When a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood makes Lucy and Viv feel unsafe, they learn judo for self-protection. The tactic backfires when they teach it to their sons, who use it on one another.

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory.

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.