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Time-Life releases
Get
Smart: The Complete Collection
on DVD.
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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
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Get Smart
DVD artwork & menu screens here!
Here's the scoop on the Get Smart on DVD, as there are
several options:
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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.
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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.
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- 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:
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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.
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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.
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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
Buck Henry
Barbara Feldon
Leonard Stern
Bruce Bilson
Bernie Kopell
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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
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
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
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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