The Best Episodes Written By Stan Burns

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #1 - A Spy for a Spy

   S2:E310/1/1966

   A series of kidnapping take place between KAOS and CONTROL, masterminded by Siegfried. So many kidnappings take place, no one is left but Siegfried and Maxwell Smart, who must negotiate the trade of captured agents.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #2 - I'm Only Human

   S1:E232/26/1966

   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.

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #3 - The Last One in is a Rotten Spy

   S1:E305/7/1966

   A swimmer on the Russian national team calls Max for help, but unfortunately he forgets her name.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Kiss of Death

   S2:E1512/31/1966

   A women pretends to be in love with Max in order to try to kill him.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Our Man in Toyland

   S1:E410/9/1965

   KAOS is secretly smuggling secrets out of the country. 99 discovers they are using a Department Store as a front and Polly Dollys to smuggle out the secrets. When one pulls the doll's string, Polly reveals top secrets. Max and 99 get caught by KAOS. Using children's toys, Max and 99 attempt to fight their way to safety and stop KAOS' smuggling ring.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #6 - The Dead Spy Scrawls

   S1:E181/22/1966

   CONTROL tries to find the location of a KAOS communications center, which turns out to be in a pool hall.

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   7.2/10(4 votes)

   #7 - School Days

   S1:E310/2/1965

   CONTROL's spy school has been infiltrated by KAOS. To find the imposter, Max and Fang go undercover as students, while 99 poses as an instructor. There are three students suspected of being imposters - Dimitri, Grillak, and Zukor. Max must verify that Dimitri speaks a rare East Himalayan dialect, that Zukor has unusual handwriting, and that Grillak has a heart-shaped birthmark. Max finds himself all wet when attempting to eliminate them from the suspect list and he and 99 get captured and tied to a bomb. It is only by Fang's skilled intervention that they aren't blown to bits.

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Dear Diary

   S1:E212/12/1966

   A retired agent and his secret diary are missing.

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   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Satan Place

   S1:E911/13/1965

   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.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Kisses for KAOS

    S1:E171/15/1966

    After several buildings are inexplicably blown up, Control follows the trail to an art gallery where a former chemist, debonair Rex Savage, has teamed up with painter Mondo to produce a series of explosive paintings. 99 disguises as an art expert with Max as her driver/butler as they try to get Savage's fingerprints and photograph, something that turns out to be a little more complicated than expected.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Rub-a-Dub-Dub . . .Three Spies in a Sub

    S2:E911/12/1966

    Max and Agent 99 are captured by a KAOS sub commanded by Siegfried.

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Hubert's Unfinished Symphony

    S1:E263/19/1966

    Max and the Chief disguise themselves as concert critics as they go in the aid of Hubert, a violin virtuoso who has been working undercover to find the identity of KAOS's Big Boss. Just before Hubert is able to give his report he is killed but first hides a clue in the form of writen music. Max must then stop pianist Wolenska from being killed by a bomb planted in the piano on which he will perform Hubert's last symphony, a desperate attempt of the Big Boss to keep his identity secret.

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