Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) has an unusual assignment on his hand this time. He has to track down an enemy agent that is destroying buildings. Unfortunately CONTROL can’t figure out how he’s doing it.

Smart Fit the Battle of Jericho first aired on 18 February, 1967 and was written by Arne Sultan.

To find out what is going on, Max goes undercover as a construction worker. The bomber is focusing on the new space agency buildings, and it seems KAOS is behind it all. They are using nitroglycerin in the building materials.

Will Smart be able to stop this diabolical plan? He’ll have to head to Vegas to deal with Frank Lloyd Joshua (William Chapman).

There’s a fun gadget, a phone in a magazine (though Smart wishes it was a more current issue to avoid suspicion), as well a silver coin with a microphone in it.

The high-rise construction sets are pretty bad. There’s no sense of dizzying heights, and no establishing shots to suggest how high the construction is.

There’s a good scene where the Chief (Edward Platt) establishes that 99 (Barbara Feldon) is a stronger and better agent than Max.

There’s also a familiar looking Cigarette Girl (Angelique Pettyjohn) – Star Trek fans will recognize her from The Gamesters of Triskelion and apparently she’ll make a couple more appearances as Agentt 38, Charlie Watkins.

There’s a goofy and enjoyable fist fight, and Smart is able to win the day with a lucky moment. And overall, it ends up being a pretty fun episode.

Where-What-How-Who Am I? was written by Barry E. Blitzer and Ray Brenner and it first debuted on 25 February, 1967.

Smart learns of a very important KAOS plan to assassinate a number of scientists, but when he’s involved in an action scene and subsequent accident before he can rfinish reporting in, he ends up with amnesia. He awakes in a hospital and finds himself under the care of a KAOS doctor, Mangle (George N. Neise), who keeps him forgetful with additional pills.

99 and the Chief, pick him up from the hospital, the doctor releases him with the caveat he continue to take the pills – using the lie that they will keep him alive. Every time he seems on th verge of remembering something, it’s time for another pill.

Will Max be able to recall his memories in time to save the scientists. 99 helps him by taking him back to the hotel he discovered the plan, and helps him walk through everything.

There’s a fun scene where Max picks up his new car, and it’s stocked with a number of familiar gadgets. And of course, they end up being used, mostly, at the wrong time, and the episode ends with a fourth wall break as Max addresses the audience.

It’s a simple episode, but the gadget stuff with the car make this a particularly fun one. It’s easy to see how all of them could go wrong, disastrously, and you need a really good agent to be able to control them.

The Expendable Agent was penned by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso and first aired on 4 March, 1967.

There are all kinds of things going on in this episode, as Max finds himself looking after Professor Whitaker (Irwin Charone) and the agent protecting him, Chain (Dick Patterson). But as things start to go sideways, identities begin to blur and the truth comes out, even as KAOS tries to stpo the professor and his protection.

This one ends up being really fun and clever, the gags work, and some of the dialogue is absolutely cracking. And the protection gadgets in Max’s apartment are put through their paces again.

But that’s not going to stop KAOS agents from making attempts on the professor’s life. There are assassins, bombs hidden in cigarettes, and some really silly accents.

And the defusing of the bomb sequence is delightfully done. And once the truth is revealed, Max wonders how KAOS could have fallen for something so stupid, and the Chief has the perfect answer for him, wrapping up the episode delightfully.

A fun trio of episodes this week. I’m quite enjoying this series, and while not all of it works, some of it is truly hilarious.