This is it, the last trio of episodes of Don Adams’ Get Smart. Will we get some kind of series round up, or will it just end? Let’s find out.

The first episode this week is Hello, Columbus, Goodbye, America. Written by Pat McCormick, this episode was first broadcast on 1 May, 1970.

Gino Columbus (Vito Scotti) is a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, and as such, legally owns the United States(!). Can Maxwell Smart (Adams) get him safely to the President to hand over the land rights before KAOS agents can grab him and by extension, the entire continent?

Among the KAOS agents are the Geminis, Upper (Billy Barty) and Lower (Jerry Maren).

It’s a little fun, very silly, and Scotti is pretty entertaining. But more importantly, I’ve always been a Billy Barty fan.

To fool KAOS, Max is used as bait, disguising himself as Columbus. will he be able to hold them off and keep them distracted while Columbus meets with the President? It’s a funny sequence, if a little politically incorrect as Smart leans into a stereotypical Italian accent.

Still, it’s entertaining enough. It’s a basic run-of-the-mill episode with physical humor, some funny lines and no gadgets at all.

Do I Hear a Vaults? is the penultimate episode of the series. It was written by Chris Hayward and debuted on 8 May, 1970.

Max accidentally locks the Chief (Edward Platt) and Larabee (Robert Karvelas) in a high security vault, and it’s beginning to run out of air. Before all that happens, Max has to get an important book out of the library, and gets into an all-out knock-down fight with a KAOS agent all under the cranky eye of a librarian who insists on quiet.

This is delightfully silly. Max has to figure out a way to get them out in time. It’s on a time lock, anc won’t up until Tuesday… it’s Friday. he air won’t last that long.

So Mx and 99 (Barbara Feldon) think outside the box, they go to prison to find a professional safe-cracker. When it works, the Chief is able to get out, and he decides now that there’s an air hole, he’ll leave Larabee in there over the weekend.

It’s a fun and simple episode. Lots of laughs, and definitely leans into the more silly aspects of the series. It’s all wrapping up, and it’s obvious that I don’t think they are going out with anything big. I’m willing to bet the last episode is just another story.

I Am Curiously Yellow is the final episode of the series. It aired on 15 May, 1970 and was written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell.

Unfortunately, there’s a little bit of racist humour in the episode, as well as some actors in ‘yellowface.’ Sigh.

Dangerous agent, The Whip (Robert Middleton) hypnotizes Max by accident, but upon learning what has happened, he forces the CONTROL agent to steal NARCO 5-12, a dangerous new weapon.

Under hypnosis, Smart is more charming and affectionate, something 99 finds strange, but appealing. The Chief and 99 figure out what is going on, and are able to counterprogram Max with truth serum, and they are able to best KAOS one last time.

And as the series closes, with no real sign off, Larabee gets one over on the Chief, hypnotizing him, and making some demands for a better work environment for himself.

So it’s all over. It’s not an amazing series. I can see how it entertained at the time, especially when it started out. It would have been a perfectly entertaining send-up of the Bond films, and The Man From UNCLE, The Avengers, and the like.

It was fun, I’m glad I can check it off the list, but I didn’t love it as much as I thought I would.