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embi
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by embi » 27 September 05 10:31 am
Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies Get Smart has died. He was 82.
Adams died of a lung infection late yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said today, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.
As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency CONTROL, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combating the evil agents of CHAOS. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe...?" It became a popular catchphrase.
Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of his boss Thaddius (actor Edward Platt). Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, chief" also entered the American lexicon. The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cell-phone telephone in a shoe.
Get Smart twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.
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Adams, who married and divorced three times and had seven children, served as the voice for the popular cartoon series Inspector Gadget. In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, The Nude Bomb, about a madman whose bomb destroyed people's clothing.
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by crew 153 » 27 September 05 11:31 am
Thaddeus was the chiefs first name?
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by Slider & Smurf » 27 September 05 11:31 am
Too easy - The Chief's name was Thaddeus!
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ideology
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by ideology » 27 September 05 11:32 am
well done!
okay, why was the robot hymie called hymie?
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by riblit » 27 September 05 11:42 am
ideology wrote:well done!
okay, why was the robot hymie called hymie?
If you had a robot hymie would you call it anything else?
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by Slider & Smurf » 27 September 05 11:43 am
His creator (Dr Ratton, a KAOS scientist) named him after his father...
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by crew 153 » 27 September 05 11:47 am
I must admit that I have been nicknamed Maxwell Smart at times.
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by Horus » 27 September 05 11:53 am
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Mr. Adams - many hours of entertainment were had watching Get Smart in my younger years - and reading the
links I've embedded in this message have brought on a tear of nostalgia
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Roll on the re-runs of Get Smart. . . . oh and Inspector Gadget of course for the younger cachers amongst us
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by The Garner Family » 27 September 05 12:20 pm
crew 153 wrote:I must admit that I have been nicknamed Maxwell Smart at times.
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lol.... now that you mention it I can even see the resemblence.
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by crew 153 » 27 September 05 12:28 pm
The Garner Family wrote:crew 153 wrote:I must admit that I have been nicknamed Maxwell Smart at times.
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lol.... now that you mention it I can even see the resemblence.
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<br><br>I've also been called other things but we won't mention them here.
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by EcoTeam » 27 September 05 1:40 pm
You just gave away all the secrets i!
When Richard Dean Anderson dies I'll give out the link to the Macgyver winners page!
I'll have to play my i!8:Get Smart CD!
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by Lt. Sniper » 27 September 05 1:47 pm
EcoTeam wrote:...When Richard Dean Anderson dies...
NOOOO!!!! Dont wreak my Stargate series!!
/me runs off screaming, "NOOOOOoooooo....."
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by Bronze » 29 September 05 1:18 am
"Would you believe he missed 83 by that much."
A true legend - and a good taste in cars.
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