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":
Paul Maxwell as a C.I.A chief in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976), and as General Maxwell Taylor in "A Bridge Too Far" (1977). His real passion, however, was theatre; he starred in the West End several times, with roles in "Twelve Angry Men" and the musical "Promises, Promises". After the Second World War, Maxwell married Mary Lindsay. The couple had one daughter, named Lindsay. Paul Maxwell Paul Maxwell (12 November 192119 December 1991) was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in British cinema and television, in which he was usually cast as American characters. In terms of audience, his most notable