Results: Would You Believe...'Get Smart' Premiered On TV 50 Years Ago This September!
Published on 07/20/2015
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Widely considered one of the best and "smartest" TV shows ever (by experts no less!), 'Get Smart', a situation comedy created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, premiered on TV September 1965 and ran for five years. How many of you remember CONTROL's Agent 86 Maxwell Smart and his beautiful sidekick Agent 99, along with The Chief versus KAOS, their rivals?
I remember it
59%
1101 votes
Don't remember it
20%
375 votes
Never heard of it
21%
394 votes
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'Get Smart' lovers, and trivia lovers in general, how many of these fun facts about the show do 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. He chose the ownership deal and never regretted it.
10%
186 votes
The Chief, played by Edward Platt, has an assistant named Larrabee. Larrabee was the name of Platt's character role in North by Northwest (1959).
9%
176 votes
Edward Platt suffered from chronic back pain which is the reason why he does not appear in a few episodes and why, in some episodes, is only seen sitting down.
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79 votes
Don Adams originated Maxwell Smart's voice and catchphrase "Would you believe...?" while he was a cast member on The Bill Dana Show (1963).
9%
172 votes
CONTROL and KAOS were supposed to be acronyms, but Mel Brooks and Buck Henry never came up with anything for them to stand for.
8%
151 votes
Tony Randall and Orson Bean were also considered for Maxwell Smart
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67 votes
Though the chief's first name was Thaddeus, he also used the cover name Harold Clark in the final two seasons.
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66 votes
"86" comes from an old slang term for refusing service to a customer
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165 votes
In the final season, Max and 99 have twins, a boy and a girl. The boy is likely the individual who grows up to be Zach Smart in the later revival Get Smart (1995).
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97 votes
Talk show legend Johnny Carson makes cameo appearances twice during the shows run. Once as a train conductor and again as a royal herald in a foreign kings court
7%
126 votes
The series aired on 2 different networks during its run. When NBC canceled it after 4 seasons, it was picked up by CBS which aired its 5th and final season
6%
116 votes
Knew none of these...Sorry about that, Chief!
68%
1280 votes
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Of course, what would any survey from me be without the catchy quotes that were part of the 'Get Smart' experience? Do you remember these quotes and running gag lines?
Sorry about that, Chief.
40%
756 votes
Missed it by that much
26%
489 votes
Pardon me while I get my shoe phone
26%
491 votes
Would you believe...
28%
517 votes
Don't tell me... I asked you not to tell me that!
19%
363 votes
That's the second biggest...(insert word) I've ever seen
9%
162 votes
That's the second time I've fallen for it this month!
9%
169 votes
This is Kaos. We don't *shush* here!
10%
187 votes
And loving it!
12%
229 votes
I remember all of these lines!
8%
155 votes
I don't remember any of them/never saw the show ...Must have been inside the Cone Of Silence?
41%
770 votes
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