Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) wants to defect to CONTROL and leave KAOS behind in How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying. Written by Mike Marmer this episode first aired on 11 March, 1967.

Can he be trusted? He convinces the Chief (Edward Platt) that KAOS is going to launch an attack on Fort Knox (shades of Goldfinger!). But if all the CONTROL agents are covering Fort Knox, who will be left to guard CONTROL?

Is it all a plan? you bet it is. Siegfried has a cunning scheme to get all of the agents out of the way, and take over CONTROL, which is holding a ceremony for all the CONTROL chiefs, and is only held by a small cadre of agents. They will hold the agency ransom!

And will Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) be able to foil this dastardly KAOS plan? Of course he will, because Siegfried makes one fatal mistake (everyone is entitled to one) and Smart figures out what is going on.

The episode also introduces Siegfried’s KAOS sidekick, Shtarker (King Moody). And that makes for a lot of fun, because it lets Kopell shine. And there’s a fun interplay between the two, including a fun sequence when they falsify a tape recording in Smart’s apartment.

This one is a lot of fun, and arguably a best episode of the season, if not series.

Appointment in Sahara first aired on 25 March, 1967. It was written by Arne Sulan and Gary Clarke and it was the first episode directed by Don Adams.

KAOS has gotten their hands on an atomic bomb, and blackmail the world with its explosion unless the governments of all countries allow a KAOS agent into power. A clue leads Smart and 99 (Barbara Feldon) to the Sahara Desert to find the launch site before it’s too late.

They have to parachute in, and get some help from the locals, and deal with all manner of problems like the heat, sandstorms, a lack of water, and dangerous KAOS agents.

Our heroes will have to save the day and the world! But it’s going to take a lot of luck, and goofiness to get through this episode.

Adams hands the dual nature of directing and acting easily, and the episode is a lot of fun, considering that it’s all shot on sets, and makes use of stock footage to carry the day. Considering th time it was made though, this is a lot of fun.

Pussycats Galore (two nods to Goldfinger in this week’s trio of episodes) was written by Arne Sultan and debuted on 1 April, 1967.

Scientists are disappearing, and they all seem to be related to a series of Pussycat clubs. So Max and 99 go undercover as German scientists to discover the truth of what is happening to the missing eggheads, and hopefully draw out the villain.

Angelique Pettyjohn is back as Agent Charlie Watkins, and there’s Ted Knight as Hans Frome! And 99 and Max are going to have to outwit Frome, as he is involved in the kidnapping plot.

This one is pretty basic, but Pettyjohn is wonderful, and there’s certainly an interesting idea behind her character, she would definitely be defined as a crossdresser or even trans, and it seems no one had a real problem with it. In fact, Adams seems constantly intrigued by the idea and often tries hitting on him/her. They are also treated very respectfully, you know, except for Smart’s asking her out all the time.

I think next to Hymie, she may be my favorite supporting character now that Fang is gone.

Next time we finish up season two of Get Smart!