Time-Life releases Get Smart: The Complete Collection on DVD. Order the DVDs now! Use coupon code "AFGOLD" to get $30 off!     This is not your ordinary DVD release, a great deal of time, hard work, and love went into these releases. The release features the original episodes, uncut and beautifully re-mastered. It's a release no Get Smart fan can miss!
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Here's the scoop on the Get Smart on DVD, as there are several options:

• The box set is available for ordering now. You can also order season sets of either Season One or Season Two for $39.99 apiece by clicking on the link to the right. Both season sets have over two hours of extras and there are over ten hours of extras on the box set. A complete list of the extras is below.
• The box set and the season sets with extras are only available through Time-Life, at least until December 9th. On December 9th, the box set will be available via normal retail outlets.
• HBO did a standard retail release of Season One on August 5th. They will be selling the set for $24.98, but there will be NO extras on the HBO retail release. Whether or not HBO releases further season sets will depend on the sales of the season one release. However, future retail releases will NOT have extras either. The only way to get extras is via the Time-Life sets, or the future retail release of the box set. With commentary, interviews, and mini-documentaries, the extras are easily worth the extra price.
• The box set is $199, a great price for all five seasons. It's $199 whether you buy it via retail or Time-Life. That's $1.45 an episode! It's even less when you use the above discount available to fans of this website.
• The restoration and mastering of the episodes is absolutely phenomenal. It's the sharpest and cleanest release of a show I've ever seen. The restoration company did an amazing job with the show. Leonard Stern said that "finally Get Smart can be seen the way it was meant to be seen." For details on the restoration, check out my restoration page.
• Check out their quality on the clips below!

• All episodes and extras have an audio introduction from Barbara Feldon.
• They are closed captioned and the only language featured is English.
• This is a Region 1 release.
• It comes packaged in a cool phone booth case!
• As always, scans of the artwork, packaging, and menu screens premiered on this website and can be seen on my graphics page.
• Order the DVDs now!
• Time-Life's box set is only available in the United States and Canada, but the retail release will be available at online retailers who ship worldwide.

Information for buyers outside of the U.S. and Canada:

• Australian fans can rejoice! EZYDVD has announced plans to sell the show in season sets for the much more reasonable price of $50 per season. Details can be found here. They are only selling Seasons 1-3 now, but will be adding Seasons 4 and 5 on November 5 (thanks for the info Adam!), finally giving Aussies an affordable option. Time-Life Australia is selling the episodes as individual DVDs, but their pricing is so outrageous that they have offended most Australian fans.
  Some more details from Aussie George G. -" The Australian retail releases of Get Smart by Warner Bros/HBO (so far season 1 has been released, with seasons 2 and 3 to follow in late July) are each identical in content to the Region 1 Time-Life releases - i.e., 5 discs per season, with the 5th disc containing all of the same extras as the Time-Life Region 1 releases! The DVD covers for each season, including the blurbs, the discs themselves, and the menus on each disc, are all the same. Each episode is also introduced by Barbara Feldon's audio commentary. The only difference is that the Australian retail releases do not have the booklets which each Region 1 Time-Life season set contains (but the episode and extras guide is printed inside the DVD case in identical form, except there is no reference to the original airdate for each episode). There is of course no phone-booth box. Even the credits information inside each season's DVD case is identical to the Region 1 Time-Life release (including credits for the "liner notes" (i.e., the booklets) which are in fact not in the Region 4 season sets!) The other difference is that the discs are housed in a traditional amaray case, but it's slimline, very neat and no overlapping discs, and the episode and extras guide is visible immediately without having to remove any discs. "
• Agente 86: Season One will be released in Brazil by 2001 Video on June 19th. It will have audio in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as subtitles in the same languages. It also features the same extras as the Time-Life release and uses the same beautifully restored masters. Thanks to Jose R. for the information.
• In Germany Season One was released by Kinowelt Home Entertainment/DVD on September 8, 2006. However, there are NO bonus materials and they did not use the beautifully restored masters that Time-Life/HBO are using. It is only available in Germany. However, the producers of this DVD set definitely went the cheap route on this release so I strongly recommend that you NOT purchase this set unless you can't understand English. The Time-Life set is so superior that buying this would be a waste of your money, in my opinion.

The Extras

    There are a ton of great extras on the release as well. I think the producers did a marvelous job locating extras and selecting things for inclusion and were very conscious of the desires of the fans. Please note that the top three extras requested by the fans are all on the DVDs, a remarkable achievement and one that shows how carefully the DVD producer (Paul Brownstein) worked to ensure a top-notch release. Here's a look at the release.

• Audio Commentaries

  Mel Brooks - Mr. Big
  Buck Henry - Mr. Big
  Barbara Feldon - Kisses for KAOS
  Leonard Stern - A Man Called Smart
  Bernie Kopell - How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying
  Barbara Feldon & Buck Henry - 99 Loses CONTROL, With Love and Twitches
  Don Rickles - The Little Black Book, Part 2
  James Caan - To Sire, With Love
  Bill Dana - Ice Station Siegfried

• Interviews

Buck Henry
Barbara Feldon
Leonard Stern
Bruce Bilson
Bernie Kopell

• Featurettes

The Secret History of Get Smart
Barbara Feldon: Real Model to Role Model
Spooks, Spies, Gadgets and Gizmos
Code Words and Catchphrases
The Fans of Get Smart

• Other TV Shows

The Bill Dana Show episode that shows Don Adams doing an early version of the Maxwell Smart character as Detective Byron Glick. It also contains one of the earliest “would you believe” jokes. 
Don Adams on The Andy Williams Show (3 appearances).
Barbara's Top Brass Hair Care Commercial
1965 NBC Season Preview hosted by Maxwell Smart
Two 1965 Get Smart Promos
Get Smart's Emmy Award Wins
Don on Milton Berle's Wild, Wild World of Comedy
Syndication promo

•  Other Footage

Bloopers!!!
A 60-minute excerpt from the legendary Museum of Television & Radio's Get Smart seminar in 2003. 
Don's 75th birthday party and roast at the Playboy Mansion
Don and Barbara as grand marshalls of the Rose Bowl Parade
Segments from Don's Memorial Service"
Don Adams Finds Out He's a Father
Sue's Ultimate Get Smart Clip Reel
1967 Pepsodent commercial featuring Don as Agent 86 and Dave Ketchum as Agent 13
3 White Castle Commercials from 1990 starring Don Adams
3 Chief Auto Parts Commercials with Don parodying Get Smart and using his famous catchphrases!
1991 Choice Hotels commercial starring Don
1999 Buck-A-Call commercial with Don as a retired secret agent

• Non-video Features

Season Two Liner Notes from Dave Ketchum
Season Three Liner Notes from Alan Spencer
The Chief's office layout
Plans for Max's Sunbeam Tiger
Max's Apartment Blueprint
99's Purse Contents
CONTROL Aptitude Test

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Wow, what an outstanding batch of extras! Yes, it is extremely unfortunately that Don passed away before this production began. However, the producers took great care to ensure that Don's career and work were extremely well-represented and I think they did a fabulous job. The DVD was executive produced by Paul Brownstein and produced by Sue Kesler and they deserve an amazing amount of credit for putting together a fabulous DVD set, as does Time-Life.

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