Get Smart / "Fly Up"
As you watch the longer version of the clip below, keep in mind that Mark Fuhrman and his partner Brad Roberts
found matching black leather gloves (one of which disappeared) in O.J.'s bedroom and that O.J. was accused
of being a Peeping Tom. Also keep in mind that Roberts is uniquely associated with earthquakes and Kato
Kaelin thought that the thumps he heard in the area where Fuhrman found the match to the brown
leather glove left by the killer on Bundy was caused by either a prowler or an earthquake.
The scrabble game code in Mark Fuhrman's fifth Bundy note leaves over a phrase that does not seem to fit
as neatly into The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" as it should to make a positive connection to a
single source. The phrase is "fly up." If it did not come from "To Serve Man", where did it come from?
Would you believe a Get Smart episode called Spy, Spy, Birdie?
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Note the water in the bird (English slang for "woman") bath and the pigeon on the birdbath rim. Both killers are wearing leather
gloves, brown ones and black ones. Remind you of anything particularly significant to Mark Fuhrman and his partner Brad Roberts?
So, how do you get from The Twilight Zone to Get Smart?
"The Twilight Zone"
A Hundred Years Over the Rim (1961)
with Edward Platt (Chief of Control in Get Smart) in this episode about a time traveling 19th century pioneer
Rod Serling, the Twilight Zone and Night Gallery creator "opens the door with the key of imagination"
-- Mark Fuhrman, style. In this case you need only know one thing about The Twilight Zone and The Night
Gallery in general and what those shows have to do with Spy, Spy Birdie in particular.
All you have to know here about Rod Serling is that he introduced every episode of The Twilight Zone
and The Night Gallery. You need to know that one Spy, Spy, Birdie star, appeared in two episodes of The
Twilight Zone and one of them was in a Night Gallery episode called, The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes.
Get Smart
Spy, Spy, Birdie (1964)
If you must know the plot of Spy, Spy, Birdie, here it is:
KAOS is an international organization dedicated to evil. CONTROL is the top secret U.S. government
agency that opposes KAOS in the never-ending battle for “niceness, instead of evil.” In the Spy, Spy, Birdie
episode of Get Smart, KAOS and CONTROL join forces against a man who plans to end noise pollution
everywhere by using silent explosives attached to homing pigeons that he calls his "private air force."
Don Adams as CONTROL AGENT Maxwell Smart deciphers a code that tells him where and when to meet
Siegfried, the KAOS “vice president in charge of public relations and terror.” He explains to the Chief that Ludwig
is the codename for Siegfried, 9 o’clock Tuesday is the code for 11 o’clock Thursday and Smithsonian is the
codename for park. The park is the one CONTROL uses for a secret message drop by a stone statue of
a minuteman. KAOS uses the same park as a secret message drop by the stone statue of a gargoyle.
A note attached to the pigeon's leg tells the KAOS and CONTROL agents meeting on a park bench, with Max and
Siegfried pointing accusing fingers at each other's partner, that they have common cause. The note says that Pfister
(“the P is silent"), is set on ridding the world of noise by rigging homing pidgins with his powerful noiseless explosive to
blow up every major capital city in the world.
In the end the plot is foiled by Max striking a match on a matchbook which incapacitates Pfister long enough to
subdue him. Picking up the matchbook with his gloved hand, Siegfried asks Max how he did it. Max replies,
“The old long-playing, high frequency, ultrasonic, stereophonic strike-the-match-against-the-sounding board trick –
Works every time, Siegfried.”
Bernie Kopell is Siegfried, the KAOS killer wearing the brown leather gloves. Percy Helton is A.J. Pfister.
"The Twilight Zone"
Mute (1963) with Percy Helton
Percy Helton as A.J. "the P is silent " Pfister in Spy, Spy Birdie
"The Twilight Zone"
Mr. Garrity and the Graves (1964) with Percy Helton as Lapham and John Dehner as Garrity
"Night Gallery"
The Boy who Predicted Earthquakes (1971) with Bernie Kopell as Reed
Bernie Kopell as Siegfried in Spy, Spy, Birdie
The Return of Maxwell Smart: The Nude Bomb (1980)
If you think that the Maxwell Smart link to "fly up" is a fluke, try the clip below from the1980 Return
of Maxwell Smart movie aka The Nude Bomb, with agent 22 replacing 99 as Max's partner and
CONTROL replaced by PITS. To remove any doubt that The Return of Maxwell Smart is directly
related to Spy, Spy, Birdie, you have to know that in Spy, Spy Birdie, one of the two KAOS
secret headquarters was destroyed by a Pfister silent bomb. In The Return of Maxwell Smart we
learn that the remaining KAOS headquarters is in the Pocono Mountains.
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The "To Serve Man" link to The Return of Maxwell Smart: The Nude Bomb is an emergency meeting of the Security Council at the
United Nations in New York City. Max is there to help decide whether a threat from the KAOS leader to drop "nude bombs" all
over the world should be taken seriously. Max thinks it's a bluff. At this point there is no evidence that such a weapon exists.
The nude bomb gets its name from its ability to disintegrates all known fabrics, leaving the KAOS leader with a
monopoly on the only fabric left, the one he invented that is impervious to the bomb's effects. One thing the KAOS
leader doesn't say but everyone learns when the bomb is dropped on diplomats in Russia, football players in the
United States and soldiers on parade in England leaving them nude in an instant -- is that it explodes silently
One more thing...The KAOS "leader" is actually two men, the inventor of the nude bomb and his clone whose face is always
covered, as is the rest of his body, with the nude bomb-proof fabric. The original leader lost a leg, a hand and an eye in a malfunction
of the device that created his double. The original leader, who MAX and 22 chase through the Universal Studio lot on a tour bus before
he escapes in a helicopter to KAOS headquarters in Pennsylvania, looks like this:
