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Get Smart TV Show Overview
Get Smart is an
American television comedy series that satirized the secret
agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show
starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, "Agent 86", and Barbara
Feldon as "Agent 99" of CONTROL, a secret American
government counter-espionage agency. Henry said the creation
of this show came from a request by Daniel Melnick (partner,
with David Susskind, of the show's production company,
Talent Associates) to capitalize on "the two biggest things
in the entertainment world today" - James Bond and Inspector
Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James
Bond and Mel Brooks comedy."
The Get Smart television series show was broadcast on NBC from September 18,
1965, to April 12, 1969, after which it moved to CBS for
its final season, running from September 26, 1969, to
September 11, 1970. A total of 138 episodes were broadcast,
which are often rerun around the world in syndication. The
Get Smart series won seven Emmy Awards, and it was nominated for
another fourteen Emmys, as well as two Golden Globe Awards.
In 1995, the Get Smart TV series was briefly restarted, starring Adams
and Feldon, with Andy Dick as Max's and 99's son.
Four feature-length movie versions of the "Get Smart" idea
have been produced: first, with part of the original cast in
1980's The Nude Bomb, then in a 1989 ABC TV Movie, Get
Smart, Again!, and most recently, in a new film adaptation
starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson and
Alan Arkin in 2008, which then spawned a spin-off film, Get
Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control.
Get Smart Television Series Season Episodes on DVD
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Get Smart - Season 1 (The
Original TV Series) on DVD (1965)
Amazon.com DVD Review - The feature film may
have missed it by that much, but Get Smart,
the TV series, still hits the target with deadly
funny accuracy. 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, < I>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. Smart (Don Adams
in his iconic, Emmy-winning role), an American
Clouseau, was not stupid. 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. One running joke
throughout the first season finds Agent 44 (Victor
French) perched in a variety of unlikely and
uncomfortable hiding places, among them a
grandfather clock. Although the series would only
get smarter and funnier in subsequent seasons
(Bernie Kopell's KAOS mastermind Siegfried would be
introduced in season two), the first season contains
several essential episodes, including the
Emmy-winning two-parter, "Ship of Spies," "Aboard
the Orient Express," featuring a cameo by Johnny
Carson as an unflappable conductor, "Diplomat's
Daughter" with the arch --and decidedly non-PC--
villain, the Craw, and "Back to the Drawing Board,"
featuring Dick Gautier as Hymie the robot. From
"Sorry about that" to "Would you believe," no show
before Get Smart introduced so many
catchphrases into the national language, while Smart
and his partner, Agent 99 (the ravishing Barbara
Feldon), were perhaps TV's first "will they or won't
they" couple. Brooks and Henry contribute separate
commentaries for the black and white pilot episode,
while Feldon provides commentary for another, and
purrs introductions to each episode (beware plot
spoilers). With Get Smart, you will be
witness to some of TV's funniest moments, sharpest
writing, and expertly-executed physical comedy. And…
loving it. - Review by Donald Liebenson |
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Get Smart: Season 2 on DVD (2009)
Maxwell
Smart is back...And Loving it! And so is Agent 99,
The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get
Smart gang. Here is the legendary, Emmy
Award-winning spy-spoof series inspired by the comic
genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, digitally
restored, remastered and brought to you by HBO Home
Entertainment. The madcap misadventures only get
funnier in Season 2 as Max and 99 pursue their
elusive KAOS adversaries around the world from
Greenland to the scorching sands of the Sahara
desert- and come face-to-face with their dastardly
foes…in a Bedoin tent…at the stylish "Pussycat
Club"…and deep beneath the eaves in a secret KOAS
submarine. This classically funny 4- DVD set
collects all 30 episodes from the hit second season
of Get Smart , including the hilarious spy parody "Bronzefinger,"
and the three-part comic masterpiece, "A Man Called
Smart." |
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Get Smart: Season 3 on DVD (2009)
Maxwell
Smart is back...And Loving it! And so is Agent 99,
The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get
Smart gang. Here is the legendary, Emmy
Award-winning spy-spoof series inspired by the comic
genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, digitally
restored, remastered and brought to you on DVD. Get
Smarts unforgettable third season is a must-own
collection of quintessential television comedy, from
its very first episode- in which Max and 99 face
down the KAOS “League of Imposters”- to the
hilarious hippie send up “The Groovy Guru”, voted
one of the 100 best TV episodes of all time. Now you
can join the agents of CONTROL in 26 classic
episodes on 4 DVDs, including the Emmy-Award winning
episode “Maxwell Smart: Private Eye”, and featuring
guest appearances from Joey Bishop, Carol Burnett,
Johnny Carson, Don Rickles and many others. |
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Get Smart: Season 4 on DVD (2009)
Get Smart,
the Original Television Series on DVD. |
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Get
Smart - The Complete Series Gift Set on DVD
Maxwell
Smart is back... And loving it! And so is Agent 99,
The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get
Smart gang. Here is the legendary, Emmy
Award-winning spy-spoof series inspired by the comic
genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, digitally
restored, remastered and brought to you for the
first time on DVD. Now it's easier than ever to
out-smart the world's least secret...secret agent,
in this cunningly funny 25-DVD collection, featuring
all 138 original episodes of Get Smart! This Get
Smart Gift set is a must-have collector's item!
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