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Get Smart
Title card from seasons one and two
Genre
  • Satire
  • Sitcom
  • Action adventure
Created by
Directed by
Starring
Theme music composerIrving Szathmary
Country of originUnited States
No.of seasons5
No.of episodes138(list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Camera setupsingle-camera
Running time22–25 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 18, 1965(1965-09-18)–
May 15, 1970(1970-05-15)
Related

Get Smartis an American comedy television series parodying thesecret agent genrethat had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of theJames Bondfilms. It was created byMel BrooksandBuck Henry,and had its television premiere onNBCon September 18, 1965. It starredDon Adams(who was also a director on the series) as agentMaxwell Smart(Agent 86),Barbara Feldonas Agent 99, andEdward Plattas The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request ofDaniel Melnick[1]to capitalize onJames BondandInspector Clouseau,"the two biggest things in the entertainment world today".[2]Brooks described it as "an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy".[3]

The show generated a number of popular catchphrases during its run, including "sorry about that, Chief", "...andlovingit "," missed it bythat much",and" would you believe... ".[4][5]The show was followed by the filmsThe Nude Bomb(a 1980 theatrical film made without the involvement of Brooks and Henry) andGet Smart, Again!(a 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the series), as well as a1995 revival seriesand a2008 film remake.In 2010,TV GuiderankedGet Smart's opening title sequence at number two on its list of TV's top 10 credits sequences as selected by readers.[6]The show switched networks in 1969 toCBS.It ended its five-season run on May 15, 1970, with a total of 138 episodes.

TheMuseum of Broadcast Communicationsfound the show notable for "broadening the parameters for the presentation of comedy on television".[7]

Premise

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The series centers on bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart (Adams)- Agent 86, and his unnamed female partner, Agent 99 (Feldon).[8]They work for CONTROL, a secretU.S. governmentcounterintelligenceagency based inWashington, DC,fighting against KAOS, "the international organization of evil". While Smart always succeeds in thwarting KAOS, his incompetent nature and insistence on doing things "by the book" invariably cause complications.

The enemies, world-takeover plots, and gadgets seen inGet Smartwere a parody of theJames Bondfilm franchise. "Do what they did except just stretch it half an inch", Mel Brooks said of the methods of this TV series.[9]

Production

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Talent Associatescommissioned Mel Brooks and Buck Henry to write a script about a bungling James Bond-like hero.[10]Brooks described the premise for the show that they created in an October 1965Timemagazine article:

I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house likeHazel,I'd set her hair on fire. I wanted to do a crazy, unreal,comic-stripkind of thing about something besides a family. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.[10]

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.[10]Brooks strongly objected to the second suggestion:

They wanted to put a print housecoat on the show. Max was to come home to his mother and explain everything. I hate mothers on shows. Max has no mother. He never had one.[10]

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".Don Ricklesencouraged Adams to misbehave, and he ad-libbed. The result was so successful that the single episode was turned into two parts.[11]

The first four seasons on NBC were filmed atSunset Bronson Studios,while the final season, shown on CBS, was filmed atCBS Studio Center.

Production personnel

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Brooks had little involvement with the series after the first season, but Henry served as story editor through 1967. The crew of the show included:

Characters

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Don Adams, as Maxwell Smart, holding the famousshoe phone

Maxwell "Max" Smart,Agent 86,(Don Adams) is the central character of the series.[13]Despite being a top-secret government agent, he is absurdly clumsy. Yet Smart is also resourceful, skilled in hand-to-hand combat, a proficient marksman, and incredibly lucky; all of this makes him one of CONTROL's top agents.

Brooks decided on Smart's code number, 86, as a reference to theslang term,meaning to forcibly eject someone, such as a patron from a bar or casino.

In 1999,TV Guideranked Maxwell Smart number 19 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.[14]The character appears in every episode (though only briefly in "Ice Station Siegfried", as Don Adams was performing in Las Vegas for two weeks to settle gambling debts).[15]

Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in 1966
Agents 86 and 99 with Fang, a trained CONTROL dog

Agent 99(Barbara Feldon) works alongside 86 and is another one of the top agents at CONTROL. Her actual name is never revealed. In the episode "A Man Called Smart Part 3" (S2 E30), Max calls her Ernestine and she says, "Too bad that's not my name." In another episode, "99 Loses CONTROL" (S3 E19), she uses the name Susan Hilton, but later in the same episode tells Max that it is not her real name. When 99 marries Max in Season 4, Admiral Hargrade snores when the minister says her name, making it inaudible.

Several instances refer to her high level of professionalism; in one episode the Chief says an assignment requires extreme bravery and competence but since 99 isn't available, Max could do it. According to Feldon, 99 is deeply in love with Max and either overlooks or understands his quirks, while he is clueless about her affection yet often demonstrates his care through his concern for her well being.

The Chief(Edward Platt) is the head of CONTROL. His first name is revealed to be Thaddeus but his surname is never revealed. On some occasions he uses the "code name" "Harold Clark" for outsiders, but this is understood among CONTROL agents not to be his real name. He is supportive of Agents 86 and 99 and considers them to be his two closest friends, but he is often frustrated with Smart. When he was a field agent, his code name was "Q."

Agent Larabee(Robert Karvelas,Don Adams' cousin) is the Chief's assistant, even more slow-witted and incompetent than Max.

Ludwig Von Siegfried(Bernie Kopell) is a recurring villain, and the vice president in charge of public relations and terror at KAOS,[16]though his title does vary. Despite his gruff and proper demeanor, he is as incompetent as Max.

Starker(Often pronounced by Siegfried asShtarker)(King Moody) is Siegfried's equally ruthless but often inept chief henchman, prone to silly behaviors which annoy his boss as unbecoming of KAOS.

Hymie the Robot(Dick Gautier) is ahumanoid robotbuilt by KAOS, but in his first mission, Smart manages to turn him to the side of CONTROL. Hymie had a tendency to take instructions too literally.

Agent 13(David Ketchum) is an agent who is usually stationed inside unlikely, sometimes impossibly small or unlucky places, such ascigarette machines,washing machines, lockers, trash cans, or fire hydrants. He tends to resent his assignments.

Agent 44(Victor French) Six episodes (1965–66). French's first role was the insurance man in "Too Many Chiefs", and subsequent episodes as Agent 44. He is the predecessor to Agent 13 in season 1. Agent 13 takes over the function of Agent 44 for seasons 2 to 4, but Agent 44, now played byAl Molinaro,returns in season 5.

Carlson(Stacy Keach Sr.) is a CONTROL scientist and inventor of such gadgets as an umbrella rifle (with a high-speed camera in the handle) and edible buttons.

Dr. Steele(Ellen Weston) is a beautiful, sexy, and brilliant CONTROL scientist who develops formulas while undercover as a dancer and strip-tease artist. She remains oblivious to Smart's clearly discomfited attraction to her. The character appeared in three episodes in season 3, replaced the next season by Dr. Simon who has the same cover (played by different actresses in two episodes).

Production notes

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Gadgets

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InGet Smart,telephones are concealed in over 50 objects, including a necktie, comb, watch, and a clock. A recurring gag is Max's shoe phone (an idea from Brooks). To use or answer it, he has to take off his shoe. Several variations on the shoe phone were used. In "I Shot 86 Today" (season four), his shoe phone is disguised as a golf shoe, complete with cleats, developed by the attractive armorer Dr. Simon. Smart's shoes sometimes contain other devices housed in the heels: an explosive pellet, a smoke bomb, compressed air capsules that propelled the wearer off the ground, and a suicide pill (which Max believes is for the enemy).

Agent 99 had her concealed telephones, as well. She had one in her makeup compact, and also one in her fingernail. To use this last device, she would pretend to bite her nail nervously, while actually talking on her "nail phone".

On February 17, 2002, the prop shoe phone was included in a display titled "Spies: Secrets from the CIA, KGB, and Hollywood", a collection of real and fictional spy gear that exhibited at theRonald Reagan Presidential LibraryinSimi Valley, California.Flinders Universityin South Australia has researched medical applications for shoe phone technology after being inspired by the show.[17]

Gag phones also appear in other guises. In the episode "Too Many Chiefs" (season one), Max tells Tanya, the KAOS informer whom he is protecting, that if anyone breaks in, to pick up the house phone, dial 1-1-7, and press the trigger on the handset, which converts it to a gun. The phone-gun is only used that once, but Max once carried a gun-phone, a revolver with a rotary dial built into the cylinder. In the episode "Satan Place", Max simultaneously holds conversations on seven different phones: the shoe, his tie, his belt, his wallet, a garter, a handkerchief, and a pair of eyeglasses. Other unusual locations include a garden hose, a car cigarette lighter (with the lighter being hidden in the car phone), a bottle of perfume (Max complains of smelling like a woman), the steering wheel of his car, a painting of Agent 99, the headboard of his bed, a cheese sandwich, lab test tubes (Max grabs the wrong one and splashes himself), aBunsen burner(Max puts out the flame anytime he pronounces a "p" ), a plant in a planter beside the real working phone (operated by the dial of the working phone), and insideanotherfull-sized working phone.

Other gadgets include a bullet-proof invisible wall in Max's apartment that lowers from the ceiling, into which Max and others often walk; a camera hidden in a bowl of soup (cream ofTechnicolor) that takes a picture (with a conspicuous flash) of the person eating the soup with each spoonful; a mini magnet on a belt, which turns out to be stronger than KAOS's maxi magnet; and a powerful miniature laser weapon in the button of a sports jacket (the "laser blazer" ).

Another of the show's recurring gags is the "Cone of Silence".Smart would often insist on strictly following CONTROL's security protocols; when discussing highly confidential things in the chief's office, he would insist on speaking under the Cone of Silence—two transparent plastic hemispheres which are electrically lowered on top of Max and Chief and are supposed to prevent their conversation from being heard outside. It invariably malfunctions in various ways, making it difficult for the two to communicate. People outside the cone could often hear them better than they could hear themselves. The Cone of Silence was the idea of Buck Henry, though it was preceded in an episode of the syndicated television showScience Fiction Theatretitled "Barrier of Silence", written by Lou Huston, that first aired on September 3, 1955, 10 years ahead ofGet Smart.[18]

Cars

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1965Sunbeam Tiger

The car that Smart is seen driving most frequently is a red 1965Sunbeam Tigertwo-seat roadster.[19]This car had various custom features, such as a machine gun, smoke screen, radar tracking, and anejection seat.TheSunbeam Alpine,upon which the Tiger was based, was used by customizerGene Winfieldbecause the Alpine's four-cylinder engine afforded more room under the hood than the V8 in the Tiger.[20][21]AMT,Winfield's employer, made a model kit of the Tiger, complete with hidden weapons. It is the only kit of the Tiger, and has been reissued multiple times as a stock Tiger.

Adams received the Sunbeam and drove it for 10 years after the end of the show. It was wrecked and repaired several times, and its current whereabouts are unknown.[22]

In the black-and-white pilot episode only, Smart drives a 1961Ferrari 250GT PF Spider Cabriolet.[23]

In the opening credits, the Tiger was used for seasons one and two. In seasons three and four, Smart drives a light blueVolkswagen Karmann Ghia,becauseVolkswagenhad become a sponsor of the show.[8]The Volkswagen was never used in the body of the show.[24]In season five (1969–1970),Buickbecame a show sponsor,[8]so the Tiger was replaced with a gold 1969Opel GT,which also appears in the body of the show.

Inseason four(1968–1969), Adams uses a yellowCitroën 2CVin the wedding episode "With Love and Twitches", and a blue 1968FordShelby MustangGT500 convertible with a tan interior and four seats (as required by the plot) in the episodes "A Tale of Two Tails" and "The Laser Blazer".

In the short-lived1995 TV series,Smart is trying to sell the Karmann Ghia through the classified ads.

InGet Smart, Again!,Smart is seen driving a red 1986Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce.

The Sunbeam Tiger, the Karmann Ghia, and the Opel GT all make brief appearances in the 2008 film. The Sunbeam Tiger is seen in the CONTROL Museum, along with the original shoe phone, which Smart also briefly uses. The Opel GT is driven by Bernie Kopell and is rear-ended by a truck. Smart steals the Karmann Ghia to continue his escape.

A KAOS agent stops Agent 99.

Notable guest stars

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Get Smartused several familiar character actors and celebrities, and some future stars, inguest roles,including:

BothBill DanaandJonathan Harris,with whom Adams appeared onThe Bill Dana Show,also appeared, as did Adams' father, William Yarmy, brother, Dick Yarmy, and daughter, Caroline Adams.

The series featured severalcameo appearancesby famous actors and comedians, sometimes uncredited and often comedian friends of Adams.Johnny Carsonappeared, credited as "special guest conductor", in "Aboard the Orient Express". Carson returned for an uncredited cameo as a royal footman in the third-season episode "The King Lives?" Other performers to make cameo appearances includedSteve Allen,Milton Berle,Ernest Borgnine,Wally Cox,Robert Culp(as a waiter in an episode sending up Culp'sI Spy),Phyllis Diller,Buddy Hackett,Bob Hope,andMartin Landau.

Actress Rose Michtom (the real-life aunt of the show's executive producer Leonard Stern) appeared in at least 44 episodes—usually as a background extra with no speaking role. In the season-one episode "Too Many Chiefs", when she is shown in a photograph, Max refers to her as "my Aunt Rose", but the Chief corrects Max by saying that she is actually KAOS agent Alexi Sebastian disguised as Max's Aunt Rose.[26]Fans refer to her as "Aunt Rose" in all of her dozens of appearances, though her character is never actually named in most of them.[27]

Broadcast

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Main article:List of Get Smart episodes

The series was broadcast onNBC-TV from September 18, 1965, to September 13, 1969, after which it moved to theCBSnetwork for its final season, running from September 26, 1969, to September 11, 1970, with 138 total episodes produced. During its five-season run,Get Smartbroke the Nielsen Top 30 twice. It ranked at number 12 during its first season, and at number 22 during its second season, before falling out of the top 30 for its last three seasons. The series won sevenEmmy Awards,and it was nominated for another 14 Emmys and twoGolden Globe Awards.In 1995, the series was brieflyresurrectedstarring Adams and Feldon withAndy Dickas Max's and 99's son Zack Smart andElaine Hendrixas 66.

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
130September 18, 1965(1965-09-18)May 7, 1966(1966-05-07)NBC
230September 17, 1966(1966-09-17)April 22, 1967(1967-04-22)
326September 16, 1967(1967-09-16)April 6, 1968(1968-04-06)
426September 21, 1968(1968-09-21)March 29, 1969(1969-03-29)
526September 26, 1969(1969-09-26)May 15, 1970(1970-05-15)CBS

Emmy awards

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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

Adaptations

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Films

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Fourfeature-lengthfilmshave been produced following the end of the NBC/CBS run of the TV series:

In October 2008,[needs update]it was reported that Warner Bros.,Village Roadshow PicturesandMosaic Media Groupwere producing asequel.Carell and Hathaway were set to return, but the status of other cast members had not been announced. As of 2019,Get Smart 2is no longer in development[29][30]

Television

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Get Smart, Again!eventually prompted the development of a short-lived 1995 weekly series onFoxalso titledGet Smart,with Adams and Feldon reprising their characters with Maxwell Smart now being the Chief of Control as their bumbling son, Zach (Andy Dick), becomes Control's star agent (Zach's twin sister is never seen nor mentioned – though the new leader of KAOS, a hidden female figure, would have been revealed as the other twin if the show had continued). And 99 is now a congresswoman. The beginning teaser shows Maxwell Smart and Zach driving to Control headquarters in a car wash separately; Smart, Zach and their secretary cram themselves into a secret elevator: a soda machine which "disappears". (A cleaning lady sits down in the open space when all of a sudden the machine pops up and knocks the woman into the ceiling.) A late episode of the 1995 series shows that just as Siegfried is leaving a room, Maxwell Smart accidentally activates an atomic bomb just before the end of the show. (The teaser for the episode shows an atomic bomb going off.) This ending is similar to a device used by theGet Smart-inspired seriesSledge Hammer!at the end of its first season. Hopes for the series were not high, as Andy Dick had already moved on toNewsRadio,which premiered weeks later in 1995.

With the revival series on Fox,Get Smartbecame the first television franchise to air new episodes (or made-for-TV films) on each of the aforementioned current four major American television networks, although several TV shows in the 1940s and 1950s aired on NBC, CBS, ABC andDuMont.The different versions ofGet Smartdid not all feature the original lead cast.

Get Smartwas parodied on a sketch in the Mexican comedy showDe Nuez en Cuandocalled"Super Agente 3.1486",[31]making fun of the Spanish title of the series (Super Agente 86) and the way the series is dubbed.

An earlyMadTVsketch titled "Get Smarty" placed the Maxwell Smart character in situations from the filmGet Shorty.

An episode ofF Troopcalled "Spy, Counterspy, Counter–counterspy" featuredPat Harrington Jr.imitating Don Adams as secret agent "B. Wise".

The Simpsonsepisode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"parodies the opening ofGet Smartin the couch gag. Homer goes through many futuristic doors and passageways until he reaches the phone booth, falls through the floor, and lands on the couch, with the rest of the family already seated. This couch gag was later repeated in two otherThe Simpsonsepisodes: "The Fat and the Furriest"and"A Star is Torn".

Adams in similar roles

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In the 1960s, Adams had a supporting role on the sitcomThe Bill Dana Show(1963–1965) as the hopelessly inepthotel detectiveByron Glick. His speech mannerisms, catchphrases ( "Would you believe...?" ), and other comedy bits were adapted for his "Maxwell Smart" role inGet Smart.

WhenWCGV-TV,a newindependent stationinMilwaukee, Wisconsin,signed on the air in 1980, Adams did in-house promos as Agent 86 to let viewers know when the reruns ofGet Smartaired on the station by using his shoephone.

In one of Adams' five appearances as a guest passenger in the seriesThe Love Boat,his character, even when he thought he had been shot, makes no attempt to visit the ship's doctor. The role of the doctor inThe Love Boatwas played byBernie Kopell,who played Siegfried inGet Smart.

In 1982, Adams starred as Maxwell Smart in a series of local commercials for New York City electronics chain Savemart. Thesloganwas "Get Smart. Get SaveMart Smart."[32]In addition, Adams starred in a series of commercials forWhite Castlein 1992, paying homage to hisGet Smartcharacter with his catchphrase "Would you believe...?"

In the 1980s, Adams provided the (similar) voice of the titular bungling cyborg secret agent in the animated seriesInspector Gadget.This later became afeature filmin 1999 starringMatthew Broderickin the title role of Inspector John Brown Gadget (in which Adams had a cameo), and its prequel seriesGadget Boy & Heather.Neither was directly related toGet Smart.

In the mid-1980s, Adams reprised his role of Maxwell Smart for a series of telephone banking commercials for Empire of America Federal Savings Bank inBuffalo, New York.The telephone banking service was called SmartLine, and Sherwin Greenberg Productions (a video production company and bank subsidiary) produced radio and television ads, as well as a series of still photos for use in promotional flyers that featured Adams' Maxwell Smart character wearing the familiar trenchcoat and holding a shoe phone to his ear. The television commercials were videotaped in Sherwin Greenberg Productions' studio on a set that resembled an old alleyway which utilized fog-making machinery for special effect. The production company even secured a lookalike of the red Alpine that Adams used in the television series, making it a memorable promotion for those familiar with the series of nearly 20 years earlier.

In the late 1980s, Adams portrayed Smart in a series of TV commercials for Toyota New Zealand, for the 1990 model Toyota Starlet. While it is customary for the actor to go to the foreign location for shooting, Adams' apparent intense dislike of long-distance flying meant that the New Zealand specification car had to be shipped to the US for filming. He also appeared in another series of Canadian commercials in the late 1990s for adial-around long-distance carrier.In the movieBack to the Beach(1987), Adams played the Harbor Master, who used several of Maxwell Smart's catchphrases (including an exchange in whichFrankie Avalon's character did a vague impression of Siegfried).

Adams played Smart in a 1989 TV commercial forKmart.He was seen talking on his trademark shoe phone, telling the Chief about the great selection of electronics available at Kmart. An exact replica of himself approaches him, and Smart says, "Don't tell me you're a double agent." (This was a reference to a running gag on the original series, in which Max detected some sort of setback or danger, and would say to 99, "Don't tell me..." and then 99 replied by stating a confirmation of whatever Max was afraid to hear, to which Max would always respond, "Iaskedyou not to tell me that! ")

Adams also appeared in a number of McDonald's Hamburger Restaurant television commercials, which also featured numerous stars of TV series viewed as classic or with nostalgia, such asBarbara BillingsleyfromLeave It to Beaver,Buddy EbsenfromThe Beverly Hillbillies,Bob DenverfromGilligan's IslandandAl LewisfromThe Munsters.

Adams also starred in a Canadian sitcom titledCheck It Outin which he played a supermarket manager. Adams' running jokes inGet Smart,such as "the old [something something] trick" and "I told you not to tell me that!" were used in the show but in a supermarket setting.

Books and comics

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A series of novels based on characters and dialog of the series was written byWilliam Johnstonand published by Tempo Books in the late 1960s.Dell Comicspublished a comic book for eight issues during 1966 and 1967, drawn in part bySteve Ditko.

Proposed movies

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The 1966Batmanmovie, made during that TV show's original run, prompted other television shows to propose similar films. The only one completed wasMunster Go Home(1966), which was a box office flop, causing the cancellation of other projects, including theGet Smartmovie. The script for that movie was turned into a three-part episode, "A Man Called Smart", which aired on April 8, 15 and 22, 1967.[33]

During the 1980s, Dick Gautier was set to star in a Hymie the Robot Spin-off film to be made for TV. Following Hymie being recalled and then refurbished by the government. The film was never produced due to legal issues surrounding the ownership of Get Smart.[34]

Play

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Christopher Sergel adapted a play in 1967,Get Smart,based on Brooks's and Henry's pilot episode.[35]

Home media and rights

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All five seasons are available as box sets inregion 1(USA, Canada, and others) and Region 4 (Australia, New Zealand, and others). The region 1 discs are published byHBO Home Video,and region 4 byTime Life Video.Each region 1 box contains 4 discs, while region 4 editions have a 5th disc with bonus material. Region 4 editions are also available as individual discs with four to five episodes per disc. The season 1 set was released in both regions in 2008. Seasons 2 and 3 box sets were released in region 4 on July 23, 2008. Seasons 4 and 5 were released in region 4 on November 5, 2008. Seasons 2, 3, 4 and 5 in region 1 were released throughout 2009.

Another box set of the complete series is available in both regions, first published in 2006 by Time Life Video. In 2009 the region 1 edition was replaced by an HBO edition, and became more widely available.[36]All editions contain a 5th disc for each season, with bonus material. The set has 25 discs altogether.

The first four seasons were produced for NBC by Talent Associates. When it moved to CBS at the start of season five, it became an in-house production, with Talent Associates as a silent partner. The series was sold to NBC Films for syndication.

Over decades, US distribution has changed fromNational Telefilm AssociatestoRepublic Pictures,toWorldvision Enterprises,toParamount Domestic Television,toCBS Paramount Domestic Television,toCBS Television Distribution,to the current distributor,CBS Media Ventures.For decades, the syndication rights of all but a handful of the fifth-season episodes (that season being originally co-owned by Talent Associates and CBS) were encumbered with restrictions and reporting requirements;[specify]as a result, most of that season was rarely seen in syndication (though they were shown with more regularity onNick at NiteandTV Land). The distribution changes (including the loosening of restrictions on the fifth season) were the result of corporate changes, especially the 2006 split of Viacom (owners of Paramount Pictures) into two companies.

HBOowns the copyrights to the series itself, due to Time-Life Films' 1977 acquisition of Talent Associates. Home videos are distributed by HBO Home Video. For a time the DVD release was only available through Time-Life (a former Time Warner division).Warner Bros. Televisionowns international distribution rights.

On August 10, 2015, the entire series was officially released on digital streaming platforms for the first time in preparation for its 50th anniversary.[37][38]

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