Get Smart 

Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.

Creators:

Mel Brooks, Buck Henry

Stars:

Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 11 wins & 11 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart / ... 138 episodes, 1965-1970
Barbara Feldon	...	#99 / ... 138 episodes, 1965-1970
Edward Platt	...	Chief / ... 137 episodes, 1965-1970
Robert Karvelas	...	Larabee / ... 52 episodes, 1965-1970

Storyline

Maxwell Smart is a bumbling secret agent, assigned by his "Chief" to foil KAOS' latest plans for taking over the world. Invariably, Smart's bumbling detective style lands him in hot water. Lucky for him, his faithful assistant "99" is there to bail him out.

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Plot Keywords:

secret agent | two word series title | 1970s | camp | campy | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-G

Did You Know?

Trivia

Edward Platt suffered from chronic back pain, which is the reason why he does not appear in a few episodes, and why, in some episodes, is only seen sitting down.

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Goofs

In the closing credit sequence, one of the double doors fails to merge completely when it closes.

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Quotes

Maxwell Smart: [running gag, after being warned by the Chief that his next assignment will be the most dangerous yet] ... And loving it!

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Crazy Credits

The opening credits are a sequence of Maxwell Smart going through a seemingly endless series of doors to reach CONTROL headquarters.

The closing credits are of Smart leaving CONTROL through the same doors, but he changes his mind about leaving and starts back toward the CONTROL entrance. The door nearest Smart closes and injures his nose.

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Connections

Referenced in In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (1995)

User Reviews

Get Smart was the BEST!

Its writers/creators included Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.

'Nuff said.

But, since IMDb won't let me get away with saying just that, I'll just have to write more.

How can you go wrong with something by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry? It's obvious that the actors are thoroughly enjoying themselves in this show, and this enthusiasm was infectious. I was a very little girl in 1965, and I used to sit up with my father to watch TV after dinner and the nightly installment of whatever book he was reading to us. We sat together and watched Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy, among others, all of which are now considered classics. Why? Because, while the shows themselves were very topical (Get Smart was about the Cold War - as is Bullwinkle -- and Hogan and McHale fought in WWII which had ended barely 20 years earlier), the humor itself did not rely on specific current events. They were just out-and-out funny.

They still are.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 September 1965 (USA)

Also Known As:

Get Smart

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Talent Associates, CBS Television Network

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min (138 episodes)

Color:

Color (137 episodes) Black and White (pilot episode)