Get Smart the beginning of the 20th century by Harold Harmon Hargrade, a career officer in the United States Navy's N-2 (Intelligence) Branch. Hargrade served as the first Chief of CONTROL. "CONTROL" is not an acronym, but it is always shown in all capital letters as if it were. Maxwell "Max" Smart, code number Agent 86 (portrayed by Don Adams) is the central character. Despite being a top secret government agent, he is absurdly clumsy, very naive and has occasional lapses of attention. Due to his frequent verbal gaffes and physical miscues, most of the people Smart encounters believe he is grossly
Jean Smart and John Lithgow. In 2018, Smart played a guardian angel, to co-star Candace Cameron, in Hallmark's "A Shoe Addict's Christmas, which aired Sunday November 25th, 2018. Smart is married to actor Richard Gilliland, whom she met while working on the set of "Designing Women" (he played J.D. Shackelford, the boyfriend of Annie Potts's character, Mary Jo Shively). They have a son, Connor Douglas (born 1989), and a daughter, Bonnie Kathleen (adopted as a baby from China in May 2009). Gilliland played Captain Stan Cotter on "24" while Smart later played First Lady Martha Logan on the same series. Jean Smart