''Get Smart'' is an American

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to the original 1965–1970

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sitcom ''

Get Smart ''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, an ...

'' starring

Don Adams Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the television situation comedy ''Ge ...

and

Barbara Feldon Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Anne Hall; March 12, 1933) is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom ''Get Smart''. Early life Feldon was born Barbara ...

reprising their characters of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. The series aired Sunday at 7:30 pm on

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for seven episodes from January 8 to February 19, 1995.

Overview

Maxwell Smart is the Chief of CONTROL, and Agent 99 is a politician. Their bungling son, Zach (

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), one of the twins introduced in the fifth season of the original show, becomes CONTROL's star agent. Zach is teamed with the reluctant Agent 66 (

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) as they try to stop KAOS from controlling the world's economy. Joining Zach and 66 is Trudy (

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), an accident prone spy, and Agent 0, a master of disguise.

Characters

Main

* Maxwell "Max" Smart (

) Chief of spy organization CONTROL *Zachary "Zach" Smart (

) Max's son and the star agent of CONTROL *Agent 66 (

) Zack's partner *

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(

) D.C. Congresswoman *Trudy (

) CONTROL's dimwitted secretary

Recurring

*The KAOS Chairwoman (

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) *Agent 9 (Gabrielle Boni)

Episodes

Production

Conception

The relative success of the 1989 reunion movie ''

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'' eventually prompted the development of a weekly revival of ''Get Smart'', with

and

reprising their characters Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 respectively, with Dave Ketchum also reprising his role of Agent 13 and

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reprising his role as Siegfried. Though Zachary Smart's name was revealed in the FOX revival, his twin sister's name remained unrevealed.

Legacy

With the revival series on Fox, ''Get Smart'' became the first television franchise to air new episodes on each of the current four major American television networks, although several TV shows in the 1940s and 1950s aired on

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, and DuMont. The different versions of ''Get Smart'' did not all feature the original lead cast intact. The first four seasons of the original ''Get Smart'' series aired on NBC, while the fifth and final season aired on CBS. ''

'' aired on ABC.

Ending

The show failed to recapture the spirit of the original, and low ratings with an average of 5 million viewers per episode ranked the series 133rd for 1995. There were no high hopes for the series as

had already moved on to ''

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'', which premiered weeks later in 1995 on NBC.''NewsRadio''
from

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Home media

The complete series was released on DVD on June 3, 2008, by

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in anticipation of the release of the 2008 film ''

'' starring

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References

External links

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