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YOUNG DOCTOR BALONEY
Eh! #1, December 1953
a: Dick Ayers
Loosely based on daytime radio program starring Alan Bunce, later made into a TV series
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Friday, June 14, 2024
YOUNG DR. BALONEY
YOUNG DOCTOR MALONE
Blue Network 1940-1960
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YOUNG DOCTOR BALONEY
Eh! #1, December 1953
a: Dick Ayers
Loosely based on daytime radio program starring Alan Bunce, later made into a TV series
Blue Network 1940-1960
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YOUNG DOCTOR BALONEY
Eh! #1, December 1953
a: Dick Ayers
Loosely based on daytime radio program starring Alan Bunce, later made into a TV series
Sunday, May 5, 2024
WHAT'S MY SHINE?
WHAT'S MY LINE?
CBS 1950-1967
WHAT'S MY SHINE?
MAD #17, November 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis
Quick history lessons (groan!): Those old enough to remember fifties nostalgia (nostalgia for it, not the fifties themselves) think it was all Grease and Happy Days or Back to the Future. Those I've talked to that lived through the actual fifties remember it slightly differently, always in fear of being bombed at any moment, no diversity or conformity, and particularly the red scare.
White nationalists making up the majority of the Republican party may be bad, but it's not much worse than before. We've always had zealous bigots and disengenuous patriots in congress. What we didn't have is opinions influenced by 24-hour partisan news channels. The Trump of his time was Senator Joseph McCarthy, a demagogue of the sort previously mentioned, able to get away with his reign only because we didn't have fact-checking in real time. Hollywood and the Blacklist has been chronicled in many places, but the subcommittee also had its sites on accusing Communists (Reds) of infiltrating the military as well. There was also nothing like C-Span, there were just the three networks, so the Army-McCarthy hearings pre-empted regularly scheduled programming.
This MAD article was the first of many pre-cable articles to satirize talking heads using the premise that things like this should compete with the rest of TV to make it more exciting. In this case, What's My Line?, where the premise was that three or four blindfolded panelists asked questions to a guest about his or her occupation and were awarded points for correct answers. Here instead of host John Daly, it is moderated by Army-McCarthy special counsel Ray Jenkins.
The Subcommittee included Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Henry Dworshak (R-ID), Charles Potter (R-MI), John McClellan (D-AR), Stuart Symington (D-MI), Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), and Joseph McCarthy (R-WI).
Robert Stevens was an Army Secretary that was a witness in the hearings and a photograph of him submitted by McCarthy was found to be doctored. Karl Mundt was chairman of the subcommittee.
McCarthy's lawyer was Roy Cohn is caricatured. He was also one of Trump's lawyers a generation later.
Private Schein was also a witness in the hearings. There was no equivalent to Lana Cheesecake in either the hearings or the quiz show, it was just a commentary on the optics of television.
WHAT'S MY CRIME?
Eh! #4, June 1954
a: Dick Ayers
From MAD's TV “Alfie” Awards by Larry Siegel and Mort Drucker in MAD #56, July 1960. The other panelists are Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, and Dorothy Kilgallen.
MAD VISITS THE WORLD'S GREATEST TV PANELIST
MAD #62, April 1961
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
The interviewer is Ed Murrow. MAD writer Dick DeBartolo was simultaneously a writer for Goodson-Todman and sometimes used a pen name writing parodies of shows they produced.
WHAT'S MY LINE?
Sick #9, November 1961
artist unknown
WHAT'S MY SALARY?
Sick #21, June 1963
artist unknown
The last panel has Fred Gwynne and Joe E. Ross from Car 54, Where Are You ? for some reason. Probably because they were popular then.
CBS 1950-1967
WHAT'S MY SHINE?
MAD #17, November 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis
Quick history lessons (groan!): Those old enough to remember fifties nostalgia (nostalgia for it, not the fifties themselves) think it was all Grease and Happy Days or Back to the Future. Those I've talked to that lived through the actual fifties remember it slightly differently, always in fear of being bombed at any moment, no diversity or conformity, and particularly the red scare.
White nationalists making up the majority of the Republican party may be bad, but it's not much worse than before. We've always had zealous bigots and disengenuous patriots in congress. What we didn't have is opinions influenced by 24-hour partisan news channels. The Trump of his time was Senator Joseph McCarthy, a demagogue of the sort previously mentioned, able to get away with his reign only because we didn't have fact-checking in real time. Hollywood and the Blacklist has been chronicled in many places, but the subcommittee also had its sites on accusing Communists (Reds) of infiltrating the military as well. There was also nothing like C-Span, there were just the three networks, so the Army-McCarthy hearings pre-empted regularly scheduled programming.
This MAD article was the first of many pre-cable articles to satirize talking heads using the premise that things like this should compete with the rest of TV to make it more exciting. In this case, What's My Line?, where the premise was that three or four blindfolded panelists asked questions to a guest about his or her occupation and were awarded points for correct answers. Here instead of host John Daly, it is moderated by Army-McCarthy special counsel Ray Jenkins.
Eh! #4, June 1954
a: Dick Ayers
MAD #62, April 1961
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
The interviewer is Ed Murrow. MAD writer Dick DeBartolo was simultaneously a writer for Goodson-Todman and sometimes used a pen name writing parodies of shows they produced.
WHAT'S MY LINE?
Sick #9, November 1961
artist unknown
Sick #21, June 1963
artist unknown
Monday, November 13, 2023
IS THIS YOUR LIFE?
THIS IS YOUR LIFE
1952-1961 NBC
IS THIS YOUR LIFE?
MAD #24, July 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Bill Elder
This was a regular show in which a person was taken by surprise, usually from the audience, or on the set of their show in the case of celebrities. The host, Ralph Edwards, would show memories from his book and bring in people from that person's past.
The splash panel has a bunch of celebrities and ad mascots in the audience. The Smith Brothers are using the cough drop of their competitor. Edward Murrow is filling his seat with the cigarette butts that were his trademark, Liberace is sharing sheet music with Harry Truman, Roy Cohn is advising Joseph McCarthy, Bing Crosby, smoking what looks like a golf club pipe, is noticing the likeness of Lincoln on his five-dollar bill isn't accurate, while sitting next to Marlon Brando just off the set of Julius Caesar. Martin and Lewis haven't guessed the “secret woid” is 'Lollabrigida'. Gen. McArthur is being tattooed by Grandma Moses. Julius LaRosa is about to blast TNT into Arthur Godfrey's earphones while Jackie Gleason is caught in the middle. Milton Berle is looking over Ralph Edwards' shoulder. Sen. Estes Kefauver is reading a horror comic before his subcommittee investigates it.
Hazel Bishop cosmetics was the sponsor of the show.
THIS IS YOUR WIFE
Crazy #2, January 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Al Hartley
THAT WAS YOUR LIFE!
Eh! #5, July 1954
a: Fred Ottenheimer
THIS IS YOUR STRIFE
Panic #1, February-March 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Joe Orlando
From Russian TV Shows by Paul Laikin and John Severin
The show was parodied many times on Sesame Street.
1952-1961 NBC
IS THIS YOUR LIFE?
MAD #24, July 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Bill Elder
This was a regular show in which a person was taken by surprise, usually from the audience, or on the set of their show in the case of celebrities. The host, Ralph Edwards, would show memories from his book and bring in people from that person's past.
The splash panel has a bunch of celebrities and ad mascots in the audience. The Smith Brothers are using the cough drop of their competitor. Edward Murrow is filling his seat with the cigarette butts that were his trademark, Liberace is sharing sheet music with Harry Truman, Roy Cohn is advising Joseph McCarthy, Bing Crosby, smoking what looks like a golf club pipe, is noticing the likeness of Lincoln on his five-dollar bill isn't accurate, while sitting next to Marlon Brando just off the set of Julius Caesar. Martin and Lewis haven't guessed the “secret woid” is 'Lollabrigida'. Gen. McArthur is being tattooed by Grandma Moses. Julius LaRosa is about to blast TNT into Arthur Godfrey's earphones while Jackie Gleason is caught in the middle. Milton Berle is looking over Ralph Edwards' shoulder. Sen. Estes Kefauver is reading a horror comic before his subcommittee investigates it.
Crazy #2, January 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Al Hartley
Eh! #5, July 1954
a: Fred Ottenheimer
Panic #1, February-March 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Joe Orlando
The show was parodied many times on Sesame Street.
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