Maxwell Smart isiback... And loving it!

And so is Agent 99, The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get Smart gang. Here is the legendary, Emmy Award-winning spy-proof series inspired by the comic genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, digitally restored, remastered and brought to you on DVD.

Get Smart: Season 1
Now it's easier than ever to out-smart the world's least secret... secret agent, in this cunningly funny 5-DVD collection, featuring all 30 episodes of Get Smart's hit first season, including the hilarious pilot, "Mr. Big", and the award-winning classic double-episode, "Ship of Spies". So if the object of your mission is timeless family comedy... grab your shoe phone and get ready... for Get Smart!

Get Smart: Season 2
The madcap misadventures only get funnier in Season 2, as Max and 99 pursue their elusive KAOS adversaries around the world - from Greenland to the scorching sands of the Sahara desert - and come face-to-face with their dastardly foes... in a Bedouin tent... at the stylish "Pussycat Club"... and deep beneath the waves in a secret KAOS submarine.

Get Smart: Season 3
Get Smart's unforgettable third season is a must-own collection of quintessential televsion comedy, from its very first episode - in which Max and 99 face down the KAOS League of Impostors - to the hilarious hippie send-up "The Groovy Guru", voted one of the 100 best TV episodes of all time.

Get Smart: Season 4
In season 4, wedding bells finally ring for Max and 99... that is, if Max can escape from the clutches of KAOS and the evil Dr. Madre, who's hidden the map to a secret uranium mine on Max's chest, in "With Love and Twitches". That's right, it's another action-packed season of classic clandestine comedy all together on 5 must-own DVDs, as the agents of CONTROL go undercover over land, sky and sea to protect the free world from the forces of KAOS.

Get Smart: Season 5
Can Max survive a plague of murderous bananas? A plot to freeze the Earth with a giant fan? A disguise that makes him look like Phyllis Diller? These questions and more are all answered... hilariously... in the unforgettable fifth and final season of Get Smart.

 

 

Disc 1:
"Mr. Big", "Diplomat's Daughter", "School Days", "Our Man in Toyland", "Now You See Him, Now You Don't", "Washington 4, Indians 3", "KAOS in Control", "The Day Smart Turned Chicken"
Disc 2:
"Satan Place", "Our Man in Leotards", Too Many Chiefs", "My Nephew the Spy", "Aboard the Orient Express", "Weekend Vampire", "Survival of the Fattest", "Double Agent"
Disc 3:
"Kisses for KAOS", "The Dead Spy Scrawls", "Back to the Old Drawing Board", "All in the Mind", "Dear Diary", "Smart, the Assassin", "I'm Only Human"
Disc 4:
"Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain", "The Amazing Harry Hoo", "Hubert's Unfinished Symphony", "Ship of Spies, Parts I & II", "Shipment to Beirut", "The Last One in Is a Rotten Spy"

Disc 1:
"Anatomy of a Lover", "Strike While the Agent Is Hot", "A Spy for a Spy", "The Only Way to Die", "Maxwell Smart, Alias Jimmy Ballantine", "Casablanca", "The Decoy", "Hoo Done It"
Disc 2:
"Rub-a-Dub-Dub...Three Spies in a Sub", "The Greatest Spy on Earth", "Island of the Darned", "Bronzefinger", "Perils in a Pet Shop", "The Whole Tooth and... ", "Kiss of Death", "It Takes One to Know One"
Disc 3:
"Someone Down Here Hates Me", "Cutback at CONTROL", "The Man From Yenta", "The Mummy", "The Girls From KAOS", "Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho", "Where-What-How-Who Am I?"
Disc 4:
"The Expendable Agent", "How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying", "Appointment in Sahara", "Pussycats Galore", "A Man Called Smart, Parts I, II, and III"

Disc 1:
"The Spy Who Met Himself", "Viva Smart", "Witness for the Persecution", "The Spirit Is Willing", "Maxwell Smart, Private Spy", "Supersonic Boom", "One of Our Olives Is Missing"
Disc 2:
"When Good Fellows Get Together", "Dr. Yes", "That Old Gang of Mine", "The Mild Ones", "Classification: Dead", "The Mysterious Dr. T", "The King Lives?"
Disc 3:
"The Groovy Guru", "The Little Black Book Parts I & II", "Don't Look Back", "99 Loses CONTROL", "The Wax Max"
Disc 4:
"Run, Robot, Run", "Operation Ridiculous", "Spy, Spy, Birdie", "The Hot Line", "Die, Spy", "The Reluctant Redhead"

Disc 1:
"The Impossible Mission", "Snoopy Smart vs. the Red Baron", "Closely Watched Planes", "The Secret of Sam Vittorio", "Diamonds Are a Spy's Best Friend", "The Worst Best Man", "A Tale of Two Tails"
Disc 2:
"The Return of the Ancient Mariner", "With Love and Twitches", "The Laser Blazer", "The Farkas Fracas", "Temporarily Out of CONTROL", "Schwartz's Island", "One Nation Invisible"
Disc 3:
"Hurray for Hollywood", "The Day They Raided the Knights", "Tequila Mockingbird", "I Shot 86 Today", "Absorb the Greek", "To Sire, With Love, Part I"
Disc 4:
"To Sire, With Love, Part II", "Shock It to Me", "Leadside", "Greer Window", "The Not-So-Great-Escape, Parts I & II"

Disc 1:
"Pheasant Under Glass", "Ironhand", "Valerie of the Dolls", "Widow Often Annie", "The Treasure of C. Errol Madre", "Smart Fell on Alabama", "And Baby Makes Four, Part I"
Disc 2:
"And Baby Makes Four, Part II", "Physician Impossible", "The Apes of Rath", "Age Before Duty", "Is This Trip Necessary", " Ice Station Siegfried", "Moonlighting Becomes You"
Disc 3:
"House of Max, Parts I & II", "Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm", "The Mess of Adrian Listenger", "Witness for the Execution", "How Green Was My Valet"
Disc 4:
"And Only Two Ninety-Nine", "Smartacus", "What's It All About, Algie?", "Hello Columbus, Goodbye America", "Do I hear a Vaults?", "I Am Curiously Yellow"

 

Features:

- Audio Commentaries by Barbara Feldon, Buck Henry, Mel Brooks, and more! - Interviews with Get Smart cast members, creators, writers, directors and others involved in the creation of the classic series - Behind the scenes featurette unveiling the untold stories behind the creation of Get Smart - Catch phrases and key words featurette - Barbara Feldon: Real Model to Role Model: The life and times of a reluctant icon - Bloopers from the show - Rare TV footage from shows featuring Get Smart cast members as guest stars - Don Adams: 75th Birthday Roast, and segments from his Memorial Service - ...And much more!

Video:

Standard 1.33:1 Color Standard 1.33:1 B&W

Audio:

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]

 

The bonus features in the first season begin on the very first disc. The episode "Mr. Big" features two distinctly different Audio Commentaries. Co-creators Mel Brooks and Buck Henry chime in for their own separate commentaries though I can't help thinking that a track featuring both would have been better. Both are interesting and informative though sometimes the direction of the discussion drops off while they are watching the episode. Both are still worth listening to so be prepared to watch "Mr. Big" at least three times before you're finished with it.

The third disc includes yet another audio commentary. This one features Barbara Feldon and is for the episode "Kisses for KAOS". Unfortunately this track doesn't include as much information as the commentaries for "Mr. Big". Feldon does a great job giving an introduction to each episode in this collection but the track for this episode in particular feels kind of lacking. She just sits back and watches the episode, only chiming in during a few instances when something comes back to her.

As I already mentioned the fifth disc is where the meat is. First up is a twenty two minute interview with Buck Henry that was recorded on 3/29/2006. The questions asked run the gamut from how the show was created to who was considered for the role of Maxwell Smart. The interview was pretty straight forward and offered a personal look at the series from the view of Henry.

Up next is a featurette called "The Secret History of Get Smart". A multitude of people involved with the show and even some who were just impressed by it come out of the woodwork to talk about how the series came to be. Some of the finer details of the show are hit upon and I found this feature to be very interesting.

The next feature is a collection of six television appearances. The most interesting to me was the NBC Fall Season Preview from 1965 but others from an appearance on The Andy Williams show to the Get Smart Show Promos provided an interesting look back in time. One of the most amazing features here in my opinion is a two minute Blooper Reel. These goofs caught on film are virtually unheard of from the 1960's and as such this is supplemental material at its best.

Rounding out the first season's bonus content is an interactive game involving the Chief's office and some of CONTROL's gadgets. This is just fluff compared to the weighty hour long Reunion Seminar feature from 2003 at the Museum of Television & Radio. It provides an interesting roundtable-like discussion and even includes Don Adams who is sadly no longer with us.

The second season of Get Smart offers up another pair of audio commentaries before you get to the final disc in the set. On the first disc is a commentary featuring Bernie Kopell (Siegfried) for his premier episode "A Spy for a Spy". Leonard Stern also chimes in on the fourth disc for the episode "A Man Called Smart, Part 1". Both tracks are on par with the ones in the previous season and most likely could have benefited from multiple commentators. Still, hearing their opinions and memories regarding certain events was interesting.

Moving on to the fifth disc the first feature is yet another interview. This time around it's with Leonard Stern and starts off with him talking about what his role was and how the show got started. It was kind of redundant after Henry's interview and the "Secret History" feature but Stern does talk about some things from his own perspective which adds something else to the show's history.

The next feature is all about Barbara Feldon and how she became involved on the show. It's kind of funny to think that Buck Henry saw a commercial of her with a tiger rug and felt that she would have been great in the show. There's a lot of discussion about the character of Agent 99 and how she became a positive role model for women at the time. After that feature there is a pair of clips from the 1967 Emmy broadcast where Get Smart won awards for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy.

Another string of bloopers are presented on this disc and clock in at over two minutes of content. Some more bits from the 2003 Reunion Seminar are included as well though this time around the feature is less than five minutes long. In this season one of the most impressive inclusions has to be Don Adams' 75th Birthday Celebration. This 53 minute feature was a cross between a roast and an awards ceremony thanks to the stars that appeared. The man of the hour gets up and delivers a deeply personal and charming monologue as he thanks his friends and family members for the time they have given him. This felt like a gem from someone's private collection and really gave this release a personal edge.

Finishing off the second season's bonus content is the interesting showing of some of NBC's Standards letters. These were given back to the producers and writers as a way of ensuring that their program upheld the standards of NBC. Particular scenes were forced into being handled certain ways and lines were encouraged to be delivered in a non-sexual or morbid manner most of the time. I found this kind of cool because as the public we never get to see these in-house memos. Lastly there is another interactive feature but instead of Chief's office we're scouring through the contents of 99's purse.

Just like the prior two seasons two more Audio Commentaries show up in the third. For the episode "Little Black Book, Part II" Don Rickles sits through most of the episode and talks about his experience guest starring on the show. He reminisces about moments with Don Adams and some of his adlibbing but after 16 minutes he kind of just leaves; saying that he doesn't really need to sit through the episode. Accompanying this commentary is a hilarious pair of bloopers with Rickles and Adams. The other commentary for "99 Loses Control" features Feldon and Henry, which offered a nice change of pace because there was more than just one voice.

Director Bruce Bilson is the next crew member that gets interviewed. He begins by talking about how he got involved with the show and a little bit about his directing style. He also talked at length about working with Don Adams and some of the other actors on the show.

The Featurette this time around is all about the gizmos and gadgets that CONTROL and KAOS used in the series. We see them all throughout the 138 episodes but hearing more about their origins and various other uses was great.

Another batch of TV appearances and spots appear in the third season as well. Three more Emmy Award broadcasts are included for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. There is also another Get Smart promo and appearances on the Andy Williams Show and Milton Berle's Mad, Mad World of Comedy.

Another great blooper real is included on the fifth disc as well as the Don Rickle bloopers again. A few more minutes of the Reunion Seminar from 2003 are also featured in the third season and more of the NBC Standards Memos. The interactive feature this time around involves Smart's Sunbeam Tiger.

In the fourth season the only audio commentary available is by James Caan who talks about "To Sire, With Love, Part II". Once again this track is on par with previous single commentator tracks for the show with a fair amount of insight into his experience working with Don Adams and appearing on the show.

For the interviews available in this season Bernie Kopell and Barbara Feldon give up some more of their time to discuss several topics and answer questions. Both of them give very personal accounts of their time with the show and a glimpse into their private lives. One of the better Featurettes from this collection was "Code Words and Catch Phrases". Anybody that has ever watched Get Smart knows all about the zany code words that CONTROL used and even more of Smart's choice phrases.

Once again there are more TV appearances in this season. Another pair of Emmy Awards Broadcasts, promo videos, and a clip from the Rose Parade with Adams and Feldon are all here. Three commercials even make the grade for Pepsodent, White Castle, and Chief Auto Parts. And of course we have more classic bloopers and an interactive feature for Max's Apartment.

The last audio commentary available in the Get Smart Collection is for the episode "Ice Station Siegfried" and features Bill Dana (Agent Quigley) doing the talking. This commentary was again similar to the prior ones but still provided enough interesting tidbits to be worth watching.

As is the case with any popular show there are fans who take their love to the next level. Maybe it's a website or possibly a prized collection of memorabilia but these cult followers of a series are almost always out there. Occasionally a series will recognize the fandom that helped maintain its popularity throughout the years. That's what the featurette in the final season is all about; the fans.

Clocking in at over an hour and twenty minutes is video from Don Adams' memorial service. Friends and family members stand at the podium and recite memories of Don and talk about the man they all loved. It was heart wrenching at times and downright funny at others. You can have nothing but warm thoughts about a brilliant and funny man who captivated the world time and time again. Don is surely missed and I was very pleased to see this service included for us to see.

After the memorial service there are some more TV appearances including more commercials and visits to other shows. Bloopers are here again as well with some new material but a couple of repeats. Another interactive feature is available on the fifth disc along with a clip reel of some of Smart's best moments over the course of the show.