M*A*S*H Is The Best Show I Hope Some Of You Agree With Me I Want To Know Your Opinion My Father Sometimes Bought Me Grape Nehi In A Can
For some crazy reason, I used to adore the show when I was a child. I have no clue as to why, considering my age at the time, but my mother told me that I absolutely loved it, even had a little T-shirt with Radar on it. Now? I'm not sure what I'd think of it.
That last ep was sad. When Hawkeye was going up in the chopper and BJ was trying to tell him something. Then he saw the big goodbye in giant stones. It was a great show, very funny and had character that bounced well off each other. We have the re runs on free to air and i watch them all the time.
It was an awesome show, especially in its earliest seasons, with Henry Blake, Spearchucker and all the others who were in the books. If you haven't done so already, read those books by Richard Hooker.
I own on VHS not only the Original film, but the Final episode from the series. I think my T-shirt is in storage.
the original M*A*S*H movie is way better because it is truer to the book ...when it started on tv it was a comedy as it was supposed to be ,but as the years went by they turned it to a drama and it turned me right off ........and as someone else mentioned ..if you do get a chance to read the other M*A*S*H books,do it ..there are 15 in all ...too bad that dr. richard hornberger (richard hooker) is no longer with us but last i heard ,william e. butterworth ,his other co-writer still is .been quite a while since i read them all ..they mostly came out in the early 70s but i'll try 1.mash 2.mash goes to paris 3.mash goes to new orleans 4.mash goes to morroco 5.mash goes to las vegas 6.mash goes to london 7.mash goes to vienna 8.mash goes to montreal 9.mash goes to maine..............this is the second in the mash series 10.mash goes to san francisco 11.mash goes to miami 12.mash goes to texas 13.mash goes to hollywood 14.mash goes to ??????? 15.mash mania mash mania is the last one as far as i know ......after 30 years my memory ain't as fresh as it used to be ......i'll write it in when i think of the 14th one
i have the original movie and a number of te seasons on dvd. i love them. (you have to appreciate the movie and the series on somewhat of a seperate level.) sometimes it amazes me the issues they tackeled early on that tv is still struggling to deal with. (racism, homosexuality... war, violence... even sexism at times.)
Actually MASH WAS more about vietnam than the korean conflict but it was mascarade by making in the korean conflict since vietnam was a touchy subject holywood was not ready to deal with until the 1980s "apocolypse now" "full metal jacket " and this were movie only they still did not do have a tv series dealing with vietnam . But Mash is not about korea . "in the deep sense" . and helicopters were not that heavyly used in the korean conflict to move wounded :"this is 1 of the hints .
actually M*A*S*H was about korea ..the helicopters were used there ..and the name of the 14th M*A*S*H book came to mind .....M*A*S*H goes to moscow .the second to last book ..............i have all 15 somewheres in my boxes of books .richard hornberger (richard hooker) was wrtiting about the korean conflict ..........maybe larry gelbart did thinly veil the tv series about vietnam but the books were definitely not about vietnam ..............watch the original movie with donald sutherland as hawkeye and elliott gould as trapper john ........you will see the real gist of the book .......robert duvall makes a good frank burns too ..rene aubernejois of benson fame is the priest
we all know it took place in korea . few helicopters were used back then most wounded were transported in jeeps and trucks. the tone of Mash was about vietnam the book is a difrent thing since little of the book is used on the tv series.
the show was to much on the liberal side " the army of the 1950s korea had the same mentality as the 1940 -1945 . had you dress as woman in those days you would not lived long enough. the others would had been in prison for being communist. they took the sentiments of the 1960s and stuck it in a korean war period.
I agree with the differenciation between M*A*S*H the original film & M*A*S*H the t.v.series.I thought that the T.V.series was a bit 'soap-opera-ey'.Alan Alda became a huge star.It used to be shown in Britain at 9pm weekdays on BBC2 throughout the 1970s & 1980s.It seemed a relaxing & convivial show.I also have a few of the MASH paperbacks.The last episode had a huge audience. Unlike many U.S. tv shows that were bigger in the U.K. than U.S. e.g.: 'Happy Days', 'Starsky & Hutch' , MASH's cult-following was more U.S. home-grown.
Oh right I see what you mean. It was a show that superficially replaced Vietnam with Korea. In Britain,we would not have picked up on the U.S. experiences in Vietnam;but not forgetting that Britain was heavily involved in the Korean conflict.
