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One-time MAD artist Bruce Stark did a bunch of TV Guide covers I haven't included before and almost all were parodied by MAD as well.

Bill Daly, Suzanne Pleshette, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz, Pat Finley, and Bob Newhart in the first incarnation of The Bob Newhart Show.

Gavin McLeod, Lauren Tewes, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, and Jill Whelock of Love Boat

Not sure where this is from. Probably a TV Guide article about reruns. It has Dan Blocker and Lorne Greene from Bonanza, Jack Webb from Dragnet, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner from Star Trek, Alan Alda and Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney of The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball as her character from I Love Lucy.

Richard Chamberlain was in Shōgun. This is more typical of what almost all TV actors make now.

Newhart cast members Bob Newhart, Julia Duffy, Peter Scolari, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Tony Papenfuss, William Sanderson, and John Voldtstadt.

Ad in TV Guide by Sam Viviano with Henry Winkler, Rita Moreno, John Ritter, Penny Marshall, and David Lander. That's supposed to be Michael McKean though you'd only get that in the context.

I've mentioned before how Jack Davis was the official Monkees artist.

In 1984, the Motion Picture Association sent this flier by Davis to theaters announcing their new PG-13 rating and how some releases that already had a PG rating would be changed. Films included would be Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Woman in Red, Gremlins, and Red Dawn.

Drawing by Mort Drucker, maybe for self-promotion, since it's from 1985 and the references span several years. Roger Moore as James Bond, Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, Goldie Hawn as Private Benjamin, Tina Turner, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, Clint Eastwood, and Jane Fonda with her aerobics videos.

Unused publicity drawing for Animal House, or maybe it was for the Delta House TV series but shelved when they realized they wouldn't have the character of Bluto.

THE DONKEES

THE MONKEES
1966-1968 NBC

THE DONKEES
Cracked #230, September 1987
w: Charles Hall
a: John Severin

The Monkees, a 60s boy band gone rogue, were Michael Nesmith, Davey Jones, Mickey Dolenz, and Peter Tork.

Julie Newmar, most known for her role as Catwoman, was in one episode (see below). The song being parodied here is 'Daydream Believer'.

There was an attempt at bringing them back with a new cast. The New Monkees (see also below) didn't last as long.

Nesmith's mother was the inventot of Liquid Paper.

THE MONKEEYS
Sick #63, November 1968
w: Calvin Castine
a: Bill Robinson

Monkees head writers Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso (who also wrote for Get Smart) also wrote for Sick.

'Last Train to Clarksville'. 'I'm Not Your Stepping Stone', 'I'm a Believer', and 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' were Monkees songs.

MAD artist Jack Davis did ads for the show for TV Guide.

As well as the cover for a cash-in book.

The Ben Stiller Show parodied them, updating them for the grunge scene of the nineties.