Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a 1989 American made-for-television comedy film based on the 1965–1970 NBC/CBS sitcom Get Smart! starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their characters of Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.[1] It originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for Get Smart!).

Get Smart, Again!
DVD cover
GenreComedy
Science Fiction
Based onGet Smart
by Mel Brooks
Buck Henry
Written byStory:
Leonard Stern
Teleplay:
Leonard Stern
Mark Curtiss
Rod Ash
Directed byGary Nelson
StarringDon Adams
Barbara Feldon
Music byPeter Rodgers Melnick
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersDaniel Melnick
Leonard B. Stern
ProducerBurt Nodella
Production locationLos Angeles
CinematographyGayne Rescher
EditorDonald R. Rode
Running time96 minutes
Production companiesIndieProd Company Productions
Phoenix Entertainment Group
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseFebruary 26, 1989 (1989-02-26)
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Synopsis

Maxwell Smart, acting as a protocol officer since CONTROL was disbanded in the early 1970s, is reactivated as a counterintelligence agent by Commander Drury, of the United States Intelligence Agency. KAOS, long considered defunct, has been revitalized by a corporate takeover. Its first scheme involves turning a forgotten American scientist and using his weather control machine to extort US$250 billion from the United States Government. (This plot is similar to the one used in the 1998 Avengers movie, another film based on a 1960s TV spy series.)

Drury, convinced that only Smart has the expertise to combat KAOS, gives him carte blanche to reactivate former CONTROL agents to assist him in his task. Along with Drury's bumbling aide, Beamish, Smart recruits Larrabee, who, believing that he was under orders from Richard Nixon to stay at his post until relieved, has been living in his office in the now-abandoned CONTROL headquarters tending his office plants, Agent 13, Hymie the Robot (now employed as a crash test dummy) and ultimately, his wife, 99, to find the security leak that allowed the scientist to defect, locate the weather machine and disarm it. They are opposed by a KAOS mole (John de Lancie) within the USIA, who is able to predict Max's every move with the aid of stolen copies of 99's unpublished memoirs.

The visible head of the KAOS scheme is revealed to be Max's old nemesis, Siegfried, but he is merely the agent of a higher executive whom even he has never met. This new leader is finally revealed as Nicholas Demente, 99's publisher, who intends not only to extort the money but also to create weather that will keep people eternally indoors and interfere with television reception, forcing millions of Americans to entertain themselves by buying Demente's books and publications. Max, 99, and Beamish infiltrate KAOS with the aide of Siegfried's twin brother Doctor Helmut Schmelding. After defeating Demente's henchmen with medieval weaponry, the CONTROL agents kill Demente with his own weather machine. Max and 99 celebrate by causing it to snow.

Legacy

The relative success of the film prompted the development of a short-lived (only seven episodes) 1995 weekly series on Fox, also titled Get Smart, with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon reprising their characters. It was dedicated to the memory of Edward Platt.

Home media

The film has been released twice on DVD.

See also

References
  1. Hal Erickson (2014). "Get Smart, Again!". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-03-09.
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