Among the television series celebrating 60 years in 2025 (including Green Acres and I Dream of Jeannie) is Get Smart, a parody of James Bond films co-created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks and starring ...

Sixty years ago, American television viewers were caught between two powerful cultural currents. In theaters, James Bond ruled with Sean Connery's suave charisma, exotic locations and gadgets that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maxwell Smart using a telephone in The Nude Bomb - Universal Pictures The 1960s TV series "Get Smart" is a lighthearted spoof of ...

SAN DIEGO — Steve Carell knows how to use a shoe phone. Not only did he grow up watching “Get Smart,” but he’s made calls with the device as secret agent Maxwell Smart in the movie remake of the 1960s ...

LOS ANGELES Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Much of the credit for the show goes to Buck Henry, a writer-performer with razor-sharp wit, and Mel Brooks, already making his ...