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Came across a bunch of spoofs from Drag Cartoons, most of which were not parodied by other magazines. Drag Cartoons was a spinoff of CARToons, which published a slew of auto-themed humor magazines, and was published out of the West Coast by Petersen Publishing, using artists primarily based in California.

ONE STEP BEYOND
ABC 1959-1961

ONE SHIFT BEYOND
Drag Cartoons #1, June-July 1963

Hosted by John Newland, this was an anthology series dealing with short stories about the supernatural similar to Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.

CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?
NBC 1961-1963
CAR FORTY, WHERE ARE YOU?
Drag Cartoons #1, June-July 1963

Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne) were two New York City cops in this sitcom, Muldoon the more bookish one and Toody more working class and known for his catchphrase “Oo! Oo!”

DR. KILDARE
1961-1966 NBC

DR. KILDEAR
Drag Cartoons #2, December 1963
a: Alexander Toth

Dr. Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) is the young intern working in the shadow of Dr. Gillespie.

Raymond Massey had previously plated Abraham Lincoln.

Ben Casey (Chad Everett) was the other “Dr. McDreamy” on TV at the time and also had a mentor (Sam Jaffe).

HIGH NOON (1952)
dir: Fred Zinneman

HIGH GEAR
Drag Cartoons #5, July 1964
a:Dennis Ellefson

Western about a marshal (Gary Cooper) conflicted between facing a gang of killers or abandoning them to leave town with his wife. The team here seems to have taken this more from the Kurtzman/Davis MAD parody Hah! Noon than the movie itself.

DUMB ADAMS' SCREEN TEST

DON ADAMS' SCREEN TEST
1975-1976, SYNDICATED

DUMB ADAMS' SCREEN TEST
Sick #112, October 1976
w: Jim Simon
a: Jerry Grandenetti

Kind of like Star Search or American Idol. Contestants were picked from the studio audience to re-enact scenes from a famous Hollywood movie with movie stars, and the winner was picked by a director to have a part as an extra in a movie.

The contestant plays opposite Clint Eastwood, though the show would never have actors of that caliber.

This was TV/comics writer Mark Evanier's description of how the show came about:
"He had one other series which almost no one remembers and which is not in any of the obits I've seen. In the early seventies, Adams made the rounds of talk shows and often brought out-takes from Get Smart, mostly of him and Don Rickles. They were hilarious and the reception gave him the idea to do a whole series showing out-takes…or bloopers, as they're sometimes called in a quasi-trademarked way. When he tried to put it together, he discovered that the union contracts made it prohibitive; that he'd have to pay or negotiate with dozens of people for each 30-second clip. In fact, the Screen Actors Guild told him that he technically shouldn't have been airing the Get Smart footage without paying actors, directors, writers, etc. Years later, the union rules were changed in a way that made the Dick Clark "Bloopers" shows do-able but at the time, it killed Adams's plan. Trying to figure out a way around it, he came up with the only possible solution: Create new out-takes just for the show! So in 1975, he hosted Don Adams' Screen Test, a kind of talent competition where the idea was to get aspiring actors, pair them in scenes with established stars and then have a lot of things go wrong. It didn't last long because, I suspect, the out-takes just didn't seem real. Which they weren't."
UPDATE:
from Sick#46, August 1966

Every single one of these shows was or will be covered on this blog. From Sick #46, August 1966. Founding Sick writer Dee Caruso was one of the main writers of Get Smart.

BEN CASES

BEN CASEY
1961-1966 ABC

This cover had more to it. Even after the water damage you can see from the original they cut off a lot of what would have been Frankenstein's lab, and cropped out Igor for some reason.

THE BEN CASEY SHOW
Sick # 16, October 1962
artist: Bob Powell?

Sick often did their parodies under the guise of “reviews”. Which meant there was more text than the other magazines.

This Jack Davis illustration was originally in color and looks like it was meant to be a cover but they decided to abandon Igor and couldn't crop him out.

This was the original.

They did another parody a couple years later.

BEN CASES, TREE SURGEON
Sick #34, February 1965
w: Jim Atkins
a: Angelo Torres

Sick liked doing this show. Here's a part of Plan X for Next Year's TV by future MAD regular Don Edwing and Jack Sparling from #35 in March 1965

This is from an article called If TV Shows Were Written by the Ad Agencies in Sick #48, November 1966. Not sure who the artist is.

Jack Davis did a cover for another issue, #28 in May 1964. There was nothing about the show on the inside, though.

BENT CASEY
Car Toons #7, August-September 1962
A: Pete Millar

BEN CASINGS
Car Toons #13, August-September 1963 a: Wes Bennett

One of the original Dr. McDreamys had a few novelty songs made about him. Here's one of them.
UPDATE:
From Stupidity on Television in MAD #83, December 1963, by Stan Hart and Mort Drucker.

For a while, MAD had a feature called A Celebrity's Wallet. This was from #74, October 1962.