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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
MAGNUMB, P. U.
MAGNUM, P.I.
1980-1988 CBS
MAGNUMB, P. U.
MAD #227, December 1981
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker
Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) is a Navy veteran who is now working as a private investigator in Hawaii in a beachhouse, a/k/a Robin's Nest, owned by the unseen novelist Robin Masters. His friends are former navy buddies T.C. (Roger Mosley) and Rick (Larry Manetti). The caretaker of Robin's Nest was Jonathan Higgins (John Hillerman).
Two running jokes on the show were that Higgins was a stuffy by-the-book Englishman to Magnum's laid-back personality, and Magnum was always at odds with Apollo and Zeus, the two dobermans of the estate. Cases of Magnum's were usually guests at Robin's Nest.
By this time, Lorne Greene was just spokesperson for Alpo dogfood.
And here's the obligatory 'letter to the editor' from the cast of the show...
Plus an outtake from the photoshoot.
Cover for the Mexican edition.
The German edition.
Latin American edition
MACHO, P. I.
Bananas #61, circa 1982
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano
Other servants here are Benson, Hazel, and I think Peter Cook in a show that was on then called The Two of Us.
Donnie and Marie were doing commercials for Hawaiian Punch in the early eighties.
From The Last Episode Of... in Bananas #48.
From TV Moments We'll Never See in Bananas #60.
MAKENUMB, P. U.
Crazy #79, October 1981
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble
The woman is a caricature of Cheryl Tiegs.
His case here is Brooke Shields. Her overprotective mother was her manager as a teenager. The joke about Roman Polanski has to do with his being charged with child sexual abuse.
Brooke Shields was in a movie called Pretty Baby.
I think that's Teri Garr in the last panel but I'm not sure what she has to do with anything.
Jack Lord was the lead actor in Hawaii 5-0.
There were three Cracked parodies that will be posted tomorrow.
In the Bananas parody, the woman who tries to hire Magnum is Morgan Fairchild.
Also, in the group of servants on page 2, I'll guess that the other maid may be Jean Marsh from Upstairs, Downstairs.
In the Crazy parody, I think I recognize the Drucker swipe used for the cameo in the bottom right of page 4. Rather than Teri Garr, I think it's Debbie Reynolds. It would make sense, because she starred that year in a sitcom set in Hawaii, called Aloha Paradise. (It was cancelled after 8 episodes.)
In the Bananas parody, the woman who tries to hire Magnum is Morgan Fairchild.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in the group of servants on page 2, I'll guess that the other maid may be Jean Marsh from Upstairs, Downstairs.
In the Crazy parody, I think I recognize the Drucker swipe used for the cameo in the bottom right of page 4. Rather than Teri Garr, I think it's Debbie Reynolds. It would make sense, because she starred that year in a sitcom set in Hawaii, called Aloha Paradise. (It was cancelled after 8 episodes.)