Re: "Would You Believe...."

Let's all observe a moment of (cone of) silence for Agent 86.

He was the best.

PadronMan
"Dr. Hardcrab" <drhardcrab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:JUZZe.4327$WT3.2007@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Don Adams is dead. Smoking a nice one for the world's best spy Buck Henry
> ever produced. (Plus the voice of the cartoon character "Tennessee
> Tuxedo")
>
> and yet Carrot Top still lives.........
>
> Don Adams of 'Get Smart' Dies at 82
> LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical
> Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, 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 combatting the evil agents of
> Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss,
> he tried another tack: "Would you believe...?" It became a national
> catchphrase.
>
> Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of the
> Chief (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.
>
> Smart's beautiful partner, Agent 99, played by Barbara Felden, was as
> brainy as he was dense, and a plot romance led to marriage and the birth
> of twins later in the series.
>
> Adams, who had been under contract to NBC, was lukewarm about doing a
> spy spoof. When he learned that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had written
> the pilot script, he accepted immediately. "Get Smart" debuted on NBC in
> September 1965 and scored No. 12 among the season's most-watched series
> and No. 22 in its second season.
>
> "Get Smart" twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys
> for Adams as comedy actor.
>
>


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