1983: CRACKED UK MAGAZINE KNIGHT RIDER COVER

From April 1983: CRACKED UK were obviously big KNIGHT RIDER fans... here's another cover: issue 57.

CRACKED MAGAZINE SPOOFS THE DUKES OF HAZZARD AND KNIGHT RIDER.

Another British edition of CRACKED. Another date unknown. Although it must be sometime in the mid Eighties. CRACKED takes on KNIGHT RIDER and THE DUKES OF HAZZARD.

It's the telly team-up we never saw. Although we did come close in the first season KR episode 'Give Me Liberty... Or Give Me Death' which saw K.I.T.T enter an alternative fuel race which also included a Dodge Charger and some obvious swipes at the Dukes (and cable TV... obviously another industry issue keeping Glen Larson awake at night).

NBC also launched KR with a series of TV spots that made digs at the past-their-prime Dukes compared with the new car (not Karr) in town. 

CRACKED MAGAZINE FIRST UK EDITION

This one is undated (any ideas?): the first UK edition of the MAD-alike CRACKED MAGAZINE from sometime in the 1970s.

Not only is there no date inside but there is very little other information either. So I don't know if this is a compilation of numerous different US editions or just one (the current?) issue redressed as the UK launch issue.

It seemed like every publisher, including both ends of the Marvel Empire, were chasing a slice of the Mad action with a succession of blatant wannabes. The same thing happened again in the Nineties when everyone decided they could come up with a VIZ knock off.