The BEST episodes of Get Smart season 1

Every episode of Get Smart season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Get Smart season 1!

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
Our Man in Leotards
star
7.98
121 votes

#1 - Our Man in Leotards

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1965

Enilio Naharana steals a new drug invented by CONTROL named Immobilo, in order to use it against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Max and 99 disguise themselves in order to save the day. Dancer and rebel Enilio Naharana steals a new CONTROL drug, Immobilo, to use against the Ambassador of Pinerovia. Immobilo paralyzes people instantly and Naharana plans to use it to prevent the Ambassador from signing a treaty with the U.S. Disguised as dancers, Max and 99 try to foil a peach of a plot. Unfortunately, Max is not a dancer and he gets caught! Keep an eye out for the bass drum sequence, which is one of the funniest bits in the entire series.

Directors: Richard Donner
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The Dead Spy Scrawls
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7.75
53 votes

#2 - The Dead Spy Scrawls

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1966

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

Directors: Gary Nelson
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The Last One in is a Rotten Spy
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7.69
42 votes

#3 - The Last One in is a Rotten Spy

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/7/1966

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

Directors: David Alexander
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Ship of Spies (1)
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7.68
44 votes

#4 - Ship of Spies (1)

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1966

Ahoy mate! Max's new assignment has him in a boat where he must find the blueprints of a super weapon while watching his back from a mysterious killer who makes a peculiar clip-clop sound, which is not that much help as every single passenger and crew member make that sound.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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All in the Mind
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7.67
49 votes

#5 - All in the Mind

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1966

Max poses as an insane colonel in order to prove that a KAOS psychiatrist is revealing confidential information.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Kisses for KAOS
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7.63
57 votes

#6 - Kisses for KAOS

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1966

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.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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Ship of Spies (2)
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7.63
46 votes

#7 - Ship of Spies (2)

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1966

99's quick and clever reactions save Max from drowning. Back on the ship, Max talks with the captain who offers his assistance after finding out the reason he can never understand his aide. To make matters worse, 44 has finally had it. Not only Max cracks his super secret message, but he's tired of working hidden, not being able to eat at the captain's table, it's a boring job... As if it wasn't bad enough, he gets shot and Max finally discovers who the killer is, though it may be too late for him.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Smart, the Assassin
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7.63
54 votes

#8 - Smart, the Assassin

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1966

After being hypnotized by KAOS, Max finds himself in a difficult situation while playing a game of chess.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Back to the Old Drawing Board
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7.62
50 votes

#9 - Back to the Old Drawing Board

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1966

KAOS is interested in capturing Dr. Shotwire, a brilliant scientist whose work has been set 6 months back thanks to his bodyguard's helping hands (no other than 86). The KAOS agent in charge of the kidnapping, Natz, also has a vendetta with Max who sent him to prison in the past. Natz's plan involves the latest creation of rogue Dr. Ratton: Hymie a humanoid robot who enters Control as a newbie agent. However no one knows what to expect when Hymie has a drink and gets some quality time with Max.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Gary Clarke
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Mr. Big
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7.58
458 votes

#10 - Mr. Big

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1965

Mr. Big is blackmailing CONTROL: unless they pay him $100,000,000 he will use the "Inthermo Ray" to destroy the Statue of Liberty. Max teams up with Fang and a new partner, Agent 99, to stop Mr. Big.

Directors: Howard Morris
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The Amazing Harry Hoo
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7.58
50 votes

#11 - The Amazing Harry Hoo

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1966

The Claw is back, and planning to lead Max into his deadly trap. His scheme leads Max and 99 to San Francisco as they follow a Chinese agent (Number 3) in the hopes that this will lead them to Number One (Claw), the mastermind behind a smuggling operation that uses a laundromat as facade (though the real money is actually in the laundry). However Max gets help from Harry Who, a chinese police inspector with a keen eye for detail and two possibilities to explain anything.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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I'm Only Human
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7.57
47 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Murray Golden
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Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain
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7.56
43 votes

#13 - Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1966

A horde of KAOS agents are taking flights to Washington. Each one carries a piece of a bomb which is meant to explode near an American base. Max and the Chief capture one of KAOS's agents and fool-force confidential information out of him. They end up in Blue Mist Mountain and it's up to 86 to dismantle the bomb before it goes off. All the help he has is Parker on the shoe-phone, a coin, and a very expensive tie.

Directors: Murray Golden
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Double Agent
star
7.55
87 votes

#14 - Double Agent

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1966

Max has to become a broken, drunk agent so that KAOS will probably try to recruit him as one of their agents. He eventually is and has a difficult task.

Directors: Frank McDonald
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Survival of the Fattest
star
7.54
94 votes

#15 - Survival of the Fattest

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1965

Max has to protect an Arab prince, who must remain fat to retain his power.

Directors: Frank McDonald
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Dear Diary
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7.53
43 votes

#16 - Dear Diary

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1966

A retired agent and his secret diary are missing.

Directors: Murray Golden
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Hubert's Unfinished Symphony
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7.49
43 votes

#17 - Hubert's Unfinished Symphony

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/19/1966

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.

Directors: Gary Nelson
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Shipment to Beirut
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7.44
45 votes

#18 - Shipment to Beirut

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/23/1966

Fashion model Mildred Spencer telephones Smart that the supersonic plans are sewn into a dress.

Directors: David Alexander
Writer: Arne Sultan
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
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7.44
242 votes

#19 - Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1965

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.

Directors: Paul Bogart
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Too Many Chiefs
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7.43
157 votes

#20 - Too Many Chiefs

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1965

Alexi Sebastian, a master impersonator, attempts to kill someone who was about to reveal the secret of the KAOS coding system. Alexi disguises himself as the Chief to confuse the situation even more. Max and 99 must guard Tanya Lupescu, who has memorized KAOS' codebook. An attempt to hide her in a hotel fails, so CONTROL decides to hide her in Max's apartment. KAOS hires master impersonator Alexi Sebastian to kill Lupesco. Sebastian has successfully disguised himself as Johnny Carson and Max's Aunt Rose, so CONTROL has him listed as a 101 - shoot on sight. Sebastian disguises himself as the Chief and gets inside the apartment, but the real Chief shows up and Max is confronted by two Chiefs. Can Maxie pick the correct Chief?

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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KAOS in CONTROL
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7.42
148 votes

#21 - KAOS in CONTROL

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1965

CONTROL is due to host a conference of six scientific geniuses, but just before it occurs,. KAOS manages to steal CONTROL's retrogressor gun. The gun, which turns adults into children mentally, is taken by a KAOS mole who manages to retrogress the gun's inventor and the Chief. KAOS' goal is to turn the scientists into children, destroying the free world's greatest minds.

Directors: Don Richardson
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Our Man in Toyland
star
7.36
238 votes

#22 - Our Man in Toyland

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965

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.

Directors: Don Richardson
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My Nephew the Spy
star
7.34
96 votes

#23 - My Nephew the Spy

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1965

Max stumbles upon a shoe store that just happens to be a KAOS communications center. Max is follwed by a KAOS agent who wants to kill him. The arrival of Max's aunt and uncle foil the KAOS agent's plan.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Diplomat's Daughter
star
7.31
359 votes

#24 - Diplomat's Daughter

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1965

Numerous blondes have been kidnapped and Smart is assigned to protect a beautiful diplomat's daughter. He discovers the KAOS lair and tangles with The Claw, capturing him and his henchmen.

Directors: Paul Bogart
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School Days
star
7.30
315 votes

#25 - School Days

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1965

Smart goes undercover at the CONTROL spy school to find an undercover KAOS spy. 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.

Directors: Paul Bogart
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