Is This Trip Neccessary? was written by Dale McRaven and debuted on 12 December, 1969.

Is there something in the water? It seems everyone at CONTROL is suffering bad dreams, and it may be because KAOS is putting something in the water at the Dartfoot Spring Water Company.

It will be up to Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) to stop this latest KAOS scheme.

And what?!? Vincent Price is one of the guest cast, playing Jarvis Pym, the KAOS mad pharmacist who created the drug, and KAOS is threatening to expose it to all of Washington, D.C.’s water supply. They are demanding a ransom of fifty million dollars or they’ll release the drug.

Max and 99 join a tour group taking in the Water Company, but KAOS is already aware that they are on the premises. And you know that meeans they’ll be caught and have to face off against Pym!

Parentgood seems to be having an effect on 99 and Max, and there’s a really great sequence when Max gets up to check on the babies, and he’s in the middle of a trip because of the water.

Price is absolutely delightul as always, and leans into the role, making this episode a lot of fun.

Ice Station Siegfried obviously means that my favorite character Siegfied (Bernie Kopell) is back. Written by Chris Hayward and Arne Sultan this episode was first aired on 19 December, 1969.

KAOS and Siegfried are at it again. They are working to introduce a new ice age to the world, unless they get their way. They have a base, and a very large cooling fan at the North Pole, so it will be up to 99 and a CIA agent named Quigley (Bill Dana) to stop them.

Adams had originally refused to be involved with the episode, saying it was too similar to another. So his friend, Bill Dana, came in to keep the episode rolling. Adams did film a quick scene explaining his absence.

Sadly, this is Siegfried’s final appearance in the series, and that’s unfortunate because he and Smart needed one final face off together. Still Siegfried is absolutely hilarious in this episode.

This could have been repositioned for a great 99 episode, but it’s like they just subsituted Dana in for Adams, and still had Feldon playing second fiddle throughout.

It’s a fairly fun episode, and it’s too bad Adams didn’t want to do it. I do wish 99 had been given more to do, and thatt Siegfired made one more appearance, but that’s how it played out.

Moonlighting Becomes You debuted on 2 January, 1970 and was written by Chris Hayward.

While the Chief (Edward Platt) worries that perhaps some of Smart’s bad habits are rubbing off on 99 now that they are married, have kids and live together, the pair join a radio show, which ends up being a KAOS communication front.

It seems KAOS is transmitting secret information over the airwaves, and the pair have to figure out a way to stop them.

We get a fun look at a radio show, and how things are created in a radio broadcast. And there are a lot of fun nods and characters. The show’s producer is Rodger Hammerstein (Ron Husmann) and there’s the star of the show, thee egomaniacal (and probaly KAOS agent), Hannibal Day (Victor Buono) – a character who seems to be based on Orson Welles.

With the comparison to Max, Feldon gets to do a little bit more in the way of physical comedy, but will it last or is it a one off? And who is the real KAOS agent in the studio?

Sid Haig guest stars as a museum guard!

This was a fairly fun episode, and seems to put the series on more familiar ground in terms of comedy, gags and behavior.