SHAFTED

SHAFT
CBS 1973-1974

SHAFTED
Crazy #4, May 1974
w: Len Wein
a: Mike Ploog

Not the films, of which there were three, but the TV series. Since many of NBC's mystery series were revolving TV movies, CBS decided to do the same thing and brought Shaft to the small screen, alternating with the Jimmy Stewart series Hawkins. The Shaft series also featured Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, the big black dick who was sex machine to all the chicks.

There was an unwritten rule in the seventies that if one TV detective was parodied, they all had to be, hence the appearances by Ironside, Columbo, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and Ironside on the cover. They're on the inside too.

Shaft's boss was Lt. Rossi (Ed Barth).

In Isaac Hayes' theme, a popular song in its own right, he describes Shaft as “a mean mother--” and is then interrupted before he can say the f-word. 3

Shaft's Big Score was the title of one of his movies.