Don Adams

Trivia

• Adams was the voice of Brain the dog in the end credits for the film version of Inspector Gadget in 1999.
• Adams stated in interviews that his famous "clippy" voice characterization was an exaggeration of the speaking style of actor William Powell.
• In 2003, Adams joined a Get Smart tribute at the Museum of Television and Radio.
• He later went on to voice the character of Principal Hickley in the late-90s Disney cartoon, Pepper Ann.
• He reprised his Maxwell Smart role on Get Smart for Fox in 1995, which co-starred Barbara Feldon and rising star Andy Dick as Max's & 99's only son. Unlike the original version, this show did not appeal to younger viewers and it was canceled after only 6 episodes.
• He attempted a situation-comedy comeback in Canada with Check it Out! in 1985; the show ran for three years in Canada, but it was not successful in the United States.
• Adams was the voice of the title character in Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966), but he was more famous as the voice of Inspector Gadget in the initial run of that television series (1983–1986) and the Christmas special, as well as in later reprises; he even voiced himself in animated form for a guest shot in an episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "The Exterminator," which first aired on CBS October 13, 1973.
• The show was done in two 15-minute segments, in each of which a randomly selected audience member would 'act' to re-create a scene from a Hollywood movie as accurately as possible.
• Don Adams' Screen Test was a syndicated game show which lasted 26 episodes during the 1975–76 season.
• As Adams had chosen a low salary combined with a one-third ownership stake in Get Smart during the show's production, he received a regular income for many years due to the show's popularity in reruns.

Quotes

• “A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers are all champions, the fees can more than double. Probably more like $200,”
• “If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.”
• “We expect an ample supply of fuel, but it's going to be almost out of reach of the normal working man.”
• “These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range of $7,000”
• “When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries in the UPS systems were not sufficiently strong enough.”