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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Get Smart Season 5 Episode 13 - Ice Station Siegfried
    6.3/10(193 votes)

    #1 - 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
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  2. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 10 - The Apes of Rath
    6.7/10(181 votes)

    #2 - The Apes of Rath

    S5:E10

    Several agents have been murdered by someone with incredible strength. The only clue is an empty banana peel. It is soon deduced that the killer is an ape. CONTROL agents are receiving bananas in the mail and then being murdered, completely puzzling CONTROL. What they don't know is KAOS is using Chucko, an ape made to look like a human being, as the assassin. The plot thickens when Max receives a banana in the mail and a new agent, Chuck Armstrong, is assigned as his protector. Unfortunately, Armstrong is actually Chucko the Ape. Before Max discovers Armstrong's real identity, Armstrong reverts back to Chucko and takes 99 to the roof of Max's building, just like in King Kong.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  3. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 24 - Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America
    6.9/10(163 votes)

    #3 - Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America

    S5:E24

    CONTROL must persuade a decendent of Columbus not to sell America to KAOS.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Pat McCormick

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  4. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 3 - Valerie of the Dolls
    7.1/10(181 votes)

    #4 - Valerie of the Dolls

    S5:E3

    When KAOS plans to destroy California by smuggling into the country dolls secretly containing the ingredients for the most powerful explosive known to man, Max and The Chief enroll in Miss Valerie's School For Expectant Fathers, convinced that it is a KAOS front.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 16 - House of Max (2)
    7.2/10(166 votes)

    #5 - House of Max (2)

    S5:E16

    Max poses as a wax sculpture of Hitler to spy on a KAOS scientist who brings waxworks to life.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  6. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 23 - What's It All About, Algie?
    7.2/10(161 votes)

    #6 - 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
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  7. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 26 - Appointment in Sahara
    7.3/10(201 votes)

    #7 - Appointment in Sahara

    S2:E26

    Once KAOS gets a nuclear bomb, they try to blackmail the world into disarmament, but Max and 99 are sent to save the day.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 12 - Temporarily Out of CONTROL
    7.3/10(171 votes)

    #8 - Temporarily Out of CONTROL

    S4:E12

    When Agent 99 is caught without dessert, she gratefully accepts chocolate mousse from her solicitious neighbor Naomi Farkas. Naomi and her husband Emil are secret KAOS agents who hope to photograph some papers the Chief has with him.

    Director:James Komack
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan, Leonard B. Stern, Allan Burns

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  9. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 4 - Widow Often Annie
    7.3/10(182 votes)

    #9 - Widow Often Annie

    S5:E4

    When The Chief orders Max to romance and betroth Ann Cameron, a beautiful widow suspected of murdering her 12 husbands for the insurance money, which she donates to KAOS, the wedding coincides with The Smarts' first wedding anniversary, much to 99's dismay.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  10. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 6 - Smart Fell on Alabama
    7.3/10(176 votes)

    #10 - Smart Fell on Alabama

    S5:E6

    Because he failed to retrieve a little red book from a Kaos carrier,Max has to train,and recruit three convicts to break into a highly fortified Mansion where the Red Code Book is.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  11. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 7 - And Baby Makes Four (1)
    7.3/10(181 votes)

    #11 - And Baby Makes Four (1)

    S5:E7

    Max and 99 follow the wrong map and end up at KAOS's new HQ instead of the maternity ward. 99 is incredibly close to giving birth, which is making Max nervous and unable to pay attention to his job. He spends all of his time trying to find the shortest way to get 99 to the hospital. At the same time, CONTROL is desperately trying to find the new location of KAOS HQ. It's made more urgent because Simon the Likable is coming to town to steal the Huffiker Plans from the Pentagon. Simon is unstoppable because everyone that sees him instantly likes him and will do anything for him. Max and Simon get their directions mixed up and Simon goes to the maternity hospital while Max takes 99 to KAOS HQ, Sunny Slope Sanitarium.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  12. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 15 - House of Max (1)
    7.3/10(169 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 17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
    7.3/10(176 votes)

    #13 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm

    S5:E17

    Max is serving as a courier on board an airplane when he is forced to release his package from the plane, sending it to land on the roof of Hester Van Hooten's mansion. The only problem is Van Hooten hasn't allowed visitors to her house in 20 years and she and her brother aren't about to start now.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  14. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 19 - Witness for the Execution
    7.3/10(165 votes)

    #14 - Witness for the Execution

    S5:E19

    Max is assigned to protect Kaos Agent Dietrich.Dietrich has turned informant,and will give testamony on the inner workings of Kaos that would put an end to Kaos.The only obstacle however is a man name Kibbee,a ruthless Kaos assassin who has never failed an assignment.Will Max be able to protect Dietrich,and himself from Kibbee also known as the Exterminator?

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  15. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 22 - Smartacus
    7.3/10(163 votes)

    #15 - Smartacus

    S5:E22

    Max and the Chief investigate a series of security leaks that seem to be connected to a chain of spas.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  16. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 14 - Weekend Vampire
    7.4/10(272 votes)

    #16 - Weekend Vampire

    S1:E14

    CONTROL agents are found murdered with mysterious puncture marks on their necks. The investigation leads to the mysterious Dr. Drago.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  17. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 23 - I'm Only Human
    7.4/10(232 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 2 Episode 13 - Perils in a Pet Shop
    7.4/10(204 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 14 - The Whole Tooth and . . .
    7.4/10(203 votes)

    #19 - The Whole Tooth and . . .

    S2:E14

    While carrying plans for a nuclear reactor, Max runs into KAOS Agents, so he must hide the plans. Max later has to pretend to be a convict and go to jail to get them back.

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Lila Garrett

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  20. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 2 - Viva Smart
    7.4/10(208 votes)

    #20 - Viva Smart

    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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  21. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 9 - Dr. Yes
    7.4/10(208 votes)

    #21 - Dr. Yes

    S3:E9

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

    Director:James Komack
    Writer:Myles Wilder

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  22. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 6 - The Worst Best Man
    7.4/10(187 votes)

    #22 - The Worst Best Man

    S4:E6

    Each time Smart picks a best man for his upcoming wedding to Agent 99, the man meets with a mysterious accident. The Chief deducts that there must be a link between all of the accidents and KAOS because all of Max's prospects are fellow agents. To prevent further loss of manpower a t CONTROL, Hymie is appointed best man. KAOS then reveals it's true interest in Max's choice of best man - nearly to the extinction of CONTROL.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan, Leonard B. Stern, Allan Burns

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  23. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 12 - Is This Trip Necessary?
    7.4/10(190 votes)

    #23 - Is This Trip Necessary?

    S5:E12

    Everyone important in Washington suffers bad dreams and the president orders CONTROL to discover why. At that moment, KAOS' Mad Pharmacist Jarvis Pim appears on TV to demand $50 million in ransom. If he doesn't get it, he'll use his new hallucinogenic drug on the entire population of the city. Max and 99 track Pim to the Dartfoot Spring Water Company, where Pim captures them using "the old mortar in the mortar trick."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 18 - The Mess of Adrian Listenger
    7.4/10(181 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 26 - I Am Curiously Yellow
    7.4/10(174 votes)

    #25 - I Am Curiously Yellow

    S5:E26

    A villian known as the Whip uses a special gong to hypnotize Max. When he is under the Whip's control, Max steals the NARCO 5-12. Later, with the help of the Chief and Larabee, Max is cured and captures the Whip.

    Director:Nicholas Webster
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Ice Station Siegfried" is the worst rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 6.3/10 based on 193 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by Chris Hayward, it aired on 12/19/1969. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Apes of Rath".