
Maxwell Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, works for CONTROL, a Washington, D.C.-based counterintelligence agency. Totally inept as a secret agent, Smart can barely use the gadgetry the agency provides him (including a phone embedded in his shoe). Nevertheless, he and his fellow agents always seem to thwart the operations of KAOS, an organized crime outfit dedicated to evil. Agent 99 is Smart's smarter partner, a resourceful agent who eventually marries her bumbling cohort. Smart and Agent 99's boss is a man known only as The Chief.
Smart must take a payroll to CONTROL agents behind the Iron Curtain.
The Smarts think that the Chief has gone daft when he risks romancing a beautiful woman.
Smart is pitted against the world's strongest counterspy in trying to recover a kidnapped prince.
Smart is down and out and KAOS tries to buy him from his former employers.