Get Smart is in the insurance business, and on one occasion, that he works for the "Bureau of Internal Revenue". Smart served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and is an ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He was played by Steve Carell in the 2008 film. In 1999, "TV Guide" ranked Maxwell Smart number 19 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. The character appears in every episode (though only briefly in "Ice Station Siegfried", as Don Adams was performing in Las Vegas for two weeks to settle gambling debts). Admiral Harold Harmon Hargrade or (William
Get Smart Glick. His speech mannerisms, catch phrases ("Would you believe...?"), and other comedy bits were adapted for his "Maxwell Smart" role on "Get Smart". When WCGV-TV, a new independent station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin signed on the air in 1980, Adams did in-house promos as Agent 86 to let viewers know when the reruns of "Get Smart" aired on the station by using his shoephone. In one of Adams' five appearances as a guest passenger on the series "The Love Boat", his character, even when he thought he had been shot, makes no attempt to visit the ship's doctor. The role of