Both Smart (Don Adams) and the Chief (Edward Platt) are in trouble in this episode!

Smart the Assassin first aired on 19 February, 1966 and was written by Budd Grossman.

KAOS gets their hands on Smart and hypnotizes him in order to have the agent assassinate the Chief during their nightly chess game. His trigger word is ‘checkmate; and he will shoot anyone who says it.

After a missed attempt at their club, Smart insists on sticking close to the Chief to make sure he stays safe.

KAOS arranges for Maxwell Smart to be abducted, which happens during an alleyway shootout. He is hypnotized by Devonshire (Murray Matheson), a KAOS agent, and the manager of the club Smart and the Chief play in.

KAOS lets Max escape (eventually, after some mishaps), and then, they wait for Smart to kill the Chief. But will it go off as they planned?

This one is fun and silly. I like the whole KAOS trying to help Max escape from their prison cell thing, he just wasn’t going for the easy way out. And also seeing Max in a dinner club playing a game, seemed a bit of a superspy move as well.

There are some fun moments throughout. 99 (Barbara Feldon) doesn’t have a lot to do in the episode, though Feldon does play the operator when Smart calls for help on his shoe phone during the shootout.

And the Cone of Silence makes another appearance.

Fun, solid, but nothing to write home about.

I’m Only Human brings Fang back into the mix!

First airing on 26 February, 1966 and written by Stan Burns, Mike Marmer, Pat McCormick and Ron Friedman, this episode focuses on a pet spa of evil!

It seems that after visiting this spa, animals have killed the agents they work with. So Max, 99 and Fang are assigned to investigate.

Fang has apparently been on desk duty for awhile. And when Fang goes dark inside the spa, Smart and 99 go into rescue him. Is it a surprise that the whole thing is a KAOS set-up? They are using brainwashing to turn pets into assassins.

There’s a fun scene where Smart talks about how things remind him of him, and the Chief has a mirroring scene later, just as he prepares to go in after the group himself.

It’s goofy, but man, I love when Fang shows up, He’s a very good boy. He gets a couple of moments to shine, including setting off the bomb that stops the KAOS agents.

I don’t think Fang needs to retire anytime soon. I’d say keep bringing him back. But maybe take his duck gun away from him first.

Stakeout on Blue Mist Mountain was written by Stan Dreben and Howard Merrill. It was first broadcast on 5 March, 1966.

Several KAOS agents are carrying pieces of a bomb, that when they meet to assemble it will be used to blow up a government base.

Max has to stop it. It’s located in a diner, Blue Mist Mountain, and one of the KAOS agents working against him is played by… Ted Knight!

There’s a couple of cool gadgets in this one, a parking meter that delivers messages from CONTROL, and a fire hydrant phone.

There’s also a funny bit that sees Smart having a huge action sequence dealing with KAOS agents, while right behind him, a police officer is ticketing his car. There’s also a fairly solid protracted sequence at the Washington Airport… man, customs used to be different.

In fact, there are a number of solid sequences in this one. The interrogation sequence, the airport, the opening, the final showdown, the bomb, the tie; this one works pretty damned well.

And Ted Knight! Sure he’s not in it for long, but knowing what’s coming down the line for him, it’s so cool to see him here.