Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~25 min/episode
- Length
- 5 seasons · 138 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and 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." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
- spy
- secret mission
- secret organization
- villain
- secret agent
- satire
- agent
- high tech
- top secret
- criminal gang
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jack Cassidy
- Robert Middleton
- Mace Neufeld
- Barney Phillips
- Pete Barbutti
- Dana Elcar
- Sean Kenney
- Mary Frann
- John Hoyt
- Aliza Gur
- Ivor Francis
- Directed
- Nicholas Webster, Norman Abbott, Paul Bogart, Don Adams, Jerry Hopper, Alan Rafkin & 22 more
- Created
- Mel Brooks, Buck Henry
- Written
- Gary Clarke, Chris Hayward, Ronny Pearlman, Keith Fowler, Barry Blitzer, Marvin Worth & 55 more
Production
- Network & studio
- CBS, Talent Associates
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