Pitched as a mash-up between the cool James Bond and the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, Get Smart brought a world of evil supervillains and shoe phones to our TVs on Sept. 18, 1965. Cocreated by Mel ...

Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two ...