Don Adams News

It was while he played Captain Kirk on "Star Trek" that he suggested to prop makers to make a piece that flips up for the communicator device he would use to talk to crew members on the Enterprise.

ABC publicity still from 1989. Reunion of cast for "Get Smart, Again!" movie. L to R: Robert Karvelas, Dave Ketchum, Don Adams, Dick Gautier.

Master spy author John le Carre turned 81 this month. Got us to thinking about the spy genre.

The year was 1968, and at the Emmy Awards ceremony, Bill Cosby completed his three-year winning streak for lead actor in a drama for "I Spy." Not to be outdone, Don Adams and Lucille Ball were also repeat winners.

Remember the "cone of silence," the failure-prone gadget that livened up Don Adams' old Get Smart show on NBC? Adams played Maxwell Smart, a secret agent who sometimes tried to give secret information to his boss, who would lower the clear plastic device over both their heads.