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‘Get Smart’ at 60: How Buck Henry, Mel Brooks and Don Adams Created TV’s Funniest Spy Spoof

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Much of the credit for the show goes to Buck Henry, a writer-performer with razor-sharp wit, and Mel Brooks, already making his ...
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Get Smart's First Movie Was So Bad The Series' Revival Completely Ignored It

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maxwell Smart using a telephone in The Nude Bomb - Universal Pictures The 1960s TV series "Get Smart" is a lighthearted spoof of ...
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‘Get Smart’ and ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ director Bruce Bilson dead at 97

Bruce Bilson, the Emmy-winning director behind classic TV hits like “Get Smart,” “Hogan’s Heroes” and many more, has died. He was 97. The late director’s daughter, producer Julie Bilson Ahlberg, ...
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Alfa-Betty Olsen, Behind-the-Scenes ‘Comic Conspirator,’ Dies at 88

After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron. By Richard Sandomir ...
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‘Get Smart' at 60: How Buck Henry, Mel Brooks and Don Adams Created TV's Funniest Spy Spoof

Sixty years ago, American television viewers were caught between two powerful cultural currents. In theaters, James Bond ruled with Sean Connery's suave charisma, exotic locations and gadgets that ...