M*A*S*H* My Brilliant Korea.
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Published 2021-07-15
Stam Fine Reviews looks at the long-running comedy-drama M*A*S*H* (1972-1983). Set during the Korean War of the early 50's, M*A*S*H* follows the lives of medical staff at a mobile army hospital. A show that started off as a mix of zany sitcom gags and serious dramatic scenes, the show would lean more on the latter. It's a long-running comedy the show where the characters became deeper the longer the show ran rather than becoming charicatures.
Follow the progressively less madcap adventures of Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Trapper John (Wayne Rogers), Radar (Gary Burghoff), Frank Burns (Larry Linville), Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), Henry Blake (MacLean Stevenson), Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), Father Mulchahy (Willian Christopher) and of course, Klinger (Jamie Farr).
0:00 Intro
4:29 Hawkeye
6:30 Trapper
7:27 Henry Blake
8:24 Margaret
10:20 Frank
12:23 Radar
14:58 Klinger
17:04 BJ
17:57 Potter
19:22 Winchester
20:48 The 4077
22:52 Laughter
24:16 Change
31:00 The Army
32:07 Famous Faces
33:11 Favourites
37:34 Theme and Summary
All Comments (21)
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My favorite Winchester moment is the Christmas episode when he gave chocolate bars to Keye Luke, for the orphans. Luke sold them for food staples. Klinger overheard this, and saved a meal for Winchester, saying "the donor must remain anonymous". Winchester, with tears in his eyes, says "thank you, Max". Quite beautiful
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Alan Alda, simply irreplaceable ❤️
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Born in '67, I was exposed to a LOT of great and ground breaking television, and MASH was one of my ride or die shows that I would not give up!
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I adore this show. I always particularly enjoyed when we got to see the human side of Charles beneath his pompous exterior. There was an episode where the cast were asleep and we got to see their dreams. I remember Charles dreamt he was a magician and yet despite all his tricks he couldn't save a mortally wounded soldier. Surreal but good.
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Mash is one of the best shows to have ever been made
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It always surprised me how some episodes were just straight-up comedy while others got down right dark.
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Gary Burghoff (Radar) was the only actor from the movie that carried over to the TV show.
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I enjoyed Mash . It was a wonderful show. From it's beginning to it's tearful goodbye, it was an iconic, amazing show. All the characters were just awesome.
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Thanks for this walk down memory lane, I think you did the show justice and I'm quite tempted to revisit it with the jaundiced eyes of an adult. I want to mention Alan Alda is a remarkable human being outside of Mash -A massive advocate of science and rational thought, he has often hosted many World Science Festival seminars, sitting across from Brian Greene (String Theorist and Science outreach educator). I believe he was also diagnosed with Parkinson's, which is very sad.
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Does anyone get how hard it was to do what Larry Linville did? I think he was the best actor on the whole show. It's easy to be the charming hero but it's hard to be the asshole every week.
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As the show progressed, it became less about zany absurdity in the face of wars horrors, and more about interrelationships between co-workers. It also could get preachy and treacly. But 11 seasons is a lot of episodes, and they did their damdness to not repeat themselves. It was always watchable . The character who got to grow and develop the most was Loretta Swits Margaret. Though you could gage what season you were watching by the amount of makeup she had to wear to avoid the fact that the actress was aging 11 years to the characters 3 year Korean timeline, Swits performance was always sterling. In the episode "The Nurses" referenced in this video, you see from the nurses prospective Margaret as a hard hearted martinet ruthlessly enforcing her authority. When finally confronted by the nurses for pushing them so hard, Swit begins angrily berating them for not letting her into their confidence, not even offering her coffee or a chat about their personal problems. Then out of nowhere Swit inhales an anguished sob and the whole scene turns on a dime to reveal the aching loneliness that's behind Margaret's tough exterior. It was a turning point in how her character was perceived for the rest of the series. Masterful work. I don't know if Loretta Swit ever picked up an Emmy for her work on MASH, but it would be an injustice if she hadn't.
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It's insane how much William Christopher looks like Rene Auberjonois. It was an incredible casting.
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You need more views because you put your heart and soul into this summary and I enjoyed every minute of it!
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In the UK, they removed the laughter track. I never saw it with laugh track growing up, and found it jarring as hell when i finally did.
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I still remember the finale. Wow! The entire series wow! The acting wow! Your recap & commentary wow!
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One of the BEST ever made!!! I can't sleep without M*A*S*H playing. I watch it to fall asleep & it one of the only shows I watch. It was such a brilliant cast!
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My favorite laugh on the show was the rubber chicken in the teapot, so thanks for including it
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I have so much nostalgia from watching this with my dad even though mum said i was too young. I didn't understand a lot of it, but I loved Radar.
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MASH was very popular here in Australia in ther day. And I consider it among best TV shows ever made. I laughed, I cried.
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Love this!!! I have watched this show for over 40 years. It never gets old.
