When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks created 1965's Get Smart, both were at peak points in their careers. In 1968, Henry would receive an Academy Award nomination for writing The Graduate; the next year, Brooks would win a screenwriting Oscar for The Producers.
The Get Smart premise had inept secret agent Maxwell Smart trying to foil the evil plots of the rival KAOS spy network. The idea to create a spy who combined earnest seriousness with complete cluelessness came from producer Dan Melnick, who put the two writers together.
Henry, who died in January at 89, said in a 2008 interview that he "fantasized" about James Bond and The Pink Panther's Inspector Clouseau having a child. "Buck and I really complemented each other," Brooks tells THR.
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