Don Adams, who played bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart from 1965-1970 on TV's Get Smart, died today at age 82. Adams was hilarious with physical comedy and frequently played the comedian to Edward Platt's "The Chief" on Get Smart. Ed Platt died in 1974. Perhaps the funniest moments between Maxwell Smart and the The Chief were when Smart insisted on using the "cone of silence" to discuss top secret information with The Chief. The only problem with the cone of silence was that anyone else could hear what they were saying, but they couldn't hear each other. Get Smart was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry as a parody of James Bond films. Maxwell Smart was as bumbling as James Bond was resourceful, and yet somehow he still had a job. His sidekick, Agent 99, played by Barbara Feldon, usually found a way to get both of them out of a situation that he had gotten them into. The series was also a satire of Cold War espionage, as both CONTROL (the U.S. intelligence organization) and KAOS (the Soviet/German intelligence organization) were equally inept.

Don Adams reprised his role as Maxwell Smart in the 1989 TV movie Get Smart, Again!. In 1995, Fox tried to revive Get Smart, this time with Maxwell Smart as the chief of CONTROL and Andy Dick as his son, Zach Smart. The series didn't go too well.

You may also remember Don Adams as the voice of Inspector Gadget.