Would You Believe?..
Don Adams whose Maxwell Smart character had a "shoe phone" two decades before Sports Illustrated promoted their subscription sales with one has died. He was 82 years old.Adams was one of those lovable TV personalities who found himself typecast by the character he portrayed in the successful series "Get Smart" in the early 60's. He played agent "86" a bumbling superspy whose antics and misfortunes usually came together by the end of an episode to win out over his nation's enemy, "KAOS".
"Get Smart" twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.
Subsequent to doing"Get Smart" Adams briefly was host of the TV reality quiz show "Don Adams Screen Test". He also became the cartoon voice of "Inspector Gadget and the toon character "Tennessee Tuxedo".
He is credited from the "Get Smart Series" with adding two phrases to the American lexicon; "Would you believe.?. and "Sorry about that Chief".
Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
posted by jipzeecab @ 4:33 AM
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I can see it now, watching Get Smart with my son. He asks, "Why does he have a cell phone in his shoe?"
I loved the way Maxwell and "99"(?) complimented one another on that show..her intellect and yet she always made it seem like he was the smart and clever one..she thought he was and it made it so cool and cute...sigh. Heard about Bob Denver of "Gilligans Island" passing also..weren't their shows both on around the same time or no? Is Tina Louise still alive? Just wondering..
Rhiannon
My mother has always said and she said it again yesterday that Barbara Feldon "99" grew up literally on the next block from our home..went to my High School etc. (I always thought she was a year or so ahead of my sister but I see she was already in her twenties when we moved here).
It was announced earlier this year that Tina Louise was to join the cast of an NBC soap opera called "Passions" and although I can't find any evidence that she actually did she's still out there..
Dawn Wells "Mary Ann" is the most famous resident of the small beachfront community my son now lives in.
Wow, another piece of my childhood gone... That's probably the earliest show I remember watching regularly...
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