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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THE NIGHT THAT PERRY MASONMINT LOST A CASE
MAD #48, July 1959
w: Dee Caruso & Bill Levine
a: Mort Drucker
Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) was a criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles. The criminal defense attorney was Hamilton Burger (William Talman) and the police detective was Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins).
Perry was assisted by Paul Drake (William Hopper) and his secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale).
The diagram on Della's head in the first panel is from the Anacin commercials' representation of a headache.
Cracked #10, August 1959
a: John Severin
From What Do TV Characters Do After the Show Is Over? in Cracked #45, August 1965, art by Bill Ward
From The Comedy Trend on TV in #50, March 1966, art also by Ward
PERRY MAZIN: THE CASE OF THE GUILTY CLIENT
Cracked #235, May 1988
w: Robert Loren Fleming
a: Bill Wray
Erle Stanley Gardner was the author of the books Perry Mason is based on. He is drawn here as Charles Bronson. The wall on the first panel has a picture of Lt. Col. Oliver North.
From TV Scenes That Make More Sense in Sick #47, by Calvin Castine and Angelo Torres.
THE SAGA OF DANYEL BOOM
Sick #60, May 1968
w: Calvin Castine
a: Al Bare
Supposed to be spun off from Davy Crockett on Disneyland, but made by a different production company that couldn't secure the rights, so it became about Daniel Boone (Fess Parker). He also wore the trademark coonskin cap and was a frontier hunter, who often met famous historical figures. This parody begins with Boone and store owner Cincinattus (Dallas McKennon).
Mingo (Ed Ames) was Boone's sidekick, played by a white man regularly cast as a Native American. (side note: he may be more known as the guy who narrowly missed Johnny Carson's crotch with a tomahawk). His wife was Becky (Patricia Blair) and son was Israel (Darby Hinton).
THE DAY THE LOANER WENT TO LAWREDO TO JOIN EF TROOP
Sick #50, February 1967
w: Calvin Castine
a: Angelo Torres
Combination of several westerns. Lloyd Bridges is William Colton of The Loner, a former Union Cavalry officer who roams through the Old West and heads to Laredo, Texas.
Colton runs into F Troop and meets Private Dobbs (James Hampton) and Capt. Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), Sgt. O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker), Capt. Agarn (Larry Storch) and Wrangler Jane (Melody Patterson). Although F Troop was also about the cavalry, it really was a sitcom and would make jokes about Playboy and Vietnam.
In Laredo they all meet Capt. Parmelee (Philip Carey) and Reese Bennett (Neville Brand).
MAD #272, July 1987
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
Comedy spy series cashing in on James Bond, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the like. It had several incarnations and even a couple movie versions but right now we're just concentrating on the original.
In the 1980s, Nickelodeon started showing reruns of old TV shows, formerly the domain of UHF and independent stations, as their theme, and rebranding themselves as a retro channel. Around this time MAD started parodying reruns.
The show concentrated on Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 (Don Adams), Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), and The Chief (Edward Platt), and their goings-on at CONTROL against the enemy agents of KAOS. They had lots of comical gadgets such as a telephone made from Max's shoe.
There were lots of catchphrases such as "Would you believe...?" with Max making a grandiose proclamation and then bargaining it down to something more believable.
GET SMARTY
Cracked #281, July 1993
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
Other characters were Ludwig von Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) and Hymie the Robot (Dick Gautier)
"Don't tell me.../I told you not to tell me that" was another catchphrase.
What was the cutoff point when kids stopped knowing who Richard Nixon was?
Also in Cracked, from Sneaky TV Cigarette Commercials by John Severin, in #91, March 1971.
GET DUMB
Sick #51, March 1967
w: Calvin Castine
a: Angelo Torres
Agent 99 didn't have a name.
The men from U.N.C.L.E. were Yuri Kuryakin (David McCallum) and Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn). Their boss was named Waverly.
-John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) is from the series Danger Man.
-There was something that was supposed to be in that speech balloon in the second panel but fell off between layout and printing.
-Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) were characters on I Spy.
There were a few ancillary items for Get Smart, including this record by Barbara Feldon.
Another piece by Jack Davis, an ad from TV Guide.
UPDATE:
From TV Scenes Worth Waiting For in Cracked #74, January 1969, art by Lugoze.
