Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.
- Won 7 Primetime Emmys
- 11 wins & 13 nominations total
Browse episodes
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Don Adams was negotiating his salary, he had his choice between more money per week and no ownership stake in the show, or less money per week and part ownership. Adams chose the ownership deal and never regretted it considering the series' durable popularity in syndication gave him a regular income even as he struggled with being typecast by it.
- GoofsIn the closing credit sequence, one of the double doors fails to merge completely when it closes.
- Quotes
Maxwell Smart: [running gag, after being warned by the Chief that his next assignment will be the most dangerous yet] ... And loving it!
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are a sequence of Maxwell Smart going through a seemingly endless series of doors to reach CONTROL headquarters.
The closing credits are of Smart leaving CONTROL through the same doors, but he changes his mind about leaving and starts back toward the CONTROL entrance. The door nearest Smart closes and injures his nose.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Secret Agent's Dilemma, or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari (1965)
Featured review
Sheer comedy brilliance
Get Smart stands as the single most brilliant television comedy EVER. Before Hot Shots!, before Frank Drebin, before Airplane!, before Kentucky Fried Movie, before Young Frankenstein, and before Blazing Saddles, there was Get Smart, the creation of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. This show, which would go on to inspire Police Squad!, arguably the second most brilliant television comedy ever, presented in Maxwell Smart the most completely asanine leading man thus far in television history, and as a result provided for more stupid jokes than ever before. Perhaps the first moment in television where comedy did not require a laugh track (though it did USE one, it would have flown fine without one), this show would inspire nearly every film by Mel Brooks and Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. Can we really imagine Hedley Lamaar from Blazing Saddles without Maxwell Smart having preceded him? Can we really imagine Frank Drebin without Maxwell Smart having preceded him? The answer to these questions MUST be "no." Get Smart was a rare moment in television comedy history, and it has given us a truly rich comedic tradition ever since. Thank you, Buck, Don, and Barbara!
helpful•393
- paulgonsalves
- Apr 16, 2001
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Mini-Max oder die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Maxwell Smart
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime25 minutes
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content