Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) has his hands full this week in It Takes One to Know One. Written by Gary Clarke, this episode first debuted on 7 January, 1967.

Max is trying to stop a female KAOS agent, Octavia (Gayle Hunnicut). She’s been taking out the number two man, and the subsequent replacements at CONTROL. The Chief (Edward Platt) is worried and anxious, as it may let files and codes fall into KAOS hands.

For help, the Chief brings in Hymie (Dick Gautier), assigning him the Number Two position. Octavia may have her hands full trying to take the robotic agent down, or maybe they’ll be a match made in heaven… she’s a robot as well!

Smart aids Hymie through his testing and examination, working to keep his robotic nature a secret. But as the new number two man, Hymie is more of an executive now, and less than pleased with all of Smart’s shenanigans.

Hymie and Octavia seem to have quite a thing going, but she’s definitely go a leg up on him.

The Chief and Smart try to stop Octavia from getting away, but Hymie, who has apparently fallen for her lets her go. She know she can’t go on working for KAOS and that she and Hymie can never be together, so she self-destructs.

Poor Hymie.

All in all a silly episode that could have been a bit better, but was still kind of delightful. However, Barbara Feldon’s 99 is blatantly missing from the episode.

Someone Down Here Hates Me was written by Nate Monaster, and it first aired on 14 January, 1967.

Look like Max is being targeted on orders of Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) of KAOS. The evil organization has put up a bounty for anyone who can stop Smart once and for all.

Max is increasingly paranoid and worried about who he can trust. He even contemplates getting some plastic surgery to hide his identity. But can anyone be trusted?

99 stays by his side the whole time. Even the Chief cautions him about his fellow employees. He’s no John Wick, but he may be able to survive the day, and get free of KAOS’ contract. But he could get in all sorts of trouble for all the innocent people he hurts along the way.

I think this is the first time we’ve seen the KAOS logo, it shows up in tattoos and on red phones.

This on was quite charming, and had a playful sense of fun to it.

Cutback at Control first aired on 21 January, 1967 and was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso.

Hard times have fallen on the spy agency. CONTROL has had to put some cutbacks in place, so there seems to be a number of agents switching sides for a solid paycheck. Senate oversight has authorized the cutbacks, is there a way around it to keep the country safe?

This leads to a fun sequence with the Chief and Smart speaking to the oversight committee.

Siegfried is the one offering better pay so Smart goes undercover in KAOS headquarters to get to the bottom of things, and hopefully have CONTROL get its budget back.

Max’s sequence at KAOS training school is also pretty enjoyable. And he learns that there’s a KAOS spy working on the oversight committee.

It’s goofy and funny, and I really enjoy the stuff between Kopell and Adams. They have a lot of fun interactions as they compare notes about past missions from opposite sides.

Get Smart remains a very charming send up of spy films and tropes, and it most of it still works pretty well some sixty (almost seventy now) years on. Let’s see if that continues in my exploration of Get Smart!