The Worst Episodes of Get Smart

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6.4/10(208 votes)
#1 - Ice Station Siegfried
S5:E1312/19/1969
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
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
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Director:Reza Badiyi
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
6.8/10(198 votes)
#2 - The Apes of Rath
S5:E1011/28/1969
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
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Richard Benedict
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
6.9/10(179 votes)
#3 - Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America
S5:E245/1/1970
CONTROL must persuade a decendent of Columbus not to sell America to KAOS.
Director:Alan Rafkin
Writer:Pat McCormick
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Director:Alan Rafkin
Writer:Pat McCormick
7.2/10(197 votes)
#4 - Valerie of the Dolls
S5:E310/10/1969
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
Writers:Les Colodny, Ed Haas
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Director:Jay Sandrich
Writers:Les Colodny, Ed Haas
7.2/10(181 votes)
#5 - House of Max (2)
S5:E161/16/1970
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
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Director:Anton Leader
Writer:Chris Hayward
7.3/10(288 votes)
#6 - Weekend Vampire
S1:E1412/18/1965
CONTROL agents are found murdered with mysterious puncture marks on their necks. The investigation leads to the mysterious Dr. Drago.
Director:Bruce Bilson
Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
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Director:Bruce Bilson
Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner

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7.3/10(211 votes)
#7 - Appointment in Sahara
S2:E263/25/1967
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
Writers:Arne Sultan, Gary Clarke
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Director:Don Adams
Writers:Arne Sultan, Gary Clarke
7.3/10(198 votes)
#8 - And Baby Makes Four (1)
S5:E711/7/1969
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
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
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Director:Don Adams
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
7.3/10(197 votes)
#9 - Widow Often Annie
S5:E410/17/1969
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
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
7.3/10(190 votes)
#10 - Smart Fell on Alabama
S5:E610/31/1969
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
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Alan Rafkin
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
7.3/10(182 votes)
#11 - Temporarily Out of CONTROL
S4:E1212/14/1968
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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Director:James Komack
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan, Leonard B. Stern, Allan Burns
7.3/10(178 votes)
#12 - Smartacus
S5:E222/27/1970
Max and the Chief investigate a series of security leaks that seem to be connected to a chain of spas.
Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
7.3/10(175 votes)
#13 - What's It All About, Algie?
S5:E234/24/1970
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
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
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Director:Don Adams
Writers:Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan
7.4/10(249 votes)
#14 - 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.
Director:Murray Golden
Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns, Pat McCormick, Ron Friedman
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Director:Murray Golden
Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns, Pat McCormick, Ron Friedman
7.4/10(212 votes)
#15 - The Whole Tooth and . . .
S2:E1412/24/1966
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
Writers:Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn
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Director:William Wiard
Writers:Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn
7.4/10(202 votes)
#16 - Is This Trip Necessary?
S5:E1212/12/1969
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:Ron Joy
Writer:Dale McRaven
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Director:Ron Joy
Writer:Dale McRaven
7.4/10(190 votes)
#17 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm
S5:E171/23/1970
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
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Charles R. Rondeau
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
7.4/10(187 votes)
#18 - House of Max (1)
S5:E151/9/1970
Max and 99 go to London to investigate a modern-day Jack the Ripper.
Director:Anton Leader
Writer:Chris Hayward
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Director:Anton Leader
Writer:Chris Hayward
7.4/10(180 votes)
#19 - Witness for the Execution
S5:E192/6/1970
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
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
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Director:Alan Rafkin
Writers:Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell
7.5/10(329 votes)
#20 - Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
S1:E510/16/1965
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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Director:Paul Bogart
Writers:Marvin Worth, Arne Sultan
7.5/10(308 votes)
#21 - 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.
Director:Frank McDonald
Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns
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Director:Frank McDonald
Writers:Mike Marmer, Stan Burns
7.5/10(223 votes)
#22 - The Greatest Spy on Earth
S2:E1011/19/1966
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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Director:Joshua Shelley
Writers:Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner
7.5/10(219 votes)
#23 - Dr. Yes
S3:E911/25/1967
Max and 99 go to Lost Lake to track down the person who is sabotaging missile launches.
Director:James Komack
Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor
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Director:James Komack
Writers:Myles Wilder, William Raynor
7.5/10(218 votes)
#24 - Viva Smart
S3:E29/23/1967
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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Director:Norman Abbott
Writers:Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick, Norman Paul
7.5/10(216 votes)
#25 - The Wax Max
S3:E202/24/1968
Max and 99 enjoy their day off at an amusement park. Little do they realize that the Amusement Park is actually a KAOS drop-off place for secret messages.
Director:James Komack
Writer:James Komack
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Director:James Komack
Writer:James Komack