Get Smart
Year Category Recipient
1967 Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Don Adams
1967 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Buck Henry , Leonard Stern
1968 Outstanding Comedy Series Burt Nodella , producer
1968 Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Don Adams
1968 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Bruce Bilson
1969 Outstanding Comedy Series Burt Nodella
1969 Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Don Adams
Emmy awards
Get Smart is an American comedy television series which parodies the secret agent genre that was popular in the United States in the late 1960s. The program was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. The show stars Don Adams (who also worked as a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus the Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, the two biggest things in the entertainment world today. Brooks described it as an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy. The show generated a number of popular catchphrases during its run, including would you believe…, missed it by that much, sorry about that, Chief, the old (such-and-such) trick, …and loving it, and I asked you not to tell me that. The show was followed by the films The Nude Bomb (a 1980 theatrical film made without the involvement of Brooks and Henry) and Get Smart, Again! (a 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the series), as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at number two on its list of TV's top 10 credits sequences as selected by readers. The show switched networks in 1969 to CBS. It ended its five-season run on May 15, 1970 with 138 episodes on both networks. The Museum of Broadcast Communications finds the show notable for broadening the parameters for the presentation of comedy on television.