Editing Get Smart (section)

=== Adams in similar roles ===
In the 1960s, Adams had a supporting role on the sitcom ''[[The Bill Dana Show]]'' (1963–1965) as the hopelessly inept [[hotel detective]] Byron Glick. His speech mannerisms, catchphrases ("Would you believe...?"), and other comedy bits were adapted for his "Maxwell Smart" role in ''Get Smart''.

In 1971, Adams starred as Sgt. Lennie Crooks, a bumbling police detective similar to the bumbling secret agent he played on ''Get Smart'', on ''[[The Partners]]''.  His partner and best friend, Detective George Robinson, was a not-quite-as-bumbling policeman played by [[Rupert Crosse]].  They reported to Captain Andrews, played by [[John Doucette]], a similarly harried supervisor in the tradition of Edward Platt's "Chief."  [[Robert Karvelas]], who had played Agent Larabee on ''Get Smart'', had a recurring role as Freddie Butler, who felt compelled to confess to crimes he did not commit.  The series only lasted a half-season. 

When [[WVTV-DT2|WCGV-TV]], a new [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]] in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], signed on the air in 1980, Adams did in-house promos as Agent 86 to let viewers know when the reruns of ''Get Smart'' aired on the station by using his shoephone.

In one of Adams' five appearances as a guest passenger in the series ''[[The Love Boat]]'', his character, even when he thought he had been shot, makes no attempt to visit the ship's doctor. The role of the doctor in ''The Love Boat'' was played by [[Bernie Kopell]], who played Siegfried in ''Get Smart''.

In 1982, Adams starred as Maxwell Smart in a series of local commercials for New York City electronics chain Savemart. The [[slogan]] was "Get Smart. Get SaveMart Smart."<ref>Dougherty, Philip H. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE5D61138F933A15752C0A964948260 "Don Adams Gets Smart For Savemart Spots"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 20, 1982</ref> In addition, Adams starred in a series of commercials for [[White Castle (restaurant)|White Castle]] in 1992, paying homage to his ''Get Smart'' character with his catchphrase "Would you believe...?"

In the 1980s, Adams provided the (similar) voice of the titular bungling cyborg secret agent in the animated series ''[[Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget]]''. This later became a [[Inspector Gadget (film)|feature film]] in 1999 starring [[Matthew Broderick]] in the title role of Inspector John Brown Gadget (in which Adams had a cameo), and its prequel series ''[[Gadget Boy & Heather]]''. Neither was directly related to ''Get Smart''.

In the mid-1980s, Adams reprised his role of Maxwell Smart for a series of telephone banking commercials for Empire of America Federal Savings Bank in [[Buffalo, New York]]. The telephone banking service was called SmartLine, and Sherwin Greenberg Productions (a video production company and bank subsidiary) produced radio and television ads, as well as a series of still photos for use in promotional flyers that featured Adams' Maxwell Smart character wearing the familiar trenchcoat and holding a shoe phone to his ear. The television commercials were videotaped in Sherwin Greenberg Productions' studio on a set that resembled an old alleyway which utilized fog-making machinery for special effect. The production company even secured a lookalike of the red Alpine that Adams used in the television series, making it a memorable promotion for those familiar with the series of nearly 20 years earlier.

In the late 1980s, Adams portrayed Smart in a series of TV commercials for Toyota New Zealand, for the 1990 model Toyota Starlet. While it is customary for the actor to go to the foreign location for shooting, Adams' apparent intense dislike of long-distance flying meant that the New Zealand specification car had to be shipped to the US for filming. He also appeared in another series of Canadian commercials in the late 1990s for a [[Interexchange carrier|dial-around long-distance carrier]]. In the movie ''[[Back to the Beach]]'' (1987), Adams played the Harbor Master, who used several of Maxwell Smart's catchphrases (including an exchange in which [[Frankie Avalon]]'s character did a vague impression of Siegfried).

Adams played Smart in a 1989 TV commercial for [[Kmart (United States)|Kmart]]. He was seen talking on his trademark shoe phone, telling the Chief about the great selection of electronics available at Kmart. An exact replica of himself approaches him, and Smart says, "Don't tell me you're a double agent." (This was a reference to a running gag on the original series, in which Max detected some sort of setback or danger, and would say to 99, "Don't tell me..." and then 99 replied by stating a confirmation of whatever Max was afraid to hear, to which Max would always respond, "I ''asked'' you not to tell me that!")

Adams also appeared in a number of [[McDonald's]] television commercials, which also featured numerous stars of TV series viewed as classic or with nostalgia, such as [[Barbara Billingsley]] from ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'', [[Buddy Ebsen]] from ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', [[Bob Denver]] from ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' and [[Al Lewis (actor)|Al Lewis]] from ''[[The Munsters]]''.

Adams also starred in a Canadian sitcom titled ''Check It Out'' in which he played a supermarket manager. Adams' running jokes in ''Get Smart'', such as "the old [something something] trick" and "I told you not to tell me that!" were used in the show but in a supermarket setting.