8.6/10 270 votes#1 - A Spy for a Spy
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966
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
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 279 votes#2 - Back to the Old Drawing Board
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1966
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Gary Clarke
8.4/10 210 votes#3 - 99 Loses CONTROL
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1968
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Myles Wilder
8.3/10 236 votes#4 - Hoo Done It
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1966
Max and Harry Hoo try to solve a murder of an agent in a tropical hotel, but their suspects keep turning into victims.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso
8.3/10 202 votes#5 - How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1967
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.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 179 votes#6 - The Not-So-Great Escape (1)
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1969
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.
Director: Don Adams
Writer: Chris Hayward
8.2/10 265 votes#7 - My Nephew the Spy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1965
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
Writer: Marvin Worth
8.2/10 256 votes#8 - The Amazing Harry Hoo
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1966
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
Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso
8.2/10 245 votes#9 - Ship of Spies (1)
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1966
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Buck Henry
8.2/10 209 votes#10 - A Man Called Smart (1)
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1967
KAOS steals a water evaporation formula (DRY-UP) and blackmails the country by threatening to dry up all its water.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 196 votes#11 - A Man Called Smart (2)
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1967
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 210 votes#12 - One of Our Olives is Missing
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1967
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
8.2/10 165 votes#13 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1969
CONTROL agents tunnel out of the KAOS POW camp à la "The Great Escape."
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 261 votes#14 - Too Many Chiefs
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1965
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?
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso
8.1/10 246 votes#15 - Double Agent
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1966
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.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 235 votes#16 - Ship of Spies (2)
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1966
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.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Buck Henry
8.1/10 221 votes#17 - Anatomy of a Lover
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1966
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!
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 191 votes#18 - Cutback at CONTROL
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1967
The Senate is close to closing down CONTROL which leads to some agents working with KAOS.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso
8.1/10 196 votes#19 - A Man Called Smart (3)
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1967
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 197 votes#20 - The Spy Who Met Himself
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1967
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!
Director: Gary Nelson, James Komack
Writer: Phil Leslie
8.1/10 194 votes#21 - The Mysterious Dr. T
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1967
When a top CONTROL scientist dies, it turns out that he wasn't the real brains behind the operations.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Myles Wilder
8.1/10 195 votes#22 - The King Lives?
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1968
Max travels to Coronia to protect the King of Coronia from the King's evil half-brother Basil
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Don Adams
8.1/10 217 votes#23 - The Little Black Book (1)
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/27/1968
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.
Director: James Komack
Writer: Jack Hanrahan
8.1/10 193 votes#24 - The Hot Line
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1968
The Chief is relieved of Duty as Chief,when he receives a call from what he believes is the President;(actually it is Gorshen a Kaos voice impersonator)informing the Chief as of Today Max is the New Chief.This part of Kaos's plan to infiltrate,and then destroy Control.With Max being in charge Kaos really don't need to plan.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Jack Hanrahan
8.1/10 180 votes#25 - The Reluctant Redhead
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1968
CONTROL tries to get files that contain a list of KAOS informers and agents.
Director: James Komack
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Get Smart
Every episode of Get Smart ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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 Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:CBS
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Get Smart" is "A Spy for a Spy", rated 8.6/10 from 270 user votes. It was directed by Bruce Bilson and written by N/A. "A Spy for a Spy" aired on 10/1/1966 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Back to the Old Drawing Board".