Showing posts with label NAME OF THE GAME. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

THE GAME IS INANE

THE NAME OF THE GAME
1968-1971 NBC

THE GAME IS INANE
MAD #143, June 1971
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

Pictured in that first panel are MAD staffers Leonard Brenner, Jerry DeFuccio, John Putnam, Al Feldstein, and William Gaines. I do not know who the man is with the gun to his head, the black man must be some generic food delivery man.

The show was part of the rotating series that made up the NBC Mystery Movie. It was about reporters at Howard Publications, each of whom usually had their own story. Glenn Howard (Gene Barry) was the publisher of the line and Dan Farrell (Robert Stack) was a reporter for Crime magazine, and Paul Tyler (Robert Culp) was a reporter for People. Peggy (Susan Saint James) was assistant to the reporters. Culp came in the middle of the last season and I do not know why he's drawn differently from everyone else.
It was 1971. Jokes like those in that last panel were common.
Guest here is Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Ricardo Montalban is another guest.