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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Get Smart Season 5 Episode 18 - The Mess of Adrian Listenger
    0.0/10(188 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 19 - Witness for the Execution
    0.0/10(173 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 20 - How Green Was My Valet
    0.0/10(177 votes)

    #3 - How Green Was My Valet

    S5:E20

    Dr. Harper dies, leaving the only sample of his rocket fuel behind and KAOS finds it first. Max and 99 have to pose as a valet and maid at the Bulmanian Embassy to recover the stolen fuel. When 99's mother can't babysit, the Chief and Larabee are forced to take care of the twins so the Smarts can go to work at the embassy. Meanwhile, Max must get into the wine cellar to find the fuel, but the only key is around the neck of the ambassador.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 21 - And Only Two Ninety-Nine
    0.0/10(179 votes)

    #4 - And Only Two Ninety-Nine

    S5:E21

    Max comes home from work one evening to find 99 in bed,with a back eye.99 explains it away as nothing.When he inquires about 99's visit to her Mother,99 says that she did'nt feel much like visiting her.This makes Max suspicious,and before he inquires about anything else,the telephone rings.It is the Chief who informs Max that the woman in his Apartment is not 99.This is true since the real 99 is in the Chiefs Office.The Chief lets 99 talk to Max on the telephone,and this confirms to Max that it is the real 99.The Chief will explain everything to Max in the Morning,but that Max should at the present time should pretend that the woman imposter is 99.99 herself explains to the Chief what had happened that morning.While some furnisher men were moving furniture into her,and Max's apartment,the imposter 99 pulls a gun on her.She then instructed 99 to accompany the moving men(who are Kaos agents)back to their secret place.In response 99 punched the imposter,thus giving her the black eye.She w

    Director:Don Adams
    Writer:Arne Sultan

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  5. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 22 - Smartacus
    0.0/10(170 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 23 - What's It All About, Algie?
    0.0/10(167 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
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  7. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 24 - Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America
    0.0/10(170 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 25 - Do I Hear a Vaults?
    0.0/10(176 votes)

    #8 - Do I Hear a Vaults?

    S5:E25

    The Chief meets Smart at a public library to recover a book containing names and addresses of CONTROL agents. Max and Larrabee transport the book in an armored car to a bank vault, but Max accidentally locks the vault door on both the Chief and Larrabee. Guest Stars: Ned Glass, Herbert Voldand, Ann Summers, Robert Karvelas, George Sawaya

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Chris Hayward

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  9. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 26 - I Am Curiously Yellow
    0.0/10(182 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 23 - Leadside
    5.0/10(185 votes)

    #10 - Leadside

    S4:E23

    Wheelchair bound mastermind Leadside is caught in a robbery by Max and announces a three-part plan. Phase one, he will escape from Max. Phase two, he will destroy CONTROL. Phase three, he will kill Maxwell Smart. After Leadside follows through on Phases One and Two, Max holes up in his apartment, vowing "Leadside will only complete Phase Three over my dead body." This is one of my favorite episodes and Ronald Long is brilliant as Leadside. "My mother gave me Norman." The wheelchair in the back of the truck bit is still side-splittingly funny.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  11. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 24 - Greer Window
    5.0/10(177 votes)

    #11 - Greer Window

    S4:E24

    CONTROL corners KAOS Agent Klineschmidt in a house and attempts to take him alive. Before they can do that, he manages to shoot Max in the buttocks. Forced to stay at home, Max amuses himself by using binoculars to spy on the office building across the street. The office he's watching belongs to Otto Greer, who is a government contractor. Top secret papers have been disappearing from his office so the Chief assigns 99 to work undercover as secretary to Greer. Max keeps an eye on 99's progress and discovers too late that Greer is a KAOS agent planning to kill both of them.

    Director:Eddie Ryder
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  12. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 9 - Physician: Impossible
    5.0/10(176 votes)

    #12 - Physician: Impossible

    S5:E9

    Mistaken for a doctor and his nurse, Max and 99 are kidnapped and forced to operate on a wounded gangster. CONTROL is transporting vicious killer Big Eddie Little to jail by pretending to run in a marathon with him. Little breaks away from Max, but not before Max shoots him in the shoulder. Little gets away, vowing to kill Max. Max ignores his threats and goes to visit 99 and the twins in the hospital. Dressed in hospital scrubs, Max and 99 are taken for a doctor and nurse by KAOS and taken to a remote cabin to remove the bullet from Little's shoulder. Only by pretending to remove the bullet can Max escape from the cabin alive.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  13. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
    5.0/10(184 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 1 Episode 1 - Mr. Big
    5.3/10(526 votes)

    #14 - Mr. Big

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:Buck Henry, Mel Brooks

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  15. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 16 - The Day They Raided the Knights
    5.5/10(185 votes)

    #15 - The Day They Raided the Knights

    S4:E16

    When budget cuts hit CONTROL, 99 is on the list of agents to be laid off. She then finds a temporary job at a trading stamp redemption center, which also happens to be a KAOS munitions drop that is about to begin distribution of their latest weapon, a stereophonic pistol. 99 finds out what is going on and informs the Chief, but is captured before she can give the location. The Chief and Larabee eventually find the location, but are captured themselves. It is now up to Max to find and save them.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Rick Mittleman

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  16. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 10 - The Apes of Rath
    5.5/10(192 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 7 - The Decoy
    6.0/10(217 votes)

    #17 - The Decoy

    S2:E7

    CONTROL makes KAOS believe that Max is carrying a secret code.

    Director:William Wiard
    Writers:Sydney Zelinka, Ronald Axe

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  18. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 8 - Hoo Done It
    6.0/10(260 votes)

    #18 - Hoo Done It

    S2:E8

    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
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  19. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 26 - Appointment in Sahara
    6.0/10(208 votes)

    #19 - 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
    Writers:Arne Sultan, Gary Clarke

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  20. Get Smart Season 3 Episode 21 - Operation Ridiculous
    6.0/10(210 votes)

    #20 - Operation Ridiculous

    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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  21. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 15 - Hurray for Hollywood
    6.0/10(185 votes)

    #21 - Hurray for Hollywood

    S4:E15

    Max and 99 go undercover as actors Lawrence Hollywood and Viola Vain to learn how KAOS is using performances of a play to communicate with their agents.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  22. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 17 - Tequila Mockingbird
    6.0/10(196 votes)

    #22 - Tequila Mockingbird

    S4:E17

    Smart and 99 pose as a flamenco dancer and a seedy doctor to fool KAOS as both search for hidden gems in Mexico.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  23. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 18 - I Shot 86 Today
    6.0/10(183 votes)

    #23 - I Shot 86 Today

    S4:E18

    Max and 99 investigate after receiving a tip that KAOS is planning to blow up an aerospace center adjoining the Pomona National Golf Club - the third such incident in less than a year.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writer:Burt Nodella

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  24. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 20 - To Sire, with Love (1)
    6.0/10(184 votes)

    #24 - To Sire, with Love (1)

    S4:E20

    Max must hid the king of Caronia in his apartment. Agent 99 is contently getting Max and the king confused as the king is 86's double. KAOS tries to kill them by putting a tarantula in the apartment.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  25. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 21 - To Sire, with Love (2)
    6.0/10(192 votes)

    #25 - To Sire, with Love (2)

    S4:E21

    Max tries to test his and agent 99's relationship by dressing up like the king. In the mean time, the real king is kidnapped by KAOS. It is up to Max to rescue him.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writers:Don Adams, Gloria Burton

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Mess of Adrian Listenger" is the worst rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored /10 based on 188 votes. Directed by Charles R. Rondeau and written by Chris Hayward, it aired on 1/30/1970. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Witness for the Execution".