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Hawkeye | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" |
Portrayed by | Film: Donald Sutherland Television: Alan Alda |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain |
Hometown | Crabapple Cove, Maine, U.S. |
This is a list of characters from the M*A*S*H franchise, covering the various characters appearing in the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by H. Richard Hornberger, writing under the pseudonym of Richard Hooker, Robert Altman's film adaptation of the novel as well as the television series.
M*A*S*H is a popular media franchise revolving around the exploits of army surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and his various cohorts in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as they attempt to maintain sanity during the harshness of the Korean War.
Hawkeye | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" |
Portrayed by | Film: Donald Sutherland Television: Alan Alda |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain |
Hometown | Crabapple Cove, Maine, U.S. |
Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, B.S. (Androscoggin), M.D. (Androscoggin) is a fictional character and lead protagonist in the M*A*S*H novels, film, and television series. The character was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and by Alan Alda on television. He is both the main character and the only character to appear in every episode of the television series.
Pierce was born and raised in Crabapple Cove, Maine, although in early episodes of the TV series he mentions Vermont. In the episode "The Late Captain Pierce", he tells Klinger that his family has a summer cottage in Crabapple Cove, which suggests that his hometown is elsewhere. He talks about having a sister in the early seasons though he says in the middle seasons that he is an only child. In a Season 7 episode Hawkeye mentions his sister in passing and then only discusses his dad in terms of family from that point on. The writers never established if Hawkeye had a sister or not whether to leave it up to the fans or simply a mistake in continuity. Hawkeye's father is Dr. Daniel Pierce (in the novels, his father is "Big Benjy" Pierce, a lobsterman/fisherman in Crabapple Cove, Maine). Later in the series, he mentions that his mother is deceased. In the movie, Hawkeye mentions his mother is deceased but he has children and is married. Hawkeye attended Androscoggin College. After his medical residency in Boston, Hawkeye is drafted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps and sent to serve at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H) during the Korean War. Between long, intense sessions of treating critically wounded patients, he makes the best of his life in an isolated Army camp by drinking heavily, carousing, womanizing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially the unpleasantly stiff and callous Major Frank Burns and Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan.
It was established that Pierce's nickname of "Hawkeye" was given to him by his father. It comes from the novel The Last of the Mohicans, which Pierce, in Hooker's book, claimed was "the only book my old man ever read."[1] This claim was repeated in the television episode "A Full Rich Day".
Developed for television by Larry Gelbart, the series departed from the film and book, sometimes radically. The character of Duke Forrest was dropped altogether, the character Spearchucker Jones is only shown for the first four episodes and Hawkeye became the center of the M*A*S*H unit's medical activity as well as the dramatic center of the series itself. In the series, he is Chief Surgeon, while in the novel and movie, Trapper John is Chief Surgeon. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college (Androscoggin College, based on Hornberger's alma mater Bowdoin College); in the series, Alda's Hawkeye is hardly the jock type, and seemed proud of his lack of athleticism, while his colleague Trapper John (Wayne Rogers) played football in several episodes, and Mike Farrell's B.J. Hunnicutt is seen doing chin ups from a metal pole post, thus suggesting that Hawkeye's friends are more athletic than he. Alda's Pierce seems to resemble Groucho Marx, with his quick wit and "madcap" antics, and Hawkeye had a Groucho Marx nose, which he sometimes wore while doing a Groucho-like shtick.
Pierce has little tolerance for military red tape and customs, feeling they get in the way of his doing his job. He has little respect for most Regular Army types, referring to them in both the movie and the series on occasion as "Regular Army clowns." He never wears insignia on his fatigues, never polishes his combat boots, and on the rare occasions he wears his Class A uniform, does not wear any of the decorations to which he is entitled. (Among others, he holds a couple of commendations and four Purple Hearts.) He has an ongoing feud outside the OR with Major Houlihan over her strict Army attitude. The two of them do not admit to their mutual respect until the episode "Comrades in Arms," when a wounded Hawkeye and a terrified Hot Lips are trapped in no man's land during an artillery barrage. Apart from this, about the only career Army officers Hawkeye respects are Colonel Potter; Major General Addison Collins (played by John Anderson), who came to the 4077th to visit his wounded infantry lieutenant son, whom Hawkeye had to inform of the son's death, and from whom he subsequently comes to understand the crushing responsibility of command and the dichotomy between caring for his men and using them to fight the war; and British Army Major Derek Ross (played by Bernard Fox) who first appears heartless and then human to his wounded men, who takes the time to explain a little of the psychology of command to him. One of the ironies of Hawkeye's service is that on a number of occasions, he had to assume temporary command of the 4077th due to the absence or disability of Colonel Blake or Colonel Potter. Although he acquitted himself well, it was plain he was not comfortable with the responsibility that goes with being the commanding officer. Only twice does Hawkeye conform to Army regulations-once to save an underage marine he exposes the patients secret age to Houlihan so the patient can be sent back to the United States; another time he refuses to fudge Colo Potter high blood pressure readings.
In the series finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", Hawkeye experiences a mental breakdown after witnessing a Korean woman, following his instructions to keep her baby quiet while evading enemy soldiers, suffocate her child. Hawkeye recovers from this sufficiently to return to the 4077th in time for the armistice to be announced. Ironically, he is one of the last to leave the dismantled camp. He announces his goal is to return to his hometown of Crabapple Cove, Maine, to be a local doctor who has the time to get to know his patients, instead of contending with the endless flow of casualties he faced during his time in Korea.
In Hooker's two sequels to MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H Goes to Maine and M*A*S*H Mania), Hawkeye returns to live in Crabapple Cove, near the fictional town of Spruce Harbor, Maine. The fictional town is described as having 30,000 residents, a large fish wharf, a café which is frequented by the protagonists, an international airport, and the Spruce Harbor General Hospital.
Alan Alda would later play Dr. Gabriel Lawrence in a five-episode story arc of the television series ER, playing a surgeon with early stage Alzheimers who had the same personality and surgical skills as Hawkeye Pierce. This might be explained by Hawkeye's connection to Chicago, established in an episode of M*A*S*H when he, Trapper and Radar connive to have fifty pounds of barbecued spare ribs and sauce flown to the 4077th from a restaurant near Dearborn Station.
Trapper John | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Abyssinia, Henry" (M*A*S*H) "Elusive Butterfly" (Trapper John, M.D.) |
Portrayed by | Film: Elliott Gould Television: Wayne Rogers (for M*A*S*H) Pernell Roberts (for Trapper John, M.D.) |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain |
Hometown | Boston, Massachusetts United States |
Captain "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre, M.D. is a fictional character in Richard Hooker's M*A*S*H novels, as well as in the film and the two TV series (M*A*S*H and Trapper John, M.D.) that followed them. A former lead protagonist of the show, his nickname was derived from his being caught having sex with a woman in the lavatory aboard a Boston & Maine Railway train; when being caught in flagrante delicto, the woman announced "He trapped me!" (The blurb on the book's cover refers to "raping" a beauty queen on the Boston to Maine Express, but in the context of the story, it appears she was a willing participant who made the accusation only in order to avoid embarrassment.)
McIntyre was depicted by Elliott Gould in the film, Wayne Rogers in M*A*S*H, and Pernell Roberts in Trapper John, M.D., making him one of only two major characters in the M*A*S*H Franchise to be played by three actors (the other being Father Mulcahy).
In the book and the film, Trapper John is a graduate of Dartmouth College (having played quarterback on the school's football team) and serves as thoracic surgeon and eventually Chief Surgeon of the 4077th. In the film, he had a very dry, sardonic deadpan sense of humor, while in the M*A*S*H TV series he was something of a class clown. Trapper spent much of his time on the series playing second fiddle to Hawkeye Pierce's lead role, with the two constantly playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, drinking, and trying to seduce women. While Trapper expressed great love for his wife and daughters, he also fraternized with the nurses a great deal, with no pretense of fidelity.
Wayne Rogers stated that he was told when he accepted the role of Trapper for the TV series that Trapper and Hawkeye would be equally important, almost interchangeable (much as how Hawkeye and Trapper were presented in the MASH film). However, that changed radically when Alan Alda was cast as Hawkeye. In fact, the producers gave the TV version of Hawkeye some of the character details of the film version of Trapper (in the MASH film, Trapper John is the 4077th's top chest-cutter and Chief Surgeon; in the TV series, Hawkeye is Chief Surgeon and references are made to his being the camp's top chest-cutter).
By the end of the third season, Rogers was fed up with Trapper being treated as a sidekick instead of an equal and the show changing into 'the Alan Alda show' (McLean Stevenson viewed the situation the same way concerning his character, Lieutenant Colonel Blake). He was also greatly frustrated with the producers' demands that he sign a contract that included a "morality clause" which stated the producers had the right to suspend him or fire him if he took part in an acting project outside of M*A*S*H without their approval. He refused to sign because he saw it as an absurd demand. Even though the latter half of the third season started to flesh Trapper out a bit, Rogers departed unexpectedly after the conclusion of filming for the third season, and his character was abruptly written out of the series. After he left the series, the producers sued Rogers for violating his contract, but the case was dismissed in his favor when it was revealed that he had never signed his contract. In light of the series' lengthy run, Rogers later admitted he regretted leaving M*A*S*H. Trapper John's final M*A*S*H episode was "Abyssinia, Henry," which also included the final appearance of Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson).
The character of Trapper John returned to television in 1979 in the spin-off series Trapper John, M.D.. Now played by Pernell Roberts, the character is depicted in the then-present day as Chief of Surgery at a San Francisco hospital. No other characters from either the TV series or the movie (of which the series is legally considered the spin-off) appeared, making Trapper John the only M*A*S*H character to be depicted in the present day. Coincidentally, at the time Trapper John, M.D. debuted, Wayne Rogers was starring in another hospital-themed series, House Calls.
B. J. Hunnicutt | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | "Welcome to Korea" |
Last appearance | "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" |
Portrayed by | Television: Mike Farrell |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain |
Hometown | Mill Valley, California United States |
Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, M.D., played by Mike Farrell, is a fictional character in the TV show M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972-1983 on CBS. It was never revealed what the name "B.J." stood for. In season 7 episode 3 ("Lil"), while Hawkeye tried to solve this mystery, B.J. mocked him by claiming it was derived from the names of his parents, Bea and Jay. However, this solution is as unlikely as all the other guesses dropped in this episode. On one occasion, when a nurse newly assigned to the 4077th asked him what B.J. stood for, Hunnicutt replied, "Anything you want it to."
Hunnicutt resided in Mill Valley, California before he was drafted into the US Army as a surgeon during the Korean War. He was educated at Stanford University and was a member of the Tau Phi Epsilon fraternity. B.J. is married to Peg (née Hayden) who writes many letters to him while he is in Korea. The couple has a daughter, Erin, who was born shortly before he left for Korea. He is a third-generation doctor in his family.
Hunnicutt first appeared on the show in 1975, after Trapper John McIntyre was discharged from the army and returned home. His debut came in the Season Four premiere episode, "Welcome to Korea". For the next eight seasons, Farrell appeared in all but one episode of the series.
B.J. tended to be much less aggressive in his crusades than Hawkeye, usually preferring to be the quieter voice of reason to his friend. For instance, when Hawkeye tried to print a letter protesting a Marine commander's callous treatment of a Dutch immigrant soldier in the military press, the letter was censored by the commander, and Hawkeye was almost arrested for arguing with the commander about it. B.J., on the other hand, watched the drama from a distance until he calmly suggested that Hawkeye take his letter to the civilian press train in Seoul which is beyond the commander's control, thus frustrating the officer and achieving the goal of publicizing the man's plight so something could be done about it.
However, Hunnicutt's mild manner changed somewhat during his time in Korea. In one episode, he throttled a wounded soldier who was attacking Hawkeye in the Swamp, threatening to "break [his] neck". During the course of the series, the happy-go-lucky, cheerful B.J. of his first appearance acquired some darker edges due to various traumas and moral dilemmas presented to him throughout the show. For instance, he was awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor device for rescuing one soldier while working from a helicopter under fire; but was haunted by the fact that to save him, he had to cut the rope with which he and the chopper pilot were attempting to lift out the first soldier's buddy and leave him behind.[2]
Unlike Trapper John, who was just as much of an extroverted class clown as Hawkeye, B.J. is often the voice of reason when Hawkeye goes out on a limb. B.J. only strayed twice from his marital vows during the series: one while helping a nurse who received a "Dear Jane" letter; and falling briefly for a female war correspondent). This is a marked comparison to Trapper, who cheated frequently on impulse. B.J. professed stronger moral values than Hawkeye. For example, in Series 7 Episode 22 ("Preventative Medicine"), he refused to help remove a healthy appendix from an officer they wanted to render hors de combat due to his bloodthirstiness, despite the fact that the surgery would achieve the goal of forcing I Corps to relieve him of command. Trapper John McIntyre had had no qualms about doing the same thing on an earlier occasion.
However, B.J.'s easy-going manner disguised the fact that he could be an able and devious practical joker in his own right, which was first revealed in the episode "Dear Sigmund," when Dr. Sidney Freedman discovers that B.J. is behind a rash of pranks happening in the camp. In "The Winchester Tapes," Charles is touched by B.J.'s concern over his sudden extreme fluctuations in weight, unaware that B.J. has secretly been substituting his Army pants for ones of different waist sizes. When an amused Hawkeye asked B.J. what was next for Charles, he replied, "Starting tomorrow, he gets taller." On other occasions, B.J. has egged on members of the 4077th to play jokes on each other, starting escalating joke wars for his own amusement, with neither side knowing that B.J. was the genius behind their actions. And in one memorable Season 11 episode, "The Joker Is Wild," tired of hearing how great a practical joker Trapper John had been, on a bet B.J. set up Hawkeye as the patsy of an elaborate scheme involving "practical jokes" played on all the principal cast members when in fact they were all in on the practical joke to get Hawkeye.
When the 4077th is disestablished in the series finale, B.J. is last seen riding his Indian motorcycle away from camp, while Hawkeye sees from a helicopter that B.J. has arranged painted white stones into the word "GOODBYE".
Henry Blake | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Abyssinia, Henry" (on screen) |
Portrayed by | Film: Roger Bowen Television: McLean Stevenson |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Lieutenant Colonel |
Hometown | Bloomington, Illinois United States |
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake, M.D. is introduced in the 1968 novel MASH, and is also a character in the film, (played by Roger Bowen) and television series (played by McLean Stevenson).
In the film, Blake is a career Army physician, having been commissioned prior to World War II. The television version of Blake (middle initial N) is a reservist called up to active duty and taken away from his private practice in Bloomington, Illinois. Another former lead protagonist of the show, he is the happy-go-lucky, easygoing commanding officer of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. He is beloved for his down-to-earth, laid-back manner by many under his command, notably Captains Benjamin Franklin Pierce and John Francis Xavier McIntyre (with whom he drinks, flouts regulations, and chases women), and scorned for it by those who prefer strict military discipline, such as Majors Frank Burns and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan.
Henry is a good person and a capable surgeon, but not a forceful or competent commanding officer. He is usually hesitant to make any kind of command decision. His subordinate, company clerk Corporal Radar O'Reilly, can usually anticipate his wishes and turn them into efficient military orders, but Henry often gets flustered when an important decision needs to be made. In the "Rainbow Bridge" episode, he has decide whether to send his doctors into enemy territory for an exchange of wounded prisoners. Henry hems and haws over the decision, then tells his doctors, "Whatever you guys decide is fine with me." Hawkeye once said of Henry, "As a commanding officer... well, it's a bit like being on a sinking liner, running on the bridge and finding out the captain is Daffy Duck."
Blake attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as evidenced by his sweaters and coffee mug. He was the football team Athletic trainer and confessed to Radar that he once caused his football team to lose a big game when he accidentally taped the wrong leg of an injured quarterback. Whenever someone called for him, he responded with a rather soft-spoken "Yo…". In episodes where Henry showed home movies sent to him by his wife, it is suggested that he enjoyed an idyllic suburban life in the States. During a brief respite from surgery in the episode "O.R.," he tells Hawkeye he has "a great practice back home", but a "routine" one, and that by being in Korea he is able to make more use of his medical skills than would ever be called for at home.
When McLean Stevenson decided to leave the show at the end of the third season, his character was scripted to be discharged and sent home. However, in one of television's most shocking surprises, in the final scene of his last episode, it is reported that Blake's plane has been shot down over the Sea of Japan and that he has been killed.
The script pages with the scene were handed over by the producers, Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, only minutes before filming, so none of the cast except for Alan Alda knew about that development until shortly before Gary Burghoff was told to go in and report Blake's death. Until then, as far as anyone knew, they were going to get a message that Blake had arrived safely home. This was deliberately planned so that the emotions shown by the actors during that scene would be as real as possible, and it worked well, so much so that during the second take of the scene, one of the extras accidentally dropped a surgical instrument on the floor, making a loud clank and was left in the final edit.[3][4]
After the news of Lieutenant Colonel Blake's death shocked the nation, The Carol Burnett Show, the following evening, opened the show with a shot of McLean Stevenson on a smoking raft, waving his arms, hollering, "I'm OK! I'm OK!"[citation needed] In addition, the M*A*S*H novels written by W.E.B. Griffin state Henry's death to be "wildly exaggerated".
Sherman T. Potter | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | "Change of Command" |
Last appearance | "Saturday's Heroes" (AfterMASH) |
Portrayed by | Harry Morgan |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Colonel |
Hometown | Hannibal, Missouri United States |
Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter, M.D., is a fictional character from the M*A*S*H and AfterMASH television series. He was portrayed by Harry Morgan.
At the end of the show's third season, McLean Stevenson left the series, and his character, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, was killed on his way home. Major Frank Burns took command of the unit at the end of that season, although it was to be short-lived (one full episode plus parts of two others). The producers wanted a different type of commanding officer for the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH). They decided on a "Regular Army" commander, a man who had made a career out of the service, and was close to retirement. The producers chose Harry Morgan to fill the role, after the strong comedic performance he had given as a visiting General in the first episode of the third season, "The General Flipped at Dawn" .
Morgan's first appearance on the series as Potter came in the second episode of Season Four, "Change of Command" (after a brief preview appearance, near the end of the previous episode "Welcome to Korea"). After joining the cast in 1975, Morgan appeared in every episode with only three exceptions, and his character became a core member of the series.
Potter initially entered the Army during World War I, enlisting as a private in the horse cavalry at the age of 15 ("lied about my age," he explains, noting that he had big thighs for a boy his age). One of his most cherished souvenirs of his enlisted time is his Good Conduct Medal (a medal only awarded to enlisted men), which is framed and hangs behind his desk during his run on the show. He rose to the rank of sergeant. At one point during his First World War service, he was gassed and blinded for a month.Several of his teeth were knocked out by his captors when he was taken prisoner in the Argonne Forest by the Germans in the Great War.[5] He references many of his memories of his enlisted experiences in dealing with the challenges of commanding a battlefront hospital. At some point after the First World War, he went to medical school, and began his service as an Army doctor in 1932,[6] serving in World War II. He notes the still he had on Guam during that war, when admiring Hawkeye's contraption in the Swamp. However, he also spent time in the European Theater, as he unfavorably compared the winter cold in Korea to the Ardennes in one episode.[7] He received a Purple Heart in Korea after being shot in the buttocks by an enemy sniper to go with the one he received in World War I for being gassed, and one from WWII from the aforementioned still on Guam exploding.
As an experienced career Army officer, Potter was much more at home making command decisions than was the late Colonel Blake. He was more capable of leading the 4077th through a major crisis, such as a "bug out" (forced evacuation) due to a military attack, a wintertime shortage of food and fuel, or the occasional deluge of wounded soldiers. Despite his stern military bearing, Potter was a relatively relaxed and laid-back commander, understanding the need for fun and games to boost morale during wartime; but unlike Henry Blake, he was not afraid to put his foot down when the camp's antics got out of hand.
In the episode, "The Interview", Potter told reporter Clete Roberts, "It's pretty hard to have the kind of authority here that you would have in a regular Army unit, because these guys are not soldiers, they're doctors. And you just can't handle them the way you would regular Army men. And I don't want to, because the results wouldn't be what we're getting now."
Col. Potter was generally well-liked by his subordinates, especially Radar, who saw Potter as a mentor and father figure, particularly after Lt. Col. Blake's death. Potter received more respect from Hawkeye and B.J., and even from Major Houlihan, than had Henry Blake, but Major Burns never liked him, harboring a grudge against Potter after being passed over for command of the 4077th.
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, who replaced Burns, had a grudging respect for Potter, even though they seemed to be constantly at odds with each other. This largely stemmed from the clashing of Winchester's aristocratic manner with Potter's laid-back country countenance. Winchester even once referred to him as "Colonel Cowpie" (seen on the episode titled "Tell It to the Marines", which originally aired on January 12, 1981).
At first, Corporal Klinger was afraid of Colonel Potter. This stemmed from an incident in the Colonel's office (seen in the episode "Change of Command") when, after storming into the Colonel's office in drag, Klinger introduced himself and tried to shock and anger Potter into discharging him as insane, but Potter saw through Klinger's cross dressing bluff and, after listing other schemes he'd seen soldiers perpetrate in an attempt to be discharged, he ordered Klinger to "get out of that frou-frou and into a uniform, and you stay in uniform." After a night of bonding with Hawkeye and B.J., however, Colonel Potter changed his mind and allowed Klinger to continue his cross-dressing ways. Some time later Potter persuaded Klinger to give up his cross-dressing antics by reminding him of the adverse effects that a Section 8 discharge would have on his life (something Klinger had been warned of before by Dr. Sidney Freedman). Colonel Potter eventually came to trust Klinger — enough to make him company clerk after Radar's departure, and to make him temporary "Commanding Officer" of the 4077th in a Boxing Day role reversal to boost unit morale.[8] He even sometimes used Klinger's aptitude for schemes to his and the unit's advantage. Potter was sufficiently impressed by Klinger's skills as a wheeler-dealer, improviser, and the performance of his clerical duties that in time he promoted him to sergeant.
With the armistice declared in Korea, the 4077th was disestablished, everyone in the unit parted ways, and they went on with their respective lives. Col. Potter retired from the military and returned to Missouri. In the final episode, Col. Potter announced his plans to go home to his wife Mildred and become a semi-retired country doctor. Leaving the 4077th on his horse Sophie (which at the request of Father Mulcahy he dropped off at the local orphanage to be used productively), he was given a military salute by Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt, one of the few that they were seen to give in the series, as a sign of just how much respect the two doctors had for him.
However, Harry Morgan, William Christopher, and Jamie Farr—the three M*A*S*H cast members who elected to continue the series beyond the 11th season—were invited to star in a spin-off series at CBS, called AfterMASH. Potter became the chief of staff & chief of surgery of the fictional General Pershing VA Hospital (also known as "General General") in the equally fictional River Bend, Missouri. Father Mulcahy, after being rendered almost totally deaf from an explosion in the M*A*S*H series finale, recovered most of his hearing through an experimental operation at a Saint Louis VA hospital at Potter's recommendation and became General General's Catholic chaplain. Max and Soon-Lee Klinger, after experiencing discrimination in Toledo, moved to the area so that Max could take up a position as Potter's assistant. Among the resident in-patients was one of Potter's WWI subordinates, former Private Bob Scannell, who alone (at Potter's request) addressed him as "Sarge" vice his retired rank of Colonel by which most other characters knew him.
Franklin Delano Marion Burns | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Margaret's Marriage" |
Portrayed by | Film: Robert Duvall Television: Larry Linville |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain in Hooker's novel Major Lieutenant Colonel |
Spouse(s) | Louise Burns |
Hometown | Fort Wayne, Indiana United States |
Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Franklin Delano Marion "Frank" Burns, M.D. (also known as "Ferret Face," a nickname first pinned on him by his brother, a fact he reveals to Trapper and Hawkeye during a drunken binge in Episode 1.18, "Dear Dad Again") is a fictional character in the M*A*S*H film and television series. Burns first appeared in the original M*A*S*H novel by Richard Hooker, where he had the rank of captain. The character was then portrayed in the film by Robert Duvall (as a major), and in the subsequent television series by Larry Linville as a major (who was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after his departure from the series).
In the original novel, Captain Burns is described as a well-off doctor who had attended medical school but had had no true formal training as a surgeon other than a long apprenticeship with his father in Indiana. He maintains a dismissive attitude toward those colleagues (such as the Swampmen) who went through the rigors and demands of a residency for their training. However, his belief in his own superiority masks serious shortcomings in his surgical abilities, which he invariably dismisses as the failures of others involved in the patients' care. When one of Burns' patients dies, "it's either God's will or somebody else's fault" (Hooker, p. 43). This practice comes to a head when he unjustly accuses rookie orderly Private Boone of killing one of his patients. Boone is emotionally crushed and an infuriated Duke, who witnesses the scene, walks with Frank to the privacy of the sluice where he delivers a nose-breaking punch and knee to the stomach. A short time later, Trapper assaults Frank after Frank's arrogance and incompetence almost costs another soldier his life. The concern of the surgeons on Frank's team regarding Frank's incompetence causes Blake to nominate Trapper as Chief Surgeon in the novel and movie, and Hawkeye as Chief Surgeon of the 4077th in the TV series.
Later, after Burns and Houlihan commence a sexual affair, the Swampmen latch onto it, giving Houlihan the nickname of "Hot Lips". One night in a room just off the OR, Hawkeye makes some ribald comments about the relationship. Burns, having reached the limit of his patience, hurls a coffee-maker at Hawkeye (in the film, Burns jumps across a mess tent table to attack Hawkeye after Hawkeye baited him with speculations concerning Hot Lips' behavior in the sack and tries to kill him with his bare hands, while Hawkeye deliberately does not fight back) just as Blake walks in. The next day, Burns is sent away for psychiatric evaluation in a straitjacket, shot full of tranquilizers.
In the film and in the subsequent TV series, Frank Burns' rank is that of Major. In the film, he is portrayed as a very religious man who prays for all the souls to be saved, but in both the film and TV series he is still not much of a doctor. He also is a firm believer in military discipline who dislikes the undisciplined manner of both Pierce and McIntyre. On the 4077th's TO&E, he is nominally the second in command; but as Chief Surgeon, Hawkeye Pierce is in fact Frank's superior and de facto second in command, something Frank deeply resents. Although Colonel Blake and later Colonel Potter left him in charge on numerous occasions as required by Army regulations, whenever incoming wounded arrived the medical staff looked to Hawkeye and not to Burns for orders and direction. Burns became so infuriated by this that on one occasion, he accused Pierce of mutiny.[9] Burns' ego was squashed when the adjutant general conducting the inquiry to determine if court-martial charges against Pierce were warranted told Burns that, in his opinion, if he hadn't been drafted as a doctor he'd have been assigned as a pastry chef.
Burns is also much more concerned with appearance than performance. In Episode 1/17, "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet," he put himself in for the Purple Heart after slipping and falling in the mud and wrenching his back. On another occasion in Episode 4/08, "The Kids" (this one based on an actual incident from the Vietnam War), he was awarded the Purple Heart due to an administrative error—after having a bit of eggshell fished out from under his eyelid while the camp was under attack by snipers. The daily report noted "Shell fragment removed from eye," and a Purple Heart was duly awarded. In neither case did Burns refuse the undeserved medal, because he thought holding two Purple Hearts would look good on his permanent record.
Major Burns was placed in command of the 4077th not once, but twice.
The first time was in Episode 1/09, "Henry, Please Come Home." Colonel Blake was transferred to Tokyo to instruct incoming medical personnel in the realities of life and medical practice in a MASH. Burns took command of the Double Natural, behaved like a tyrant, and for all practical purposes the medical staff mutinied. The Swampmen connived to get Henry to return and assume command, Blake persuading General Hammond to give him the 4077th again.
The second occasion is the better known instance. On Colonel Blake's departure to the United States on completion of his enlistment (Episode 3/24, "Abyssinia, Henry"), Burns assumed command of the 4077th again, expecting to be promoted and named as the new C.O.; but he was not confirmed as commanding officer, possibly because I Corps remembered he had been relieved of command once before. Colonel Sherman Potter took over the unit, which both crushed Frank's perception of himself and caused him to go temporarily AWOL. Frank never came to terms with being passed over for command and repeatedly derided Potter for his age, both behind Potter's back and to his face. Potter in turn had no problem letting Burns know just how little he thought of him.
Burns has a tendency to blame others for his mistakes; for example, when he orders a medical device for a man already dead, he blames an orderly he asked to get the device, causing the man to break down crying. This leads to McIntyre punching him. In the television series Burns admitted that it took him twice the normal amount of time to graduate medical school, having flunked out of two, and that he only passed his first year by buying the answers to a final exam. He became a doctor only to please his mother. He also stated that the local undertaker used to send him gifts and thank-you cards at Christmas. In the TV series, Burns is known for his numerous malaprops, for saying things that are twisted around onto themselves or simply made no sense at all.
In the episode," Mail Call Again," Frank's affair with Margaret is ultimately revealed when a GI, passing through Fort Wayne, tells his wife Louise. She hires an attorney to divorce him, but Frank managed to phone her in the United States and convinces her not to do so. It gets worse for Frank, when Houlihan, overhearing the phone call (he calls her an old war horse and an army mule with bosoms), gets so angry that she throws a chair at him in fury.
When Major Houlihan finally breaks off their affair following her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot, Burns is crushed. He goes into a depression and begins acting even more out of the ordinary. Frank goes A.W.O.L in attempt to regain Houlihan's love and capture enemy Koreans. He comes back with a Korean family who he believed to be enemy guerrillas. Frank begins to become paranoid and points a rifle at Colonel Potter, Hawkeye, and BJ. Radar then arrives and tells Frank that he has a phone call, which turns out to be his mother. After having a talk with his mother, he tells her that no one there likes him and the only person he thought did was lying to him. Hawkeye, BJ, Potter, and Radar, listening in the other room, hear this and feel bad for him. Later on Frank asks Hawkeye to double date with him and a new younger nurse. When Houlihan asks whether she's a little young for Frank, he deadpans back: "It'd be nice to have a little youth for a change," which shocks her. After she leaves, Frank, Hawkeye and BJ share a genuine laugh together. This did not, however, stop Frank from trying to win her back in the episodes that followed, to no avail.
Following Houlihan's marriage to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot, Frank suffered a nervous breakdown while on leave in Seoul, where he assaulted the wife of a general who resembled his former mistress and was held for psychiatric examination. While the surgeons of the 4077th were delighted to hear that he wouldn't be coming back, Frank ultimately had the last laugh: Not only were the charges against him dropped, but he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and sent to a veterans' hospital in his home state of Indiana. He was replaced by Major Charles Emerson Winchester, III, an aristocratic, somewhat pompous, yet highly skilled surgeon who is more of an intellectual.
Margaret Houlihan | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" |
Portrayed by | Film: Sally Kellerman Television: Loretta Swit |
Information | |
Gender | Female |
Title | Major |
Hometown | Fort Ord, California United States |
Major Margaret J "Hot Lips" Houlihan is a fictional character first created in the book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. Actress Sally Kellerman portrayed the character in the Robert Altman film adaptation (where she is sometimes referred to as O'Houlihan). Houlihan was later portrayed by Loretta Swit in the long-running television series; she is the only character other than Hawkeye and Father Mulcahy to appear in both the pilot and final episode.
The character of "Hot Lips" was inspired by two real-life Korean War MASH head nurses Hotlips Hammerly, also a very attractive blonde, of the same disposition.[citation needed] and Janie Hall. Mrs. Hall, with her true accounts and stories from the zone, is actually noted as a major contributor to the character and show.[10] Over the run of the show, Margaret mellowed from a completely rigid, "by-the-book" head nurse (who was also not above using her romantic contacts with superior officers in attempts to get her way, nor occasionally going against regulations for her personal benefit), to a more relaxed member of the cast who tempered her authority with humanity. Key episodes in this development were "The Nurses", in which Margaret gave an emotional tirade to her nurses about how their disdain of her hurt her and thus stuns them, and "Comrades In Arms", where Hawkeye and Margaret make peace once and for all while lost in the wilderness and enduring an artillery barrage. Her long-standing affair with Major Frank Burns came to an end with her engagement and marriage to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot (it fractured after Burns insulted Margaret by calling her an old war horse and an army mule, which caused her to throw a chair at him in the episode, "Mail Call...Again"), and her personal confidence grew following her successful divorce from the cheating Penobscot. Her relaxation also enabled her to bond with her nurses, who previously had disliked her for her by-the-book, Regular Army approach, but came to appreciate her fierce loyalty on occasions when higher authority attempted to land on them. Margaret is literally an army brat having been born in army Hospital; like Hawkeye she also had a serious drinking problem. She entered Nurses college in 1938 and graduated in 1942 when she joined the Army; one continuity error shows that after 10 years service her rank is a Major, in fact in real life she would have been a Captain[11]
Margaret was considered a loyal American, but even she was not immune to a conniving congressional aide, who attempted to brand her as a communist sympathizer due to her dating a young man during her nursing school days. With the aid of her friends, the charges were proven baseless, and the troublesome aide was sent packing.
When the show ended, Margaret was on her way back to the US to take up a position in an Army hospital. The change for her character came when Linda Bloodworth-Thomason joined the show's writing team.
In the series of novels co-written with (or ghost-written by) William E. Butterworth, Houlihan reappears as the twice-widowed Margaret Houlihan Wachauf Wilson, both husbands having expired untimely on the nuptial couch through over-strain caused by excessive indulgence in her still-outstanding physical charms. Her career has taken a new direction as the Reverend head of the "God Is Love In All Forms Christian Church, Incorporated", a cult or sect with the unusual distinction that its entire congregation consists of homosexual men. Most of these are extremely flamboyant and the Reverend Mother herself is conspicuously glitzy and glittery. However, it appears that Margaret genuinely cares for her flock and is not merely shaking them down in pursuit of material gain.
The name "Hot Lips" originates from an infamous scene in M*A*S*H, the movie, in which Margaret Houlihan is played by Sally Kellerman. During sex with Frank Burns, Margaret is initially unaware that the public address microphone has been planted beneath their cot, broadcasting graphic details of their rendezvous throughout the camp on its public address system. Other members of the camp overhear her saying to Frank "Kiss my hot lips."
Charles Emerson Winchester III | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | "Fade Out, Fade In" |
Last appearance | "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" |
Portrayed by | Television: David Ogden Stiers |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Major |
Hometown | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, B.S.(Hons.), M.D. (Harvard), is a fictional character, a principal on the television series, M*A*S*H, played by David Ogden Stiers. He was introduced in the first episode of the show's sixth season, "Fade Out, Fade In".
Charles Emerson Winchester III was born in Boston, Massachusetts, part of a very wealthy family of Boston Brahmins who are Republicans and staunchly against Franklin Roosevelt. After finishing his secondary studies at Choate, he graduated summa cum laude class of '43 from Harvard College (where he lettered in Crew and Polo), completed his MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1948, and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before he was drafted to join the US Army during the Korean War, he was on track to become Chief of Thoracic Surgery. Although he shows expertise in thoracic surgery (Colonel Potter gives him a chest case in surgery in one episode, saying that he's tops in thoracic), he also professes to be an expert in pediatrics.
While Major Frank Burns was AWOL following a trip to Seoul after the marriage of Major Margaret Houlihan to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot, the staff at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) desperately needed a replacement surgeon to fill in. Colonel Sherman T. Potter placed a call to Tokyo General Hospital in search of a surgeon. Winchester's commanding officer, Colonel Horace Baldwin, owed Winchester $672.17 cribbage debts. Irritated at his losses (and Winchester's snide attitude about them), Baldwin volunteered Winchester for duty at the 4077th, assuring him the assignment would be for only 48 hours.
Once Winchester arrived, he found the conditions appalling, especially in comparison to the comfortable life he enjoyed at Tokyo General. His arrogance made a poor first impression, but Winchester proved his surgical expertise by performing a delicate heart operation the other doctors were unfamiliar with on a ventricular aneurysm. However, Winchester still had to adjust to the realities of field medicine, which included learning the intricacies of meatball surgery in order to be as efficient as possible.
Unlike Burns, Winchester would often show his human side, though he was generally careful not to do so in front of his fellow officers. One notable exception occurred when he learned by chance that Hawkeye's father had been hospitalized for exploratory surgery and was found to have a tumor near his kidneys. Winchester spent a fair bit of time discussing the differences between Hawkeye's relationship with his parent and his own with his father, ending with the envious observation, "Where I have a father, you have a dad." Despite saying this, Winchester is often shown sending mail to and receiving mail from his parents, and still lives with them and his sister Honoria on Beacon Hill in Boston back in the States.
There are numerous examples of Charles doing things for others. During Christmas, he would anonymously distribute candy to local orphans. On one Christmas when he was feeling especially low, after Father Mulcahy arranged (via Radar) for his mother send him a tobogganing cap that to Winchester symbolized much happier times, he gave Mulcahy a month's pay for the orphanage, so the orphans could have a wonderful Christmas. He stood up for a private who was being teased for his stuttering; Charles' beloved sister Honoria is similarly afflicted. He refused to lie to protect Colonel Baldwin from charges of sexual assault on Major Houlihan (even though doing so might have meant a transfer back to Tokyo). He even set up Colonel Flagg to be humiliated before the mayor and police chief of Uijeongbu during one of his investigations into Hawkeye's decision to operate on a North Korean soldier before an American G.I.; Flagg never returned to the 4077th thereafter. Winchester was also once visibly hurt when Hawkeye criticized his arrogance, commenting that he, Hawkeye, would only allow "B.J. or Potter to work on [him]".
His love of music helped him keep his balance and was a story line in two episodes: one in which he pulled a concert pianist who had been wounded out of a depression by proving he could still make music despite the damage to his hand; and in the series finale, he taught a group of Chinese POW musicians a Mozart chamber piece. However, when the Chinese musicians are killed in an artillery barrage while waiting to be exchanged (he learned of their deaths when one of them made it to the 4077th, only to die during triage), Charles smashed his recording of the quintet he had taught them. At the unit's farewell dinner, Charles confessed that while music had been his refuge in Korea, he would never again be able to listen to it with pleasure as a result of what he had endured there.
Though nowhere near as flirtatious and lustful as Hawkeye, Winchester, being unmarried, was not immune to a desire for female companionship. His surgical knowledge and gentlemanly demeanor initially attracted Margaret Houlihan, and several overtures towards a dating relationship were mutually attempted (the creators of the show originally intended for Charles and Margaret to have a relationship as the latter did with Frank). However, the chemistry between the two was not there, so Charles and Margaret maintain a platonic relationship for the remainder of the series. He briefly attempted a Pygmalion-esque relationship with a local Korean prostitute, but quickly accepted her lack of appreciation for refinement and Charles himself.
He also displays a keen sense of humor. Winchester often displays a dry wit, but his sillier side manifests in the form of pranks. Indeed, he enjoys April Fool's Day so much that he begins observing it in March, saying that "The festive spirit of April Fool's Day can scarcely be contained in a mere 24-hour period."
In the final episode, Charles receives a letter informing him he is being offered the position of Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the prestigious fictional Boston Mercy Hospital (with a little help from Margaret, via her father, much to Charles' irritation). However, when the members of the 4077th go their separate ways in the series finale, Charles gave Margaret a leatherbound, inscribed volume of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning as a farewell gift.
Radar | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | W*A*L*T*E*R |
Portrayed by | Gary Burghoff |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Corporal |
Hometown | Ottumwa, Iowa United States |
Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly is a fictional character in the M*A*S*H novels, film and television series, as well as two episodes of the series AfterMASH, and the television pilot W*A*L*T*E*R. The character was portrayed by Gary Burghoff in both the film and on television, the only actor from the film to reprise his role on television. The first cast member to be hired, he was the fourth and last to leave, following the departures of McLean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers in 1975, and Larry Linville in 1977. While Radar's full name is never given in the original novel or film, on the TV series it is Walter Eugene O'Reilly. The later novels by Richard Hooker and William Butterworth give his full name as J. Robespierre O'Reilly.
The novel establishes that Radar was from Ottumwa, Iowa and literally dreamed of joining the Army right after high school. (A first season TV episode (1/18), however, shows him receiving a high school diploma through a correspondence course.) He seems to have extra-sensory perception, appearing at his commander's side before being called and finishing his sentences. He also has exceptionally good hearing, able to hear helicopters before anyone else and tell whether or not they are carrying wounded. It was these abilities that earned him the nickname "Radar." The character is inspired by company clerk Don Shaffer, also born in Ottumwa and nicknamed "Radar" by his compatriots, served alongside Hornberger in Korea.[12]
On television, Radar's character started off worldly and sneaky, consistent with the film. A clerk who carries with him at all times a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise, he also has a racket of selling tickets for spying through a peephole into the nurses shower and is not averse to taking pictures of the nurses showers with a camera. At one point, he mails home a Jeep, piece by piece. (Hawkeye comments that once Radar's mailman found out, he'd have a retroactive hernia.) Another time, he cons nearly every member of MASH 4077 into buying mail order shoes. He is known for his tremendous appetite for heaping portions of food, is not averse to drinking Colonel Blake's brandy and smoking his cigars when the colonel is off-duty, and he occasionally drinks the moonshine liquor that Hawkeye and Trapper make in their still.
Soon after the pilot episode, Burghoff noted that the other characters were changing from the film portrayals and decided to follow. He and Gelbart evolved Radar into a naïve farm boy.[13] Cigars and strong liquor makes him ill or dizzy, and his favorite beverage is Nehi Brand Grape Soda. Despite numerous references to him losing his virginity in earlier episodes, he appears to have regained it later in the series. "The Novocaine Mutiny" reveals that Radar won $300 from Sgt. Zale in a poker game. He lost the ability to speak fluent Korean which should have been a blow to the camp as he was the only person who spoke it, even if in later episodes it is only a few halting sentences. In the episode "Fallen Idol," Radar receives a Purple Heart after being wounded during a mortar barrage. A running gag is Radar running the camp PA and radio network; in one episode he transmits messages by morse code. He is very briefly promoted to 2nd Lieutenant as the result of a poker game. Other members of the camp begin to mistreat him due to envy, Radar becomes disillusioned with officer rank, and he persuades Hawkeye and B.J. to get him demoted back to Corporal. ("It feels like I'm not one of the guys anymore.")
Burghoff appeared in every episode of the show's first three seasons. After season three, doing the series had become a strain on the actor's family life, and he had his contract changed to limit his appearances to 13 episodes per season out of the usual 24 (during these times, the character of Radar was usually on R&R). By season 7, Burghoff started experiencing burnout and decided it was time to move on, despite co-star Mike Farrell trying to persuade him to stay on the grounds that his career would not recover. Because of that, the producers originally planned to end season 7 with Radar leaving, but CBS did not want to do that. Instead they persuaded Burghoff to come back during season 8 to do a special two-part farewell episode titled "Good-Bye Radar" in which Radar was granted a hardship discharge after the death of his Uncle Ed to help on the family farm, which he accepted after being satisfied that Klinger could replace him.
Burghoff reprised the role of Radar for a two-part episode of the follow-up series AfterMASH, which led to production of W*A*L*T*E*R, a pilot for a proposed spin-off series that would have followed Radar after his return to America. Production never proceeded past the pilot, which aired once on CBS.
Father Mulcahy | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors |
Last appearance | "Saturday's Heroes" (AfterMASH) |
Portrayed by | Film: René Auberjonois Television: William Christopher (George Morgan for the pilot) |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | First Lieutenant Captain |
Hometown | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
1st Lieutenant (later Captain) Francis John Patrick Mulcahy S.J., commonly called Father Mulcahy, is a fictional principal character from the film M*A*S*H, played by René Auberjonois, and the television series, played by William Christopher. He was played by George Morgan in the pilot episode of the television series, but the producers decided that a quirkier individual was needed for the role, and Christopher was cast in his place.
During the course of the television series, Father Mulcahy's name was changed from John Patrick Francis Mulcahy to Francis John Patrick Mulcahy (as he revealed in episode 7 of Season 8 when asked by a nurse he was counseling). Either form of the name is an attempt to reconcile his identification as "Father John P. Mulcahy" in the pilot episode with the name "Francis Mulcahy" established later on. It is also established that he has a sibling who is a Catholic nun: he frequently talks about "my sister the Sister". He can also be seen from time to time wearing a Loyola sweatshirt. Though it is not made completely clear which Loyola is represented, it is probably Loyola University Maryland, which is closest to his established hometown of Philadelphia, Pa. Another of his more frequently seen accessories, especially in the later seasons, is a Panama Hat.
In the original film (as well as the Richard Hooker novel on which it is based), Mulcahy is familiarly known by the nickname "Dago Red" ("dago" is an offensive term referring to Italians, and "red" refers to his red hair; in the book, the character's father is Irish and mother is Italian). It should also be noted that "dago red" is a reference to cheap Italian jug wine and may have referred to the wine used in Roman Catholic Communion. In an O.R. scene in the M*A*S*H pilot episode, Trapper can be heard addressing Mulcahy as "Red," and Hawkeye calls Mulcahy "Red" in "Dear Dad"; however, the nickname was quickly phased out of the series, as were similar ethnic slurs that had been used in the book.
The character Father John "Johnny" Patrick 'Dago Red' Mulcahy in the film is a US Army chaplain assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. While most of the staff is not religious, they treat Mulcahy with some respect. It is Mulcahy who alerts the doctors that the camp dentist, "Painless", is severely depressed. Afterwards, Mulcahy reluctantly helps the doctors to stage the famous "Last Supper" faux suicide, to convince Painless that he should continue with life.
Throughout the film, Mulcahy seems bewildered by the doctors' amoral pranks and womanizing behavior. When Radar places a hidden microphone inside Hot Lips' tent as she and Frank Burns make love, members of the camp listen in, and Mulcahy at first mistakes their conversation (and noises) for an episode of The Bickersons—then leaves abruptly when he realizes otherwise.
Eventually in the series, (as with everyone else) Mulcahy's character is fleshed out. He's revealed to be a very good boxer and boxing fan. This came about when his father took him to a boxing match (against his will) and was impressed when "Gentleman Joe" Cavanaugh, the boxer who would become his idol, stepped away and asked the referee to stop the fight because he felt his opponent was too badly beaten to go on. An old priest and mentor in Jesuit school taught his students that boxing built character.
There is a running joke that Mulcahy always wins the betting pools. On one occasion, when asked who he knew, he looked to the sky with a smile. Despite his luck in larger betting events, he doesn't perform better at poker than normal. Instances of Mulcahy gambling were usually coupled with references that he donates his winnings to the local orphanage.
Mulcahy was often troubled over whether his role as chaplain and religious leader had any importance compared to the doctors' obvious talent for saving lives. As the series went on, several opportunities for heroic acts presented themselves:
- In "Mulcahy's War," he volunteered to go to Battalion Aid initially to be closer to the fighting (against Col. Potter's orders). When he and Radar were returning with a patient with an injured throat, Mulcahy performed an emergency tracheotomy under enemy fire with Hawkeye Pierce giving him step-by-step instructions over the camp radio.
- In "Tea and Empathy," he learns of the location where penicillin stolen from the 4077th is stashed and, with Corporal Klinger's help, retrieves it under sniper fire.
- In "An Eye for a Tooth," he volunteered to serve as a medical chopper's counterweight so a critically wounded patient could be delivered to the camp. His action led to Colonel Potter's recommending him for a commendation and had more than a little to do with his finally receiving a long-overdue promotion to Captain.
- In "Out of Gas," he tries to cut a deal with local black marketeers to obtain a supply of desperately needed sodium pentathol. His negotiations are disrupted by Major Winchester's haggling, but he and Winchester end up stealing the pentathol under fire and safely delivering it back to the camp.
- In "A Holy Mess," Mulcahy counsels a distraught AWOL soldier, who has just learned his unfaithful wife has had a baby with another man. When the MPs come to arrest him, the soldier panics and grabs his rifle. Mulcahy manages to disarm the soldier by grabbing the rifle and throwing it away, even though the rifle is pointed straight at him.
- In the series finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," he is nearly killed and afterwards revealed to have been rendered nearly deaf during an artillery barrage directed at the 4077th by the enemy during the run-up to the cease-fire that ended the war. Mulcahy had run out to a POW holding pen to let the prisoners out so they could take shelter from the shelling, and a shell burst right behind him as he ran for cover himself. The concussion badly damaged his hearing. He made his postwar choice of working with the deaf known at the 4077th's farewell dinner, though he did not say why. Of all the people in the unit, only B.J. Hunnicutt knew of Mulcahy's deafness; and he helped him cover it up.
Harry Morgan, William Christopher, and Jamie Farr were invited to star in a spin-off series at CBS, called AfterMASH. The show was set in the fictional General Pershing VA Hospital (also known as "General General"), located in the equally fictional River Bend, Missouri. To resolve the problems a deaf Father Mulcahy would have caused the writers, he recovered most of his hearing after undergoing an experimental operation at Colonel Potter's recommendation, and became General General's Catholic chaplain.
Klinger | |
M*A*S*H character | |
First appearance | "Chief Surgeon Who?" |
Last appearance | "Saturday's Heroes" (AfterMASH) |
Portrayed by | Television: Jamie Farr |
Information | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Corporal Sergeant |
Hometown | Toledo, Ohio United States |
Corporal (later Sergeant) Maxwell Q. Klinger is a fictional character from the M*A*S*H television series played by American actor Jamie Farr. Despite the writers giving him a German/Jewish-sounding name, he is a Lebanese American hailing from Toledo, Ohio (like Farr himself), Klinger serves as an orderly/corpsman (and later company clerk) assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in [usually] Uijeongbu during the Korean War. The character's original defining characteristic is his attempts to gain a Section 8 psychiatric discharge from the army, by habitually wearing women's clothing and engaging in other "crazy" stunts, but never at the expense of his duties. He never gives up his discharge attempts even after a lecture from B.J. Hunnicut about how living under an assumed name would affect his life after Klinger tries to desert by forging Potter's signature on a discharge form (Goodbye, Cruel World) though after he is promoted from the rank of corporal to sergeant during the course of the TV series he is seen taking his job more seriously as the writers had decided to "tap into his street skills" to flesh out his character more. Klinger supports the Toledo Mud Hens, the city's real-life minor league baseball team, and occasionally voices his high opinion of the hot dogs at Tony Packo's Cafe.
Klinger first appeared in the episode "Chief Surgeon Who?". In that episode's original script, Corporal Klinger was written as an effeminate gay man. However, the writers subsequently decided that it would be more interesting to have Klinger be heterosexual, but wear dresses in an attempt to gain a Section 8 discharge.[14]
Series writer Larry Gelbart stated during the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion special that Klinger's antics were inspired by stories of Lenny Bruce attempting to dodge his own military service by dressing himself as a U.S. Navy WAVE.
Later in the program's development, the writers of M*A*S*H gave Klinger characteristics derived from actor Jamie Farr, including the character's background as a native of Toledo, Ohio.
In the series finale, Klinger married his girlfriend Soon-Lee in a dual Christian - Buddhist ceremony, his second marriage after Klinger is married to a girl from his hometown ("Laverne Esposito" voiced by actress Mary Kay Place) over the radio, in an episode from season three ('Springtime'). Klinger's divorce from his first wife was first made known in an episode from season six ('Mail Call Three'). Following the ceremony with Soon-Lee, as he had announced at the unit's farewell dinner, the newlyweds depart the 4077th to search for Soon-Lee's parents. Although the results of their search were never discussed, they must have been satisfactory, for as was discussed in AfterMASH the Klingers traveled to the United States and attempted to settle in Toledo. However, Soon-Lee was subjected to discrimination there, and they relocated to River Bend, Missouri, Max Klinger taking a job at the General Pershing VA Hospital; his position working directly for Dr. Sherman Potter there is very similar to his job as the company clerk of the 4077th.
Klinger was the first main character introduced on M*A*S*H not to have appeared in either Richard Hooker's original M*A*S*H novel or the subsequent film.
1st Lt. Kealani Kellye was portrayed by Kellye Nakahara. She appeared in 86 episodes of the series, more episodes than some main characters, such as Henry Blake and Trapper John. The character grew steadily from a background (often non-speaking) character in the first season, culminating in the season 11 episode "Hey, Look Me Over" which was centered around the character. In her first appearances, her name changed several times before it finally settled on "Nurse Kellye"; for example, she was referred to as "Nurse Able" in her first appearance in "A Full Rich Day". The first name "Kealani" was never spoken on screen, but according to interviews with the actress, that was the first name used on set when referring to the character.[15] On several occasions, though, she is called "Lt. Nakahara," notably in the season 10 episode "The Birthday Girls," and in the last regular episode of season 11, the final episode filmed, "As Time Goes By," Major Houlihan refers to Kellye as "Lt. Nakahara".
Originally from Honolulu, she described herself as "part Chinese, part Hawaiian" in "Life Line" and speaks Japanese, as revealed in "Communication Breakdown". She had great pride in her Asian American heritage and frequently took umbrage at racial slurs leveled by Frank Burns. Her family lives in Honolulu according to her statements in the final episode.
Nakahara joined Morgan, Christopher and Farr on AfterMASH, albeit off-camera, as the recurring voice of the public address system at the V.A. hospital.
Private Igor Straminsky was generally portrayed by actor Jeff Maxwell, although Peter Riegert played him in two sixth season episodes. He debuted in the second season and appeared on and off up until the series finale. He has appeared in more episodes than any recurring character except Nurse Kellye.
Igor's role was often to serve food out in the mess and therefore also to serve as the foil for a lot of the complaints about the state of the food. He is also sometimes tasked with duties with Radar, as seen in the episode "Mulcahy's War".
In "Promotion Commotion", Igor relentlessly tries to impress Hawkeye and B.J., so he can be promoted to Corporal. He once mentioned to Father Mulcahy that he sets aside three dollars from each salary payment for the local orphanage.
In "The Price of Tomato Juice," Igor identifies himself as "Maxwell," (a goof on the part of actor Jeff Maxwell) and Major Frank Burns also refers to him as "Maxwell" in the following line of dialogue.
Igor became a fan favorite with both the fan base and the network. In later seasons, his roles were expanding, making him more of a recurring/main cast member.
Staff Sergeant Luther Wilson Rizzo was played by G. W. Bailey. In the show, he was the sergeant in charge of the motor pool. While originally written to be from New York City, when the producers heard Bailey's southern accent in his first dailies his character was moved to Louisiana.[16] He was known for his slow, deep, Louisiana drawl and his slightly disheveled look. Though the motor pool seemed to function well, it did so despite Rizzo's casual work style and frequent naps. His philosophy on success in the army was that it was possible to never do work, so long as your superiors don't see you enjoy yourself: "Where else [but the Army] can you be a bum and get paid for it?"
In the Season 10 episode "Promotion Commotion", Rizzo was one of three 4077th enlisted that appeared before a promotion board consisting of Hawkeye, B.J., and Winchester. He was not promoted, but made it clear that he was American "with an American wife and American son (Billy Bubba)." In 10/21 his first name is given as "Wilson".
Rizzo enjoys shooting craps, and seems to win more than he loses. He also is the camp loan shark, getting Charles on his hook at one point to the extent he had to have money sent from home to clear his debt with the cigar-chewing sergeant.
Sergeant Rizzo is known to carry a grudge. On one occasion, he borrowed a deactivated hand grenade from Igor and used it to scare B.J. out of the shower after B.J. had given him a hard time. He had harsh words with Charles Emerson Winchester when the latter, acting as motor pool officer, required him to completely disassemble a jeep's engine and lay it out on white sheets, for no good reason that Rizzo could see. There was little doubt of the malicious delight he took in "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" when he drove Charles out of the deactivated camp to his next assignment—in the camp garbage truck.
In the series finale, at the 4077th's final dinner Rizzo claimed that he would be going home to work on a new moneymaking venture: breeding frogs to sell to French restaurants. This is a minor error; Rizzo had re-enlisted in the Army service in a previous episode.
Major Sidney Theodore Freedman, played by Allan Arbus, is a psychiatrist frequently summoned in cases of mental health problems; the name is a play on that of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. When Radar was written out of the series, Sidney Freedman was going to join the cast of M*A*S*H. However, Allan Arbus didn't want to commit to be anything other than a guest star, so the character remained an occasionally recurring character.[citation needed] In the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Special that aired on Fox in 2002, Arbus was the only non-regular cast member to be featured on the special.
Freedman's first appearance was in the episode "Radar's Report". He visited the camp to do a psychiatric evaluation of Klinger, who was aiming for a discharge (as always). After Freedman had finished the report, he quietly took Klinger in for an interview and told him that while he is obviously not mentally ill, Freedman was willing to declare him a transvestite and a homosexual. This label would not leave him, though, as he put it: "From now on, you go through life on high heels." Klinger vociferously denied, "I ain't any of those things! I'm just crazy!" Klinger's discharge was uniformly dropped, and Freedman left the camp. In this first appearance in the series, Dr. Freedman's first name was Milton instead of Sidney.
Freedman appears in 12 M*A*S*H episodes: "Radar's Report" (as Milton Freedman), "Deal Me Out", "O.R.", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", "Dear Sigmund", "Hawk's Nightmare", "War of Nerves" (in which he qualified for a Purple Heart by being wounded while performing therapy follow-up on one of his patients), "The Billfold Syndrome", "Goodbye, Cruel World", "Bless You, Hawkeye", "Pressure Points", and the series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen". He is also mentioned, but does not appear onscreen, in the episodes "Mad Dogs and Servicemen," "Heal Thyself", "A Holy Mess", and "Trick or Treatment".
In the episode "O.R.", Freedman told those gathered in the operating room, "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." He repeated that advice in the series finale, following his treatment of Hawkeye, who had finally cracked under the strain of the war. Freedman led Hawkeye to stop suppressing the memory of seeing a Korean mother smothering her crying baby in an effort to keep it silent (so that a nearby Chinese patrol would not find and kill or capture their group). (In Hawkeye's suppression, he had 'remembered' that the mother had killed a 'chicken', until Freedman brought the true memory into the light.) He convinced a reluctant Hawkeye that the best thing for him now was to return to duty for the last days of the war.
After leaving Korea and the Army, Dr. Freedman accepts a post at the University of Chicago (at which a similarly named economist taught). The AfterMASH episode "Madness to His Method" has as its frame Colonel Potter writing a letter in Missouri about the episode's situation to an unseen Freedman.
Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Sam Flagg is played by Edward Winter. Col. Flagg is an American intelligence agent. His behavior is paranoid and irrational and he appears to the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital to be mentally unstable; the fact that he deliberately seriously injures himself to advance an investigation seems proof of that. At one point, he tries to get into Counter Intelligence Corps headquarters by crashing his jeep into a brick wall and setting himself on fire. (When told this, Hawkeye responds, "Is this guy available for kids' parties?") In that episode, to get into the 4077th, he orders a helicopter pilot to crash and then twice breaks his own arm.[17] He alternately claims to be affiliated with the CIA, the CIC, or the CID, and occasionally all at once, depending on to whom he is speaking. Example: "I'm with the CIA, but I tell people I'm with the CIC, so they think I'm with the CID." Majors Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan, strong anti-Communists, follow his assignments with great interest, but are unable to "buddy up" to him as they hope. As Flagg says, "Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion." At some point, however, Major Houlihan loses her respect for Flagg, as revealed in an episode in which she claims that he gives Americans a bad name.
Attitude towards Flagg differed among the members of the 4077th. Hawkeye, Trapper, and B. J. refused to be intimidated by him, often returning his insults equally or better than received. Burns, Radar and Father Mulcahy were somewhat afraid of him, and Henry Blake often allowed himself to be manipulated by his bullying. Flagg would meet his match in Colonel Potter, who refused to allow Flagg to manipulate him with words ("I'm not fond of personal abuse, Colonel. I was in this man's Army when the only thumb you cared about was the one you had in your mouth!"). Flagg on one occasion countered this by circumventing Potter and obtaining, in effect, his written permission through I-Corps to interrogate a wounded North Korean soldier. It was Winchester, however, who orchestrated the end of Flagg's machinations by duping him into believing that a weekly bridge game with two South Korean officials was a Communist plot. When Flagg attempted to accost the officials, they threatened to report him to I-Corps. Flagg was never seen again after this.
His paranoia is so fanatical that Flagg even accuses Major Burns twice of being a communist agent on the grounds that Burns has seen a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet in Tokyo and is reading Reader's Digest, which Flagg notes would be "Red's Digest" if the 3rd, 5th, and 6th letters were eliminated. A running gag is Burns almost being beaten up by Flagg—when Burns calls Flagg crazy, Flagg threatens to rip Burns' heart out. Another time, Burns tries to buddy up to Flagg by slapping him on the shoulder. Flagg icily tells Burns "My father touched me like that once. To this day, he still has to wear orthopedic shirts."
Edward Winter's first appearance on M*A*S*H is in the second season episode "Deal Me Out", in which he plays a CID captain named Halloran, and is listed in the credits as such. In the fourth season episode "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?"—the next episode in which both Flagg and Sidney Freedman appear—Flagg greets Sidney with the statement "We played poker once," to which Sidney replies, "Oh sure; with Intelligence, right?" M*A*S*H often uses recurring actors to portray different characters; however, the example of Capt. Halloran can be explained as one of Flagg's many aliases.
Colonel Flagg appears in seven M*A*S*H episodes: "Deal Me Out" (as Capt. Halloran), "A Smattering of Intelligence", "Officer of the Day", "White Gold", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan", and "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys". In "A Smattering of Intelligence" his first name is given as "Sam"; a running gag is that his rank insignia is the same as that of the Commanding Officer of MASH 4077 either Lt. Col. or Colonel, although he first appears as a Captain; both his rank and his last name may be covers.
His final appearance was in the episode "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", in which he attempted to recruit Major Winchester as an agent to spy on Hawkeye following Pierce's triaging a North Korean ahead of an American GI. Charles dealt with him by insinuating Pierce's spymasters would appear at that evening's bridge game, which led to Flagg accusing the mayor and chief of police of Uijeongbu of being Communists. Considering that those politicians angrily vowed to use their connections with the officer's superiors to ensure that Colonel Flagg was punished, he was not seen at the 4077th thereafter.
Flagg resurfaces a few years after the war, in a Hannibal, Missouri courtroom (as seen in the AfterMASH episode "Trials"), in which he uses the name Flagg and asserts employment with an intelligence organization "which has initials and its members are allowed to carry firearms in their shoes."
Ken Levine, a writer for both M*A*S*H and AfterMASH, wrote in 2011, "We loved writing Col. Flagg (the hilarious Ed Winter) but always felt there was a danger in going to that well too often. So we tried to use him sparingly (once a season or every other season). He was incredibly funny but that character was very broad and we didn't want him to wear out his welcome."[1]
Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones originally appears in the novel MASH, and was portrayed by Fred Williamson in the movie and Timothy Brown in the television series. Spearchucker was shown during several episodes during the first season of the series. His full name was never mentioned in the series. The character's middle name was Harmon in the film and Wendell in the novels. He is a board-certified neurosurgeon in the film, and in the episode in which Hawkeye becomes chief surgeon, Spearchucker's specialty is indicated as he struggles to do surgery and when he asks Hawkeye for help he says "anything outside of the brain and I'm dead".
Dr. Jones was one of the original Swampmen with Trapper, Hawkeye, and Frank Burns, and was the sole black surgeon at the 4077th. In the pilot episode, to raise funds for Ho-Jon's education, Trapper jokingly suggests selling Spearchucker. During his brief run on the show, it was implied that he and nurse Ginger Bayliss (played by Odessa Cleveland) were romantically involved.
Spearchucker's role was limited. It is implied he assisted Hawkeye and Trapper in their schemes on the sidelines. The producers decided to drop the character after the first few episodes reasoning that they wouldn't be able to write enough meaningful episodes for Spearchucker if they were concentrating on Hawkeye and Trapper. Some accounts assert the producers were unable to find evidence for black Army surgeons in Korea; there were, however, a number of black surgeons who served in the U.S. military at the time.[18]
"Spearchucker" Jones was also a character in both the novel M*A*S*H (and its sequels) by Richard Hooker and Robert Altman's movie. In each, the Spearchucker character is a superior surgeon who was also a stand-out collegiate athlete ("Spearchucker," a common racial slur, is said to instead in this case refer to his javelin-throwing prowess). Initially, he is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. It is established in the novel that Jones is from Duke Forrest's hometown of Forest Park, Georgia, and knew Duke's father. Duke makes racist comments about Jones, causing Hawkeye and Trapper to punish Duke. In the novel it is related that while a poorly paid resident, he had been scouted by the Philadelphia Eagles playing semi-professional football in New Jersey for extra cash, and had been signed by the Eagles, playing with them until caught up in the draft. According to the movie, his professional football career had been with the San Francisco 49ers prior to the war in Korea.
In the sequel novels, particularly M*A*S*H Goes to Maine, Jones joins the other doctors in their practice in Spruce Harbor, Maine, becoming a highly successful doctor and prominent citizen.
Captain "Ugly" John Black was portrayed by Carl Gottlieb in the movie, and John Orchard in the TV series. The character on the television show was an anesthesiologist from Australia, often depicted wearing an Australian Slouch hat. In the book, he was an American who had "trained in the States with McIntyre." In the film, he is an American (as he can be seen wearing the insignia of a U.S. Army Captain), but his background is not discussed. In the TV series, Ugly John was only present in the first season. He began as a significant supporting member of the cast, often engaged in poker games with Hawkeye and Trapper, but by the end of the season he was rarely seen outside of brief O.R. scenes. Ugly John was never seen living in "The Swamp" and there was no fifth bunk, though it was the only quarters for subordinate male officers ever seen. In the episode "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", Hawkeye says that he shares a tent with three other doctors. The script was likely written before Spearchucker was dropped and the writers presumably overlooked editing that line of dialogue. However, Ugly John was still a recurring character, and may have been one of the "three other doctors." John Orchard later returned to the show for the Season 8 episode "Captains Outrageous", this time playing a drunken and corrupt Australian Military Policeman "Sgt. Muldoon".
Ho-Jon was portrayed by Patrick Adiarte in the series. In the original novel, Ho-Jon is described as a 17-year-old Korean, tall, thin, bright, Christian, and living in Seoul. He is drafted into the South Korean army, subsequently wounded and sent back to the 4077th for treatment. After rehabilitation, he resumes his position as "Swampboy". The Swampmen, who are very fond of Ho-Jon, arrange to have him sent to Hawkeye's old college in the US. To raise funds, Trapper grows a beard, poses as Jesus Christ (complete with a cross mounted on a jeep or hanging from a helicopter), and autographs thousands of photos which the Swampmen sell for a buck apiece. In M*A*S*H Goes to Maine, Ho-Jon is briefly seen again, having pursued a successful career in university administration. In "M*A*S*H Mania" he is shown to have become the Director of Admissions at Androscoggin College (Hawkeye's alma mater).
In the film, Ho-Jon is drafted, and Hawkeye drives him to the induction center. The Korean doctor who examines Ho-Jon discovers that Hawkeye has given him drugs to induce hypertension and tachycardia (so that he will fail the induction physical). Ho-Jon is last seen in the film being led away by South Korean soldiers while the doctor tells Hawkeye that he has seen through the trick.
In the screenplay, Ho-Jon is wounded and sent to the 4077th; however, his surgery is unsuccessful, and he dies. The final film omits this storyline, although a scene showing Ho-Jon in the operating room remains with overdubbed dialogue (Houlihan: "That man's a prisoner of war, Doctor." Trapper: "So are you, Sweetheart, but you don't know it.") and a scene showing a jeep driving off with the deceased Ho-Jon, causing a brief pause in the poker game.[19]
In the pilot episode Ho-Jon is accepted at Hawkeye's old college, just as in the novel. In the TV version, the doctors raise funds for him by raffling off a weekend pass to Tokyo with Nurse Dish.
In the episode "I Hate a Mystery", Ho-Jon steals many valuable items and Hawkeye's poker winnings in order to bribe the border guards to bring his family down from the North. This contrasts with an incident in the pilot where he receives his college acceptance letter and leaves to tell his parents, who presumably live nearby.
1st Lieutenant Maria "Dish" Schneider was played by Jo Ann Pflug in the film and (as Lt. Maggie Dish) by Karen Philipp in the series. She was a nurse at the 4077th MASH during the Korean War.
Dish's role in the finished film was limited, as a large portion of her role did not make the final cut. The same thing happened to the character in the television series. After being prominently featured as Hawkeye's love interest in the pilot, she appeared in only one further episode (#1.11) before leaving the show entirely. However, she continued to be featured in the opening credit montage sequence (wherein the M*A*S*H staff run toward approaching helicopters) for most of the show's run.
Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott was played by two actors, Beeson Carroll and former football player and Tarzan actor Mike Henry.
Donald is introduced in name only at the start of the fifth season. Tall, dark, handsome, and muscular, he is a Lieutenant Colonel whom Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) meets while she is on leave in Tokyo. She falls madly in love with him on the spot, and he quickly asks her to marry him. Margaret promptly accepts, leading to a falling out with her former flame Frank Burns.
Penobscott is not actually seen until the season-ending episode "Margaret's Marriage", wherein Donald (played by Carroll) arrives to marry Margaret at the 4077th. Hawkeye and B.J. have a bachelor party for him, and after he passes out from drunkenness, the hosts, also inebriated, decide to play a joke on Penobscott by plastering him from his chest to his toes, intending to tell him that he had broken both his legs during the night. The cast is still on during the wedding ceremony, and he is unable to move without assistance. The wedding is cut short by incoming wounded, which leaves Donald in the mess hall, unable to move in his body cast. As Margaret leaves for her honeymoon, they make a halfhearted attempt to tell her that the cast could be removed, but she doesn't hear them over the sound of the helicopter.
He is not seen again until the sixth season episode "The M*A*S*H Olympics", in which Donald (played this time by Henry) arrives visit Margaret and ends up taking part in the 4077th's amateur Olympics competition, and almost wins a race against portly Sgt. First Class Ames, but trips over himself while showing off.
He is mentioned frequently throughout the 6th and 7th seasons, particularly in reference to problems Margaret and Donald are having. For example, in the episode "In Love and War", a new nurse arrives at the 4077th. After saying she was recently involved with a colonel named Donald, Margaret comes to the conclusion that Donald has cheated on her, and she flies into a rage against the nurse. In "Comrades in Arms", Margaret receives a letter from Donald that was meant for another woman—a letter that says unkind things about Margaret and hints at Donald having an affair with the other woman. Finally, in the season 7 episode "Peace on Us", Margaret announces she's getting a divorce. Margaret receives her official divorce decree from Donald in the episode "Hot Lips is Back in Town".
Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale was portrayed by Johnny Haymer.[20] Zale was the supply sergeant[21] for the 4077th MASH and also was the camp's electrician; he was shown trying to keep the camp's generator going until it blew and repairing the juke box in the officers' club after the Marines busted it up. He mentions in one episode that he was from Brooklyn, which was the reason he didn't know what people who were heading to California in the late 1840s were looking for, when quizzed. He made his first appearance in the Season 2 episode, "For Want of a Boot", and his final appearance in the Season 8 episode, "Good-Bye Radar" (which also marked Gary Burghoff's last appearance on the show as Corporal Radar O'Reilly). Zale's name is mentioned for the final time in "Yes Sir, That's Our Baby". A running gag is his feud with Maxwell Klinger.


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Apple Crostata
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A hybrid of two classics, this dessert takes the best from both the apple pie and apple crisp, and makes an amazing addition to any holiday menu.
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Nutritional Information
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Calories | 460 |
Total Fat | 24g |
Saturated Fat | 14g |
Cholesterol | 61mg |
Sodium | 145mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 44g |
Dietary Fiber | 3g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 4g |
Calcium | -- |
Kate Mathis
Serves: 6
Total Time: 1 hr
Prep Time: 35 min
Oven Temp: 450
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- 2.00 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) kosher salt
- 1.00 cup(s) (2 sticks) unsalted butter, diced, very cold
- 1/4 cup(s) ice water
Apple Filling
- 1.50 pound(s) McIntosh or Gala apples
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) grated orange peel
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) ground allspice
- 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup(s) sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) kosher salt
- 1/4 cup(s) (1/2 stick) butter
- Prepare Crust: In food processor, pulse flour, sugar, and salt until combined. Take off lid and add butter. With fingers, being careful of sharp blades, toss butter to coat with flour. Replace lid and pulse 12 to 15 times or until pea-size clumps form. With motor running, add ice water through feed tube. Pulse to combine, stopping just before dough comes together completely.
- Transfer dough to floured surface; pat into 2 even disks. Wrap each with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 disk at least 1 hour; freeze other for another use.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. On lightly floured surface, with rolling pin, roll dough into 11-inch round. Transfer to prepared cookie sheet.
- Prepare Apple Filling: Peel, core, and cut apples into quarters. Cut each quarter into 3 or 4 chunks. In bowl, toss apples with orange peel. Arrange apples on dough round, leaving 1 1/2-inch border.
- Prepare Topping: In food processor, combine cinnamon, allspice, and remaining 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add remaining 1/4 cup butter, pulsing until mixture is crumbly. Transfer to medium bowl. With fingers, rub mixture until clumps form. Sprinkle evenly over apples. Gently fold edge of dough over apples, pleating and pressing to make circle.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until crust is golden brown and apples are tender. Let crostata cool on pan on wire rack 5 minutes. Slide parchment paper with crostata onto wire rack and cool completely.
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Airbus and The Boeing Company have been the subjects of much criticism when it comes to production delays. While one company works to rationalize a delay in entering new aircraft into service, the rival often uses the other's delay to its own advantage; in both cases, the public is often entertained by the sometimes creative "spins" on an unfortunate happenstance.
In mid-2011, Airbus executives reluctantly announced a delay in the introduction into service of its new A350-1000 long-range, wide-body jet airliner. The delay, which would span one additional year, meant that the new airplane would not enter service until the middle of 2017. This news was announced (and discussed ad nauseam all the way from the trade show exhibition floor to local tarmacs) during the International Paris-Le Bourget Air Show (http://www.paris-air-show.com/), a popular, global aviation event at which myriad new aircraft and avionics debut on a biennial basis.
The reason for the delay provided by Airbus executives—including Louis Gallois, CEO of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the parent company of Airbus—was to take advantage of new technology designed to increase the new aircraft model's performance. Specifically, Rolls-Royce engineers were working on a variation of the Trent XWB engine that would deliver increased payload capacity and range; it would also add $9 million to the 350-1000's price tag (already $299 million), however.
This geek loves bleeding-edge tech (who doesn't, right?), especially on commercial airliners, but wonders whether Airbus executives would again opt to delay the A350-1000's introduction in favor of potential, incremental performance increases.