The BEST Episodes of Get Smart
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Feb 19, 2021
Network: NBC
In 1965 the cold war was made a little warmer and a lot funnier due in part to the efforts of an inept, underpaid, overzealous spy: Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. The hit comedy series 'Get Smart' is the creation of comic geniuses Buck Henry and Mel Brooks.
#1 - A Man Called Smart (3)
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired Apr 22, 1967
KAOS attempts to kill the Chief in his hospital room, but a sharp-eyed 99 foils the plot. Investigating a clue at Three Brothers Omniwash, Max and 99 discover TBO means T.B.Orlando, a Hollywood executive. Or does it? When Orlando turns up dead, Max and 99 must find the truth before KAOS dries up the Mississippi River.
9.12 
#2 - A Man Called Smart (2)
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired Apr 15, 1967
Admiral Hardgrade, CONTROL's first chief, is appointed by the president to take charge of CONTROL during this crisis. He sends the Chief, Max and 99 into the field to interview Bediyoskin and learn who's behind the DryUp caper.
8.98 
#3 - Someone Down Here Hates Me
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired Jan 14, 1967
KAOS puts up a reward to kill Max an announces that their annual party will be canceled if they don't kill him, only causing more trouble for Max.
8.89 
#4 - Island of the Darned
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired Nov 26, 1966
86 and 99 are stranded on a KAOS controlled island where they must fight for their lives.
8.85 
#5 - Bronzefinger
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired Dec 3, 1966
Max has to learn about art in order to try to capture an art thief.
8.83 
#6 - Kiss of Death
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired Dec 31, 1966
A women pretends to be in love with Max in order to try to kill him.
8.82 
#7 - Rub-a-Dub-Dub...Three Spies in a Sub
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired Nov 12, 1966
Max and Agent 99 are captured by a KAOS sub commanded by Siegfried.
8.81 
#8 - The Whole Tooth and...
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Dec 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.
8.80 
#9 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired Mar 29, 1969
Smart and the Chief try all the standard escape methods and each time KAOS has Seigfried and his henchman, Starker, block them. The Chief realizes that there must be an informer in the camp and devises a plan to fool the informer.
8.76 
#10 - The Decoy
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 29, 1966
CONTROL makes KAOS believe that Max is carrying a secret code.
8.67 
#11 - A Spy for a Spy
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 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.
8.63 
#12 - The Expendable Agent
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired Mar 4, 1967
A British scientist who came to America to reveal a new rocket fuel formula hides at Max's apartment as KAOS tries everything they can to capture him and steal the formula.
8.57 
#13 - Perils in a Pet Shop
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Dec 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.
8.42 
#14 - The Not-So-Great Escape (1)
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired Mar 22, 1969
Max is assigned to see Agent Kendall safely on a plane to Europe. However, Kendall mysteriously disappears from the airport after being paged. When Max takes the Chief to the airport to find out what happened, the Chief also disappears after being paged.
8.38 
#15 - It Takes One to Know One
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired Jan 7, 1967
Octavia is destroying all of the number two men of CONTROL, so Hymie becomes the new number two man.
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#16 - The Greatest Spy on Earth
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired Nov 19, 1966
Max and Agent 99 go undercover to a circus in order to find a KAOS smuggling ring.
8.36 
#17 - The Girls from KAOS
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired Feb 11, 1967
Max is assigned to protect Miss USA, but KAOS has other plans.
8.32 
#18 - How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired Mar 11, 1967
Max and 99 are saved by Siegfried, who wants to defect. The Chief doesn't trust Siegfried until he starts to sell important information about KAOS.
8.30 
#19 - A Man Called Smart (1)
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired Apr 8, 1967
KAOS steals a water evaporation formula (DRY-UP) and blackmails the country by threatening to dry up all its water.
8.30 
#20 - Die, Spy
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired Mar 30, 1968
The story spoofs NBC's "I Spy" and Robert Culp of that series appears in a cameo role.
8.30 
#21 - The King Lives?
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 6, 1968
Max travels to Coronia to protect the King of Coronia from the King's evil half-brother Basil
8.27 
#22 - The Impossible Mission
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 21, 1968
The Chief assigns 86 and 99 to retrieve a deadly scientific theory from KAOS. The search takes the CONTROL agents to a TV studio, where they disguise themselves as dancers.
8.21 
#23 - One of Our Olives is Missing
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 4, 1967
A country singer accidentally swallows a KAOS transmitter disguised as an olive. Max has to protect her from KAOS agents.
8.19 
#24 - 99 Loses CONTROL
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired Feb 17, 1968
Feeling that she has no future at Control, and no future with Max, 99 decides to leave, and accept the marriage proposal with handsome, wealthy Victor Royale. Max, feeling jealous, goes to pursue 99. Having saved Royale from an assassination attempt, Royale offers Max a job as his bodyguard.
8.06 
#25 - The Only Way to Die
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 8, 1966
Max is almost killed but then CONTROL pretends that he is dead so he can complete a secret mission to protect the IRS from a bomb planted by a KAOS agent known only as the Blaster.
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