Get Smart is coming to DVD!

I received an email that one of the greatest TV series of all time (and one of the funniest) is being released on DVD in November! A lot of kids today would be cocking their heads like stunned cocker spaniels asking, "What's Get Smart?"

Unfairly lumped together with all those "gimick" sitcoms from the 60s (nostalgic crap like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, My Favourite Martian, Gilligan's Island, etc.), Get Smart was a sly, witty comedy from the minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry (the guys who gave the world The Producers and The Graduate). It parodied the spy craze of the early 60s and satirized American politics and culture in an underhanded style that never insulted even the most clueless TV viewer. Every week Maxwell Smart, an inept secret agent and his beautiful, intelligent partner, Agent 99, fight to save the world from the clutches of KAOS, the International Organization of Evil (a Delaware Corporation for tax purposes). Most spy shows didn't deal with union issues or budget cutbacks or fashionable evening wear for today's female spies. Or have episodes titled "Tequila Mockingbird".

And don't get me started on the Cone of Silence, Hymie the Robot, Fang, Max's asthmatic canine partner, Siegfried or cherry-flavoured suicide pills ("Go ahead, they're not habit-forming.").

Fuck Austin Powers, Maxwell Smart is the original 60s spy with mucho mojo!