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":
Richard Smart (actor) Lee Havens Smart and son Parker Damon Smart. Stefanie Smart died on August 17, 2011. Despite having married and fathered two children, there is reason to believe Smart was homosexual or at least bisexual. His marriage ended in a divorce in 1944 and he never remarried despite continuing to live to 1992. S, George W. Parker III, wrote something relevant in his memoirs 2009. Parker wrote he learned Smart was gay via a mutual acquaintance, who was once married to René Coty, of the Coty perfume family. She reports told him "Smart was gay" at least while she knew him