Episode
Get Smart: Too Many Chiefs
Overview
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?
Details
- Series
- Get Smart
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1965-11-27
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Too Many Chiefs is Episode 11 in Season 1 of Get Smart. It aired on 1965-11-27. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 10: Our Man in Leotards
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.
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