Get Smart has to be one of my favourite TV series of all times. It had everything. The characters where great, the story lines were funny and serious at the same time. It's a pity they don't make shows like this anymore. This hub is dedicated to Get Smart.

Get Smart was an American comedy television series that satirized the secret agent genre. It aired on the NBC television network 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. The show was quite popular in the mid-1960s and continues to enjoy a cult following to this day.

The series, created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, won seven Emmy Awards and was nominated for an additional fourteen Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards.

Three movie versions were produced years after the end of the NBC/CBS run of the TV series:

* the theatrically released The Nude Bomb also known as The Return of Maxwell Smart or Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb) in 1980

* the made-for-TV Get Smart, Again! in 1989 on ABC

* the 2008 film Get Smart, from Warner Brothers

The relative success of Get Smart, Again! eventually prompted the development of a short lived 1995 weekly series on FOX, also titled Get Smart, with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their characters, as their bumbling son, Zach (Andy Dick), becomes CONTROL's star agent.

With the revival series on Fox, Get Smart became the first television franchise to air new episodes on each of the aformentioned current four major American television networks, although several TV shows in the 1940s and 50s aired on NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont. The different versions of Get Smart did not all feature the original lead cast intact.

The show is often re-run around the world in syndication.

The series centered around bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), also known as Agent 86. His partner is "Agent 99," (Barbara Feldon), whose real name is never revealed; even after Smart married her, he (and everyone else) continued to address her as "99" (or, occasionally, Mrs. Smart). Smart and 99 worked for CONTROL, a secret U.S. Government spy agency based in Washington, D.C. (at 123 Main Street). Together, the pair investigated and opposed various threats to the world while Smart's bumbling caused complications. However, at each story's climax, Smart never failed to save the day, typically thanks to his own dumb luck and 99's competence. Looking on was the long-suffering Chief of CONTROL (played by Edward Platt), who was always addressed as "Chief". Unlike Agent 99, Chief was revealed to have a first name — Thaddeus — on a few occasions.

The nemesis of CONTROL was KAOS, and KAOS's Vice President of Public Relations and Terror, Siegfried (Bernie Kopell), showed up often as Maxwell Smart's opponent, or would-be assassin. Though on opposite sides, Max and Siegfried clicked personally, and spoke fondly of one another—even when trying to kill each other.

Other characters included Hymie the Robot (Dick Gautier), a powerful android who tended to take orders too literally; Agent 13 (Dave Ketchum), who was forever being stationed inside weird places such as mailboxes, washing machines, lockers, and other objects; Agent 44 (Victor French), who regularly suffered the same fate as Agent 13 (The main difference between them being that while Agent 13 grumbled and raged about his situation, 44 would pout and cry) ; Agent Larrabee (Robert Karvelas), the Chief's slow-witted assistant; Shtarker (King Moody), Siegfried's chief henchman; and Fang (Agent K-13), a badly-trained dog working for CONTROL.