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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
MURDER, SHE HOPES
MURDER, SHE WROTE
CBS 1984-1996
MURDER, SHE HOPES
MAD #261, March 1986
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
The series centered around Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a retired English teacher that became a mystery writer and inadvertantly ended up unsolving crimes, finding murders in the places she visited.
On the flight, she is sitting next to Telly Savalas as Kojak.
The police detective is caricatured as Leslie Nieslen playing Frank Drebin from Police Squad and the Naked Gun movies.
The murderer is caricatured as Tony Perkins in Psycho, wearing a pin saying “Mom” referring to his mother fixation just in case people didn't recognize him.
MURDER, SHE WROT
Cracked #230, September 1987
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Marie Severin
Tom Bosley was Sheriff Amos Tupper in her hometown of Cabot Cove. Arnold Finsky is a caricature of Raymond Burr. Angela Lansbury often used her power to have older actors on her show to make sure they got health benefits.
Denise is drawn as Barbara Streisand, even though Renphew isn't a caricature of anyone.
On page 4 of the Mad parody, in panel three, I suspect 'Mr. Hyman' of being Kelsey Grammer.
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