Brooks described it as 'an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy'. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, 'the two biggest things in the entertainment world today'. The show stars Don Adams (who also worked as a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus the Chief. The program was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. Get Smart is an American comedy television series, parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of James Bond films.
