NBC-CBS 1961-1966
STRANGE INTERLUDE WITH HAZEY
MAD #85, March 1964
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
One of the first full-on mash-ups MAD did. They had done several If X Were Y-type situations in articles before, but hardly any full self-contained articles like this. It's the characters from popular sitcom Hazel as if they revealed their inner thoughts. The play was written in 1928, has been performed several times, and has been adapted into film.
The sitcom starred the title character (Shirley Booth) as maid to the Baxter family headed by George (Don Defore) and wife Dorothy a/k/a Missy (Whitney Blake), who she called Mr. and Mrs. B. Shirley Booth had been far more experienced than her co-stars, having won several Emmys, Oscars and Tonys while her co-stars didn't do much. TV was once where movie stars went after they were washed up in the movies although in many cases ended up better known for TV.
