotel detective Byron Glick (Don Adams) into delivering a withdraw slip to the bank, but it's really a holdup note. The crooks almost get away with it until the "Dynamic Duo" save the day.
A Classic TV episode. Jose and Byron Glick try to duck out of a blood drive, putting Phillips' 100% contribution record in jepardy. Also stars Maggie Peterson and Charles Lane.
Byron Glick assumes many disguises to trap some thieves who are ripping off the hotel. Jose mischieviously tries to rip a moustache off someone he thinks is Glick. It's not! Phillips apologizes to the man, but soon is looking down the barrell of a British pistol. It's Jose and Glick to the rescue!
Jose learns that his idol, Danny Thomas, will be staying at the hotel. True to form, Jose's well intentioned efforts to move Danny to a better room lands Danny in Jose's basement "suite". All Danny wants is sleep before an important meeting with the network brass so he can pitch a new show, but with Jose around that's impossible. When the executives arrive and Danny describes his nightmare experience with Jose, the executives see a brilliant new show!
Starring:
Bill Dana
Don Adams
Jonathan Harris
Gary Crosby
Maggie Peterson
With Special Guest Appearance By:
Danny Thomas
