Get Smart Get Smart Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that had recently become popular. It was created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. The show stars Don Adams (who also worked as a director on the series) as agent Maxwell "Max" Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus, the Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today":
Lois Maxwell of "Adventures in Rainbow Country" in the 1970s. Maxwell had a minor role as a nurse in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962). In 1963 Maxwell played a machine gun-firing nurse in the series "The Avengers" (episode "The Little Wonders", which was first aired on 11 January 1964). Maxwell had a guest appearance in an episode of the ITC series "The Baron" ("Something for a Rainy Day", 1965), as an insurance investigator. Maxwell lobbied for a role in the "James Bond" film "Dr. No" (1962), since her husband had suffered a heart attack and they needed the money. Director Terence Young, who