Here we go with another blast from the TV past from before i was allegedly born. Before the fairly awful Steve Carell version in 2008, Get Smart was a good TV show (i guess it still is).
Get Smart
Aired: 1965-1970
Seasons: 5 (NBC, final season on CBS)
Episodes: 138
Availability on DVD: Complete Series or Season sets 1-5
Get Smart! was a show about the world's best known secret agent, Agent 86 Maxwell Smart. Maxwell Smart was a somewhat bumbling secret agent who seemed to get results (somehow). Maybe the results were aided by his partner Agent 99 (her name was never revealed). Maxwell Smart was usually fighting some evil villain from KAOS - an international organization of evil. They got kind of Norse mythos here: CONTROL = good, KAOS = bad.
Get Smart was notable to me for numerous reasons. The first reason is that Get Smart is probably the most violent comedic series in history. Someone was always getting killed in some standard or creative way - they were spies after all. Secondly, Get Smart was one of the first series i was aware of (chronologically) that made use of frequent catch phrases. Among the notable catch phrases uttered were: "Sorry about that chief" - usually after doing something stupid, "Missed it by that much", "That is the second biggest (deadliest, etc), "Would you believe..." and others. Thirdly, i guess, was the strange technology that Max used (like a shoe phone) or the dreaded Cone of Silence.
After the series ended there was a movie and a made for TV movie that were not as good as the series. Then there was a more recent movie, which i was not a fan of. There was also a short-lived FOX series starring Andy Dick. Don Adams (the guy who played Maxwell Smart) went on to do voice over work (with his distinctive voice) for animated shows like Inspector Gadget and Pepper Ann.
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