The BEST episodes of Get Smart

Every episode of Get Smart ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Get Smart!

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.

Last Updated: 11/8/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
A Man Called Smart (3)
star
8.97
63 votes

#1 - A Man Called Smart (3)

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1967

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.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
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A Man Called Smart (2)
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8.91
66 votes

#2 - A Man Called Smart (2)

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/15/1967

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.

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Rub-a-Dub-Dub...Three Spies in a Sub
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8.75
75 votes

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

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1966

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

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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The Whole Tooth and...
star
8.62
69 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: William Wiard
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The Decoy
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8.61
77 votes

#5 - The Decoy

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1966

CONTROL makes KAOS believe that Max is carrying a secret code.

Directors: William Wiard
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Island of the Darned
star
8.59
78 votes

#6 - Island of the Darned

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1966

86 and 99 are stranded on a KAOS controlled island where they must fight for their lives.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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A Spy for a Spy
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8.59
92 votes

#7 - A Spy for a Spy

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966

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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Someone Down Here Hates Me
star
8.59
70 votes

#8 - Someone Down Here Hates Me

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1967

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.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
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Bronzefinger
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8.58
69 votes

#9 - Bronzefinger

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1966

Max has to learn about art in order to try to capture an art thief.

Directors: William Wiard
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Kiss of Death
star
8.55
69 votes

#10 - Kiss of Death

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1966

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

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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The Expendable Agent
star
8.51
65 votes

#11 - The Expendable Agent

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1967

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.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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The Not-So-Great Escape (2)
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8.48
27 votes

#12 - The Not-So-Great Escape (2)

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1969

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.

Directors: Don Adams
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It Takes One to Know One
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8.36
69 votes

#13 - It Takes One to Know One

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1967

Octavia is destroying all of the number two men of CONTROL, so Hymie becomes the new number two man.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Gary Clarke
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A Man Called Smart (1)
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8.36
72 votes

#14 - A Man Called Smart (1)

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1967

KAOS steals a water evaporation formula (DRY-UP) and blackmails the country by threatening to dry up all its water.

Directors: Earl Bellamy
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Perils in a Pet Shop
star
8.34
70 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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The Girls from KAOS
star
8.25
68 votes

#16 - The Girls from KAOS

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1967

Max is assigned to protect Miss USA, but KAOS has other plans.

Directors: William Wiard
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How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying
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8.25
68 votes

#17 - How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1967

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.

Directors: Gary Nelson
Writer: Mike Marmer
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The Greatest Spy on Earth
star
8.23
77 votes

#18 - The Greatest Spy on Earth

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1966

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

Directors: Joshua Shelley
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The King Lives?
star
8.21
39 votes

#19 - The King Lives?

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1968

Max travels to Coronia to protect the King of Coronia from the King's evil half-brother Basil

Directors: Gary Nelson
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Die, Spy
star
8.18
33 votes

#20 - Die, Spy

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1968

The story spoofs NBC's "I Spy" and Robert Culp of that series appears in a cameo role.

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99 Loses CONTROL
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8.16
37 votes

#21 - 99 Loses CONTROL

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1968

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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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One of Our Olives is Missing
star
8.16
44 votes

#22 - One of Our Olives is Missing

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1967

A country singer accidentally swallows a KAOS transmitter disguised as an olive. Max has to protect her from KAOS agents.

Directors: Jess Oppenheimer
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When Good Fellows Get Together
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8.14
35 votes

#23 - When Good Fellows Get Together

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1967

KAOS designs the world's strongest robot.

Directors: Sidney Miller
Writer: Gary Clarke
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The Little Black Book (2)
star
8.10
39 votes

#24 - The Little Black Book (2)

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1968

Having found out that Max is a Spy,Sid who unwittingly gave what he thought was an ordinary Black Book to Kaos Agents.He accompanies Max on their search for the Book,and the infamous Maestro,a Top Kaos Assassin.

Directors: James Komack
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The Mysterious Dr. T
star
8.06
35 votes

#25 - The Mysterious Dr. T

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1967

When a top CONTROL scientist dies, it turns out that he wasn't the real brains behind the operations.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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