Before there was Austin Powers, there was Get Smart. In the fall of 1965, at the height of the cold war and on the heels of the highly successful introduction of James Bond on the big screen in 1964, Get Smart first appeared on NBC, (CBS picked the show up in 1969 and ran it until 1971). Get Smart was the creation of Buck Henry and comedy legend Mel Brooks. Set in Washington, D. C. , Get Smart featured the escapades of an inept, underpaid, overzealous spy: Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 (played by Don Adams), his boss (The Chief) played by Edward Platt, and his secret-agent partner and later wife (Agent 99) played by Barbara Feldon and a host of other agents both good and evil. In order to give the agents of CONTROL (Smart and 99), a series of worthy opponents, KAOS was created, featuring villains with names like Mr. Big, The Claw, and Siegfried. In 1995, Rupert Murdoch&'s FOX network attempted to bring the series back with some changes; Max as the Chief, 99 as a Congresswoman, and the Smart twins were now inexplicably only one child. Unfortunately, the sequal did not take off and was cancelled, but the original series lives in syndication, featured periodically on the TV Land cable network.

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