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Get Smart

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Get Smart The right show at the right time, Get Smart brilliantly spoofed the spy genre that was all the rage in 1965, with James Bond on the big screen, and such series as Danger Man, The Avengers, The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and I Spy more or less playing it straight on the small screen. Get Smart, on the other hand, had a license to kill…with laughter. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created one of TV's all-time greatest characters, Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 of CONTROL, the super-secret agency vigilantly on alert against the forces of KAOS, an organized crime outfit dedicated to evil.

Smart (Don Adams in his iconic, Emmy-winning role), an American Clouseau, was not stupid. Totally inept as a secret agent, Smart could barely use the gadgetry the agency provided him (including a phone embedded in his shoe). Though all evidence to the contrary, he was, in his own mind, a suave and sophisticated spy, albeit one who would inadvertently lean against a freshly painted wall while shadowing an enemy agent. Get Smart hilariously deglamorized the business of espionage. Agents punch a time clock and dispute vacation time. Cool spy gadgets, such as the infamous Cone of Silence, are prone to malfunction. Agent 99 is Smart's smarter partner, a resourceful agent who later married her bumbling cohort. Smart and Agent 99's boss is a man known only as The Chief. With Get Smart, you will be witness to some of TV's funniest moments, sharpest writing, and expertly-executed physical comedy. And… loving it.

Get Smart

Cast and Characters
  • Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agernt 86
  • Barbara Feldon as Agent 99
  • Edward Platt as Thaddeus, The Chief
  • Robert Karvelas as Larabee (1967-1970)
  • Bernie Kopell as Conrad Siegfried (1966-1969)
  • Dave Ketchum as Agent 13 (1966-1977)
  • Stacy Keach as Carlson (1966-197)
  • King Moody as Starker (1966-1969)
  • Victor French as Agent 44 (1965-1970)
  • Jane Julo as 99's Mother (1968-1969)
  • Dick Gautier as Hymie, the CONTROL robot

Broadcast History, Episode Guide & TV Schedule
First Telecast: September 18, 1965
Last Telecast: September 11, 1970
View the Get Smart Episode Guide
Number of Seasons: 5
Number of Episodes: 138
Original Network: NBC, CBS
Original Primetime TV Schedule:
  • September 1965- September 1968, NBC, Saturday 8:30-9:00pm
  • September 1968- September 1969, NBC, Saturday 8:00-8:30pm
  • September 1969- February 1970, CBS, Friday 7:30-8:00pm
  • April 1970- September 1970, CBS, Friday 7:30-8:00pm

Theme Song Lyrics and Opening Credits

Theme by Irving Szathmary

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Get Smart DVDs
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4
Season 5 View all Get Smart DVDs, books, merchandise and collectibles from Amazon.com



 


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