Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) enrolls in an expectant father’s class, not only to get some necessary knowledge, but also to stop KAOS latest plan – using dolls to smuggle out a formula.

Written by Les Colodny and Ed Haas, this episode first aired on 10 October, 1969.

To foil the plan, Smart and the Chief (Edward Platt) attend Valerie’s (Antoinette Bower) class. The formula, if it’s completed, will make a powerful explosive, and it wants to quite literally blow California off the map.

Conveniently, a bump against one of the KAOS agents allows for a doll swap, by mistake, and Max ends up with the third piece of the formula. And trouble ensues. This episode is fairly standard and not very exceptional, it’s a run-of-the-mill story.

To its benefit, it does feature the charming Bower. She had an effect on me since I saw her in the episode Catspaw of Star Trek.

Adams’ daughter, Caroline, makes an appearance at the beginning of the episode as a KAOS agent.

There are some fun gadgets, and while the series isn’t quite tired yet, it feels like it’s flagging a little. Still, both Edward Platt and Barbara Feldon continue to shine next to Adams. But this episode doesn’t do much for any of the cast.

Widow Often Annie has Max taking on an assignment that may cause some marital distress. Written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell this episode was first broadcast on 17 October, 1969.

A series of CONTROL agents have turned up dead on their wedding nights. So Max is assigned to go undercover and marry Ann Cameron (Dana Wynter), who is acting as a Black Widow. The Chief sets it all up, and it is all happening on the Smarts’ first anniversary.

Max is less than thrilled by the assignment. He loves 99 (Feldon), he’s married, and he’s expecting. But the job has to be done. Can Max catch Ann out and keep his marriage safe? And as the case progresses, Max does seem to be enjoying himself a little.

And of course, that doesn’t help his marriage with 99.

It’s an odd episode, shooting-wise, they do a sequence that is supposed to be at a hotel pool, and then later, redress it for the wedding ceremony.

This episode leans more into the physical gag aspect of things than the gadgets or banter, and it mostly works. Though, I don’t really care for how 99 is written in this episode.

This and the previous episode aren’t horrible, but it’s all starting to feel rote. Though I do like the fact that the characters have grown, somewhat, since the show began.

The Treasure of C. Errol Madre was written by Chris Hayward and Bob DeVinney. It was first broadcast on 24 October, 1969. Adams is once again in front of the camera as seeeries lead, and behind it as director.

The payroll has been stolen, and Max has to find a way to make sure CONTROL agents (one of them played by Hugh Hefner) get paid. So he needs to find a map to a gold mine to finance CONTROL and get it running again.

The episode opens with the heist, which had Smart and Larabee (Robert Karvelas) delivering the payroll, and of course, it goes badly for the agents.

As an aside here, I’m sorry, but I’ve never cared for Larabee.

From there, Max is determined to do right, especially after all the agents start to clamour about getting paid, and the episode then riffs on the classic Bogart film. And allows Adams to trot out his impression.

And of course, there will be problems with KAOS agents along the way.

There’s some fun location work here, and Adams seems to be having a great time. In fact, this was a great episode. I liked it a lot.