PRIVATE BENJURMIND

PRIVATE BENJAMIN
1981-1983 CBS

MAD #238, April 1983
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres

Not the movie, but the TV series based on it, about Judy Benjamin (Lorna Patterson) who sought more out of life and joined the army.

It took place at Fort Bradley, led by Col. Fielding (Robert Mandan). The other soldiers were Pvt. Jackie Sims (Damita Jo Freeman), Pvt. Maria Gianelli (Lisa Raggio), and Pvt. Stacy Kouchalakas (Wendie Jo Sperber). Other officers were Sgt. Ted Ross (Hal Williams) and Capt. Doreen Lewis (Eileen Brennan). The latter two were carried over from the movie.

Something happens that inevitably happens with a lot of TV satires. The series is cancelled before or just as the magazine goes to print.

PRIVATE BEENINJAM
Crazy #86, May 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble

Today we say “the spectrum” when referring to biology, “stupidity” if it's a dumb decision, but it was 1982. What did we know?

I don't know if we say JAP anymore, though.

Joe Flynn as Captain Binghamton from McHale's Navy is caricatured. As is Ernest Borgnine in the panel below, also from that show (and possibly swiped from the MAD cover I use in the blog heading), and Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle.

Bill Murray in Stripes is drawn in the second panel.