Get Smart: Valerie of the Dolls (1969)
Season 5, Episode 3
3/10
Good bye Dolly
5 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
If you miss the appearance of a little blonde girl smuggling a doll that has a secret KAOS formula at the beginning of this episode, you may as well skip it. The little girl is Caroline Adams, Don's daughter making her one and only TV appearance. Not only is she cute as a button, but she's actually pretty good at playing the KAOS smuggler. The rest of the show is downhill from there.

Apparently Max and the Chief don't remember KAOS used dolls to smuggle secret messages way back in season one, and Max is completely fooled while portraying a customs agent. However, Larabee of all people helps track the little girl to what they think must be a KAOS drop. It's a training facility for expectant fathers run by Valerie (Antoinette Bauer, who also is pretty good with what little she is given to do). The Chief and Max decide to go undercover and take classes to investigate the operation.

The script by Colodny and Haas is pretty much bereft of humor or any signs of inspiration. It also suffers a great deal from the kind of writing that makes Max too stupid. In this one you have to wonder if he might even be brain damaged. He's not the supreme confident but bumbling secret agent of seasons one and two. In fact its almost as if another actor is playing Smart, as Adams is clearly not inspired to be at the top of his game.
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