Details

Release year: 1965

Storyline

Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.

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Cast

Don Adams — Maxwell Smart, King Charles of Coronia, Floyd Darrow
Barbara Feldon — #99, Agent 99, 99, Connie Barker
Edward Platt — Chief, Chief of Control
Robert Karvelas — Larabee, Control Agent, Larrabee, Restaurant Patron, KAOS Agent, Armored Truck Guard, Club Patron, Control Agent Taking Photos, Control Trainee Disguised as Little Old Lady, Hotel Cashier, Indian, Jury Member, KAOS Agent #3, Man in Bus Station, Man in Train Station, Man in the Pool Parlor, Roulette Croupier, Saunders

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Awards

7 wins & 7 nominations

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Did you know

• When Don Adams was negotiating his salary, he had his choice between more money per week and no ownership stake in the show, or less money per week and part ownership. Adams chose the ownership deal and never regretted it considering the series' durable popularity in syndication gave him a regular income even as he struggled with being typecast by it.

• CONTROL and KAOS were supposed to be acronyms, but Mel Brooks and Buck Henry never came up with anything for them to stand for.

• When asked how he developed his trademark voice for Agent 86, Don Adams said that it came from watching "The Thin Man" movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. After hearing Powell repeatedly say, "Asta! Asta!" he decided to imitate his voice for the character of Maxwell Smart.