Get Smart

1965-1970
5 seasons
CBS
Action & Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, Family, Science Fiction
TV-G

Maxwell Smart is a bumbling secret agent, assigned by his "Chief" to foil KAOS' latest plans for taking over the world. Invariably, Smart's bumbling detective style lands him in hot water. Lucky for him, his faithful assistant "99" is there to bail him out.

1965-1970
5 seasons
CBS
Action & Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, Family, Science Fiction
TV-G

Peter Robbins, Former Voice of Charlie Brown, Arrested on Five Felony Charges

As Charlie Brown would say, "Oh, brother." Peter Robbins, who voiced the head of the Peanuts gang during the late 1960s, was arrested Monday in San Diego and charged with five felonies, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Robbins, 56, is charged with four felony counts of making a threat to cause death or...

Wed, Jan 23, 2013

Peter Robbins, Former Voice of Charlie Brown, Arrested on Five Felony Charges

Ian Abercrombie, Elaine's Boss on Seinfeld, Dies at 77

Ian Abercrombie, the British stage actor best known as Elaine's boss Mr. Pitt on Seinfeld, has died. He was 77.Abercrombie died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications of kidney failure, according to the Los Angeles Times. He had recently been diagnosed with lymphoma.See other stars we've lostBorn in England, Abercrombie started out as a stage dancer and made his American stage debut in 1955 in a production of Stalag 17 with Jason Robards. After serving in the Army as part of Special Services in Germany, he returned to acting, appearing in numerous plays, TV shows and films before a seven-episode arc on Seinfeld changed his life."Incredibly so," he told CNN in 1998. "I mean, I have been ...

Mon, Jan 30, 2012

Ian Abercrombie, Elaine's Boss on Seinfeld, Dies at 77

Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88

Leonard Stern, a producer, writer and director who helped create The Honeymooners and Mad Libs, died Tuesday of heart failure, Variety reports. He was 88 years old. A New York native, Stern got his start in Hollywood in the '50s writing film screenplays, including Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Jazz Singer and the Jack Lemmon film Three for the Show. His career shifted to TV, and he began writing for The Jackie Gleason Show. Stern went on to...

Wed, Jun 8, 2011

Leonard Stern, Honeymooners and Get Smart Writer, Dies at 88

Steve Carell: How a Daily Show Stringer Grew to Get Smart

Looking at the photos to the right, one could say not much has changed. (And certainly not the haircut.) Yet in just seven short years, Steve Carell has gone from being a bit player on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to a bona fide TV superstar and box-offce draw. As he continues to rule Dunder Mifflin with an iron fist on NBC's The Office, CArell's latest feature foray is as no less than Agent 86 in Warner Brothers new take on Get Smart, which opens Friday. Here's a look at Carell's career. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart * 1999-2004"The cross-promotion they can do is great," Carell says of the NBC/Universal Pictures synergy. "Because if the movie is successful, it will end up helpi

Sat, Aug 4, 2007

Steve Carell: How a Daily Show Stringer Grew to Get Smart

Heroes' Masi Oka Discusses Tripping Time and Getting Smart

The characters on NBC's Heroes will leap forward four months when the show returns Sept. 24 — everyone, that is, except Hiro. The time-tripping fanboy, played by Masi Oka, was suddenly teleported to 1671 Japan in the cliff-hanger of last May's finale. The Season 2 premiere will find him right where we left him, stuck in the middle of a nation of samurai who are about to wage war. TV Guide spoke with the Emmy nominee about tripping time, wooing the Japanese Kelly Clarkson and getting Smart. TV Guide: Immediate danger aside, isn't this Hiro's dream come true? Masi Oka: Mine, too. It's the dream of many Japanese boys. We grow up playing samurai like kids in the U.S. play cowboys. Even the crime procedurals on Japanese TV are set in feudal Japan. TV Guide: Will you spill

Mon, Jul 30, 2007

Heroes' Masi Oka Discusses Tripping Time and Getting Smart

SORRY ABOUT THAT, CHIEF

Don Adams, a three-time Emmy winner for his role as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) on the '60s James Bond-spoofing series Get Smart, died on Sunday of a lung infection. He was 82. Born Donald James Yarmy, Adams dropped out of high school and joined the Marines in 1941. After contracting malaria during the Guadalcanal campaign, he returned to the United States as a drill instructor, where he acquired his distinctive clipped style of speaking — one that would serve him well professionally. In addition to Get Smart, its feature film (The Nude Bomb) and prime-time resurrections, his credits included voicing Tennessee Tuxedo, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's Comet and Inspector Gadget.

Tue, Sep 27, 2005

IN MEMORIAM

Mon, Sep 26, 2005

My sister just called me at ...

Question: My sister just called me at work. She's home sick, watching Get Smart, and wants to know what Agent 99's name was. We know, obviously, that Agent 86's was Maxwell Smart. Was 99's ever stated on the show? I seem to remember Max always calling her 99.Answer: Would you believe it was never revealed? (Sorry, nearly every time I write about Get Smart I have to start off with that famous Maxwell Smart utterance.) Truth is, though, that even Max (Don Adams) knew her only by her CONTROL number despite eventually marrying and fathering a set of twins with his beautiful partner (Barbara Feldon). In one episode, in which 99 quit CONTROL, she said her name was Susan Hilton. By the end of it, however, she admitted that was a false name. She'd merely — sorry, I can't resist — pulled a number on us.

Thu, Sep 8, 2005