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The Worst Episodes of Get Smart

Every episode of Get Smart ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Get Smart!

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...
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"Ice Station Siegfried" is the worst rated episode of "Get Smart". It scored 6.3/10 based on 177 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by Chris Hayward, it aired on 12/19/1969. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Apes of Rath".

  • Ice Station Siegfried
    6.3/10177 votes
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    #1 - Ice Station Siegfried

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1969

    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

  • The Apes of Rath
    6.8/10167 votes
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    #2 - The Apes of Rath

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1969

    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

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America
    6.9/10151 votes
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    #3 - Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1970

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

    Director: Alan Rafkin

    Writer: N/A

  • Valerie of the Dolls
    7.0/10169 votes
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    #4 - Valerie of the Dolls

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1969

    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: N/A

  • Appointment in Sahara
    7.2/10185 votes
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    #5 - Appointment in Sahara

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1967

    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: N/A

  • Temporarily Out of CONTROL
    7.2/10155 votes
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    #6 - Temporarily Out of CONTROL

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1968

    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: Jay Sandrich

    Writer: Chris Hayward

  • Widow Often Annie
    7.2/10170 votes
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    #7 - Widow Often Annie

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1969

    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

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • House of Max  (2)
    7.2/10153 votes
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    #8 - House of Max (2)

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1970

    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

  • What's It All About, Algie?
    7.2/10148 votes
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    #9 - What's It All About, Algie?

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1970

    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

  • Weekend Vampire
    7.3/10248 votes
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    #10 - Weekend Vampire

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1965

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

    Director: Bruce Bilson

    Writer: Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso

  • Smart Fell on Alabama
    7.3/10163 votes
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    #11 - Smart Fell on Alabama

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1969

    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

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • And Baby Makes Four  (1)
    7.3/10169 votes
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    #12 - And Baby Makes Four (1)

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1969

    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

  • Is This Trip Necessary?
    7.3/10176 votes
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    #13 - Is This Trip Necessary?

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • House of Max  (1)
    7.3/10155 votes
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    #14 - House of Max (1)

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1970

    Max and 99 go to London to investigate a modern-day Jack the Ripper.

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: Chris Hayward

  • Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
    7.3/10160 votes
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    #15 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1970

    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

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • Witness for the Execution
    7.3/10149 votes
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    #16 - Witness for the Execution

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1970

    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

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • Smartacus
    7.3/10149 votes
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    #17 - Smartacus

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1970

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

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Whitey Mitchell

  • I'm Only Human
    7.4/10212 votes
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    #18 - I'm Only Human

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Perils in a Pet Shop
    7.4/10187 votes
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    #19 - Perils in a Pet Shop

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1966

    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

  • The Whole Tooth and . . .
    7.4/10186 votes
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    #20 - The Whole Tooth and . . .

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1966

    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

  • Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho
    7.4/10177 votes
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    #21 - Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1967

    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: N/A

  • Viva Smart
    7.4/10188 votes
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    #22 - Viva Smart

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1967

    Max is set to testifie against Kaos Agent Elwood Tudbury.However Kaos is determined to stop him at all cost.

    Director: James Komack

    Writer: N/A

  • Witness for the Persecution
    7.4/10189 votes
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    #23 - Witness for the Persecution

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dr. Yes
    7.4/10188 votes
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    #24 - Dr. Yes

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1967

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

    Director: James Komack

    Writer: Myles Wilder

  • The Worst Best Man
    7.4/10166 votes
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    #25 - The Worst Best Man

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1968

    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

    Writer: Chris Hayward