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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ROUTE 67
MAD #70. April 1962
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Anthology show that took place on location mainly on the eponymous highway between Chicago and Santa Monica. It starred two guys, Tod (Martin Milner), and Buz (George Maharias), traveling along the open highway, but the stories and host would basically stand alone with them being the anchor characters.
The comic strip Mary Worth was similar in theme and set-up.
ROUTE SWEET SIXTEEN
Cracked #38, August 1964
a: John Severin
There was a pop song a few years earlier called “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”
Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller) was assistant to 'The Millionaire', who on that show of the same name, gave someone different a million-dollar check each week.
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.
