A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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ZERRO, THE GAY BLADE
MAD #231, June 1981
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Zorro has existed since early last century from pulps to Saturday matinees to early television. He was a swashbuckler in Mexico famous for marking his victims with a Z with his sword. A movie was made with George Hamilton in which he had to choose between either passing the torch to his son or his brother, who he also played. George Hamilton had previously been in the Dracula spoof Love at First Bite.
The following was from MAD's Academy Awards Show
ED ZORROW CALLS ON MORRO
This Magazine Is Crazy #6, September 1958
a: Tony Couch?
Zorro was an early segment on TV's Disneyland. This comic parodies Person to Person, an interview show hosted by newscaster Edward R. Murrow.
All TV shows and movies mentioned in this post have also been parodied and are featured here.
CRAPPER JOHN, M. D.
MAD #221, March 1981
w: Stan Hart
a: Jack Davis
Dramatic medical TV series about a doctor spun off from the sitcom M*A*S*H taking place in the seventies and eighties after the Korean War, where Dr. John McIntyre (Pernell Roberts) is now head surgeon at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. Roberts' earlier claim to fame was that he had played Adam Cartwright on Bonanza. Fellow nurse was Starsh (Mary McCarty).
In the splash panel, the two other pictures are of Bonanza co-stars Lorne Greene, who was doing commercials for Alpo, and Michael Landon, who starred in Little House on the Prarie. To his right is Dan Blocker.
Trapper's co-worker was Gonzo (Gregory Harrison), who lived in a trailer.
A co-worker was Dr. Riverside (Charles Seibert), and there was a younger nurse named Ripples (Christopher Norris).
CRAPPER JOHN, M. D.
Sick #133, June 1980
a: Jack Sparling
Jackpot (Brian Stokes Mitchell) was another one of the doctors.
Nixon and Carter as go-to characters hadn't expired yet.
In the last panel, he's killed by M*A*S*H co-stars Hawkeye, O'Houlihan, and Klinger.
Australian MAD #224, July 1981
w: Dave Emerson
a: Jimmy Green
Not to be mistaken for the British series. This series, syndicated in the states as Prisoner: Cell Block H was a soap about a womens' prison in Australia. The parody doesn't mention everyone's names, so it's hard to identify everyone. The main cast was Meg Morris (Ellspeth Ballantyne), Lizzie Birdsworth (Sheila Florance), “Queen” Bea Smith (Val Lehman), Doreen Anderson (Collette Mann), Deputy Gov. Jim Fletcher (Gerard Maguire), Gov. Erica Davidson (Patsy King), Vera Bennett (Fiona Spence), Noelene Bourke (Jude Kuring).
There are marginal cartoons similar to Sergio Aragones' Drawn Out Dramas but about prison, though not by Aragones.
Norman Gunston was a talk show character in Australia.
Johannes Bjelke-Peterson was the premier of Queensland.
TVARZAN
MAD #112, July 1967
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
There was a TV series of Tarzan. Though it's had many incarnations over the past 100 years, including parody characters, and a movie of his origin. Here is but one version.
This one starred Ron Ely as Tarzan.
Jane wasn't used in the TV series.
A native is a caricature of Godfrey Cambridge.
Jai (Manuel Padilla Jr.) was an orphan who befriended and assisted Tarzan.
MAD parodied the Tarzan we're all familiar with over the years. Here are a few examples.
MAD #114, October 1967
MAD #158, April 1973
This is what critical race theory actually is.
MAD #167, June 1974
MAD #206, April 1979
There was a 1981 version starring Bo Derek, directed by John Derek. This is from The MAD Academy Awards Show in #231, by Stan Hart and Mort Drucker.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE(1979)
dir: Robert Wise
Like with most of the spoofs they did around this time, Cracked would use something more than once. They didn't do it as much with this, though.
STAR DREK: THE MOVING PICTURE
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: John Severin
One thing MAD's version of the movie didn't use was the exposition at the beginning showing the cloud devouring the Klingon ship or Spock (Leonard Mimoy) going through his final Vulcan conversion ritual. “What is the cloud?” you may ask. We shall see.
Kirk (William Shatner) is now an admiral. He is reunited again with crew members Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig). He is taking over as command of the Starship Enteprise despite the protests of Captain Decker (Stephen Collins) who is already captain and doesn't think Kirk can run a ship that has been redesigned.
A sentient cloud is barreling towards the Earth as it did at the beginning and it is up to the Enterprise to see what it wants. “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley) has been brought aboard to help in the crew.
Ilia (Persis Khambatta) and Spock have been brought aboard as well.
The mysterious cloud is swallowing up the Enterprise and has abducted Ilia.
There are Telly Savalas and Black Hole references in this just like in MADyesterday.
Ilia has been brought back but is now part of the cloud, known as V'Ger, in human form, to study human life, in order to gobtain knowledge of it before swallowing it up for its library of all knowledge in the universe. Spock goes out of the ship to see what it's all about.
Bones is making a reference to Alien
V'Ger, lacking human ability to make decisions or understand thought, has the mind of a child.
V'Ger has dust on its sign, and is actually Voyager, a space probe that was sent by Earth three hundred years earlier to gather knowledge and in doing so has acquired a mind of its own. The only way to defeat it is to have a human join with it so it can have human experience and thought, so Decker sacrifices himself.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE TREKKER KING
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: Bill Ward
They were accurate in that StarTrek fans hate the term 'trekkie', preferring to be called 'trekkers'.
USING STAR TREK LOGIC AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
Cracked #170, August 1980
a: Don Orehek
Here are a couple covers for Kaputt, the German version of Cracked.
Cracked used this same gag for their Battlestar Galactica parody.
STAR DREK: THE LAST HURRAH
Cracked #184, January 1982
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin
Non-spoof of any particular entity was done in between the first two movies.
There were characters from other science fiction movies and shows like Flash Gordon, Superman, Buck Rogers, Outland, The Greatest American Hero, and Battlestar Galactica behind this all along.
