Don Adams is Agent 86 In His First Motion Picture

"The Nude Bomb" . . . . Would You Believe It ?


Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's clothing. On television, the film was renamed The Return of Maxwell Smart.


The Nude Bomb (also known as The Return of Maxwell Smart or Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb) is a 1980 comedy film based on the television series Get Smart. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and was directed by Clive Donner. It was retitled The Return of Maxwell Smart for television so as to avoid any trouble with the censors.


The film was a box office disappointment. Nearly a decade later another revival film was produced, this time for TV, on ABC. Get Smart, Again! would feature most of the surviving original cast members and ignored the events that took place in The Nude Bomb for continuity purposes. This was followed by a short-lived revival TV series for Fox. A feature film remake of the series was a box office success in 2008; it grossed $230,685,453 worldwide.
The Nude Bomb was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Pcture.

Release Date: May 9, 1980

Distrib: Universal

Boxoffice: $14,662,035 2013: $43,277,500

Would you believe... Maxwell Smart goes undercover to expose a plot to make the world naked?