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The Best Episodes of Get Smart

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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 Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created

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    Get Smart Season 2 Episode 3 - A Spy for a Spy
    8.3/10(3 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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns

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  2. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 2 - Diplomat's Daughter
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Diplomat's Daughter

    S1:E2

    Numerous blondes have been kidnapped and Smart is assigned to protect a beautiful diplomat's daughter. He discovers the KAOS lair and tangles with The Claw, capturing him and his henchmen.

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  3. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 12 - My Nephew the Spy
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Marvin Worth, Arne Sultan

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  4. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 13 - Aboard the Orient Express
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Aboard the Orient Express

    S1:E13

    CONTROL couriers are aboard the Orient Express are being murdered in order to prevent them from delivering important information. Max and 99 get into a sticky situation while trying to solve the mystery.

    Director:Frank McDonald
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, Earl Barret

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  5. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 13 - Perils in a Pet Shop
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Perils in a Pet Shop

    S2:E13

    Max is following a Kaos agent who is smuggling a parrot. While questioning the parrot he is freed by his lawyer and Max and 99 trail him to a pet shop. Max learns that the pet shop is a cover for Melnick, the Smiling Killer. They learn that the parrots are being used to memorize secret information and then smuggled out of the country.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Martin Ragaway

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  6. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 27 - Pussycats Galore
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Pussycats Galore

    S2:E27

    After important scientists begin to go missing, Max and 99 go undercover to solve the mystery.

    Director:Sidney Miller
    Writer:Arne Sultan

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  7. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 28 - A Man Called Smart (1)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Leonard B. Stern

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  8. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 5 - Maxwell Smart, Private Eye
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Maxwell Smart, Private Eye

    S3:E5

    With a cutback at control, everyone is taking on extra jobs.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Elroy Schwartz

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  9. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 7 - One of Our Olives is Missing
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Jess Oppenheimer
    Writer:Jess Oppenheimer

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  10. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 26 - The Reluctant Redhead
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Reluctant Redhead

    S3:E26

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

    Director:James Komack
    Writer:Leonard B. Stern

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  11. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 13 - Ice Station Siegfried
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Ice Station Siegfried

    S5:E13

    99 and CIA agent Quigley run into Siegfried and Starker while on a case in Canada. Meanwhile, Max and the Chief are snowed in at Miami, thanks to a KAOS plot.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  12. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 15 - House of Max (1)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - House of Max (1)

    S5:E15

    Max and 99 go to London to investigate a modern-day Jack the Ripper.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  13. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 18 - The Mess of Adrian Listenger
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - The Mess of Adrian Listenger

    S5:E18

    While attending the funeral of the latest Control Agent who was mysteriously killed,Max,99,and The Chief are shocked to find a carved Headstone with Max's name on it.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  14. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 23 - What's It All About, Algie?
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - What's It All About, Algie?

    S5:E23

    KAOS Agent Algernon DeGrasse owns a nursery that uses its plants to spy on important people in Washington. After a CONTROL agent disappears, Max goes to work in the nursery to crack the case. While he's working undercover as a Japanese gardener, 99 stocks up on plants for their apartment.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  15. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 23 - Run, Robot, Run
    7.8/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Run, Robot, Run

    S3:E23

    KAOS agents disrupt an international track meet by injuring the U.S. athletes.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Gary Clarke

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  16. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 20 - All in the Mind
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - All in the Mind

    S1:E20

    Max poses as an insane colonel in order to prove that a KAOS psychiatrist is revealing confidential information.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  17. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 23 - I'm Only Human
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - I'm Only Human

    S1:E23

    Max convinces the Chief of taking Fang out of retirement after some Control agents are killed by their own dogs. Each of those agents had left their pets at an animal spa while they were travelling. What they ignored was that the animals were being brainwashed before being returned to their owners. When Fang goes MIA Max disobeys orders and goes after him which causes the Chief to go rescue Max.

    Director:Murray Golden
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns, Pat McCormick, Ron Friedman

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  18. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 25 - The Amazing Harry Hoo
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  19. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 29 - Shipment to Beirut
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Shipment to Beirut

    S1:E29

    Fashion model Mildred Spencer telephones Smart that the supersonic plans are sewn into a dress.

    Director:David Alexander
    Writer:Arne Sultan

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  20. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 30 - The Last One in is a Rotten Spy
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - The Last One in is a Rotten Spy

    S1:E30

    A swimmer on the Russian national team calls Max for help, but unfortunately he forgets her name.

    Director:David Alexander
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns

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  21. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 5 - Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #21 - Now You See Him, Now You Don’t

    S1:E5

    A doctor meets Max at his apartment and convinces him that he has escaped from KAOS with an invisibility ray. KAOS then attempts to kidnap Max as tries to figure out if the ray is real.

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writers:Marvin Worth, Arne Sultan

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  22. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 4 - Our Man in Toyland
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Our Man in Toyland

    S1:E4

    KAOS is secretly smuggling secrets out of the country. 99 discovers they are using a Department Store as a front and Polly Dollys to smuggle out the secrets. When one pulls the doll's string, Polly reveals top secrets. Max and 99 get caught by KAOS. Using children's toys, Max and 99 attempt to fight their way to safety and stop KAOS' smuggling ring.

    Director:Don Richardson
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns

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  23. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 7 - KAOS in CONTROL
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - KAOS in CONTROL

    S1:E7

    Conrol hosted a conference for some of the smarted scientists on the planet, but KAOS has other plans which include a retrogressor gun. CONTROL is due to host a conference of six scientific geniuses, but just before it occurs,. KAOS manages to steal CONTROL's retrogressor gun. The gun, which turns adults into children mentally, is taken by a KAOS mole who manages to retrogress the gun's inventor and the Chief. KAOS' goal is to turn the scientists into children, destroying the free world's greatest minds. Max takes over the conference and by knowing his history of Captain Kangaroo, defeats the mole.

    Director:Don Richardson
    Writers:Al Gordon, Hal Goldman

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  24. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 15 - Kiss of Death
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Kiss of Death

    S2:E15

    A women pretends to be in love with Max in order to try to kill him.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns

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  25. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 16 - It Takes One to Know One
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - It Takes One to Know One

    S2:E16

    Octavia is destroying all of the number two men of CONTROL, so Hymie becomes the new number two man.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Gary Clarke

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Spy for a Spy" is the best rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Bruce Bilson and written by Mike Marmer, Stan Burns, it aired on 10/1/1966. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Diplomat's Daughter".