Would You Believe We Interviewed "Get Smart's" Barbara Feldon?
She played Maxwell Smart's better half on the beloved spy spoof Get Smart in the 1960s. As "Agent 99", Barbara Feldon (who celebrates her birthday today, March 12th) helped her bumbling partner defeat the forces of KAOS: "an international organization of evil." Get Smart ran from 1965-1970, and Feldon went on to appear in several films and made-for-television movies, and write books of both poetry and prose.
In their Archive Interviews, both Feldon and Get Smart Executive Producer Leonard Stern discuss how Feldon won the role of "99":
We missed interviewing Don Adams "by that much" (he passed away in 2005), but you can watch Barbara Feldon's full Archive interview here. And to learn more about the fabulous Get Smart catchphrases, watch Bill Dana's interview. Gotta go now - sorry about that, Chief!