M*A*S*H Memories

There are early episodes where he shows signs of this.

 

You're right about the movie Radar. A completely different character. But then again all the movie characters were much different than their television counterparts. Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye and Alan Alda' s Hawkeye are worlds apart and I can't say which I prefer.

 

The following were posted on a different website I frequent... Since they're M*A*S*H related, I thought some of you might get a kick out of them:

Attention all personnel - I dressed some dolls


PS: I'm not the guy who made them, so I can't tell you anything about them other than what's already in the thread....

 

Interesting. I've actually never seen the movie in its entirety. Only a few parts of it.

 

Radar's character was beefed up for the show. There was another character, Sgt. Vollmer, who would give Blake the updates on what went on while Blake was away. Radar got those scenes. Also over the long term was given the innocent scenes that would have gone to Boone.

Even Burns in the movie and the TV show was a combination of two characters from the book, Frank Burns and Hobson.

I suppose Blake was also beefed up by putting him in the OR and getting rid of Duke Forrest.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the person who made all the camp announcements was never seen, right? It always seemed like it should have been Radar doing that but it never was (well, maybe a few times, but when he did it, the camera was on him, not the external camp set).

 

Several actors, who also appeared in some episodes, did the voice-over-the P.A. announcements. One was the guy with the supposed big nose in "Operation: Noselift", Todd Sussman. Another was the guy who was headed home in "Dear Sigmund" and was injured in the ambulance accident. His name is Sal Viscuso.

 

MeTV will show “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” (the final episode) on Nov 11. It will air in a three hour slot and include interviews with cast members (I believe those interviews were done for the DVD a number of years ago).

 

"It's nice to be nice to the nice"

"I've been a practicing surgeon for 12 years"
"When do you think you'll be ready to operate?"

"I think a little youth would be nice for a change"

 

There are some great throwaway lines on the show, but they don't seem to get much attention. Fr. Mulcahy seems to have a lot of those. Like in the episode where they are trying to push over the ambulance. He says "I'll get over here by the cross." I love it!

 

I've watched a few episodes lately: A Full Rich Day, Big Mac, Iron Guts Kelly. Choosing the best of Season 3!

 

One of the funniest scenes (I forget which episode) is when Margaret is trying to mend a brassiere, and she uses Frank as a dummy. Then Radar comes to the tent door, and Frank, who is lost in thought, goes to answer it ... !

 

I don't mind the Father Mulcahy character (nor do I mind William Christopher who portrayed him), but I don't really think he was a strong enough, or essential enough, character to be made a full-time cast member... He was good as a secondary figure, but I think it wasn't really necessary to have him there "all the time"... Even when he was made a full-time character, it seems like he was still second tier, as most stories still revolved around Hawkeye, BJ, Charles, Margaret, and Potter...

 

All-time favourite Frank Burns line. I've used it myself on occasion.

 

I always found Father Mulcahy character to be rather dull.

 

Although it's a great comedic idea, the early episode with Radar mailing himself a jeep piece by piece is really out of character with whom his character would become soon after.

 

The living arrangements don't make a lot of sense to me. Three (and originally four at least) doctors shared one tent. A major and two captains. The head nurse, also a major, gets her own tent.

Radar seemingly didn't even get a tent but just stayed in his office and was never off-duty.

Didn't Klinger have his own tent?

Meanwhile....while they probably couldn't have sustained all the minor characters in the early episodes (Ugly John, Spearchucker, etc), I wish they hadn't completely gotten rid of them either. I think we never see an anesthesiologist again.

 

I believe the idea of him mailing a jeep piece by piece home was something a couple of soldiers actually did while in Korea. I guess Radar seemed like the best candidate to do it in the show. He was much more crafty in the earlier episodes; more true to how he was in the movie.

 

He seemed to share one with "Boots" Miller in that one episode.

 

It takes a M*A*S*H fanatic to answer these questions from a vintage quiz book

I got 10 of 11

 

It seemed like everyone on the show had their own tent except for the Swamp and the generic nurses tent, where they crammed in about 5 nurses into a tent the size of Margaret's single size.

 

My guess is that was artistic license. Cram 3 doctors into one tent (one of whom is the odd man out) and you have the source of a lot of crazy antics. If they have their own tents, then then mess tent or Rosie's becomes the center of action. That means no poker games, still, blackmailing the odd person, discourse with Frank/Charles, etc.

Not to mention it was that way in the movie.

But yea, one would think the US Army had a couple of extra tents for officers.

 

Me too. Dish's first name???

 

With M*A*S*H, it's best not to get too logical, or attempt to force the show into some sort of realism. It's escapist entertainment, and there was a lot of artistic license taken with the details. There are so many things in the show that when watched over and over like we do, just pop out as totally unrealistic. Like there are only four doctors, yet we hear of other shifts. Where are these other doctors? Wars have lulls, but can they really afford to send two of their doctors to Tokyo? What if the war suddenly returns while two surgeons are away? There are only about eight beds in post-op that we can see. Where to they put the overflow patients when they have those 24-hour deluge shifts?

(Yes, I'm aware that the overcrowding was addressed a couple of times, one with makeshift bunkbeds being constructed, etc.)