Get Smart: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Get Smart Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Spy Who Met Himself
Sep 16, 1967
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
Viva Smart
Sep 23, 1967
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.
Witness for the Persecution
Oct 7, 1967
KAOS is going to stop Smart from testifying against one of their agents.
The Spirit is Willing
Oct 14, 1967
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
Maxwell Smart, Private Eye
Oct 21, 1967
With a cutback at control, everyone is taking on extra jobs.
Supersonic Boom
Oct 28, 1967
KAOS attacks the CONTROL headquarters with a sonic boom and threatens to use it on New York City.
One of Our Olives is Missing
Nov 4, 1967
A country singer accidentally swallows a KAOS transmitter disguised as an olive. Max has to protect her from KAOS agents.
Dr. Yes
Nov 25, 1967
Max and 99 go to Lost Lake to track down the person who is sabotaging missile launches.
The Mild Ones
Dec 9, 1967
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
Classification: Dead
Dec 23, 1967
Max gets poisoned by a female KAOS agent and has to search for an antidote.
The Mysterious Dr. T
Dec 30, 1967
When a top CONTROL scientist dies, it turns out that he wasn't the real brains behind the operations.
The King Lives?
Jan 6, 1968
Max travels to Coronia to protect the King of Coronia from the King's evil half-brother Basil
The Groovy Guru
Jan 13, 1968
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
The Little Black Book (1)
Jan 27, 1968
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
The Little Black Book (2)
Feb 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, accompanies Max on their search for the book, and the infamo
Don't Look Back
Feb 10, 1968
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
99 Loses CONTROL
Feb 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,
The Wax Max
Feb 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.
Operation Ridiculous
Mar 2, 1968
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
Spy, Spy, Birdie
Mar 9, 1968
Albert Pfister starts to blow up the world using his new silent explosive.
Run, Robot, Run
Mar 16, 1968
KAOS agents disrupt an international track meet by injuring the U.S. athletes.
The Hot Line
Mar 23, 1968
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'
Die, Spy
Mar 30, 1968
The story spoofs NBC's ""I Spy"" and Robert Culp of that series appears in a cameo role.
The Reluctant Redhead
Apr 6, 1968
CONTROL tries to get files that contain a list of KAOS informers and agents.