STAR BLECCH

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
1966-1969 NBC

STAR BLECCH
MAD #115, December 1967
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Welcome to part one of twelve days we look at MAD, Cracked, and co,'s versions of the Star Trek franchise. We start with The Original Series that the spinoffs and movies evolved from. There are even more series than the ones parodied in the two weeks ahead and there continue to be more.

The premise of the show is explained in the opening. It's basically the first week of first year nerdspeak at this point, though I may explain aspects as if nobody's ever heard of the show before. It took place three hundred years into the future aboard the Starship Enterprise, exploring and discovering new worlds. Part of the main crew mas Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), executive officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols)

Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is the ship's doctor.

Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Chekhov (Walter Koenig), and Nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett) are not in this parody but were used years later in MAD's musical.

Barbary Coast was a short-lived Western series starring Shatner.

Another appearance by Don Martin characters in this too.

Shatner covered Beatles and Bob Dylan songs as well on some of the vanity albums he and Nimoy made.

from Obituaries for TV Characters in #194, October 1977.

from When TV Programs Are Shown in Russia in #272, July 1987.

STAR WREK
Sick #120, April 1978
a: Jack Sparling

Now back to make things make of sense again... by comparison I mean. Here's a drawing that was in Starlog, art by MAD's Jack Rickard no less.

STAR CLUCK
Muppet Magazine #15, Summer 1987
w: Louise Gikow and Jim Lewis
a: Nate Butler

But that's not all. Stay tuned tomorrow for all the parodies Cracked did of the show.

MUPDATES

Got a bunch of parodies from Muppet magazine. These were also parodied by other magazines and are hyperlinked to. All other parodies from the magazine will be featured here will be when they come up alphabetically. I assume you're familiar with all the Muppets here, so I need not get into their personalities.

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
dir: Harold Ramis

GROSSBUSTERS
#10, Spring 1985
w: Jay Itzkowitz
a: Jon McIntosh

Ghostbusters starred Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, and Bill Murray.

MIAMI VICE
NBC 1984-1990

MIAMI MICE
#14, Spring 1986
w: Jay Itzkowitz
a: Frank Springer

Cracker and Ricotta are the roles of Crockett and Tubbs played by Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas.

The song Dr. Teeth's band is playing is parodying Glenn Frey's You Belong to the City, at 4:30 in the video in the link.

DYNASTY
ABC 1981-1989

SWINESTY
#20, Fall 1987
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Jon McIntosh

The leads on this show were Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), his wife Krystie (Linda Evans), and Alexis Colby (Joan Collins)

Kermit is J. R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) of Dallas.

THE COSBY SHOW
NBC 1984-1992

THE FROGSBY SHOW
#22, Spring 1988
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Jon McIntosh

References are also made to Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. Heathcliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) had a wife Claire (Phylicia Rashad) and their children Theo (Malcolm Jamal-Warner), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudi (Keshia Knight-Pulliam)

CROCODILE DUNDEE (1987)
dir: Peter Faiman

“CROCODILE” KERMIE
#23, Summer 1988
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Nate Butler & Marie Severin

Romantic comedy about Australian outback hunter in America with Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

DIRTY DANCING (1987)
dir: Emile Ardolino

NERDY DANCING #25, Winter 1989