Thi should have been the opening episode of season five. It's fast, funny, features a great new villain, the return of agent 13 in the form of agent 44, features some great baby carriage choreography and incorporates in the 99-86 relationship well.
The opening sequence has the Chief and Max meeting a KAOS informer named Marco (Billy Barty) in a dark warehouse. He passes along the information that KAOS has been bought out by an investor named Ironhand (Paul Richards). The Chief uses 99's pregnancy by assigning her and Max to use a baby carriage to pick up top secret documents using the old password "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been". They wind up at the airport where 16 agents pushing strollers perform a routine choreographed by Adams' wife (a former June Taylor dancer) to confuse Ironhand as to which carriage the secret plans are in. It starts off slowly, but is a real highlight.
Larabee gets more good material after he crushes the Presidential hot line with a bowling ball and tries to call out to the President through the window; the Chief and Max have a great verbal exchange discussing the Beebe's baby buggies on balboa boulevard, Agent 44 (Al Molinaro) takes over where Dave Ketchem left off disguised as a baby in a carriage, the scene with Billy Barty works and Max gets his new car destroyed. The old Sunbeam Tiger lasted 4 seasons (the Kharman Ghia never appeared in an episode) and his new car is destroyed after just 2 episodes.
Ironhand also makes a worthy villain. He's power mad, strong, has the kind of infirmity Ian Flemming tended to give all his evil geniuses, and best of all, like Siegfried, he's funny.
The opening sequence has the Chief and Max meeting a KAOS informer named Marco (Billy Barty) in a dark warehouse. He passes along the information that KAOS has been bought out by an investor named Ironhand (Paul Richards). The Chief uses 99's pregnancy by assigning her and Max to use a baby carriage to pick up top secret documents using the old password "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been". They wind up at the airport where 16 agents pushing strollers perform a routine choreographed by Adams' wife (a former June Taylor dancer) to confuse Ironhand as to which carriage the secret plans are in. It starts off slowly, but is a real highlight.
Larabee gets more good material after he crushes the Presidential hot line with a bowling ball and tries to call out to the President through the window; the Chief and Max have a great verbal exchange discussing the Beebe's baby buggies on balboa boulevard, Agent 44 (Al Molinaro) takes over where Dave Ketchem left off disguised as a baby in a carriage, the scene with Billy Barty works and Max gets his new car destroyed. The old Sunbeam Tiger lasted 4 seasons (the Kharman Ghia never appeared in an episode) and his new car is destroyed after just 2 episodes.
Ironhand also makes a worthy villain. He's power mad, strong, has the kind of infirmity Ian Flemming tended to give all his evil geniuses, and best of all, like Siegfried, he's funny.
