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Synopsis
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…
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Trivia about Get Smart
Brooks described the premise for the show that they created in an October 1965 Time magazine article: I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies.
Brooks and Henry proposed the show to ABC, where network executives called it "un-American" and demanded a "lovable dog to give the show more heart", as well as scenes showing Maxwell Smart's mother.
The cast and crew contributed joke and gadget ideas, especially Don Adams, but dialogue was rarely ad-libbed.
An exception is the third-season episode "The Little Black Book".
The result was so successful that the single episode was turned into two parts.
The first four seasons on NBC were filmed at Sunset Bronson Studios, while the final season, shown on CBS, was filmed at CBS Studio Center.
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