JUGG FOR THE DEFENSIVE

JUDD, FOR THE DEFENSE
ABC 1967-1969

JUGG FOR THE DEFENSIVE
MAD # 123, December 1968
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker

From MAD Mini-Vision

Not much to the premise for this show except that it was about a lawyer named Clinton Judd (Carl Betz), based in Houston, and his assistant Ben Caldwell (Stephen Young), who took on controversial cases often too hot for TV.

Abraham Lincoln Jones was a lawyer on a TV show called The Law and Mrs. Jones, which didn't last any longer than this and wasn't any more popular. Queen for a Day was a game show that rewarded prizes to housewives that were down on their luck. “Heah come the Judge” was a big catchphrase use by many comedians in segregated black clubs in the 50s and 60s, made mainstream when popularized by Flip Wilson. The witness mistaken for a horse is a caricature of Phyllis Diller.

UPDATE:

DUDD, FOR THE EXPENSE
Sick #67, March 1969
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Bill Robinson

Doesn't exactly parody the show as much as it uses the usual beats that could apply to any courtroom show spoof. Laikin was notorious for recycling his scripts, one wonders if this was one of them. Don't know why they make a reference to L.S.D. Other than to be hip. “Here comes the judge” is a catchphrase from a vaudeville sketch popularized by Flip Wilson and Laugh-In. The ones saying it here are Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, hosts of the latter.