JANUARY UPDATES 1

Took a while longer than I thought to comeback but here I am again. And having been gone for so long I have a buttload of updates that'll last a whole month now. So let's start, shall we?

Usually, I start with a trailer or clip to the show or movie being parodied, but in these cases I already did that, so each heading is a link to the post it's updating. The post also summarizes the plots and premises, which I usually do, but since the link has most of the info, I won't get into it much here.

THE A-TEAM
1983-1987 NBC

THE F-TEAM
Bananas #66, circa 1983
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano

ALIEN NATION
1989-1990 FOX

ALIEN RATION
Barf #2, July 1990
w: Herb Shapiro
a: Ken Landgraf

Barf was Revolutionary Comics' short-lived entrance into the humor magazine field. They were primarily known for Rock n Roll Comics and various spin-offs. They were cut short when the publisher Todd Loren was mysteriously murdered in the early nineties, further fueling conspiracies they were known for espousing as well.

Alien Nation was both a movie and TV show. This loosely parodied the latter.

ALIEN³ (1992)
dir: David Fincher

Australian MAD #319, June 1993
w & a: Andrew Goodall

The Australian version of MAD, in addition to parodying their own movies and TV shows (a lot coming down the pipe soon), did a few parodies of US movies that weren't covered here. The numbering of their editions didn't start at #1, they were trying to coincide with the American edition.

BLOODY MAMA (1970)
dir: Roger Corman

BLOODY MOMMY
Sick #78, September 1970
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jack Sparling

Movie about the life of Kate “Ma” Barker (Shelley Winters) her four sons. She vows to take care of her family and take what she feels is rightfully hers after a traumatic childhood, and involves her four adult sons in her crime sprees.

Herman (Don Stroud), becomes engaged to Mona (Diane Varsi) who joins the Barker family.

They kidnap a local millionaire for ransom. Here it's a young Nelson Rockefeller.

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
d: Arthur Penn

THE TRUTH ABOUT BONNIE AND CLYDE
Wild! #3, November 1968
writer and artist unknown

Bonnie Parker's character wrote poems on the side, this was was probably parodying that.

CANDID CAMERA
1948-2014 CBS, NBC, ABC, SYNDICATION

CANDID CAMERAMA Loco #1, August 1958
a: Chic Stone

Here's a weird one. It steals the story from the Trump version of someone accidentally setting their life savings on fire while trying to see inside a mailbox. Plagiarism aside, there's an 'insurance machine' and it's somewhere out in the middle of nowhere. This is another example of an editor deciding that since MAD's panels are full of sight gags, they need to have a lot too, to the point where the sight gags distract from the actual plot of the story.

SNEAKY CAMERA
Sick #6, June 1961
artist unknown

CANDID CAMERA CONSCIOUS
Sick #10, December 1961
artist unknown

CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS
1949-1955 DUMONT

CAPTAIN KIDDEO, SPACE BUM
Bughouse #3, July-August 1954
artist unknown

CAPTAIN TVIDEO

CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS
1949-1955 DUMONT

CAPTAIN TVIDEO
MAD #15, September 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis

First science-fiction show on television based on movie serial.

Even though MAD was a color comic at the time, this particular story was in black and white to parody the conventions of television.

The show not only worked in their sponsors of candy bars and cereals, it was also used for tie-ins such as helmets and rings.

They did more than a thousand shows, but unfortunately during the dawn of television most programs were intended to only air once and never saved, so few tapes exist.
He also had his own comics series for a while, and one of the artists was George Evans, a regular for MAD's publisher E.C.