No, this has nothing to do with getting dodgy broadband or a really small car. I got an email today from someone saying ‘Good Thinking 99’ and it sparked off a wave of nostalgia for ‘Get Smart’. I used to love this programme when I was a kid. I think it was on a Saturday morning but I’m not sure. Get Smart was a satire of the secret agent genre and was made in the sixties, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t shown in Ireland until the eighties! The show had two main characters - Maxwell Smart, also known as ‘Agent 86’, played by Don Adams and Agent 99 played by Barbara Feldon. Maxwell Smart was a bumbling secret agent and 99 was his competent sidekick, together they worked for CONTROL (a secret US Government spy agency) against KAOS headed up by the original ‘Mr. Big’. I remember some of the gadgets on the show in particular the shoe phone which was hilarious. Max would be standing around in a trench coat trying to be inconspicuous (and failing miserably) when his shoe would start ringing and he would have to try and answer it discreetly. I also remember the end of the opening credits (or was it the closing credits?) where Max would be in a red phone box and would duck down out of sight just before the music stopped. I wonder if RTE would consider showing repeats of this programme on a Saturday morning again.