The Best Episodes of Get Smart Season 1
Every episode of Get Smart Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Get Smart Season 1!
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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Get Smart" season 1 is "Mr. Big", rated 8/10 from 455 user votes. It was directed by Howard Morris and written by Mel Brooks, Buck Henry. "Mr. Big" aired on 9/18/1965 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Diplomat's Daughter".
8.0/10 455 votes#1 - Mr. Big
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1965
Mr. Big is blackmailing CONTROL: unless they pay him $100,000,000 he will use the ""Inthermo Ray"" to destroy the Statue of Liberty. Max teams up with Fang and a new partner, Agent 99, to stop Mr. Big.
Director: Howard Morris
Writer: Mel Brooks, Buck Henry
7.9/10 344 votes#2 - Diplomat's Daughter
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1965
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
Writer: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
7.7/10 296 votes#3 - School Days
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1965
Smart goes undercover at the CONTROL spy school to find an undercover KAOS spy. CONTROL's spy school has been infiltrated by KAOS. To find the imposter, Max and Fang go undercover as students, while 99 poses as an instructor. There are three students suspected of being imposters - Dimitri, Grillak, and Zukor. Max must verify that Dimitri speaks a rare East Himalayan dialect, that Zukor has unusual handwriting, and that Grillak has a heart-shaped birthmark. Max finds himself all wet when attempting to eliminate them from the suspect list and he and 99 get captured and tied to a bomb. It is only by Fang's skilled intervention that they aren't blown to bits.
Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 289 votes#4 - Our Man in Toyland
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 277 votes#5 - Now You See Him... Now You Don't
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1965
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
Writer: Marvin Worth
7.5/10 290 votes#6 - Washington 4, Indians 3
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1965
Indians threaten to use a bomb if they don't get all of their land back. Smart then goes into their camp and foils their plan. While on his three-week vacation Agent 43 is confronted by a group of rebel Indians. They demand the return of all Indian lands or they will fire their secret weapon on Washington. Max calls an all-out alert, though we're not sure if it's because of an Indian attack or because he doesn't get three weeks vacation. Once saturation bombing of Arizona is discarded as a plan, Max and 99 mount 'em up and head out to disarm the secret weapon. Max, disguised as a Papawahsee, infiltrates the camp. The Papwahsee is actually the Indian word for fiancee and Max is forced to romance Chief Red Cloud's daughter to fulfill his assignment. A jealous 99 raids the camp to prevent Max from kissing the daughter and tries to prevent the Indians from launching their secret weapon, a giant arrow.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
7.6/10 268 votes#7 - KAOS in CONTROL
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1965
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: N/A
Writer: Hal Goldman, Al Gordon
7.9/10 268 votes#8 - The Day Smart Turned Chicken
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1965
Smart is to testify against KAOS soon, so they devise situations to show that Smart is losing his mind. A dying cowboy comes to Max's apartment to reveal a plot to poison the Morovian Ambassador at a costume party that night. Max calls the Chief, but when help arrives, the dead cowboy is missing and there's no proof of his ever having existed. Max dresses as a giant chicken and attends the costume ball at the embassy in order to protect the ambassador, but it's not a costume party and there's no poison in the ambassador's drink. It's all a KAOS plot to convince everyone that Max is crazy and discredit his testimony in an upcoming court case.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 255 votes#9 - Satan Place
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1965
KAOS kidnaps the Chief and prepare to give him mind-control surgery. Max pretends to be a doctor in order to try to free the Chief from Harvey Satan. Evil KAOS mastermind Harvey Satan kidnaps the Chief and holds him for a $200,000 ransom. Struggling to raise the money, Max is forced to deliver a ransom of only $600. CONTROL follows the KAOS agent picking up the ransom and they find him at Satan Place. Satan is preparing the Chief for mind-control surgery, which involves KAOS freezing the Chief. Disguised as a doctor and nurse, Max and 99 try to free the frozen Chief.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 256 votes#10 - Our Man in Leotards
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1965
Enilio Naharana steals a new drug invented by CONTROL named Immobilo, in order to use it against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Max and 99 disguise themselves in order to save the day. Dancer and rebel Enilio Naharana steals a new CONTROL drug, Immobilo, to use against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Immobilo paralyzes people instantly and Naharana plans to use it to prevent the Ambassador from signing a treaty with the U.S. Disguised as dancers, Max and 99 try to foil a peach of a plot. Unfortunately, Max is not a dancer and he gets caught! Keep an eye out for the bass drum sequence, which is one of the funniest bits in the entire series.
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 261 votes#11 - 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: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
8.2/10 265 votes#12 - 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
8.0/10 260 votes#13 - Aboard the Orient Express
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1965
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
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.3/10 248 votes#14 - Weekend Vampire
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1965
CONTROL agents are found murdered with mysterious puncture marks on their necks. The investigation leads to the mysterious Dr. Drago.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
7.6/10 245 votes#15 - Survival of the Fattest
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1965
Max has to protect an Arab prince, who must remain fat to retain his power.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 245 votes#16 - 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
7.5/10 233 votes#17 - Kisses for KAOS
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1966
After several buildings are inexplicably blown up, Control follows the trail to an art gallery where a former chemist, debonair Rex Savage, has teamed up with painter Mondo to produce a series of explosive paintings. 99 disguises as an art expert with Max as her driver/butler as they try to get Savage's fingerprints and photograph, something that turns out to be a little more complicated than expected.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 253 votes#18 - The Dead Spy Scrawls
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1966
CONTROL tries to find the location of a KAOS communications center, which turns out to be in a pool hall.
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 279 votes#19 - 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
7.7/10 226 votes#20 - All in the Mind
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1966
Max poses as an insane colonel in order to prove that a KAOS psychiatrist is revealing confidential information.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
7.7/10 230 votes#21 - Dear Diary
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1966
A retired agent and his secret diary are missing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 244 votes#22 - Smart, the Assassin
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1966
After being hypnotized by KAOS, Max finds himself in a difficult situation while playing a game of chess.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 211 votes#23 - I'm Only Human
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1966
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 218 votes#24 - Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1966
A horde of KAOS agents are taking flights to Washington. Each one carries a piece of a bomb which is meant to explode near an American base. Max and the Chief capture one of KAOS's agents and fool-force confidential information out of him. They end up in Blue Mist Mountain and it's up to 86 to dismantle the bomb before it goes off. All the help he has is Parker on the shoe-phone, a coin, and a very expensive tie.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 256 votes#25 - 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: Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner