Don Adams has died (Get Smart)

Alt Obits | 9/25/05

[drjimmy]

Mel Brooks and Buck Henry are supposedly producing a new "Get Smart" movie due out in 2006. Who would you cast?

The studio suits are probably pushing for Ashton Kutscher and Lindsey Lohan as 86 and 99. Sigh.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Mr. Rogers was a SEAL" stuff that went around when he passed."

That was reported live from the Land of Make-believe.

[Charles Henrickson]

Mel Brooks and Buck Henry are supposedly producing a new "Get Smart" movie due out in 2006. Who would you cast?

The obvious first name to consider is Matthew Broderick, since Brooks has worked with him on "The Producers" (both Broadway and the upcoming movie). And Broderick did the film version of a Don Adams role in "Inspector Gadget." But I'm not sure he would be right for the part. Don Adams' voice and delivery were so distinctively his and so closely associated with our image of Maxwell Smart, it would be hard to pull off an impression.

[Larry Lucido]

(Max and 99 tied up together, she suddenly remembers a life saving accessory on her finger)

99: Max, I forgot, my razor ring!

Max (annoyed): Well, we can't go back for it now, 99!

[BallyBill]

Get Smart is one of the few shows that is as funny today as it was when it was first run. Other shows from the time just aren't as funny as I remember them as a kid. Don Adams, Good Bye, Funny Man!

[50sDad]

On a completely different front, I was watching old vidtapes of "Animaniacs" yesterday, and noticed the Politically Correct Police at work. Elmer Fudd walks through a historical bit set on the boat at the Boston Tea Party. "Be very, very quiet. I am hunting Redcoats," says the character. It looks like he is carrying a blunderbus, one of the big ended guns from before the Colonial era. A freezeframe shows he is carrying a bell. Hunting with a bell? Nope. Just another sad trick, trying to remove those nasty guns from "kids entertainment." (Along with airbrushing cigarettes, racial stereotypes, and liquour out of old Bugs Bunny cartoons, no doubt.)

Sorry for the distraction...just something that miffed me. And now back to your regular thread, already in progress...

[Larry Lucido]

Yea, but he was one hell of a deputy.

[weef]

Did you ever see the Get Smart pilot episode? Agent 86 was captured by Mr. Big, who was a midget. Funny stuff.

[Cobra64]

He was a ton of fun. Agent 99 was my favorite though.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Steve Carrell has been signed on to play Max Smart.

I don't know who's going to play Agent 99. I think Denise Richards would be a good choice.

[Fierce Allegiance]

RIP. Another good one gone.

[joebuck]

"Be very, very quiet. I am hunting Redcoats,"

No, no that's not it a all. I believe it went, "Be vewy vewy, qwiiiiieet, I'm hunting wedcoats, huh, huh, huh,"

[June Cleaver]

Ping! . . . used to be your favorite show!

[raccoonradio]

Sorry about that, Chief. Would you believe he's passed on?
Star of Get Smart, "The Nude Bomb", and those Skittle
Pool commercials. Also Tenneesee Tuxedo, IIRC, and
Inspector Gadget.

[Cvengr]

The records seem to prove you correct. It's funny, I've looked into that several times and I still have a vivid memory of a tape with Johnny Carson and Lee Marvin where Lee spoke matter of factly in regards to a disability that didn't really effect him much, but he always received something like a 5% disability check, ..seemed like it was a wound to the small finger. He spoke to the efforts of those who walked in from the boats in the surf for about a quarter mile at Tarawa and I've always associated it with him, but perhaps my memory is mistaken,..as I haven't found any other corroboration of that memory on the net.

[Borges]

Never saw the appeal of Matthew Brodrick. One wag shrewdly said that the only emotion he can convey effectively is 'ironic befuddlement'.

[visualops]

Boy, there's a huge bunch of memories.
Such a funny show.
RIP, God Bless.

[andyk]

Thank you so much for the great memories, Mr. Adams. RIP.

"How about a boyscout with a pocketknife?"

[Airborne1986]

"Knotts served in WW2 as an entertainer and recieved the Victory Medal." I thought he was involved in a U.S. Navy dolphin underwater surveillance program.

[drjimmy]

Get Smart was the funniest show on tv.

The writing was outstanding. Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, Pat McCormick (who just died in July), Allan Burns, James Komack, Jess Oppenheimer, Leonard Stern...if you watch the credits on almost any show on TV Land you'll see these names.

And the directors included guys like Richard Donner, Alan Rafkin, Jay Sandrich, Dick Carson (Johnny's brother), and Earl Bellamy. Lots of talent there.