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The Best Episodes of Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don...

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  1. 8.6/10(284 votes)

    #1 - A Spy for a Spy

    S2:E3

    A series of kidnapping take place between KAOS and CONTROL, masterminded by Siegfried. So many kidnappings take place, no one is left but Siegfried and Maxwell Smart, who must negotiate the trade of captured agents.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.5/10(290 votes)

    #2 - Back to the Old Drawing Board

    S1:E19

    KAOS is interested in capturing Dr. Shotwire, a brilliant scientist whose work has been set 6 months back thanks to his bodyguard's helping hands (no other than 86). The KAOS agent in charge of the kidnapping, Natz, also has a vendetta with Max who sent him to prison in the past. Natz's plan involves the latest creation of rogue Dr. Ratton: Hymie a humanoid robot who enters Control as a newbie agent. However no one knows what to expect when Hymie has a drink and gets some quality time with Max.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
  3. 8.4/10(215 votes)

    #3 - 99 Loses CONTROL

    S3:E19

    Feeling that she has no future at Control, and no future with Max, 99 decides to leave, and accept the marriage proposal with handsome, wealthy Victor Royale. Max, feeling jealous, goes to pursue 99. Having saved Royale from an assassination attempt, Royale offers Max a job as his bodyguard.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
  4. 8.3/10(241 votes)

    #4 - Hoo Done It

    S2:E8

    Max and Harry Hoo try to solve a murder of an agent in a tropical hotel, but their suspects keep turning into victims.

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  5. 8.3/10(203 votes)

    #5 - How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying

    S2:E25

    Max and 99 are saved by Siegfried, who wants to defect. The Chief doesn't trust Siegfried until he starts to sell important information about KAOS.

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    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.3/10(182 votes)

    #6 - The Not-So-Great Escape (1)

    S4:E25

    Max is assigned to see Agent Kendall safely on a plane to Europe. However, Kendall mysteriously disappears from the airport after being paged. When Max takes the Chief to the airport to find out what happened, the Chief also disappears after being paged.

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    Director:Don Adams
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  8. 8.2/10(269 votes)

    #7 - Too Many Chiefs

    S1:E11

    Alexi Sebastian, a master impersonator, attempts to kill someone who was about to reveal the secret of the KAOS coding system. Alexi disguises himself as the Chief to confuse the situation even more. Max and 99 must guard Tanya Lupescu, who has memorized KAOS' codebook. An attempt to hide her in a hotel fails, so CONTROL decides to hide her in Max's apartment. KAOS hires master impersonator Alexi Sebastian to kill Lupesco. Sebastian has successfully disguised himself as Johnny Carson and Max's Aunt Rose, so CONTROL has him listed as a 101 - shoot on sight. Sebastian disguises himself as the Chief and gets inside the apartment, but the real Chief shows up and Max is confronted by two Chiefs. Can Maxie pick the correct Chief?

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  9. 8.2/10(272 votes)

    #8 - My Nephew the Spy

    S1:E12

    Max stumbles upon a shoe store that just happens to be a KAOS communications center. Max is follwed by a KAOS agent who wants to kill him. The arrival of Max's aunt and uncle foil the KAOS agent's plan.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
  10. 8.2/10(266 votes)

    #9 - The Amazing Harry Hoo

    S1:E25

    The Claw is back, and planning to lead Max into his deadly trap. His scheme leads Max and 99 to San Francisco as they follow a Chinese agent (Number 3) in the hopes that this will lead them to Number One (Claw), the mastermind behind a smuggling operation that uses a laundromat as facade (though the real money is actually in the laundry). However Max gets help from Harry Hoo, a chinese police inspector with a keen eye for detail and two possibilities to explain anything.

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  11. 8.2/10(250 votes)

    #10 - Ship of Spies (1)

    S1:E27

    Ahoy mate! Max's new assignment has him in a boat where he must find the blueprints of a super weapon while watching his back from a mysterious killer who makes a peculiar clip-clop sound, which is not that much help as every single passenger and crew member make that sound.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Buck Henry
  12. 8.2/10(227 votes)

    #11 - Anatomy of a Lover

    S2:E1

    KAOS reprograms Hymie to murder the Chief. After Max foils the attempt, and unable to go through dismantling him, he hides Hymie in his apartment. Posing as Max's cousin, Hymie meets the Chief's daughter who immediately becomes smitten with the robot. KAOS again reprograms Hymie, and this time, he's out to kill Max!

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:N/A
  13. 8.2/10(211 votes)

    #12 - A Man Called Smart (1)

    S2:E28

    KAOS steals a water evaporation formula (DRY-UP) and blackmails the country by threatening to dry up all its water.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:N/A
  14. 8.2/10(198 votes)

    #13 - A Man Called Smart (2)

    S2:E29

    Admiral Hardgrade, CONTROL's first chief, is appointed by the president to take charge of CONTROL during this crisis. He sends the Chief, Max and 99 into the field to interview Bediyoskin and learn who's behind the DryUp caper.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:N/A
  15. 8.2/10(213 votes)

    #14 - One of Our Olives is Missing

    S3:E7

    A country singer accidentally swallows a KAOS transmitter disguised as an olive. Max has to protect her from KAOS agents.

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  16. 8.2/10(169 votes)

    #15 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)

    S4:E26

    CONTROL agents tunnel out of the KAOS POW camp à la "The Great Escape."

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  17. 8.1/10(255 votes)

    #16 - Double Agent

    S1:E16

    Max has to become a broken, drunk agent so that KAOS will probably try to recruit him as one of their agents. He eventually is and has a difficult task.

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    Writer:N/A
  18. 8.1/10(240 votes)

    #17 - Ship of Spies (2)

    S1:E28

    99's quick and clever reactions save Max from drowning. Back on the ship, Max talks with the captain who offers his assistance after finding out the reason he can never understand his aide. To make matters worse, 44 has finally had it. Not only Max cracks his super secret message, but he's tired of working hidden, not being able to eat at the captain's table, it's a boring job... As if it wasn't bad enough, he gets shot and Max finally discovers who the killer is, though it may be too late for him.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Buck Henry
  19. 8.1/10(196 votes)

    #18 - Cutback at CONTROL

    S2:E18

    The Senate is close to closing down CONTROL which leads to some agents working with KAOS.

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  20. 8.1/10(198 votes)

    #19 - A Man Called Smart (3)

    S2:E30

    KAOS attempts to kill the Chief in his hospital room, but a sharp-eyed 99 foils the plot. Investigating a clue at Three Brothers Omniwash, Max and 99 discover TBO means T.B.Orlando, a Hollywood executive. Or does it? When Orlando turns up dead, Max and 99 must find the truth before KAOS dries up the Mississippi River.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:N/A
  21. 8.1/10(201 votes)

    #20 - The Spy Who Met Himself

    S3:E1

    KAOS's League of Impersonators are serving as duplicates for CONTROL agents, trying to steal the plans for a warhead and wreak havoc at CONTROL. After the real Max kidnapped and is replaced by an impostor, he manages to escape and a committee has to determine which is the real Max!

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  22. 8.1/10(198 votes)

    #21 - The Mysterious Dr. T

    S3:E13

    When a top CONTROL scientist dies, it turns out that he wasn't the real brains behind the operations.

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    Director:Gary Nelson
  23. 8.1/10(200 votes)

    #22 - The King Lives?

    S3:E14

    Max travels to Coronia to protect the King of Coronia from the King's evil half-brother Basil

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    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Don Adams
  24. 8.1/10(222 votes)

    #23 - The Little Black Book (1)

    S3:E16

    Max receives a visit from his Army buddy Sid Krimm.Before he arrives however,a woman defecter from Kaos shows up to give Max a little Black Book that contains the names of various Kaos Agents.

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  25. 8.1/10(198 votes)

    #24 - The Hot Line

    S3:E24

    The Chief is relieved of duty as Chief when "the President" (actually Gorshen, a Kaos voice impersonator) calls him and demotes him, making Max the new Chief. This is part of Kaos's plan to infiltrate and then destroy Control--but with Max in charge, Kaos doesn't really need to plan.

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    Director:Gary Nelson
  26. 8.1/10(187 votes)

    #25 - The Reluctant Redhead

    S3:E26

    CONTROL tries to get files that contain a list of KAOS informers and agents.

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    Director:James Komack
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"A Spy for a Spy" is the best rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 8.6/10 based on 284 votes. Directed by Bruce Bilson and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1966. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Back to the Old Drawing Board".