A couple of decades ago I was driving outside Oklahoma City and was passing a yellow Cadillac with the plate 'D Adams'. I glanced at the driver, and he half-saluted, half-waved back. Then he smiled and I cracked up. Max, we need you more than ever.
I'm Leonard Stern's daughter Kate and a friend just sent me this. I can't express how happy i am to have this and to be able to look at it again and again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Kate, You're very, very welcome. I'm so happy you're enjoying this. The only reason I have this account is to share things I love with people of like minds so your comments put an ear to ear smile on my face. This was loaded from an old VHS tape I had and if you would like a DVD copy of it, let me know. It would be no problem. I think you can write me privately. Again, so happy your enjoying this. Mike S.
I used to watch this show and many other sit coms when I was growing up and to this day I can look at almost any situation with a sense of humor. This was one of my favorites. I'm racking my brain trying to find full episodes. Do you know where I can find these episodes? I'd love to start with episode 1 of season 1
Kate, your dad's role fill my childhood with wonderful memories. i am so happy for you that you have found this great tribute to your dad...Love and hugs from Ireland.
To me Barbara Feldon was the most beautiful woman in the world. I see her now...and she still is. Thanks to everyone that was connected with the show. Years of laughs.
It’s similar to the Goodies. I believe England only got a limited run, but we got them on a loop. When they did the reunion tour they were surprised by the reaction they got here as opposed to the lukewarm reception in blighty
I saw Don Adams do a stand up comedy routine in Vegas on vacation back in the late 60's (with the Carpenters also). I was about 15 at the time with 2 younger brothers. All three of us were literally rolling on the floor we were laughing so hard.
I grew up on Get Smart. As soon as I heard the theme song on the TV I would drop everything and run into the living room because I loved the intro so much.
Kiwi here, born in 64, days before one channel tv came along in late 60s, in our house. Yes, raised on max and 99, and when working in the shearing sheds, sheep shearing, if a woman came in the shed, farmers wife etc, to tone down our language, the call in the shed was..... 99!!.the doors at the intro closing and opening cracked us up no end. Thank you max, 99, cast n crew, grateful.
I'm 55 now and got so excited when I saw this on youtube! Get Smart was the best show of my youth. You know, back in "the good old days". Man, I loved that show. Such great memories.
Watching this show as a kid, I couldn't wait to see what would go wrong next with the Cone of Silence. Raise your hand if you remember the Portable Cone of Silence.
My dad was in the US Marines 1st Amphibious Division and made the first landing on Guadalcanal. He also got very sick with malaria and dysentery. He was so sick that after recouping in Australia he was sent back to the States and used as an instructor for the rest of the war. He was sick with malaria for 10 years. I had no idea Don Adams was there also and had a very similar experience to my dad. I faithfully watched Get Smart as a child. It still makes me laugh!
Always a hit no matter when you watch them. They are done in such a manor that can't be repeated today. Everything about this show is excellent. It was a smooth, funny, and sexy show without all the vulgarity. Thanks for bring back a lot of great memories in this video.
I bought the series in DVD and shared it with my ¨sophisticated¨ son when he was 13. He was dying laughing. Some shows are timeless. Bless all the team that made this show so great.
I bought it 10 years ago after my wife passed away. I needed something to laugh at, and started watching it one evening when my 13 year old daughter came in and sat down to watch it with me. We wound up watching it all together. She says it's her favorite sitcom ever, same as me.
I was born in December 68 so growing up in the 70s and 80s had my fill of Get Smart. I still consider it to be the greatest sitcom of all time. And I'm still loving it.
Ed Platt was the perfect straight man. Max would say something stupid and the chief and 99 would look confused but never show any hint that the mission would fail.
I picked my college courses’ schedules depending on what time Get Smart would air, so as not to miss any of it. Get Smart aired 2-3 times per day back in the late 70s in L.A. I would rush home between classes to get my fill of silly comedy and then repeat Maxwell’s lines to friends at school, friends who were also fans. Those were great memories for me. I once again felt that romantic tension 99 felt for 86 while watching this. If I were 86 back then, 99 wouldn’t have had to wait very long.
Restaurant service workers, waiters, and waitresses, used to have an "86" board for menu items no longer available, "86 chicken curry" was a verbal instruction to delete the menu item and the 86 board was for all those deleted items. "86 it" was a verb, and 86 meant deleted. Actors know the restaurant business from work between gigs.
I watched this show starting around the early 70s and since that time, it has been my favorite sitcom and still is til this day... All the actors were perfect for their parts........
Get Smart was one of mu favorite tv shows as a child and remains so to this day. And it holds up well and remains one of the funniest tv sitcoms ever. I watch it nightly on the Decades retro tv channel here in NYC.
Great show loved Don and all the cast. Great writing and actors. They just do not do this kind of heart & soul type of TV show anymore. It is sad we lost The Chief & Max. Such talented actors. This show has brought much happiness & laughter to audiences all over the world.
Great show it was about the only time when I could get my dad to sit down in front of the TV and watch a television show with me that was the Golden Age of television
@@santyclause8034 The Honeymooners was written by my father, Leonard Stern ( among others) and he was also the producer of Get Smart as well as writing many of the episodes. So you have Good taste!
Get Smart, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Andy Griffith Show, I Dream of Jeanie, Green Acres The Odd Couple, Taxi, Barney Miller, All in The Family, Sanford and Son, The Rockford Files etc. so many gems
Usually these TV retrospective shows are full of scandal and in fighting. Its so nice to see the cast of Get Smart fondly remember each other and the show.
@@utubeDaveutube Dave, I totally agree. This upload of such a great classic television series, not only is something to admire but should probably be used as a reference to those cast members that are on some of the television series that are running on well, cable today. Meaning that there is a way for cast members of any television series, that it's okay to be polite, caring and respectful of those around you. It's like everyone tries/fights to have the biggest ego, mixed with an equal amount of how much of an asshole they can be when the cameras stop rolling. As a 10-15 year old, I can still remember watching Get Smart, how funny Don Adams and I could probably win the bet that a majority of the guys my age who watched this show, had a crush on, just as I did, on ''Agent 99'' - Barbara Feldon.....
@@19gregske55 I used to watch Green Acres but now I think it's the lamest thing ever put on TV. It was always Oliver putting up with a bunch of idiots. Beverly Hillbillies obviously was doing something right since it lasted I think 8 years but it's still a show I won't watch anymore. Like Get Smart, a lot of good shows did come from the 60s though.
@@lespaul5628: I appreciate your response. The TV that was produced back then was total concept. Today focus groups can influence television. Reality TV has killed much of the creativity in contemporary programming.
@Diane Newman I wouldn't say the new shows "rely" on special effects, CG just enhances the experience. There are many new shows that don't have any kind of effects like that. ie a Netflix show I'm watching right now, Hell on Wheels. There was definitely a lull in programming there for awhile (80s, 90s) but I think people don't realize that there's a lot of good shows out there now.
@Diane Newman I barely remember Man From Uncle. I guess 59 is too young to remember some of the classics from the 60s, and a lot of them didn't seem to make it to the reruns
Growing up in the 70s and 80s shows like Get Smart - great family fun. Wish kids today had the era we did ! 99 sexy ! Miss this show by that much ! agree ??
The "Gold" years of comedy TV...all of the sitcoms of the 60s were off the charts.. It was part of our childhood and remains in our memories to this day.!!
Not many comedy shows still work 50+ years after they were made. It's a testament to the show and the people responsible for it that makes Get Smart the best American T.V comedy ever.
@@wz0hjd Yeah, some of those were OK. Some I wouldn't watch now! I think Britain had more innovative comedies. Although they had a few duds too. The real test is what the youth of today think of these shows. If they like them, then you can say, they have stood the test of time.
What a national treasure!!! Wholesome, clever, witty with a good helping of slapstick. Every kid I knew watched the show and re-enacted all of the running jokes - the phrases, Don's voice, the dome of silence, the shoe phone. Don and Barbara were the funniest (and sexiest) team since Laurel & Hardy. Top 5 cultural icon.
Coming home from school in the 80’s in Australia and there was a steady diet of Get Smart, Gilligan’s Island, I dream of Genie, The flinstones, Original Star Trek and a slew of other 60’s classics. Only 3-4 channels (not sure when SBS cams along) and all that good TV. A few hundred channels now and I struggle to find anything to watch so end up here on UA-cam instead watching this...lol
My son practices chromatic scales and such, and they sound like the Get Smart theme. When he plays them and I'm around, I start singing the melody. He's watched episodes on UA-cam so he gets it, and we have a good laugh.
i was an extra and in the opening scene where his red Sunbeam Tiger comes around the corner. 3 people walk out of the shadows as the car rounds the turn. Im the closest child to the camera with a hat on. As a first grader, it was a thrill each week when it came on.
I have all five seasons on DVD. It was very funny when I was younger, but I now look at the show as a time capsule. The fashions, hairstyles, the events that happened that they parodied... You can't find that from any themed comedy tv show from the 60s...truly a classic!
I was a teen in the 1970s and always watched reruns of Get Smart. I so wanted to date Barbara Feldon! As 99, she was so loyal and supportive and pleasant to be around. Alas it was never to be! ;-)
By the time I watched get smart, it was reruns on nick at night in the early 90s. I loved get smart and the original batman. Something about the set design and the ridiculousness of it all lured me in and now it feels like nostalgia and makes me feel like a kid again.
I grew up with the show and absolutely loved it. One of the highlights of my childhood was when my Dad met Ed Platt (the Chief) in an elevator in LA and got his autograph for me.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations. I'm Leonard Stern's daughter Kate and a friend just sent me this. I can't express how happy i am to have this and to be able to look at it again and again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!❤🇺🇸🥇
Thank you for posting this. When I was a kid, a million years ago my two favorite shows were Get Smart & Batman! If I did something wrong that annoyed my parents, 'THAT'S IT, NO GET SMART OR BATMAN FOR A WEEK!" I would cry go to my room upstairs, cry, and then sneak down those old stairs to watch it from what I could see from the front entrance sideways, but the creaky stairs almost always gave me away! My Mom made Batman & Robin costumes for me and my older brother, and we would share a bicycle and ride to our neighbors house and throw rocks at them, then bike away! Oh such good times, but not if their kids nailed us first! Today's kids would run away and call the police and whine like Gurly men!
I met Don Adams when I worked at a comedy club in the ticket booth. He had come to see the Second City show in Toronto. I was asked to make sure he wasn’t bothered during the show. A really nice guy - gracious and polite.
i was young kid when Get Smart first aired on TV Enjoyed it very much, Looking back at 60s 70s for kid growing up in California those were Golden Decades
I was lucky enough to meet Don Adams when we worked on a small production together. Knowing in advance that he'd be working with me, I got "the" shoe phone from a prop house and played a little trick on him. He immediately went from low key to full of fun stories about the series. A priceless memory for me.
Gosh....in the covid pandemic 😷 2021, and came across this gem vid! I remember how my parents, dad in particular, got such a great "kick" out of this show.😀 The memories of him smiling and gentle laughs was so nice to see. His work involved a lot of responsibility so he was serious quite a bit. Thank you so much for downloading this. 🇨🇦. 💚
Thank you for this documentary. I am amazed at how much I hear Don Adams channeling William Powell's voice in the show. I was glued to this show as a child of the 60's and loved saying "missed it by this much".
Get Smart & Don Adams & ALL the cast were masters. I'll never get tired of the show - EVER! A true American iconic classic - forever in time. Favorite was always the episodes with the malfunctioning cone of silence. HaHaHaHa!
Any guy 20 or older had a crush on 99 (I was only 11 in 1965 and still thought she was hot) So glad Don Adams gave the interview while he was alive (& I thank him for the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo as well) The Cold War made Hollywood billions of $$$ from the 1940s to the 1980s. Saturday nights were never complete without watching Get Smart. We seldom missed an episode from 1965-68. Hard to believe Don's been gone almost 15 years now.
Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Avengers (only with Diana Rigg) were three of the best shows ever! I got to watch all three series and loved them, and I have the Diana Rigg years of The Avengers on DVD as well. Great times without all the political correctness cancer of today. Just good entertainment period! Funny to finally learn that the CIA actually asked them how they got their ideas! Now that is hilarious! Yes, those three women: Babara Feldon, Barbara Eden and Diana Rigg were women that lots of men, and boys, fell in love with. Good times!
I don't think that was his audition tape. I don't think they had a full orchestra available for a non-musical gig. I think that was footage of him pulling the same stunt on some talk/variety show, like Mike Douglas. But yeah, he has a strong voice, and has a dynamite grip on pitch. He really delivered the goods, as they say.
My Dad was in VietNam while the family stayed in Oklahoma. From his weekly letters, he questioned, "So, why is everyone saying, "Would you believe ..?" As we watched "Get Smart" every week, we realized just how fast that tagline had made it to VietNam.
I was born 20 years after Get Smart (1986), but it has been my favorite show as long as I can remember.
19 "86"? 🤔
You were born for that role!
okay 99 but avoid chaos !
A couple of decades ago I was driving outside Oklahoma City and was passing a yellow Cadillac with the plate 'D Adams'. I glanced at the driver, and he half-saluted, half-waved back. Then he smiled and I cracked up. Max, we need you more than ever.
I'm Leonard Stern's daughter Kate and a friend just sent me this. I can't express how happy i am to have this and to be able to look at it again and again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Kate, You're very, very welcome. I'm so happy you're enjoying this. The only reason I have this account is to share things I love with people of like minds so your comments put an ear to ear smile on my face. This was loaded from an old VHS tape I had and if you would like a DVD copy of it, let me know. It would be no problem. I think you can write me privately. Again, so happy your enjoying this. Mike S.
Hi Kate,
Your father was a very talented man and I am so thankful he decided to do Get Smart!
Gregg Abrams
I used to watch this show and many other sit coms when I was growing up and to this day I can look at almost any situation with a sense of humor. This was one of my favorites. I'm racking my brain trying to find full episodes. Do you know where I can find these episodes? I'd love to start with episode 1 of season 1
Kate, your dad's role fill my childhood with wonderful memories. i am so happy for you that you have found this great tribute to your dad...Love and hugs from Ireland.
I am same GREAT , i also watched ARNOld the pig GREEN ACRES,,,,
To me Barbara Feldon was the most beautiful woman in the world. I see her now...and she still is. Thanks to everyone that was connected with the show. Years of laughs.
We kids in Australia in the 70s grew up on Get Smart I now live in the UK and most people I ask have never heard of Get Smart
the original series was shown here in the 80s i think, i remember it
It’s similar to the Goodies.
I believe England only got a limited run, but we got them on a loop.
When they did the reunion tour they were surprised by the reaction they got here as opposed to the lukewarm reception in blighty
I was living in Melbourne in the early 60s and I was in love with agent 99
I loved watching it in New Zealand in the 70s.
You are asking the wrong people buddy it was on channel 4 at about 6 o'clock in the morning over the weekend.
I saw Don Adams do a stand up comedy routine in Vegas on vacation back in the late 60's (with the Carpenters also). I was about 15 at the time with 2 younger brothers. All three of us were literally rolling on the floor we were laughing so hard.
Lovely post. I loved both Don and The Carpenters, What night it must have been.
I had the album The Detective, which I think was recorded from those shows. You are right, it's one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
The Carpenters were doing comedy!?
Get Smart is still funny as hell even today.
Love this show and still watch it even today...
It's still the best comedy in tv history. Could watch it over and over again
I grew up on Get Smart. As soon as I heard the theme song on the TV I would drop everything and run into the living room because I loved the intro so much.
Been there. Done that.
Me too
Me too! I was in love with 99. I was a teen at the time.
Quite simply the funniest sitcom of all time..Don was brilliant!
I loved the show "Get Smart" so much. Losing Don Adams was such a great loss. Thank you so much for having this video available to watch.
Yes...technology rocks!...the art of digitally remastered 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kiwi here, born in 64, days before one channel tv came along in late 60s, in our house. Yes, raised on max and 99, and when working in the shearing sheds, sheep shearing, if a woman came in the shed, farmers wife etc, to tone down our language, the call in the shed was..... 99!!.the doors at the intro closing and opening cracked us up no end. Thank you max, 99, cast n crew, grateful.
I’m such an addict. Get Smart is my fave show ever. Never gets old. So well done. Thanks for posting
One of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Thanks posting this documentary!
I'm 55 now and got so excited when I saw this on youtube! Get Smart was the best show of my youth. You know, back in "the good old days". Man, I loved that show. Such great memories.
"These are the good ol' days." - Carly Simon
thank u Don Adams for entertaining us. you were an amazing actor. Hollywood will never b the same without u 😢
50+ years later you can still hear Max's catchphrases used. Amazing.
... and loving it!
...would you believe...
@@peterjones4621 No, Mr Jones, I wouldn't... LOL
@@peterjones4621 😉Sorry about that, Chief.
I missed it by that much in golf so many times.
Watching this show as a kid, I couldn't wait to see what would go wrong next with the Cone of Silence. Raise your hand if you remember the Portable Cone of Silence.
It was a family term in our house.
SuperPhilthyrich. "That's the second biggest arrow I've ever seen."
Superphilthyrich. yeah I remember it. Two helmets with a long tube connecting them to each other.
lol, yeah, I always smiled in anticipation when Max insisted on using the cone of silence.
SuperPhilthyrich I raised my hand, but you couldn't see it because it's text!
Loved watching the show in the 60s.
My dad was in the US Marines 1st Amphibious Division and made the first landing on Guadalcanal. He also got very sick with malaria and dysentery. He was so sick that after recouping in Australia he was sent back to the States and used as an instructor for the rest of the war. He was sick with malaria for 10 years. I had no idea Don Adams was there also and had a very similar experience to my dad. I faithfully watched Get Smart as a child. It still makes me laugh!
I didn't know that Addams was a marine til now.
Always a hit no matter when you watch them. They are done in such a manor that can't be repeated today. Everything about this show is excellent. It was a smooth, funny, and sexy show without all the vulgarity. Thanks for bring back a lot of great memories in this video.
It was the 60s, so they were firm about the Television Code at the time. But there was also much humor on it that would be totally unacceptable today.
I bought the series in DVD and shared it with my ¨sophisticated¨ son when he was 13. He was dying laughing. Some shows are timeless. Bless all the team that made this show so great.
So did I and gave a copy to my then 8 & 12 yr old nephews & who binged on it during that snow season. They absolutely loved it.
I bought it 10 years ago after my wife passed away. I needed something to laugh at, and started watching it one evening when my 13 year old daughter came in and sat down to watch it with me. We wound up watching it all together. She says it's her favorite sitcom ever, same as me.
@@bwb48 'Sad for your loss Bruce & that's so sweet that you could share your enjoyment of the series with your daughter. All the best.
Is sophisticated in this case being used in replacement of disabled?
Loved "Get Smart" with all of my heart!
I was born in December 68 so growing up in the 70s and 80s had my fill of Get Smart. I still consider it to be the greatest sitcom of all time. And I'm still loving it.
Ed Platt was the perfect straight man. Max would say something stupid and the chief and 99 would look confused but never show any hint that the mission would fail.
One of the best TV shows of all times they were all great No one could have pulled it
off like Max and 99.
My family watched every episode! We loved Max and 99.❤️❤️❤️
Love that show...loved the opening with the sliding doors and the phone booth....you knew fun was coming....great American comfort TV !!!!
one of the best shows of the 60s.. hysterical...
I picked my college courses’ schedules depending on what time Get Smart would air, so as not to miss any of it. Get Smart aired 2-3 times per day back in the late 70s in L.A. I would rush home between classes to get my fill of silly comedy and then repeat Maxwell’s lines to friends at school, friends who were also fans. Those were great memories for me. I once again felt that romantic tension 99 felt for 86 while watching this. If I were 86 back then, 99 wouldn’t have had to wait very long.
Awesome fun.
Restaurant service workers, waiters, and waitresses, used to have an "86" board for menu items no longer available, "86 chicken curry" was a verbal instruction to delete the menu item and the 86 board was for all those deleted items. "86 it" was a verb, and 86 meant deleted. Actors know the restaurant business from work between gigs.
I just loved that show! Watched the reruns throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s!
Just a part of growing up , watching so much tv as a kid, after school. And loving it.
The opening sequence and music is such a great parody of the spy genre. You can see Mel Brooks’ influence throughout the shows. So funny!!
I watched this show starting around the early 70s and since that time, it has been my favorite sitcom and still is til this day... All the actors were perfect for their parts........
Get Smart was one of mu favorite tv shows as a child and remains so to this day. And it holds up well and remains one of the funniest tv sitcoms ever. I watch it nightly on the Decades retro tv channel here in NYC.
Ioved that show!!
I used to watch it back in the 90's at night.
just absolutely delightful. I miss that era. This series dearly deserves a remastering onto Blu Ray!
Fondest memories of my Dad and I laughing as we watched this sitcom. RIP it up Dad.
Absolutely loved this as a kid...the doors opening, the music, the shoe phone and the silliness.
I was 9 when this show came on in 1965. I still love it
Great show loved Don and all the cast. Great writing and actors. They just do not do this kind of heart & soul type of TV show anymore. It is sad we lost The Chief & Max. Such talented actors. This show has brought much happiness & laughter to audiences all over the world.
We could never replace them, & I surmise, we're not supposed to🤔.
How I loved this show.
Great show it was about the only time when I could get my dad to sit down in front of the TV and watch a television show with me that was the Golden Age of television
I remember watching the show in grade school and cracking up every time I thought of the jokes from it.
Get Smart was an Iconic show that entertained millions. it was one of my childhood's favorite TV shows
fraud
"One of these days, Alice ..to the Moon!" (The Honeymooners)
@@santyclause8034 The Honeymooners was written by my father, Leonard Stern ( among others) and he was also the producer of Get Smart as well as writing many of the episodes. So you have Good taste!
Get Smart is timeless, the comedy is still funny in the 21st century.
It's pure genius. There is not one bad show, one bad character, just flawless.
AND LOVING IT
Got on dvd funniest tv show ever
Would you believe, mine was the 86th like👍🏽
A timeless classic, excellent show!
Man I so loved watching this as a kid. This show totally rocked
Still love it.
That's a sign of good work.
Never gets old.
One of my all-time favorite shows! Great writing and acting!!
I love this but could not get my dad to watch the reruns with me.
I was raised during the greatest times anyone could hope for! Great music of the 60's and 70's and great TV shows like Get Smart!
Get Smart, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, The Addams Family, The Andy Griffith Show, I Dream of Jeanie, Green Acres The Odd Couple, Taxi, Barney Miller, All in The Family, Sanford and Son, The Rockford Files etc. so many gems
Usually these TV retrospective shows are full of scandal and in fighting. Its so nice to see the cast of Get Smart fondly remember each other and the show.
well-said!
@@utubeDaveutube Dave, I totally agree. This upload of such a great classic television series, not only is something to admire but should probably be used as a reference to those cast members that are on some of the television series that are running on well, cable today. Meaning that there is a way for cast members of any television series, that it's okay to be polite, caring and respectful of those around you. It's like everyone tries/fights to have the biggest ego, mixed with an equal amount of how much of an asshole they can be when the cameras stop rolling. As a 10-15 year old, I can still remember watching Get Smart, how funny Don Adams and I could probably win the bet that a majority of the guys my age who watched this show, had a crush on, just as I did, on ''Agent 99'' - Barbara Feldon.....
Also The Honeymooners one they did was great as well as The Munsters documentary.
Still one of the best TV shows ever. If only hollywood was this wholesome and clever today.
"Green Acres" #1
"Get Smart" #2
"Beverley Hillbillies" #3
@@19gregske55 I used to watch Green Acres but now I think it's the lamest thing ever put on TV. It was always Oliver putting up with a bunch of idiots.
Beverly Hillbillies obviously was doing something right since it lasted I think 8 years but it's still a show I won't watch anymore.
Like Get Smart, a lot of good shows did come from the 60s though.
@@lespaul5628: I appreciate your response. The TV that was produced back then was total concept. Today focus groups can influence television. Reality TV has killed much of the creativity in contemporary programming.
@Diane Newman I wouldn't say the new shows "rely" on special effects, CG just enhances the experience.
There are many new shows that don't have any kind of effects like that. ie a Netflix show I'm watching right now, Hell on Wheels.
There was definitely a lull in programming there for awhile (80s, 90s) but I think people don't realize that there's a lot of good shows out there now.
@Diane Newman I barely remember Man From Uncle. I guess 59 is too young to remember some of the classics from the 60s, and a lot of them didn't seem to make it to the reruns
Growing up in the 70s and 80s shows like Get Smart - great family fun. Wish kids today had the era we did ! 99 sexy ! Miss this show by that much ! agree ??
Thank you for this. Get Smart was my favorite comedy, that I still watch to this day. It was nice to see a little behind the scenes.
The "Gold" years of comedy TV...all of the sitcoms of the 60s were off the charts..
It was part of our childhood and remains in our memories to this day.!!
Not many comedy shows still work 50+ years after they were made. It's a testament to the show and the people responsible for it that makes Get Smart the best American T.V comedy ever.
I Love Lucy, Green Acers, Beverly Hillbillies, Dick V. Dyke, Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle, USMC.... Just to name a few.
@@wz0hjd Yeah, some of those were OK. Some I wouldn't watch now! I think Britain had more innovative comedies. Although they had a few duds too. The real test is what the youth of today think of these shows. If they like them, then you can say, they have stood the test of time.
Hogan's Heroes still works comedy-wise after all these years.
I loved this show as a kid growwing up in late 80's.
Thank god for good foreing shows.
What a national treasure!!! Wholesome, clever, witty with a good helping of slapstick. Every kid I knew watched the show and re-enacted all of the running jokes - the phrases, Don's voice, the dome of silence, the shoe phone. Don and Barbara were the funniest (and sexiest) team since Laurel & Hardy. Top 5 cultural icon.
R.I.P Don Adams. Thank you for this show
Coming home from school in the 80’s in Australia and there was a steady diet of Get Smart, Gilligan’s Island, I dream of Genie, The flinstones, Original Star Trek and a slew of other 60’s classics. Only 3-4 channels (not sure when SBS cams along) and all that good TV. A few hundred channels now and I struggle to find anything to watch so end up here on UA-cam instead watching this...lol
Same here in Philadelphia.
Did you develop an American accent?
@@arihoptman7474 No, because we also had Kingswood Country...lol
Same here in Canada mate, exactly the same. That’s friggen cool.
Mee too and Baa Baa Black Sheep. John Wayne, not Justin Bieber were kids heros. And yep. I dreamed of Jeaanie and her bad sister lol
The catchphrases from Get Smart are like the quotes from Shakespeare. They are so perfect for a situation that nothing else comes to mind!
Just hearing that opening theme song makes me chuckle.
My son practices chromatic scales and such, and they sound like the Get Smart theme. When he plays them and I'm around, I start singing the melody. He's watched episodes on UA-cam so he gets it, and we have a good laugh.
Love Inspector Gadget, great series.
Take care, and all the best.
i was an extra and in the opening scene where his red Sunbeam Tiger comes around the corner. 3 people walk out of the shadows as the car rounds the turn. Im the closest child to the camera with a hat on. As a first grader, it was a thrill each week when it came on.
My favorite show. As a child in the early sixties, this was one of my weekly rotations to watch. As an old man, I watch it still.
I have all five seasons on DVD. It was very funny when I was younger, but I now look at the show as a time capsule. The fashions, hairstyles, the events that happened that they parodied... You can't find that from any themed comedy tv show from the 60s...truly a classic!
I was a teen in the 1970s and always watched reruns of Get Smart. I so wanted to date Barbara Feldon! As 99, she was so loyal and supportive and pleasant to be around. Alas it was never to be! ;-)
By the time I watched get smart, it was reruns on nick at night in the early 90s. I loved get smart and the original batman. Something about the set design and the ridiculousness of it all lured me in and now it feels like nostalgia and makes me feel like a kid again.
I grew up with the show and absolutely loved it. One of the highlights of my childhood was when my Dad met Ed Platt (the Chief) in an elevator in LA and got his autograph for me.
Very good job fellows!! Congratulations.
I'm Leonard Stern's daughter Kate and a friend just sent me this. I can't express how happy i am to have this and to be able to look at it again and again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!❤🇺🇸🥇
Thank you for posting this. When I was a kid, a million years ago my two favorite shows were Get Smart & Batman! If I did something wrong that annoyed my parents, 'THAT'S IT, NO GET SMART OR BATMAN FOR A WEEK!" I would cry go to my room upstairs, cry, and then sneak down those old stairs to watch it from what I could see from the front entrance sideways, but the creaky stairs almost always gave me away! My Mom made Batman & Robin costumes for me and my older brother, and we would share a bicycle and ride to our neighbors house and throw rocks at them, then bike away! Oh such good times, but not if their kids nailed us first!
Today's kids would run away and call the police and whine like Gurly men!
I remember the day I was introduced to Get Smart. I thought it was a game show. Boy, was I wrong. I was 11. 32 years later, I still love this show.
I met Don Adams when I worked at a comedy club in the ticket booth. He had come to see the Second City show in Toronto. I was asked to make sure he wasn’t bothered during the show. A really nice guy - gracious and polite.
i was young kid when Get Smart first aired on TV Enjoyed it very much, Looking back at 60s 70s for kid growing up in California those were Golden Decades
I was lucky enough to meet Don Adams when we worked on a small production together. Knowing in advance that he'd be working with me, I got "the" shoe phone from a prop house and played a little trick on him. He immediately went from low key to full of fun stories about the series. A priceless memory for me.
Gosh....in the covid pandemic 😷 2021, and came across this gem vid! I remember how my parents, dad in particular, got such a great "kick" out of this show.😀 The memories of him smiling and gentle laughs was so nice to see. His work involved a lot of responsibility so he was serious quite a bit. Thank you so much for downloading this. 🇨🇦. 💚
Watching this was like going back in time those days are gone but not forgotten lol
Thank you for this documentary. I am amazed at how much I hear Don Adams channeling William Powell's voice in the show. I was glued to this show as a child of the 60's and loved saying "missed it by this much".
I was 13 in 64'. I loved the show. It was and IS a classic.
My friend and I used to hum the theme song to this while walking through the tunnels of Grand Central that lead to the exit at 45th and Madison.
One of the best TV character ever. Zegfreid absolutely best villain ever.
Not "THE CRAW" ?
@@rustykilt exactly! Not the Craw , the CRAW !!
Exactly. the CRAW but We don't shooose here!"
@@Autshot20 JOEY FOREMAN as THE CHINESE DETECTIVE...."we have two possibilities.."..he was as big an idiot as MAX... and together... "AMAZING"..
Absolutely. "one moment pwease".
Get Smart & Don Adams & ALL the cast were masters. I'll never get tired of the show - EVER! A true American iconic classic - forever in time. Favorite was always the episodes with the malfunctioning cone of silence. HaHaHaHa!
I especially love The Chief singing Old Man River here!
So many of the shows from the sixties I still enjoy today.
Yes! I loved Get Smart and Tennessee Tuxedo. When I was in grade school in the mid sixties, we always pretended to have a shoe phone.Great memories!
Awesome.
Fantastic documentary. Brings back so many great memories.
"Missed it by that much"! What a great line! And when Don said it, it was funny.
This was on late night repeats for years in so. cal. Would you believe, great show, great car and great girl.
Any guy 20 or older had a crush on 99 (I was only 11 in 1965 and still thought she was hot) So glad Don Adams gave the interview while he was alive (& I thank him for the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo as well) The Cold War made Hollywood billions of $$$ from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Saturday nights were never complete without watching Get Smart. We seldom missed an episode from 1965-68. Hard to believe Don's been gone almost 15 years now.
Mike Sodl: Thanks for putting this out here. Always great to remember extra-special sources of joy and happiness, as in Don Adams in "Get Smart".
Barbara Feldon, Barbara Eden, and Diana Rigg were just smokin' hot back then...
Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Avengers (only with Diana Rigg) were three of the best shows ever! I got to watch all three series and loved them, and I have the Diana Rigg years of The Avengers on DVD as well. Great times without all the political correctness cancer of today. Just good entertainment period! Funny to finally learn that the CIA actually asked them how they got their ideas! Now that is hilarious! Yes, those three women: Babara Feldon, Barbara Eden and Diana Rigg were women that lots of men, and boys, fell in love with. Good times!
I asked you not to tell me that
@@UncleEarl97 I wish they would bring back the Avengers. My favorite.
You forgot MaryAnn on Gilligan's Island !!!
Yes yes yes
Splendid!!!! What a gift.....for all of us!
Ed Platt singing 'Old Man River' at 15:40 is incredible. This guy knows how to audition.
I don't think that was his audition tape. I don't think they had a full orchestra available for a non-musical gig. I think that was footage of him pulling the same stunt on some talk/variety show, like Mike Douglas. But yeah, he has a strong voice, and has a dynamite grip on pitch. He really delivered the goods, as they say.
Ed was a classically trained bass/baritone.
That was great, loved Get Smart. Funniest show ever
One of my favorite TV shows as a Child..
I LOVE this show.
I was only 12 but I was in love with 99.
My Dad was in VietNam while the family stayed in Oklahoma. From his weekly letters, he questioned, "So, why is everyone saying, "Would you believe ..?" As we watched "Get Smart" every week, we realized just how fast that tagline had made it to VietNam.