Get Smart: The Complete Series

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For me, Get Smart was such a formative TV experience that it’s hard to know exactly where to begin. I was raised on a steady diet of classic TV series — the usual suspects like “I Love Lucy,” “Andy Griffith” and “The Honeymooners” — but Get Smart (which I caught in re-runs on Nick at Nite) was one of the first TV shows that appealed to my developing sense of humor; a silly, scattered send-up of secret agents, I was a fan of Maxwell Smart’s before I ever laid eyes on a James Bond flick.

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That the show is as funny as I remember it is a relief. Often, when revisiting childhood memories, you’re chagrined to discover the objects of your affection can be a little tarnished. As producer Rory Mach writes in the booklet accompanying the first season, “Looking back with the clarity of hindsight, the success of ‘Get Smart’ seems never to have been in doubt. Indeed,…Read the entire review

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