Get Smart (1965)

Directed by

James Komack, Gary Nelson, Angelique Pettyjohn, Bruce Bilson

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 138 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 438 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows Maxwell Smart, a bumbling secret agent working for a government spy agency. He and his partner Agent 99 fumble their way through missions, often causing chaos while trying to stop their enemies.

parodiclightheartedsillyfast-pacedplayfulwhimsicalquick-wittedabsurdist

What happens

Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It starred Don Adams, who was also a director on the series, as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today". Brooks described it as "an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy". The show generated a number of popular catchphrases during its run, including "Sorry about that, Chief", "...and loving it", "missed it by that much", and "would you believe...". The show was followed by the films The Nude Bomb, a 1980 theatrical film made without the involvement of Brooks and Henry, and Get Smart, Again!, a 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the series, and a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film adaptation. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at number two on its list of TV's top 10 credits sequences as selected by readers. The show switched networks in 1969 to CBS. It ended its five-season run on May 15, 1970, after 138 episodes. The Museum of Broadcast Communications found the show notable for "broadening the parameters for the presentation of comedy on television". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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