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10 Best Episodes of Get Smart - Season 5

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.

Written by Sophie and last updated on dec 26, 2022.

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Get Smart - S5E13

#15 - Ice Station Siegfried (Season 5 - Episode 13)

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.

The episode was rated 7.58 from 19 votes.

Get Smart - S5E24

#14 - Hello, Columbus -- Goodbye, America (Season 5 - Episode 24)

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

The episode was rated 7.67 from 15 votes.

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#13 - Smart Fell on Alabama (Season 5 - Episode 6)

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.

The episode was rated 7.67 from 21 votes.

Get Smart - S5E10

#12 - The Apes of Rath (Season 5 - Episode 10)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.68 from 19 votes.

Get Smart - S5E22

#11 - Smartacus (Season 5 - Episode 22)

Max and the Chief investigate a series of security leaks that seem to be connected to a chain of spas.

The episode was rated 7.73 from 15 votes.

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#10 - House of Max (1) (Season 5 - Episode 15)

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Max and 99 go to London to investigate a modern-day Jack the Ripper.

The episode was rated 7.73 from 15 votes.

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#9 - What's It All About, Algie? (Season 5 - Episode 23)

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.

The episode was rated 7.75 from 16 votes.

Get Smart - S5E17

#8 - Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm (Season 5 - Episode 17)

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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.

The episode was rated 7.79 from 19 votes.

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#7 - Ironhand (Season 5 - Episode 2)

When IH Industries acquires KAOS, Max and 99 attempt Operation Baby Buggy Switch to stop the new head of KAOS, Ironhand, a man with an iron fist, from obtaining The Anti-Anti_Anti-Missle-Missle plans.

The episode was rated 7.81 from 26 votes.

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#6 - Age Before Duty (Season 5 - Episode 11)

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Max is bewildered when his young contact dies of old age. Max goes to meet CONTROL Agent Carruthers and finds Carruthers dying of old age. The problem is that Carruthers is only 28 years old. After that, more and more agents are rapidly aging and dying, thanks to a new invention by KAOS, Dorian Gray Paint. The paint ages the real person once it's put on a picture of that person. They turn Max, 99, and the Chief into senior citizens right before they locate KAOS HQ.

The episode was rated 7.82 from 17 votes.

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#5 - And Baby Makes Four (2) (Season 5 - Episode 8)

CONTROL must defeat Simon the Likable while 99 delivers twins. Max and 99 escape and manage to get to the correct hospital in time for her to have twins, a boy and a girl. While everyone is congratulating Max, Simon tries to escape until he runs into the one person who doesn't like him, 99's mother.

The episode was rated 7.89 from 18 votes.

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#4 - The Mess of Adrian Listenger (Season 5 - Episode 18)

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While attending the funeral of the latest Control Agent who was mysteriously killed, Max, 99, and The Chief are shocked to find a carved headstone with Max's name on it.

The episode was rated 7.94 from 17 votes.

Get Smart - S5E16

#3 - House of Max (2) (Season 5 - Episode 16)

Max poses as a wax sculpture of Hitler to spy on a KAOS scientist who brings waxworks to life.

The episode was rated 8.00 from 15 votes.

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#2 - Moonlighting Becomes You (Season 5 - Episode 14)

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99 moonlights as the secretary of a radio personality to discover a secret KAOS code.

The episode was rated 8.05 from 19 votes.

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#1 - Is This Trip Necessary? (Season 5 - Episode 12)

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."

The episode was rated 8.26 from 19 votes.

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