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Showing posts with label MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. Show all posts
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MAD #138, October 1970
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is directing the Ironman One flight from Kennedy Space Center.
Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) is the chief astronaut supervising the mission.
On the monitor in the first panel is Sally Field, who was starring in the Gidget series then.
We see footage of the three men on the monitors of the three men throughout their mission, Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), Buzz Lloyd (Gene Hackman), and “Stoney” Stone. It is now the fifth of the planned seven months and Lloyd is acting erratic and there is not enough fuel, so they intend to bring the flight back. The problem is there is not enough oxygen and they are marooned, hence the title.
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Dougherty wants to rescue them but Keith feels the idea is prohibitively time-consuming and expensive. The President insists they do something because the consequences would be worse if they did nothing, and it could even kill the space program. Dougherty even offers to go up himself using NASA's experimental X-RV rocket. There's a chance the three astronauts might make it back if they preserve oxygen.
There's a storm, putting the astronauts of the rescue mission and thus the ones already in space at further risk. The astronauts' wives Celia (Lee Grant), Betty (Mariette Hartley), and Teresa (Nancy Kovack) are allowed to talk to them but can not tell them yet that they're at risk. Buzz starts to break down. The storm becomes too serious to allow the rescue mission to go through.
When home informs the astronauts that their only chance of survival is if only two of them use the remaining oxygen, Pruett leaves, sacrificing himself.
Russians are also in space and provide oxygen for the two remaining astronauts who are becoming delirious from deprivation, then the X-RV is able to bring them back, leaving the unmanned Ironman drifting in space and everyone on Earth celebrating.
The cosmonaut is drawn as Kruschchev.
MAROONEDED
Spoof #1, October 1970
w & a: Stu Schwartzberg
The foreground in the middle left panel is showing Keir Dullea of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This didn't do too well at the box office and was repackaged for TV as Space Travelers, and roasted on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
MAD VISITS JOE LEVENAL, HOLLYWOOD'S LATEST PRODUCING GENIUS
Mad #66, October 1961
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Joseph E. LeVine was the owner of Avco Embassy Pictures. They released plenty of well-known films but were best known for repackaging the Godzilla and Hercules franchises. Hercules Unchained was the most recent of the latter when this was written.
The Hercules movies were financed in Italy and starred Steve Reeves.
There's Marlon Brando in line at the movie.
This was in Movie Land Magazine in issue #54, April 1960, written by Larry Siegel, art by Joe Orlando. The joke here, of course, is a nerd like Arnold Stang playing a he-man like Hercules, though in Hercules in New York, considered by most to be even worse than the Avco series, Stang plays Hercules' sidekick.
Most people know of the series from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
As much as these movies are looked down on, there were imitations with even smaller budgets and production values.
