However, in episode 23 of season four titled "The More I See You," viewers finally learned about Hawkeye's serious past relationship. Carlye Breslin is one of the new nurses in camp, but she's no stranger to Hawkeye. They had a common-law marriage and were deeply in love before the relationship ended.
Hawkeye is crushed to learn she's now married, but the two still have feelings for one another and rekindle their affair. After a few days, Carlye puts in for a transfer arguing Hawkeye's first love is medicine. It's a fact he can't deny and probably why he remained a bachelor throughout the series. Hawkeye's a gifted surgeon and consistently impresses his colleagues and the visiting brass. He's the physician the other members of the th would want if they are in need of a doctor and is often who they rely on when under pressure.
He's first appointed to this position in the first season of the series in the episode titled "Chief Surgeon Who? Even though he considers Crabapple Cove his home, Hawkeye had a practice in Boston before he was drafted into the Korean War.
In season four's episode titled "Hawkeye," he talks about living in Boston and enjoying going to see the musicals there before they went on to Broadway. Hawkeye was very close to his father; and apart from a few disregarded references about a sister and his mother, it seems to be that Hawkeye's father was his only family. Throughout the eleven seasons of the series, Hawkeye often wrote letters to his father and talked about him fondly to the other members of the th.
He is who B. His father is also the one who gave him his iconic nickname. Alan Alda beat out two other actors for the lead role of Hawkeye Pierce.
He didn't sign on to play until six hours before filming the pilot. Hawkeye hated guns, and never carried a sidearm when he was Officer of the Day, despite Army regulations.
Colonel Potter insisted Hawkeye carry then later fire a pistol when they visited an aid station. Hawkeye reluctantly complied, shouting warnings and firing into the air. After that, he only wore a yellow robe.
Hawkeye wore a red robe, and B. Light and dark Although his robe appeared red, as Hawkeye is making out his will, he bequeathed to Charles his bathrobe because, "Purple is the color of royalty". In one episode, Hawkeye goes to extreme lengths to learn what "B. Toward the end of the episode, B. Despite being a drafted enlisted man, and frequent references to being a young man claims that he's a virgin, getting married via radio to his childhood sweetheart, etc , Jamie Farr Klinger is older than most of the other actors in the show; most of whom play doctors and nurses who imply that they're much older and more experienced in life than a "kid" like Klinger.
Potter implies that Klinger is around 30, but Jamie Farr was actually close to 44 when the episode was filmed. This show became a huge hit in India after it was broadcast there in the s, when cable television was introduced in India. It continued to be broadcast on weekday evenings at 6 p. Alan Alda also endorsed the Atari personal computer. McLean Stevenson , who played Lt.
Colonel Henry Blake on the series, died of a heart attack on February 15, Because of this coincidence, Bowen's family did not make the news of his death public until a week afterward so that his obituary would not be mistaken for a garbled version of Stevenson's.
Japanese actor Mako played four different characters over the course of the series, and South Korean actor Soon-Tek Oh played five. Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger wore size fourteen dresses. This television series, set during the Korean War, lasted eleven seasons. The actual Korean War lasted only three and a half years. Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan's parents must have had quite a bridal night as they exchanged at least three gifts. Your loving husband, Lt.
Alvin F. The best things are worth waiting for. Bottoms up! David Ogden Stiers was the only publicly out of the closet gay member of the cast. He came out in , 26 years after the show wrapped. Much like their on-screen counterparts, the cast bonded and became a "family" on the set - in response to the relative remoteness of the Fox Ranch. Frequent references were made to Harry S. The overhead shot of the camp seen during the introduction is not of this show's layout of the th, but rather the one for MASH Harry Morgan had been primarily known for his work in straight or dramatic roles.
Almost immediately into filming, the cast was won over by Morgan's comedic acting abilities. The nickname for Loretta Swit awarded to her by Larry Gelbart and used by everyone on the set was "Switheart. While Major Burns almost never drank, the camp's Officer's Club later opened to enlisted personnel was built at his request, after the surgeons saved General Mitchell's son.
Klinger was originally supposed to be gay; according to recent interviews and articles about the program. In his first appearance on the show; the character was implied to be a homosexual. Show producers changed this to a crazy-guy-pulling-a-stunt-to-get-discharged situation to avoid controversy over the character's sexuality.
Frank Burns had three middle names during his time on the show: "W", "Marion", and "D". This show has been credited with helping to end the Vietnam War. Charles carried a photograph of himself having lunch with Audrey Hepburn , whom he met through a family associate. Though thoroughly charmed by Hepburn, Charles had still never seen any of her movies.
Stiers was born in , Alda in , and Farrell in David Ogden Stiers was actually much younger than Jamie Farr; even though the show makes him out to be Klinger's elder! Father Mulcahy was a member of the Jesuit Order. Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, who addresses almost every other main character by their last names regardless of familiarity i.
Klinger, who everyone else usually calls by his last name only, as Max. Recurring character Sgt. Zale gets this treatment as well at least once, being addressed by his first name, Zelmo, while tending bar at the Officers' Club - one of very few times his name is ever uttered.
This use of given names by Winchester has more to do with a patronizing lack of respect for one's "inferiors" than with familiarity or benevolence as Charles is likely the kind of man who would regard enlisted men as lower-class, like a housekeeper or doorman, beneath his elite level of breeding and not worthy of his respect. He also routinely calls Maj. Houlihan by her first name, Margaret, which likely is more about familiarity with a member of the opposite sex, as he shows an early respectful attraction to her - though in surgery he regularly alludes to his belief that he is superior to her as well, since he's a surgeon and she is "merely" a nurse.
Larry Linville and Loretta Swit were very close friends. Very often they would go behind the tents on the set to work out scenes and then bring them to the director. AfterMASH , the spin-off series to this show, lasted for two seasons. It did very well in the ratings the first season, ranking at number fifteen, and then it sunk to number ninety during the second season and CBS cancelled it.
The critics hated it, and is now widely considered to be one of the worst television shows ever. The actors, with the notable exception of Jamie Farr, were constantly arguing with the writers, producers and directors for not getting enough screen time or lines. Reynolds eventually had enough of it and during the first year, told the cast members, having worked on Hogan's Heroes, he knew five European actors that had more talent in their little fingers than all of the MASH cast combined.
Reynolds said the constant fighting made it hard for the show to keep its writers, producers and directors and was the reason why he left the show prematurely.
Like several of the recurring characters, Major Sidney Freedman was originally introduced under a different name. In his first appearance, the character was named Milton Freedman. It is probable that the change was motivated by the rising public profile of economist Milton Friedman , who wrote the bestseller "Free to Choose," and won the Nobel Prize for economics in Hawkeye's hometown was Crabapple Cove, Maine the only hometown of the characters that was fictitious.
The name is taken from "Captain Jeffery T. Spaulding", a character played by Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers One of Colonel Potter's guilty pleasures was watching Doris Day perform, on-stage or on-screen. He admits it's because he actually fell in love with her, though they've never met.
He says he's seen all of her movies, but he would never take his wife, Mildred, to see one, because he didn't want her to know about his feelings for another woman.
So he always goes to see them alone. Colonel Potter was from Hannibal, Missouri. Some early episodes give his home as Nebraska. Mash was a bomb too at first; until it landed in a prime spot after All in the Family, and before Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and The Carol Burnett Show, which some people say was the best lineup ever.
After it got put in the hot spot it shot into the top 30 and stayed there for most of its run. Frank Burns was a Captain in the book; the same rank as Pierce and Trapper. The Major Burns from the movie and the TV show was a composite of Captain Burns in the book and Major Hobson; a religious zelot they hated and got kicked out of the Swamp for being too religious. Larry Linville quit in part because he felt the Major Burns role had gone as far as it could go.
Also reportedly he quit MASH because of the unbelievable amount of hate mail that was sent to his house on a daily basis. When they did the MASH Reunion both Ken Levine and Larry Gelbart said that they "knew they were shortchanging him" Linville, the actor , because Frank was essentially a stereotype that served the plot, but it worked for the show.
Eventually; after 5 years, Linville did get sick of playing the company stooge and wound up quitting. However, he did visit South Korea. In a interview with ABC News, he revealed that he had served in Japan after being drafted in He was part of the Armed forces radio. He subsequently went to South Korea to entertain troops right up to the Demilitarized Zone. William Christopher Father Mulcahy did serve in the U. Army in South Korea, after the war was over in , but before the armistice treaty was signed.
Frank's wife's name was Louise, as was Trapper John's. Frank had three daughters names not given. Trapper John had two Cathy and Becky. Molly was seen in a home movie, and Jane and Andrew spoke with Blake by telephone, in different episodes.
Blake had a son who was born while he was in South Korea, but Blake was killed before ever getting to meet him. It's unclear if this son was Andrew, or a second boy, although is likely it was the latter, as the child wouldn't have been old enough to talk with him on the phone so quickly.
Hunnicutt's then-wife appeared as Nurse Able indeed, one of many nurses thusly credited in eight episodes throughout the rest of the series. Her final appearance was in the series finale. The couple's daughter Erin Farrell was the inspiration for the name of B. The name of Radar's teddy bear was never revealed.
Much has been written about the similarities between this show and Hogan's Heroes Both shows shared much of the same cast and crew, including executive producer Gene Reynolds and actor William Christopher. Of the main cast in the opening credits, only two actors actually come from the same hometown as their character.
Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell were both regular viewers and fans of the show before their being cast on it. Major Winchester was stationed in Tokyo, Japan before he was transferred to the th. When Baldwin visited the th later, Winchester let Baldwin win his money back, hoping to go back with him to Tokyo.
Duke was prominently featured in MASH , portrayed by Tom Skerritt , but the character never appeared on the series. Mike Farrell said CBS executives at first were hesitant to have a "final episode" because they felt that would hurt the show as it moves into syndication. If the audience sees a resolution to all the conflict; they will be less compelled to watch the reruns. Look at what happened with 'The Fugitive,' " a show in which the plotline was wrapped up in the final episode, thus eliminating any suspense from the reruns.
Farrell still chuckles at the memory of some of the cast and crew politely suggesting to the executive that it might be fair to say that most people were aware that the Korean War eventually ended; the man looked at them blankly, turned, and walked away.
The other doctors in the camp pretend to help him with this. They go through a big fake ritual in the swamp as one of the men plays "Suicide is Painless" on guitar. The scene is considered somewhat homophobic by post standards. The "Suicide is Painless" song proved to be so popular, Robert Altman used it as the theme song, and had his son, Mike, write the lyrics.
The lyrics, however, were not used in the TV show. The part of Father Mulcahy was played by a different actor. William Christopher joined the cast in the second episode. Fortunately, they found Harry Morgan to play Colonel T. Potter, who stayed with the show until the series ended. Kellye Nakaraha is the only character who played a character named after herself.
She also briefly played several other nurses on MASH as well. By playing Nurse Able, Baker and Charlie she played more parts than any other actor or actress on the show. Mike Farrell admits in interviews that there was too much drinking and womanizing on the show, and he regrets that MASH glorified that type of thing.
Comedies without either a studio audience or a laugh track just weren't done in those days. And while the show started with a full on laugh track, it got quieter and quieter as the show wore on, until the last couple seasons when it was a faint chuckle track.
Robert Klein was offered the role of Trapper John, but turned it down. Colonel Potter's horse was named "Sophie. Klinger, although Arab, is not Muslim, he is an atheist. Hornberger told Variety that he liked the movie based on his book, and though he didn't like Donald Sutherland's long hair, the movie was a pretty accurate representation of what happened.
But when the tv show appeared two years later on CBS, Hoernberger absolutely hated it. He particularly hated the whiny left-leaning Hawkeye, and decided to drop out of the whole project, in terms of being an ongoing creative consultant for the show. After the book and movie came out, two of his friends who spent time with him in Korea, Cathy and Dale Drake; reached out to him. They were interested in telling their stories just like Hornberger had. The Drakes were very interested in talking to the creators of the new tv show though; so Hornberger connected them with Gene Reynolds; who then began a series of conversations which were the basis for the MASH tv show.
So while Hornberger was really the main writer and the inspiration of the movie; the Drakes were really the main writers of and the inspiration for the tv show.
This is why the tv show and movie are so different; they are reflections of the Drakes' and Hornberger's starkly different personalities. And this is why there are characters in the the tv show like Klinger that were not in the original book and movie; and vice versa.
Klinger was not in the book and the movie most likely because Hornberger didn't know him, and Duke didn't make it into the tv show because the Drake's didn't know him. Margaret was in all the incarnations since everybody knew her, or her prototype, Ruth Dickson. But the realities of war wounds made this intolerable to Hornberger and other surgeons who found themselves banned from repairing damaged arteries. An operation is performed on a wounded soldier at the th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, twenty miles from the front lines of the Korean War on August 4, Credit: Corbis via Getty Images.
It is thought that Hornberger was the first to flout those rules—and scenes in his bestselling book back up the theory. When word got to other MASH units, doctors started doing arterial repairs there, too, and after the Korean War ended in , doctors who dared to do the surgery helped further medical knowledge about how to repair human arteries and other blood vessels. As for Hornberger, who went on to work in at the VA and in private practice, he dealt with the trauma he experienced during the Korean War by writing about it.
It was the perfect moment for a novel about war: the Vietnam War was looking more and more intractable and Americans longed for a lighter take on war. The book was adapted to a hit movie and then a TV show that helped capture life in the unit. Like the books he wrote, it included a strong-willed head nurse, a Korean teenager whom the doctors sent to the United States for college on their own dime, and a doctor who dressed in drag at least once. Hawkeye's father, Dr.
Daniel Pierce, still resides in Crabapple Cove, but despite being a world apart, the two remain close; in Our Finest Hour , Hawkeye reveals that he hasn't seen his father in two years.
Early on in the series Hawkeye mentioned his mother and a sister, but later said that he is an only child, and his father remained single after his mother died when he was ten years old. Only in later seasons, Hawkeye's father was established as a physician in his own right; earlier on he was referred to by Klinger and B. In Mail Call Three , Hawkeye and Radar have a heart-to-heart about Radar's jealousy over the fact that his widowed mother is dating, and Hawkeye tells about how his dad became interested in another woman not long after his mother died.
Though Hawkeye never let on, his father could pick up on his resentment. In the end, his father remained alone, which Hawkeye began to regret, surmising that his father needed his approval so much that he was willing to sacrifice his own heart's desire for his son's closeness. In The Late Captain Pierce , when Hawkeye finds out that the Army wrongly listed him as dead and have already informed his father, his main concern is to contact his grieving father to let him know he is still alive, but to his aggravation the phone lines have been temporarily knocked out, and all stateside communications have been restricted due to General Eisenhower's impending visit to Korea.
Hawkeye very nearly deserts as a cadaver, but with wounded arriving he reconsiders and stays, and is eventually able to call back home to his father. In Sons And Bowlers , a worried Hawkeye frantically tries to call home to get in touch with his father, who is about to undergo major surgery.
Between attempts, Charles keeps vigil with him, admitting that while he still loves and respects his own father, he is envious of the closeness that Hawkeye and his father have, saying, "Where I have a father, you have a dad. Hawkeye has a very strong moral code. He often questions the validity of the war and why they're all there in the first place. He also loathes racism and is angered whenever someone else uses ethnic slurs, especially the word "gook" a vulgar epithet for a Far Easterner ; in The Moose he chastises Sergeant Baker for using the word, and in another episode Hawkeye abruptly ends a date with a nurse who reveals her own racist tendencies when she uses the same word.
In another episode he even corrects Colonel Flagg when he calls his wounded prisoner by that word. His moral stance also extends to guns. In Officer of the Day , when Burns gives him a sidearm to wear while on OD duty, Hawkeye steadfastly refuses to carry it. In Hawkeye Get Your Gun , he disobeys an order by Colonel Potter to fire a gun at an enemy patrol, saying that he will treat wounds but not inflict them.
But after some coercion by Potter to use it as a gigantic noisemaker to scare them, Hawkeye decides he can do that and empties the gun into the air which earns the observation from Potter that, "you're a crazier soldier than a surgeon! Hawkeye is also a considerable alcoholic, frequently partaking of martinis, his favorite mixed drink, at the Officers Club, but in the Swamp he also keeps a small gin still that he built with Trapper John and continues to maintain with B.
On a few occasions the side effects of Hawkeye's alcoholism particularly in the episode Bottle Fatigue cause him to rethink and reconsider his actions. One of Hawkeye's many pet peeves is the food served in the Mess Tent, often causing Hawkeye to toss off insults at the server most often Igor and smelling his food before eating it, which is a source of irritation, especially to B.
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