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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 Worst Episode
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    Get Smart Season 5 Episode 13 - Ice Station Siegfried
    6.4/10(208 votes)

    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
    Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan

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  2. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 10 - The Apes of Rath
    6.8/10(198 votes)

    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(179 votes)

    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
    7.2/10(197 votes)

    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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  5. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 16 - House of Max (2)
    7.2/10(181 votes)

    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 1 Episode 14 - Weekend Vampire
    7.3/10(288 votes)

    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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  7. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 26 - Appointment in Sahara
    7.3/10(211 votes)

    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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  8. Get Smart Season 4 Episode 12 - Temporarily Out of CONTROL
    7.3/10(182 votes)

    S4:E12

    KAOS fakes military call-up orders for Maxwell Smart and the Chief for the US Navy! Smart's restoration to the rank of Ensign makes him the Chief's superior, humiliating the Chief, who was restored to Seaman.

    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(197 votes)

    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(190 votes)

    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(198 votes)

    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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  12. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 22 - Smartacus
    7.3/10(178 votes)

    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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  13. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 23 - What's It All About, Algie?
    7.3/10(175 votes)

    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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  14. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 23 - I'm Only Human
    7.4/10(249 votes)

    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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  15. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 14 - The Whole Tooth and . . .
    7.4/10(212 votes)

    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
    Writers:Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn

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  16. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 12 - Is This Trip Necessary?
    7.4/10(202 votes)

    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:Ron Joy
    Writer:Dale McRaven

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  17. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 15 - House of Max (1)
    7.4/10(187 votes)

    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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  18. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
    7.4/10(190 votes)

    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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  19. Get Smart Season 5 Episode 19 - Witness for the Execution
    7.4/10(180 votes)

    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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  20. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 5 - Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
    7.5/10(329 votes)

    S1:E5

    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
    Writers:Marvin Worth, Arne Sultan

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  21. Get Smart Season 1 Episode 9 - Satan Place
    7.5/10(307 votes)

    S1:E9

    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
    Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns

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  22. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 10 - The Greatest Spy on Earth
    7.5/10(223 votes)

    S2:E10

    Max and Agent 99 go undercover to a circus in order to find a KAOS smuggling ring.

    Director:Joshua Shelley
    Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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  23. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 13 - Perils in a Pet Shop
    7.5/10(214 votes)

    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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  24. Get Smart Season 2 Episode 22 - Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho
    7.5/10(204 votes)

    S2:E22

    When a Control agent is killed (made to look like an accident) while undercover, Max is assigned to investigate his death and to find out how a man name Frank Lloyd Joshua is causing high-rise buildings to explode.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Arne Sultan

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  25. 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Ice Station Siegfried" is the worst rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 6.4/10 based on 208 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan, it aired on 12/19/1969. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Apes of Rath".