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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MANNECCH
MAD #123, September 1968
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker
MAD rarely did more than one parody of something unless it was on for so long, but in this case here are two. The first was from an article called MAD Mini-Vision.
Joe Mannix (Mike Connors) worked for an agency called Intertect. In the first season his boss was Lew Wickersham (Joseph Campanella). In this the client's name is a parody of Howard Hughes, but in name only.
LONGSHOT
MAD #153, September 1972
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
The early seventies saw the era of the detective with the disability and/or gimmick. Longstreet's was that he was blind. This explains the story of Mike Longstreet (James Fransiscus), an insurance investigator, as told by his associates. The real Longstreet lost his eyesight from a bomb in a champagne bottle. His seeing eye dog was named Pax. His co-workers were Nikki (Marlyn Mason) and Duke (Peter Mark Richman).
The other two detectives are Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Cannon (William Conrad)
TV'S DEFECTIVE DETECTIVES
Cracked #102, August 1972
a: Jack Barrett
The other detectives at this gathering are Mannix (Mike Connors), Ironside and Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell), Nichols (James Garner), Cannon, Columbo (Peter Falk), and Sarge (George Kennedy). There is more than one cowboy in the splash panel, perhaps the other is McCloud?
Jack Webb as Friday from Dragnet also appears to be present.
