The WORST episodes of Get Smart

Every episode of Get Smart ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 2/14/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
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Weekend Vampire
star
6.59
124 votes

#1 - Weekend Vampire

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1965

CONTROL agents are found murdered with mysterious puncture marks on their necks. The investigation leads to the mysterious Dr. Drago.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Casablanca
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6.62
79 votes

#2 - Casablanca

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1966

After he is ordered to go on vacation, Max pursues the Choker to Casablanca, where he unknowingly meets 99.

Directors: William Waird
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Aboard the Orient Express
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6.69
91 votes

#3 - Aboard the Orient Express

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1965

CONTROL couriers are aboard the Orient Express are being murdered in order to prevent them from delivering important information. Max and 99 get into a sticky situation while trying to solve the mystery.

Directors: Frank McDonald
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Washington 4, Indians 3
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6.71
151 votes

#4 - Washington 4, Indians 3

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1965

Indians threaten to use a bomb if they don't get all of their land back. Smart then goes into their camp and foils their plan. While on his three-week vacation Agent 43 is confronted by a group of rebel Indians. They demand the return of all Indian lands or they will fire their secret weapon on Washington. Max calls an all-out alert, though we're not sure if it's because of an Indian attack or because he doesn't get three weeks vacation. Once saturation bombing of Arizona is discarded as a plan, Max and 99 mount 'em up and head out to disarm the secret weapon. Max, disguised as a Papawahsee, infiltrates the camp. The Papwahsee is actually the Indian word for fiancee and Max is forced to romance Chief Red Cloud's daughter to fulfill his assignment. A jealous 99 raids the camp to prevent Max from kissing the daughter and tries to prevent the Indians from launching their secret weapon, a giant arrow.

Directors: Richard Donner
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How Green Was My Valet
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6.74
19 votes

#5 - How Green Was My Valet

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1970

Dr. Harper dies, leaving the only sample of his rocket fuel behind and KAOS finds it first. Max and 99 have to pose as a valet and maid at the Bulmanian Embassy to recover the stolen fuel. When 99's mother can't babysit, the Chief and Larabee are forced to take care of the twins so the Smarts can go to work at the embassy. Meanwhile, Max must get into the wine cellar to find the fuel, but the only key is around the neck of the ambassador.

Directors: Dick Carson
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And Baby Makes Four (1)
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6.81
21 votes

#6 - And Baby Makes Four (1)

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1969

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.

Directors: Don Adams
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Ice Station Siegfried
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6.91
22 votes

#7 - Ice Station Siegfried

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1969

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.

Directors: Reza Badiyi
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Witness for the Execution
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6.94
18 votes

#8 - Witness for the Execution

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1970

Max is assigned to protect KAOS Agent Dietrich. Dietrich has turned informant, and will give testimony on the inner workings of KAOS that would put an end to KAOS. The only obstacle 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?

Directors: Alan Rafkin
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The Man from YENTA
star
7.00
65 votes

#9 - The Man from YENTA

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1967

CONTROL works with the Israelis to protect an Arab prince, but everything goes wrong.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Arne Sultan
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The Treasure of C. Errol Madre
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7.09
23 votes

#10 - The Treasure of C. Errol Madre

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1969

When KAOS heists CONTROL's payrolls, putting it into severe financial straits, The Chief sends Max, disguised as prospector Frogsie Debbs, to Mira Lodo, Mexico, to find Debbs' old partner C. Errol Madre, who posesses the second half of a map that leads to a gold mind that could restore CONTROL's operations.

Directors: Don Adams
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The Day Smart Turned Chicken
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7.12
141 votes

#11 - The Day Smart Turned Chicken

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1965

Smart is to testify against KAOS soon, so they devise situations to show that Smart is losing his mind. A dying cowboy comes to Max's apartment to reveal a plot to poison the Morovian Ambassador at a costume party that night. Max calls the Chief, but when help arrives, the dead cowboy is missing and there's no proof of his ever having existed. Max dresses as a giant chicken and attends the costume ball at the embassy in order to protect the ambassador, but it's not a costume party and there's no poison in the ambassador's drink. It's all a KAOS plot to convince everyone that Max is crazy and discredit his testimony in an upcoming court case.

Directors: Frank McDonald
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Satan Place
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7.15
130 votes

#12 - Satan Place

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1965

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.

Directors: Frank McDonald
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What's It All About, Algie?
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7.16
19 votes

#13 - What's It All About, Algie?

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1970

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.

Directors: Don Adams
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Hello, Columbus -- Goodbye, America
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7.17
18 votes

#14 - Hello, Columbus -- Goodbye, America

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1970

CONTROL must persuade a decendent of Columbus not to sell America to KAOS.

Directors: Alan Rafkin
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Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho
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7.22
64 votes

#15 - Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1967

When a Control agent is killed (made to look like an accident) while undercover, Max is assigned to investigate his death and to find out how a man name Frank Lloyd Joshua is causing high-rise buildings to explode.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Arne Sultan
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To Sire, with Love (1)
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7.22
27 votes

#16 - To Sire, with Love (1)

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1969

The Chief uses a masked costume ball to switch King Charles for Max. Agent 99 soon has dificulty telling the two apart. Unfortunately, KAOS does not have the same problem uncovering the ruse.

Directors: Gray Nelson
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Maxwell Smart, Private Eye
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7.24
71 votes

#17 - Maxwell Smart, Private Eye

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1967

With a cutback at control, everyone is taking on extra jobs.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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The Wax Max
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7.26
35 votes

#18 - The Wax Max

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1968

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.

Directors: James Komack
Writer: James Komack
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Appointment in Sahara
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7.27
63 votes

#19 - Appointment in Sahara

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/25/1967

Once KAOS gets a nuclear bomb, they try to blackmail the world into disarmament, but Max and 99 are sent to save the day.

Directors: Don Adams
Writer: Gary Clarke
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Valerie of the Dolls
star
7.30
20 votes

#20 - Valerie of the Dolls

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1969

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.

Directors: Jay Sandrich
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School Days
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7.31
309 votes

#21 - 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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Diplomat's Daughter
star
7.32
351 votes

#22 - 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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My Nephew the Spy
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7.33
92 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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Greer Window
star
7.35
23 votes

#24 - Greer Window

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1969

CONTROL corners KAOS Agent Klineschmidt in a house and attempts to take him alive. Before they can do that, he manages to shoot Max in the buttocks. Forced to stay at home, Max amuses himself by using binoculars to spy on the office building across the street. The office he's watching belongs to Otto Greer, who is a government contractor. Top secret papers have been disappearing from his office so the Chief assigns 99 to work undercover as secretary to Greer. Max keeps an eye on 99's progress and discovers too late that Greer is a KAOS agent planning to kill both of them.

Directors: Edward Ryder
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Widow Often Annie
star
7.35
23 votes

#25 - Widow Often Annie

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1969

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.

Directors: Charles Rondeau
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