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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SHAFTED
Crazy #4, May 1974
w: Len Wein
a: Mike Ploog
Not the films, of which there were three, but the TV series. Since many of NBC's mystery series were revolving TV movies, CBS decided to do the same thing and brought Shaft to the small screen, alternating with the Jimmy Stewart series Hawkins. The Shaft series also featured Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, the big black dick who was sex machine to all the chicks.
There was an unwritten rule in the seventies that if one TV detective was parodied, they all had to be, hence the appearances by Ironside, Columbo, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and Ironside on the cover. They're on the inside too.
Shaft's boss was Lt. Rossi (Ed Barth).
In Isaac Hayes' theme, a popular song in its own right, he describes Shaft as “a mean mother--” and is then interrupted before he can say the f-word.
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Shaft's Big Score was the title of one of his movies.
Sam McCloud (Dennis Weaver) was a marshal from Taos, New Mexico working as an investigator in New York City for Chief Clifford (J. D. Cannon). This series alternated with MacMillan and Wife, Hec Ramsey, and Columbo as part of the NBC Mystery Movie. McCloud used the “fish out of water” premise of the western officer unaccustomed to city ways.
Another co-worker was Col. Broadhurst (Terry Carter)
McCloud was attractive to women, though he had a sometime girlfriend, Chris Coughlin (Diana Muldaur).
In the foreground of the first panel is Keye Luke as Charlie Chan.
Celebrity appreciation in letters page.
Cover to German edition. Potrait of McCloud appears to be swiped from the Mort Drucker caricature.
MCCLOD
Cracked #111, September 1973
a: Nireves (John Severin)
His boss here is Ironside (Raymond Burr), and also in the office are Friday (Jack Webb), Mannix (Mike Connors), and Columbo (Peter Falk). McCloud spoke with Western and Southern metaphors all the time.
Ironside wouldn't have had any feeling in his feet.
MCCLOWN
Crazy #2, February 1974
w: Marv Wolfman
a: Neal Adams
The opening credits showed McCloud on a horse while travelling in the city so the parody continued the joke.
THE GREAT NIELSON AIRWAVE WAR
Cracked #138, December 1976
a: McTurk (John Severin)
They spelled Nielsen wrong. Maybe that was on purpose though. That was how they measured ratings when there were only three networks. Maybe they still do.
This was around the time Cracked started to do combinations of TV shows and movies so they could keep doing as many as they could over and over again and use celebrities to sell copies. First here is Peter Falk as Columbo.
The first casualty is Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son. The other detectives are Dennis Weaver as McCloud and Angie Dickinson in Police Woman.
The ABC bunker has Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley, Lindsay Wagner as The Bionic Woman, Henry Winkler as Happy Days' Fonz, and Starsky (David Soul) & Hutch (Paul Michael Glaser).
John Travolta from Welcome Back, Kotter, Steve Austin of The Six Million Dollar Man, Edith (Jean Stapleton) and Archie (Carroll O'Connor) from All in the Family, Jimmie Walker as J. J. from Good Times, Cher, and McGarrett (Jack Lord) and Danny (James MacArthur) from Hawaii Five-O.
UPDATE:
I discoveredm there was a cover to this which I just added and put at the top.
