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NIGHTLINE
ABC 1980-2005

NIGHT TIME TAKES A MAD LOOK AT A ROCK VIDEO
MAD #254, April 1985
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Harry North

Similar to the Person of the Year articles they did, parodying Ted Koppel interviewing Bob Pittman of MTV and Quincy Jones.

I think this was a misspelling of the name 'Pia Zadora' rather than a pun on it, considering the other names aren't changed.

LITTLE ANNIE FANNY
Playboy, c.1965
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder, Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta

The topless bathing suit was something in a fashion show designed by designer Rudi Gernreich, though it was used in comic strips and comedy sketches more than it was ever worn in public. Annie's manager Solly Brass was patterned after Phil Silvers.

Among the cops here are caricatures of Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis from Car 54, Where Are You?. Raymond Burr from Perry Mason is the lawyer featured here.

The other lawyers are E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed of The Defenders.

The Nazi here is George Lincoln Rockwell.

In one of Chris Elliott's appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, he came on to plug his real appearance on Miami Vice.