“Mr. Big,” the black and white pilot episode (aired 18 September 1965), introduces Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 of CONTROL. KAOS’s Mr. Big has stolen Professor Dante’s Inthermo heat ray.

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 ...

Don Adams, Agent 86 on the "Get Smart" TV show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry in 1965, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai. He was 82 and had been ill since breaking his hip last year. The ubiquitous ...

Yes, I was thinking about Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, from the classic 1960s comedy as I came up with the headline for this blog, and more specifically, all the devices he and his sidekick Agent 99 used ...

On TV, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry spoofed this craze with Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, in Get Smart, a comedy classic. By the 1970s, however, the Bond franchise already started to feel played out.

It was the height of the Cold War and the James Bond spy craze when "Get Smart" debuted on NBC in 1965 with Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, a Washington-based counterintelligence agency.