Mr. Big (Get Smart) Mr. Big (Get Smart) "Mr. Big" is the first episode of the first season of "Get Smart" and originally aired on September 18, 1965. In it, Maxwell Smart must rescue Professor Dante, whose device (the Enthermo) is being used by KAOS to menace the world. Max is told to rescue the professor, and bring back the Enthermo. Produced as the pilot episode of the series, this episode was filmed in black and white in early 1965. All other episodes that followed were in color. Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) is called up during a concert by his shoe-phone, and is then
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