SWILL STREET BLUES

HILL STREET BLUES
NBC 1981-1987

SWILL STREET BLUES
MAD #231, April 1982
w: Tom Koch
a: Angelo Torres

There were more characters actually on the show than featured in the splash, but the main cast here is Frank Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti), Mick Belker (Bruce Weitz), Howard Hunter (James B. Sikking), Leo Schnitz (Robert Hirschfeld), J. D. LaRue (Kiel Martin), Ray Catellano (Rene Enriquez), Henry Goldblume (Joe Spano), and Lucy Bates (Betty Thomas). Grant Tinker was the president of NBC.

Sgt. Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) was always the one doing the roll call at the beginning and would conclude it with "Stay safe out there". The two cops on the beat and in the previous page are Andy Renko (Charles Haid) and Bobby Hill (Michael Warren)

Furillo and Joyce Davenport (Veronica Hamel) were a couple and even lived together, but pretended not to be while at work.

They never said they took place or hinted at taking place in Chicago, Los Angeles, or any particular city. Another cop, here unseen, was Washington (Taurean Blacque).

THE KILL STREET BLAHS
Crazy #87, June 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble

Michael Warren had previously been a college basketball player.

This was on the cover of TV Guide by one-time MAD artist Bruce Stark.

Let us not forget SCTV's mashup of this show with Benny Hill

UPDATE:
Cover for the Mexican edition, which must have also done a Smurfs parody, or maybe a parody of the Schtroumpfs comic albums. Don't know why Hunter is chosen as “it”.

UPDATE 2:

ILL STREET BLUES
Bananas #58, c. 1982
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano

You see, because they had a big cast.

THE CRACKED MOVIE

THE CRACKED MOVIE
Cracked #178, July 1981
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin

This was a recurring feature they did based on the fact that Mad and National Lampoon had movies. This takes place in the office of publisher Bob Sproul, though I've been told their “office” was basically a cubicle, and Sproul handled the business side of things in Florida while the editorial was handled in New York.

Cracked had a few recurring characters such as their janitor/mascot Sylvester P. Smythe (their answer to Alfred E. Neuman), Hang-Ups (two prisoners in a dungeon), Sagebrush (a gold prospector), and something called The Talking Blob.

Nanny Dickering was the reporter they used for the interviews in the back, and originally she looked different depending on who drew her, until they settled on the version drawn by good-girl artist Bill Ward.

THE CRACKED MOVIE II
Cracked #183, December 1981
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin

Another caricature of MAD's Bill Gaines at the beginning.

There's a video for 9 to 5 in the 9 to 5 link in the sidebar.

CRACKED MOVIE III
Cracked #189, September 1982
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin

THE CRACKED MOVIE IV
Cracked #195, July 1983
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin

For a while, Sylvester P. Smythe was given a girlfriend.