My father served as a signalman 2nd on the USS Mellette, APA 156, during WWII. He answered to a communications officer named David Susskind. Susskind was a producer of Get Smart.
Leonard Strong was pitch perfect in that role. Listen closely to how he pronounced it the first time, and how he pronounced it the second time. The second time is just slightly different where you probably won't notice it the first time you hear it. So well done!
They really don't make them like this any more, One of the hippest and wittiest TV comedies ever. And what amazing guest stars! Also II gotta confess I was absolutely smitten by Agent 99, Barbara Feldon. She was so cute.
Yep, couldn't wait for the show to start, loved Max and the poor Chief. But 99 was lonely, she was so smart about dealing with Max. She'd have the solution and Max would take the credit. I immediately found out that she was the type of female that I admire. Smart and practical and very supportive. ❤
The Caan and appearances were in the same 1969 episode. I waited for Caan's billing back then, I had no idea how he was. He was billed "Rupert of Rathskeller as Himself". I learned about five years ago he had been reluctant to be on television as his movie career was just beginning.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Many times when people try to resurrect shows they fail. I can't say as I remember any sequels or remakes, but I'm not surprised they didn't work. Sometimes it's just the combination of writers, actors, directors, etc, that makes a show, and it is difficult to re-create. However, I'll stand by my statement that this was one of the best on tv. It introduced all sorts of memes into popular culture. The shoe phone, the cone of silence, "missed it by that much!", and many more. But after it was over, probably should have let it be.
Loved Get Smart back in the day! Great compilation of Guest appearances. aldiboronti, you’re right…… they don’t “ make ‘em like that anymore” Batman had the “Guests” lining up to be on as well.
And, Don Adams was also a drill instructor for new US Marine Recruits during WWII. "Would you believe 'Left Face?' Bergstrom, you better go down and collect those guys who fell off the cliff."
Crazy how this show started the Cameo appearances thrn Batman picked it up. You can also tell Mel Brooks had a hand in the comedy writing. I watched it growing up when I could. Parents HAD to watch that skin flint of chamagne bubbles, Lawrence Welk.
There was another guest appearance that I remembered from watching "Get Smart". Danny Thomas appeared in an episode where Max was trying to get around London despite battling heavy fog and Danny was trying to give him directions along with another actor that I didn't recognize. I also loved seeing Johnny Carson as a train conductor in the "Aboard The Orient Express" episode.
My fave exchange in the Pat Paulsen episode: "You guys were mean to me on the baseball team... Always throwing balls at me." "Ace.... You were the catcher!" "Doesn't matter!" 😄
Pat would have been an amazing regular cast member, but Monday was his bowling night... 😉 (Line was used by Paulsen to answer why he wouldn't have been able to go to the inauguration, had he won the 1968 presidential election.)
I started watching these when I was about ten or eleven. I adored them. I totally got the humor. It was so witty and sometimes so stupid it was funny. The latter seasons were not as good, but everything that Mel Brooks had a hand in was brilliant.
Most posters, deservedly, comment about the genius of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks in creating "Get Smart". Because both men are famous, it's easy to not realize that Leonard Stern was not only head writer but the producer of "Get Smart" for all of it's run. He was a comedy legend in his own right, having written for "The Jackie Gleason Show", helping Jackie Gleason to develop "The Honeymooners", writing some of the most memorable episodes. He also developed and wrote for "The Steve Allen Show". He did the same work AND executive produced "MacMillan and Wife", "The Governor and J.J", and the cult classic, "He and She". It was Leonard Stern, along with Don Adams that maintained and added to the Borscht-Belt type satire that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created for "Get Smart". It would be a disservice not to acknowledge the enormous influence of Leonard Stern had on the form, nature, and hilarity of "Get Smart".
Missed a few of note: Sig Haig and the great Michael Dunn in the pilot. Victor French, Simon Oakland, Gordon Jump, James Cann and John Doucette just off the top of my head. Many thanks for sharing.
One of the greatest TV comedies ever. And quotes galore: "Missed it by that much!" "Sorry about that Chief!"" "That's the second biggest arrow I've ever seen!" "... and, loving it!" "Would you believe...."
It is easy to see why the actors would appear as a guest. They worked with talented and funny regulars and they had such great lines to deliver! I was in high school when this debuted and I remember when Robert Culp and Martin Landau spoofed themselves as inept spies. Still one of the funniest shows, thanks to Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.
So many of today's crappy comedies wish they had the talent that sitcoms of the 60's and 70's had,with each death a part of a great era is gone forever and mourned
This list is very impressive. What I would like to see is a gathering of guest stars from The Untouchables. I didn't see it in the TH-cam catalog. What a collection of talent you would see there!
It's interesting though, to try and tell which ones were actual celebrity cameos, and which ones were probably just working actors. Obviously, Bob Hope, Carson, Milton Berle, etc. were all cameos done for effect, but I'm pretty sure many others, like Jamie Farr, Fred Willard, Tom Bosley, even James Caan were more just working actors at that time. This show ended in 1970, before any of the big roles of them and many others that were shown.
@@stevejackson2986 Don't know if it's true, but I heard James Caan appeared as a favor to his friend Don Adams, but used a pseudonym in the closing credits.
going to look at some of the Dean Martin roasts you'll always see Don Adams in the audience because he were friends with a lot of big shots and they helped him out by getting these guests on his show.
the comedy is timeless, and it's not one less whit funny now, over half a century later. It's a tribute to the writing, that this many stars took up funny cameos on the show. Comic brilliance.
I grew up with the 1960s tv programs Car 54 where are you. Get smart the Addams family. All great tv and much more funny then the rubbish today I was only a kid then but now watching it all again I realise how them days where happiest times for everyone. But now the world has changed so much there’s not much to laugh about so sad really
Get Smart! Oh hell yeah what a great TV show! What ever happened to great TV shows like this! At least there are classic TV channels that i can still watch stuff like this!
Robert Middleton has been on countless tv shows...but check him out in the commercial for “Skittle Pool” with Don Adams....straight outta “Get Smart”....HILARIOUS
From another episode, the reason why there were so many CHAOS agents was because of the pay and benefits. Once Max got that information Control went on strike.
Campy is the hardest form of comedy because it has to maintain a structure and the timing has to be so precise. The 1960's were the golden age of comedy. Of course we never see all the flops anymore. The Caveman family time travel show My Mother the Car, Red Buttons spy show, Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific... .
I'm surprised that it wasn't mentioned but the guy in the scene with Vincent Price was Ross Martin who co starred with Robert Conrad in Wild Wild West.
Actually, more appropriate for Thanksgiving would be a show about a family.... Such as 'The Waltons', 'Little House On The Prairie',... or 'Leave It To Beaver' type sitcoms...
Also guest-starring in the Romero episode was Julie Sommars, who went on to star in another Leonard Stern-produced program, The Governor and J.J., and years after that, played Andy Griffith's courtroom nemesis/love interest on Matlock.
@ 8:31 - Good old Vincent Price who voiced himself for "13 Ghost Of Scooby Doo", the radio drama of "The Saint", the scientist behind The Tingler, the voice over in Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
It was cool how they had guest stars you don't see that much anymore the old batman show did it also when they would climb the wall the actors opened the window and talked
Classic !!! Can never forget it !!! No " reboot" can do justice to the original series !!!
Wood you believe we watched this every sat nite in our. Rec room?
@@gerry-p9x
I find that hard to believe.
@@gerry-p9x Would you believe every other night?
I jst realized uncle Leo played on show
I purchased the dvds for all seasons about 10 years ago and enjoyed them very much. Somehow I never get tired of watching Get Smart.
My father served as a signalman 2nd on the USS Mellette, APA 156, during WWII. He answered to a communications officer named David Susskind. Susskind was a producer of Get Smart.
"No! Not the Craw! The Craw!" ...Smart: "Oh, of course. The Craw." Perfect.
My favorite.
I use that line when my wife gets mad..
Won’t ever see that on tv again
Leonard Strong was pitch perfect in that role. Listen closely to how he pronounced it the first time, and how he pronounced it the second time. The second time is just slightly different where you probably won't notice it the first time you hear it. So well done!
I saw the Johnny Carson bit back when and have remembered it all these year!!
They really don't make them like this any more, One of the hippest and wittiest TV comedies ever. And what amazing guest stars! Also II gotta confess I was absolutely smitten by Agent 99, Barbara Feldon. She was so cute.
Me too!
You and thousands more my friend!!
99 was a honey!!
😍😁👏
But if you had to choose, which Barbara would you take ... Feldon or Eden?
BOTH!
Yep, couldn't wait for the show to start, loved Max and the poor Chief. But 99 was lonely, she was so smart about dealing with Max. She'd have the solution and Max would take the credit. I immediately found out that she was the type of female that I admire. Smart and practical and very supportive. ❤
The Caan and appearances were in the same 1969 episode. I waited for Caan's billing back then, I had no idea how he was. He was billed "Rupert of Rathskeller as Himself". I learned about five years ago he had been reluctant to be on television as his movie career was just beginning.
Classic show,still get a laugh from it.
Some fabulous notable actors here. Wonderful watching them in these cameos.
Especially Price, Romero and Berle
Seeing those faces now January 2020 brings back so many wonderful memories. 📺☀️😉💙📽️🎞️🎬
LOVED "GET SMART" AND HAVE THE WHOLE SERIES ON DVD. PARTICULARLY ENJOYED THE EPISODES WITH BERNIE KOPELL AS SIEGFRIED!!
One of the best tv shows of all time. Great writing.
The remakes and sequels were terrible.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Many times when people try to resurrect shows they fail. I can't say as I remember any sequels or remakes, but I'm not surprised they didn't work. Sometimes it's just the combination of writers, actors, directors, etc, that makes a show, and it is difficult to re-create. However, I'll stand by my statement that this was one of the best on tv. It introduced all sorts of memes into popular culture. The shoe phone, the cone of silence, "missed it by that much!", and many more. But after it was over, probably should have let it be.
@@throckmortensnivel2850 Ed Platt, who played the Chief, sadly committed suicide in 1974. He suffered from depression.
Loved Get Smart back in the day! Great compilation of Guest appearances. aldiboronti, you’re right…… they don’t “ make ‘em like that anymore”
Batman had the “Guests” lining up to be on as well.
Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Clark, Werner Klemperer, Don Ho, Andy Devine, Art Linkletter, Edward G Robinson, Bruce Lee & Jerry Lewis
Get Smart is one of my favorite shows...absolutely brilliant but under rated shows of it's time.
I find that very. Hard. To. Bevieve
@@gerry-p9x "Would you believe?" "insert comment here"
Underrated??? What the FFFF are you talking about?
Some of the greatest comic talents and actors from the Golden Age EVER!!!
7:44 "We're trained to deal with the truth."😂
I see all of these clips and all I can see is wonderful Barbara Feldon!
funny i never noticed her when i was 12....but now....what a babe
Uhhh... Down, boys.
Uhhh.. .yes please
@@charlieh8883 I did notice her when I was 12, and I still think she's a babe!
Barbara Felton appeared on Cheers years later and even after 20 years she was still stunning.
Very cool! Nicely edited.
I'll always remember you, Don Adams. I cried after you passed. :'(
Me too, it was like losing a friend..
@@TheDarkelflover :(
The generation after me doesn't know of Don Adams very well...
...they missed him by that much...
😁😆
And 99😢
And, Don Adams was also a drill instructor for new US Marine Recruits during WWII. "Would you believe 'Left Face?' Bergstrom, you better go down and collect those guys who fell off the cliff."
Crazy how this show started the Cameo appearances thrn Batman picked it up. You can also tell Mel Brooks had a hand in the comedy writing. I watched it growing up when I could. Parents HAD to watch that skin flint of chamagne bubbles, Lawrence Welk.
There was another guest appearance that I remembered from watching "Get Smart". Danny Thomas appeared in an episode where Max was trying to get around London despite battling heavy fog and Danny was trying to give him directions along with another actor that I didn't recognize. I also loved seeing Johnny Carson as a train conductor in the "Aboard The Orient Express" episode.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Martin Landau had a hard time keeping a straight face when he said, “Never heard of him.” XD
My fave exchange in the Pat Paulsen episode:
"You guys were mean to me on the baseball team... Always throwing balls at me."
"Ace.... You were the catcher!"
"Doesn't matter!" 😄
The very definition of deadpan delivery.
@@kijekuyo9494 Paulsen was deep. Imagine him on GS as part of the cast...
Pat Paulsen had absolutely amazing comic timing.
Pat would have been an amazing regular cast member, but Monday was his bowling night...
😉
(Line was used by Paulsen to answer why he wouldn't have been able to go to the inauguration, had he won the 1968 presidential election.)
Precious memories and fun times.
Thank you Keith for sharing this with us.
Man I so loved Get Smart.
Wonderful TV series with all star cast and guests!
Get Smart is brilliant show. Great casting. Don Adams one of a kind.
Tony Laughlin ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST💙😇😁
Would you believe he had a twin ? No ? How about a hairless chihuahua ?
4:39 Hey, that's Frau Farbissina!
AKA Mindy Sterling
She was Dr. Evil's assistant in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"
Thank u 4 this. U did miss some tho like Ernest Borgnine, Julie Newmar, Jack Cassidy & and a sneaky one by Hugh Hefner.
And an appearance by the always reliable Simon Oakland.
Program was such a hoot in the 60s. Great silly humor.
I am glad I've watch the shows when I was a young boy those shows kept me out of trouble today I'm glad I had good parents
Jayone Thompson I am glad too !!!
I started watching these when I was about ten or eleven. I adored them. I totally got the humor. It was so witty and sometimes so stupid it was funny. The latter seasons were not as good, but everything that Mel Brooks had a hand in was brilliant.
YES! I was allowed to watch "Get Smart" only because my mother thought it would be good for me.
Yes I certainly agree it was a great show growing up as a Young Man and it still is today
Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.A great comedy from the greatest minds of comedy
Mel Brooks WITH Buck Henry. (created bad feelings)
Rest in peace Buck Henry.
Hymie, kill the light!😂😂😂😂😂
Most posters, deservedly, comment about the genius of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks in creating "Get Smart". Because both men are famous, it's easy to not realize that Leonard Stern was not only head writer but the producer of "Get Smart" for all of it's run. He was a comedy legend in his own right, having written for "The Jackie Gleason Show", helping Jackie Gleason to develop "The Honeymooners", writing some of the most memorable episodes. He also developed and wrote for "The Steve Allen Show". He did the same work AND executive produced "MacMillan and Wife", "The Governor and J.J", and the cult classic, "He and She". It was Leonard Stern, along with Don Adams that maintained and added to the Borscht-Belt type satire that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created for "Get Smart". It would be a disservice not to acknowledge the enormous influence of Leonard Stern had on the form, nature, and hilarity of "Get Smart".
My family still jokes about The Craw to this day. In fact we call the Canadian Revenue Agency. The Craw. lol
Thank you for this wonderful video.
D Evans I am a Canadian and that is a fantastic saying about the CRA
James Caan agreed to appear on "Get Smart" only on the condition that he wasn't listed on the end credits.
I recall he was credited as Rupert
@@zapkvr "Rupert as himself" wasn't it?
"But I don't have a brother." "Oh, would you like me to make you one?" ... Kills me every time!!!
One of my all time favorite shows.
" You're not gonna get your craws on me". That has to be one of the best episodes of the series.
"We Dupricate Anything". :D
You know a show is great when so many people are willing to be in it.
They had huge stars - Bob Hope, Milton Berle - and they were in basically cameo roles.
Missed a few of note: Sig Haig and the great Michael Dunn in the pilot. Victor French, Simon Oakland, Gordon Jump, James Cann and John Doucette just off the top of my head. Many thanks for sharing.
Michael Dunn is in the video. I think James Caan is too.
One of the greatest TV comedies ever. And quotes galore:
"Missed it by that much!"
"Sorry about that Chief!""
"That's the second biggest arrow I've ever seen!"
"... and, loving it!"
"Would you believe...."
It is easy to see why the actors would appear as a guest. They worked with talented and funny regulars and they had such great lines to deliver! I was in high school when this debuted and I remember when Robert Culp and Martin Landau spoofed themselves as inept spies. Still one of the funniest shows, thanks to Mel Brooks and Buck Henry.
So many of today's crappy comedies wish they had the talent that sitcoms of the 60's and 70's had,with each death a part of a great era is gone forever and mourned
...and one of the best TV directors in the industry, Bruce Bilson....
a priceless show and full of laughter Thank you
Call out to Buck Henry. Wrote many of the episodes. What no Siegfried? "Shmaaart!" Really a great show! Watched it on NBC.
He sure did. As much as Brooks, more or less, I think.
Martin Landau's appearance was kind of a parody of his Mission Impossible character (Rollin Hand).
"There's only one way you're going to take this this from me...(shows gun)...Yep...that's the way"
Of all the celebs here...still tbe funniest in my book and the source of endless hours of frustration for my parents.....
THE CRAW
Not the Craw!!!! The CRAW!!!
Get Smart is one of the best sitcoms to come out of the 60s. Yet it doesn't get the same fanfare that other, lesser sitcoms of the era still receive.
Maudie Prickett played the accompanist with Victor Buono. She was on other shows as HAZEL (playing a maid) and BEWITCHED (playing Tabitha's teacher).
She also played Max's Aunt Bertha in an earlier episode.
Maudie's phone company character on Gomer Pyle was hilarious!
This list is very impressive. What I would like to see is a gathering of guest stars from The Untouchables. I didn't see it in the TH-cam catalog. What a collection of talent you would see there!
One of the few shows I loved from my childhood that still holds up even today.
The genius of Mel Brooks is quite evident.
Amazing they had so many big names.
Would love to stream those !!
Wow, I had no idea there were that many great guest stars on Get Smart!
It's interesting though, to try and tell which ones were actual celebrity cameos, and which ones were probably just working actors. Obviously, Bob Hope, Carson, Milton Berle, etc. were all cameos done for effect, but I'm pretty sure many others, like Jamie Farr, Fred Willard, Tom Bosley, even James Caan were more just working actors at that time. This show ended in 1970, before any of the big roles of them and many others that were shown.
@@stevejackson2986 Don't know if it's true, but I heard James Caan appeared as a favor to his friend Don Adams, but used a pseudonym in the closing credits.
going to look at some of the Dean Martin roasts you'll always see Don Adams in the audience because he were friends with a lot of big shots and they helped him out by getting these guests on his show.
All those years ago, and damn it was a funny show.
It really was the best shows of it's time.
jsilence418 you could argue that get smart is the funniest show in t v history .
It was the 2nd funniest show I ever saw!
Don Rickles , Best line ever ," Hey Max Where's All The Broads "
Thanks Buck Henry & Mel Brooks!
I really liked that show, such a long time ago, now.
That was great! It was one of my favorite shows.
the comedy is timeless, and it's not one less whit funny now, over half a century later. It's a tribute to the writing, that this many stars took up funny cameos on the show. Comic brilliance.
I grew up with the 1960s tv programs Car 54 where are you. Get smart the Addams family. All great tv and much more funny then the rubbish today I was only a kid then but now watching it all again I realise how them days where happiest times for everyone. But now the world has changed so much there’s not much to laugh about so sad really
@Aussie Cockatoo don Adams standup comedy was far from politically correct...
Get Smart! Oh hell yeah what a great TV show! What ever happened to great TV shows like this! At least there are classic TV channels that i can still watch stuff like this!
Recognize most of them now , but when I first saw the show in the 60s I had no idea who any of them were.
Same... but in the 90's on Nick At Night. :)
Nice job, Keith. Get Smart never dies.
Absolute gold!!! 👍 I love it!!! 👏👏👏👏✌️
This was ahead of its time. Brilliant.
I was 15 years old and couldn't wait to watch this show when it came on every week. I believe it was Friday nights
Robert Middleton has been on countless tv shows...but check him out in the commercial for “Skittle Pool” with Don Adams....straight outta “Get Smart”....HILARIOUS
*"NO TORTURE! What have you got against TORTURE? No TORTURE? This used to be such FUN OUTFIT!"*
If you liked that. You would 'LOVE' the immortal... *"Enough talk! Let's TORTURE!"*
@@WalterDWormack214 No...."Take her to......the schoolroom".
From another episode, the reason why there were so many CHAOS agents was because of the pay and benefits. Once Max got that information Control went on strike.
Uncle Leo from Seinfeld
Uncle Leo, no!
Carson as a guard too funny and regis as a Baker Lol
Carson was also train conductor going thru Liechtenstein
All I can say is wow what a line up on the celebrity guess spot.
Campy is the hardest form of comedy because it has to maintain a structure and the timing has to be so precise. The 1960's were the golden age of comedy. Of course we never see all the flops anymore. The Caveman family time travel show My Mother the Car, Red Buttons spy show, Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific... .
William Daniel's starred in Mr Terrific, and the caveman show was named It 's About Time.
@robertgandler3177 I love the Caveman show. Me TV shows it now and then. Imogen Coco was hysterical.
I love Uncle Leo the best, what? No torture? Best line in Get Smart ever.
I'm surprised that it wasn't mentioned but the guy in the scene with Vincent Price was Ross Martin who co starred with Robert Conrad in Wild Wild West.
Love this when I was a kid. So funny and still funny now in 2021
the Martin Landau cameo was the funniest given that IMF agent Rollin Hand (and inspiration for Ethan Hunt) had made him a household name.
I loved this show as a kid. I have season 1
We need another candidate for president like Pat Paulsen. He was so original and actually won protest votes!
Wasn't he on Smothers Brothers? I remember him as a ' candidate',not sure which show.Laugh In?
Loved the show growing up-thanks for this. Still hilarious...
That Pat Paulson bit was way ahead of its time 😂
08:21 If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that Reinhardt was Wild Wild West's master of disguise and dialect, Ross Martin.
You are correct! He wasnt even mentioned!
I vote for Get Smart marathon on Thanksgiving instead of Twilight Zone, who's with me 🙌
Would you believe...
Actually, more appropriate for Thanksgiving would be a show about a family.... Such as 'The Waltons', 'Little House On The Prairie',... or 'Leave It To Beaver' type sitcoms...
You got my vote
All the way!
@@kennikuhlmann-clark9860 Whatever you say, princess.
Happy Birthday 99!
Had fantastic guest stars
And here we thought Batman had some interesting cameos. Great video!
. . . and goodness, was BF gorgeous!!
Barney Fife ?
@@gotohell7795 _Barney_ _Fife ?_
Barbara Feldon, and she was pretty foxy.
@@gotohell7795 Hahahahaha
I kinda got a boner when she was tied up in the dungeon.
Anyone else agree?
Ahhhhh
Those were the days
@ 7:44 - Cesar Romero - the original Joker on Batman! He played the BEST Joker! Screw you, Nichelson XD
4.38 Victor Buono played King Tut on Batman
@@rhysthomas5811 And I remember an episode that guest-starred Julie Newmar, which obviously they overlooked for this compilation.
Nicholson?!? I think Ledger has the title. Even Mark Hamill before Nicholson.
Milton Berle: Louie the Lilac and Vincent Price: Egghead
Also guest-starring in the Romero episode was Julie Sommars, who went on to star in another Leonard Stern-produced program, The Governor and J.J., and years after that, played Andy Griffith's courtroom nemesis/love interest on Matlock.
Great memories
I noticed that 3 or 4 of the actors also played villains in the Batman 60s series!!!
Well what do you know? Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo in the same episode!
one of my favorite shows along with the Danny Kaye show
I've been in a lot of situations wherein "The Cone of Silence" would be a great help.
What?
"Missed it by that much".😢
Looks like Seinfeld's Uncle Leo behind Len Lesser at 5:40.
I got the whole box set I can watch it anytime I want
The networks were clever about this--sharing the big names among the shows, It added to the fun. Keith Roeckle--nice vid production.
@ 8:31 - Good old Vincent Price who voiced himself for "13 Ghost Of Scooby Doo", the radio drama of "The Saint", the scientist behind The Tingler, the voice over in Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
Dr. PHIBES
Egghead
Years later comment here, but you forgot he was also the arachnid expert tour guide on "The Black Widow" by Alice Cooper
This was an excellent vintage show !
It was cool how they had guest stars you don't see that much anymore the old batman show did it also when they would climb the wall the actors opened the window and talked