Get Smart

Farewell, Maxwell Smart

September 27, 2005 11:50 AM PDT
Don Adams, who as TV's Maxwell Smart lampooned spies, spy movies and an earlier generation of technology, has died at age 82.

Well before the era of the cell phone, Smart--also known as Agent 86 in the "Get Smart" series--was renowned for the portable telephone built into his shoe. In keeping with the state of the art at the time, the gadget had a rotary dial. Secure communications were also much on the mind of the fictional spies, and another notable technology from the show was the "cone of silence," the plexiglas equivalent of two tin cans connected by a wire. The device has long been surpassed by more sophisticated technology, but the phrase has become part of everyday language.

Besides his work on television, Adams was a stand-up comic and served in the Marines Corps in World War II (where he survived a bullet wound and disease on Guadalcanal, according to the New York Times). He won three Emmys for his comic role in "Get Smart," which ran from 1965 to 1970, and in the 1980s provided the voice for the title character in the animated series "Inspector Gadget."

 

I already posted it. Ten days ago! would you believe it? Ten days ago! (Squawkers: I find that hard to believe). How about 5 days ago? (Squawkers: I don't think so). Last night?

'Sorry about that'.

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120291

Or, as Smart would say, you 'missed it by that much!'

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I must have been out trying to answer the shoe phone

Date of birth (location)
13 April 1923
New York, New York, USA Date of death (details)
25 September 2005
Beverly Hills, California, USA. (pulmonary infection) Mini biography
American comic actor and comedian who gained worldwide fame and three... (show more)
Filmography as:
Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Greatest Gadgets (1999) (V) .... Inspector Gadget (segments "The Capeman Cometh", "Prince of the Gypsies", and "Gadget's Gadgets")

1. Inspector Gadget (1999) (voice) .... Brain
2. "Gadget Boy's Adventures In History" (1998) TV Series (voice) .... Gadget Boy
3. "Pepper Ann" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Principal Hickey
   ... aka Disney's Pepper Ann
4. "Inspector Gadget's Field Trips" (1996) TV Series (voice) .... Inspector Gadget
5. "Gadget Boy and Heather" (1995) TV Series (voice) .... Gadget Boy
   ... aka Gadget Boy (USA: syndication title)
6. "Get Smart" (1995) TV Series .... Maxwell Smart
   
   
7. Get Smart, Again! (1989) (TV) .... Maxwell Smart
8. Back to the Beach (1987) .... Harbor Master
   ... aka Malibu Beach Girls (USA)
9. The Amazing Adventures of Inspector Gadget (1986) (V) .... Inspector Gadget
10. "Check It Out" (1985) TV Series .... Howard Bannister
11. "Inspector Gadget" (1983) TV Series (voice) .... Inspector Gadget
    ... aka Inspecteur Gadget (France)
12. Jimmy the Kid (1982) .... Harry Walker
13. Murder Can Hurt You (1980) (TV) (voice) .... Narrator
14. The Nude Bomb (1980) .... Maxwell Smart
    ... aka Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb
    ... aka The Return of Maxwell Smart
15. The Love Boat (1976) (TV) .... Donald Richardson
16. Saga of Sonora (1973) (TV)
17. "The Partners" (1971) TV Series .... Det. Lennie Crooke
    
    
18. "The Hollywood Palace" (1964) TV Series .... Guest Host (1969)
19. "Get Smart" (1965) TV Series .... Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 (1965-1970)
20. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) (TV) (voice) (uncredited) .... Comet the Coach
21. "Underdog" (1964) TV Series (voice) .... Tennessee Tuxedo
22. "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales" (1963) TV Series (voice) .... Tennessee Tuxedo
23. "The Bill Dana Show" (1963) TV Series .... Byron Glick

 

Yes, I was the one who called to distract you.

Why of course...The old 'distract the hip forum poster with the call to the shoe phone' trick. (that's the second time you fell for it this month!)

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Maxwell Smart (Don Adams)dead?!!!.........KAOS will be celebrating on that news.

Also Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis) has also recently died.Will there be no one left???.

 

I was so sad to find out Don adams was dead i used to watch that show all the time as wel as i dream of geanie GOTTA LOVE BOTH THOSE SHOWS!

 

This was a great show. I didn't know he passed away. Shame. He was a smart guy. I'll miss him.

 

I had a crush an Agent 99-I can't remember the actress' name at the moment-seems like Feldman was her last name-anyway, I still think she was a real cutie. And the cone of silence and the shoe phone were real classics. Really great show.

 

99 was a great character. She was one of the first feminist type characters on American TV, yet she was never arrogant. She would often give credit to Max for things she figured out herself.

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The 99 character was,of course played by Barbara Feldon who apparently still lives in New York to this day.
She released a book called:'Living Alone & Loving It',in 2003.It has had excellent reviews & is an upbeat guide for single people of all ages.

 

Feldon has done a lot of voice over work. She has a nice silky voice.

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timelife just put out the entire get smart dvd set in the past year. i picked it up a few months ago, and it's tied for 1st with my twilight zone set they really went all out cause there's like 25 dvds at least! and the box mine came in is like that cool telephone booth from the intro to the show

 

it was a great comedy show. Gadgetry is one of the most important elements of the show. It was created to help Smart in his adventures.

 

A secret agent from the 60's tries to save the world weekly from evil organizations.
get smart was such a great show. comedy, action, etc...it had everything.

 

If you like technology and politics, you'll like Get Smart.

That show has become prophetic considering the terror thing today. There was an episode where a Kaos guy was on the TV scaring the public with threats about drying up all the bodies of water in the U.S. It's reminiscent of characters like bin Laden, not to mention the bungled efforts of the government.

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