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The Best Episodes of Get Smart Season 3

Every episode of Get Smart Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Get Smart Season 3!

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Maxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Get Smart Season 3 Episode 19 - 99 Loses CONTROL
    8.4/10(239 votes)

    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.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor

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  2. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 7 - One of Our Olives is Missing
    8.3/10(242 votes)

    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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  3. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 1 - The Spy Who Met Himself
    8.2/10(226 votes)

    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!

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Keith Fowler

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  4. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 13 - The Mysterious Dr. T
    8.2/10(221 votes)

    S3:E13

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

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor

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  5. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 14 - The King Lives?
    8.2/10(226 votes)

    S3:E14

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

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Don Adams, Gloria Burton

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  6. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 16 - The Little Black Book (1)
    8.2/10(246 votes)

    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.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Jack Hanrahan, Phil Hahn

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  7. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 24 - The Hot Line
    8.2/10(218 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 26 - The Reluctant Redhead
    8.2/10(213 votes)

    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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  9. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 5 - Maxwell Smart, Private Eye
    8.1/10(237 votes)

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Elroy Schwartz

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  10. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 17 - The Little Black Book (2)
    8.1/10(240 votes)

    S3:E17

    Having found out that Max is a Spy, Sid who unwittingly gave what he thought was an ordinary Black Book to Kaos Agents, accompanies Max on their search for the book, and the infamous Maestro, a Top Kaos Assassin.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Jack Hanrahan, Phil Hahn

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  11. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 23 - Run, Robot, Run
    8.1/10(227 votes)

    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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  12. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 25 - Die, Spy
    8.1/10(229 votes)

    S3:E25

    The story spoofs NBC's ""I Spy"" and Robert Culp of that series appears in a cameo role.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 12 - Classification: Dead
    8.0/10(230 votes)

    S3:E12

    Max gets poisoned by a female KAOS agent and has to search for an antidote.

    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writers:Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum

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  14. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 22 - Spy, Spy, Birdie
    8.0/10(218 votes)

    S3:E22

    Albert Pfister starts to blow up the world using his new silent explosive.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor

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  15. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 10 - That Old Gang of Mine
    7.9/10(211 votes)

    S3:E10

    The British CONTROL needs Max to go undercover.

    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writers:Jack Hanrahan, Phil Hahn

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  16. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 15 - The Groovy Guru
    7.9/10(266 votes)

    S3:E15

    Many of the country's teenagers are dancing constantly, under the spell of the Groovy Guru, who is helping KAOS take over the country via its teenagers. The Guru plans to incite the nation's youth to riot and destroy all government institutions.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Norman Paul, Burt Nodella

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  17. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 21 - Operation Ridiculous
    7.9/10(214 votes)

    S3:E21

    The Chief tells Max & 99 'Weeknews' magazine is doing a story on Control. Mr Fitzmaurice wants to accompany two Control agents on a case for his story. The Chief selects Max & 99.

    Director:James Komack
    Writer:Norman Paul

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  18. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 4 - The Spirit is Willing
    7.8/10(223 votes)

    S3:E4

    Max's new informer promises to deliver evidence implicating the top leader of KAOS, though it turns out that the informant has long been dead. Max must hold a seance to get his evidence.

    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writer:Arne Sultan

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  19. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 18 - Don't Look Back
    7.8/10(220 votes)

    S3:E18

    In this take-off of The Fugitive series Max is framed by Kaos. He is charged with Bank Robbery, and Murder. This comes about when a one-handed Man (in a Maxwell Smart facemask) shoots the Bank Guard, in front of witnesses who could identify him.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Phil Leslie, Norman Paul

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  20. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 8 - When Good Fellows Get Together
    7.7/10(219 votes)

    S3:E8

    KAOS designs the world's strongest robot.

    Director:Sidney Miller
    Writer:Gary Clarke

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  21. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 11 - The Mild Ones
    7.7/10(222 votes)

    S3:E11

    Max & 99 have to infiltrate a motorcycle gang called the ""Purple Knights"", because Control believes they kidnapped the Prime Minister of a foreign country while Max was guarding him.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor

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  22. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 3 - Witness for the Persecution
    7.6/10(219 votes)

    S3:E3

    KAOS is going to stop Smart from testifying against one of their agents.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick

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  23. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 6 - Supersonic Boom
    7.6/10(221 votes)

    S3:E6

    KAOS attacks the CONTROL headquarters with a sonic boom and threatens to use it on New York City.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Ben Joelson, Art Baer

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  24. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 2 - Viva Smart
    7.5/10(218 votes)

    S3:E2

    Max and 99 are sent to a Latin American republic to rescue a President who has been overthrown and imprisoned by a maniacal army general dictator.

    Director:Norman Abbott
    Writers:Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick, Norman Paul

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  25. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 9 - Dr. Yes
    7.5/10(219 votes)

    S3:E9

    Max and 99 go to Lost Lake to track down the person who is sabotaging missile launches.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"99 Loses CONTROL" is the best rated episode of "Get Smart" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 239 votes. Directed by Bruce Bilson and written by Myles Wilder, William Raynor, it aired on 2/17/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "One of Our Olives is Missing".