Get Smart

Get Smart was an American comedy television series that ran from September 18, 1965 to May 1970, and from January to February 1995. 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, on CBS from 1969 to 1970, and on Fox in 1995, airing a total of 145 episodes.

Spies at work

CONTROL and KAOS didn't seem to be above everyday bureaucracy. KAOS is a Delaware corporation for tax purposes. The Guild of Surviving Control Agents is the union at CONTROL, and Max is their negotiator; he learns from a dying KAOS agent about all the benefits that KAOS agents have for their families as beneficiaries with the Chief in their presence and Max uses that information for his labor talks there and then.

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Other Get Smart productions

Adams again played a bumbling secret agent in the animated series Inspector Gadget and its prequel series Gadget Boy and Heather, which were not related to Get Smart. He also portrayed Maxwell Smart in a series of TV commercials in New Zealand for the Toyota Starlet in the late 1980s and in another series of popular Canadian ones in the late 1990s for a dial-around long distance carrier.

Related Topics:
Animated series - Inspector Gadget - Gadget Boy and Heather - TV commercial - New Zealand - Toyota Starlet - Canadian

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Smart and Agent 99 married near the end of the series, and she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. The short-lived 1995 Fox revival starred Andy Dick as one of the twins, Zachary Smart, who was every bit the bumbler as his father. Despite appearances by Adams and Feldon, the show failed to recapture the spirit of the original.

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A new big-screen version of Get Smart is in production, starring Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart.

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