Would you believe?

The find of the week at our wonderful library: DVDs of the first season of “Get Smart,” the brilliant Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy spoof that channeled the angst of the Cold War period into deadpan silliness. It is amazing how well these shows hold up, in script, humor and production values (by the way, I never even knew these shows were in color, having delayed the introduction of color TV into our lives until sometime in the ’90s). As we watched, the girls were howling with laughter at the obvious but unavoidable jokes, the slapstick, the endless things in which phones were hidden, and, of course, the “Cone of Silence.” Also – Barbara Feldon. I mean, seriously.