Get Smart's Don Adams Passes Away
Source: Associated Press September 26, 2005
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.
The Associated Press reports that Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.
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. The show won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor. CBS picked up the series but the ratings fell off as the jokes seemed repetitive, and it was canceled after four seasons.
Get Smart lived on in syndication and a cartoon series. In 1995 Fox network revived the series with Smart as chief and 99 as a congresswoman. It lasted seven episodes.
Adams, who married and divorced three times and had seven children, served as the voice for the popular cartoon series, Inspector Gadget. In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, The Nude Bomb.
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