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Get Smart

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Get Smart was an American TV comedy series that ran from 1965 until 1970. It satirized the secret agent genre, which was quite popular in the late 1960s. It ran on the NBC television network from 1965 to 1969 and on CBS from 1969 to 1970. Two film versions were produced, the theatrically released The Nude Bomb (aka, The Return of Maxwell Smart, aka Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb) in 1980 and the made-for-TV Get Smart, Again in 1989. In 1995 the Fox Network launched an unsuccessful new series version.

The series, written and created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, won seven Emmy Awards and was nominated for another 14 Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards.

The series starred Don Adams as bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. Barbara Feldon's character had no name; even after Smart married her, he (and everyone else) would always address her as "99." Smart and 99 worked for Control, a secret U.S. Government spy agency. The nemesis of Control was KAOS, headed by a mysterious eastern-European spymaster named Siegfried (Bernie Kopell). Other characters included the Chief of Control, whose first name was once revealed as Thaddeus but who was always addressed as Chief (Ed Platt); Agent 13, who was always disguised as a planter, mailbox, or other object; and Agent Larrabee (Robert Karvelas), the Chief's assistant.

Many taglines and schticks have endured:

"Sorry about that, Chief." "Would you believe..." "Missed it by that much." "Don't tell me .... I asked you not to tell me that." "Max!"

Smart would communicate with Control using a dial telephone concealed in his shoe (a "shoe phone").

Smart would always insist on following the rules and, when in the Chief's office, would insist on speaking under the Cone of Silence (two plastic hemispheres which were electrically lowered on top of Smart and the Chief, and which invariably malfunctioned).

Regular Cast

Recurring Cast
Guest Appearances
Other guest appearances: Byron Morrow, Helen Kleeb, Val Avery, Bill Zuckert, Iris Adrian, Simon Oakland, Philip Pine, Len Lesser, Nestor Paiva, Maurice Marsac, Roger Price, Robert Ellenstein, Roy Engel, Jack Lambert, Byron Foulger, Vaughn Taylor, Tony Lo Bianco, Ted Knight, Jason Wingreen, Vince Howard, James Millhollin, Lee Bergere, Dino Natali, Howard Morton, Vic Tayback, William Boyett, Paul Dooley, Mickey Manners, Johnny Seven, Dick Wilson, Dort Clark, Mickey Deems, Paul Comi, Louis Quinn, Lewis Charles, Ralph Manza, Alex Rocco, Sid Haig, Iggie Wolfington, Mousie Garner, Barry Newman, Robert Easton, James Komack, Eddie Ryder, Larry Gelman, John Byner, Robert DoQui, Regis Philbin, Noam Pitlik, Jamie Farr, Mary Frann, Ivan Bonar, Johnny Silver, Bernard Barrow, Ron Masak, Avery Schreiber, Fred Willard, Dick Latessa, Ivor Francis, Jack DeLeon, Milton Parsons, Barney Phillips, Kathie Browne, Johnny Haymer, John S. Ragin, Henry Brandon, Ned Wertimer, Billy Barty, Danny Dayton, Don Diamond, Stanley Clements, Dana Elcar, John Barbour, Maury Wills, Cliff Norton, Ian Abercrombie, Jonathan Harris, John Zaremba

Also cameo appearances by: Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, Buddy Hackett, Bill Dana, Wally Cox, Danny Thomas, Steve Allen, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Robert Culp, Phyllis Diller, Martin Landau, Richard Deacon

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