List of Television Show Spoofs in Mad - Overview

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Total TV show spoofs and the most prolific writers and illustrators by decade

The following table indicates how many TV show spoofs spoofs in total were made in each decade as well as whom were the most prolific writers and illustrators in each decade.

Decade Total TV shows
spoofed
Most prolific
writer
Most prolific
illustrator
1950s 18 Harvey Kurtzman
(12 TV show spoofs)
Jack Davis
(7 TV show spoofs)
1960s 54 Dick DeBartolo
(16 TV show spoofs)
Mort Drucker
(44 TV show spoofs)
1970s 63 Dick DeBartolo and Lou Silverstone
(each wrote 20 TV show spoofs)
Angelo Torres
(57 TV show spoofs)
1980s 81 Dick DeBartolo
(30 TV show spoofs)
Angelo Torres
(47 TV show spoofs)
1990s 63 Dick DeBartolo
(29 TV show spoofs)
Angelo Torres
(28 TV show spoofs)
2000s 72 Dick DeBartolo
(22 TV show spoofs)
Tom Richmond
(23 TV show spoofs)
2010s 8
Mad's most prolific TV show spoofs writers and illustrators of all-time

The following writers and illustrators, both past and current, are Mad's most prolific TV show spoofs writers and illustrators of all-time (as of April 4, 2012). A number of writers and illustrators whom appear in the following table created film spoofs on their own and also as part of a collaboration.

Writer Total TV shows
spoofed
Percentage of all
TV show spoofs
Dick DeBartolo 123 33.15 %
Lou Silverstone 53 14.29 %
Arnie Kogen 39 10.51 %
Stan Hart 27 7.28 %
Larry Siegel 25 6.74 %
Josh Gordon 22 5.93 %
Harvey Kurtzman 12 3.23 %
Illustrator Total TV shows
spoofed
Percentage of all
TV shows spoofs
Angelo Torres 146 39.35 %
Mort Drucker 113 30.46 %
Tom Richmond 28 7.55 %
Jack Davis 21 5.66 %
Sam Viviano 14 3.77 %

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