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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 4 Episode 23 - Leadside
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 24 - Greer Window
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 9 - Physician: Impossible
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 1 - Mr. Big
    5.3/10(5 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 16 - The Day They Raided the Knights
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 10 - The Apes of Rath
    5.5/10(2 votes)

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

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

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

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

    #11 - 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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  12. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 15 - Hurray for Hollywood
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 17 - Tequila Mockingbird
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 18 - I Shot 86 Today
    6.0/10(1 votes)

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

    #15 - 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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  16. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 21 - To Sire, with Love (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 22 - Shock It to Me
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Shock It to Me

    S4:E22

    Dr. Erick Zharko and his assistant Bruce wire Max and 99 to a Dr. Frankenstein-like apparatus. Zharko figures that a jolt of his specially controlled electricity will shock Max and 99 into a five year sleep.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  18. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 26 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)

    S4:E26

    CONTROL agents tunnel out of the KAOS POW camp à la "The Great Escape."

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  19. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 1 - Pheasant Under Glass
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Pheasant Under Glass

    S5:E1

    On a mission for CONTROL to rescue Professor Milo Pheasant, Smart and 99 learn that he is imprisoned within an impregnable glass dome. KAOS has kidnapped Professor Pheasant and imprisoned him in a nuclear-glass cube. Max and 99 break into KAOS HQ to break him out, but they're unable to break the glass and forced to flee. As they're escaping, 99 reveals that she's pregnant, causing Max to get so excited that he reveals his identity as a secret agent to a reporter. This renders Max useless as an agent and eliminates CONTROL's plan to free the professor by having The Singing Agent, Rosa LaCosta, sing a special note that can shatter glass and have Max go undercover as her accompanist. To save his job, Max visits Dr. Proctor, who has discovered a way to spray paint a new face on people, and Max tries out several faces before picking one to help him infiltrate KAOS headquarters and rescue the professor.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  20. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 2 - Ironhand
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Ironhand

    S5:E2

    When IH Industries acquires KAOS, Max and 99 attempt Operation Baby Buggy Switch to stop the new head of KAOS, Ironhand, a man with an iron fist, from obtaining The Anti-Anti_Anti-Missle-Missle plans.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell

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  21. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 3 - Valerie of the Dolls
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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
    Writers:Les Colodny, Ed Haas

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  22. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 4 - Widow Often Annie
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 5 - The Treasure of C. Errol Madre
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Treasure of C. Errol Madre

    S5:E5

    When KAOS heists CONTROL's payrolls, putting it into severe financial straits, The Chief sends Max, disguised as prospector Frogsie Debbs, to Mira Lodo, Mexico, to find Debbs' old partner C. Errol Madre, who posesses the second half of a map that leads to a gold mind that could restore CONTROL's operations.

    Director:Don Adams
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Bob DeVinney

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  24. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 6 - Smart Fell on Alabama
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 7 - And Baby Makes Four (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - 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
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Leadside" is the worst rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Gary Nelson and written by Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell, it aired on 3/8/1969. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Greer Window".