“Get Smart” is an American action–spy–comedy television series that parodies the secret agent genre popular in the United States in the late 1960s. The TV show ran from 1965-1970. Maxwell Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, works for CONTROL, a Washington, D.C.-based counterintelligence agency. Totally incompetent as a secret agent, Smart can barely use the gadgetry the agency provides him (including a phone embedded in his shoe). Nevertheless, he and his fellow agents always seem to foil the operations of KAOS, an organized crime cartel dedicated to evil. Agent 99 is Smart’s smarter partner, a glamourous and resourceful female agent who is much more competent than her male counterpart. Smart and Agent 99’s boss is a man known only as The Chief.
In the stage play, Smart is off on a bizarre new case in which he must stop the sinister organization known as KAOS from their most shameful plot. Their plan this time is to prove their power by blowing up a famous American landmark! Smart springs (perhaps we should say stumbles) into action with the assistance of a new partner, the beautiful Agent 99. Smart proceeds from one gigantic blunder to another, each, however, somehow turning into a masterstroke. This is the ultimate spoof of all secret agent thrillers.
