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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".

  • A Spy for a Spy
    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

  • Back to the Old Drawing Board
    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

  • 99 Loses CONTROL
    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

  • Hoo Done It
    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

  • How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying
    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

  • The Not-So-Great Escape  (1)
    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

  • My Nephew the Spy
    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

  • The Amazing Harry Hoo
    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

  • Ship of Spies (1)
    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

  • A Man Called Smart (1)
    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

  • A Man Called Smart (2)
    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

  • One of Our Olives is Missing
    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

  • The Not-So-Great Escape  (2)
    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

  • Too Many Chiefs
    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

  • Double Agent
    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

  • Ship of Spies (2)
    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

  • Anatomy of a Lover
    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

  • Cutback at CONTROL
    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

  • A Man Called Smart (3)
    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

  • The Spy Who Met Himself
    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

  • The Mysterious Dr. T
    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

  • The King Lives?
    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

  • The Little Black Book (1)
    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

  • The Hot Line
    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

  • The Reluctant Redhead
    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