'He was gifted with a great imagination,' says Mel Brooks of Buck Henry, who died in January at age 89
Director James Frawley, writer Buck Henry and writer-director Leonard Stern at the 19th annual Primetime Emmys on June 4, 1967.
. "He was gifted with a great imagination. He came up with that amazingly funny concept of the 'cone of silence' in which no one could hear each other. I invented the shoe phone. I should have patented it." It was picked up by NBC's Grant Tinker as a vehicle for Don Adams, who would portray Smart with a mortician's gravity. "Don's nonstop energy was incredible," says Brooks. "He wasn't just doing a job, he knew it was his life's work."
While the 138-episode series was a critical hit, it did just so-so in the ratings . But it fared well at the Emmys, collecting 14 nominations and seven wins.
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