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Get Smart: Season 3

26 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1967 Updated Oct 7, 2026
Previously on Get Smart

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Get Smart Season 2.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (22): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

The Spy Who Met Himself

Sep 16, 1967 · 25 min

KAOS's League of Impersonators are serving as duplicates for CONTROL agents, trying to steal the plans for a warhead and wreak havoc at CONTROL. After the real Max kidnapped and i

S3·E2 Core

Viva Smart

Sep 23, 1967 · 25 min

Max and 99 are sent to a Latin American republic to rescue a President who has been overthrown and imprisoned by a maniacal army general dictator.

S3·E3 Core

Witness for the Persecution

Oct 7, 1967 · 25 min

KAOS is going to stop Smart from testifying against one of their agents.

S3·E4 Core

The Spirit is Willing

Oct 14, 1967 · 25 min

Max's new informer promises to deliver evidence implicating the top leader of KAOS, though it turns out that the informant has long been dead. Max must hold a seance to get his ev

S3·E6 Core

Supersonic Boom

Oct 28, 1967 · 25 min

KAOS attacks the CONTROL headquarters with a sonic boom and threatens to use it on New York City.

S3·E7 Core

One of Our Olives is Missing

Nov 4, 1967 · 25 min

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

S3·E9 Core

Dr. Yes

Nov 25, 1967 · 25 min

Max and 99 go to Lost Lake to track down the person who is sabotaging missile launches.

S3·E10 Core

That Old Gang of Mine

Dec 2, 1967 · 25 min

The British CONTROL needs Max to go undercover.

S3·E11 Core

The Mild Ones

Dec 9, 1967 · 25 min

Max & 99 have to infiltrate a motorcycle gang called the ""Purple Knights"", because Control believes they kidnapped the Prime Minister of a foreign country while Max was guarding

S3·E12 Core

Classification: Dead

Dec 23, 1967 · 25 min

Max gets poisoned by a female KAOS agent and has to search for an antidote.

S3·E13 Mytharc

The Mysterious Dr. T

Dec 30, 1967 · 25 min

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

S3·E14 Core

The King Lives?

Jan 6, 1968 · 25 min

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

S3·E15 Core

The Groovy Guru

Jan 13, 1968 · 25 min

Many of the country's teenagers are dancing constantly, under the spell of the Groovy Guru, who is helping KAOS take over the country via its teenagers. The Guru plans to incite t

S3·E16 Core

The Little Black Book (1)

Jan 27, 1968 · 25 min

Max receives a visit from his Army buddy Sid Krimm.Before he arrives however,a woman defecter from Kaos shows up to give Max a little Black Book that contains the names of various

S3·E17 Core

The Little Black Book (2)

Feb 3, 1968 · 25 min

Having found out that Max is a Spy, Sid who unwittingly gave what he thought was an ordinary Black Book to Kaos Agents, accompanies Max on their search for the book, and the infamo

S3·E18 Core

Don't Look Back

Feb 10, 1968 · 25 min

In this take-off of The Fugitive series Max is framed by Kaos. He is charged with Bank Robbery, and Murder. This comes about when a one-handed Man (in a Maxwell Smart facemask) sho

S3·E19 Core

99 Loses CONTROL

Feb 17, 1968 · 25 min

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,

S3·E20 Core

The Wax Max

Feb 24, 1968 · 25 min

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.

S3·E21 Core

Operation Ridiculous

Mar 2, 1968 · 25 min

The Chief tells Max & 99 'Weeknews' magazine is doing a story on Control. Mr Fitzmaurice wants to accompany two Control agents on a case for his story. The Chief selects Max & 99

S3·E22 Core

Spy, Spy, Birdie

Mar 9, 1968 · 25 min

Albert Pfister starts to blow up the world using his new silent explosive.

S3·E23 Core

Run, Robot, Run

Mar 16, 1968 · 25 min

KAOS agents disrupt an international track meet by injuring the U.S. athletes.

S3·E24 Core

The Hot Line

Mar 23, 1968 · 25 min

The Chief is relieved of duty as Chief when "the President" (actually Gorshen, a Kaos voice impersonator) calls him and demotes him, making Max the new Chief. This is part of Kaos'

S3·E25 Mytharc

Die, Spy

Mar 30, 1968 · 25 min

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

S3·E26 Mytharc

The Reluctant Redhead

Apr 6, 1968 · 25 min

CONTROL tries to get files that contain a list of KAOS informers and agents.

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