In both the film and the TV series, Hammond is played by G. Wood, making him one of two actors to reprise his film role in the TV show. The character returned to television in 1979 in the medical drama series Trapper John, M.D. Henry attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was the football team's athletic trainer. Hunnicutt had remained in Korea where he was reassigned to another unit following the July 1953 deactivation of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital at the end of M*A*S*H's finale and Dr. Craig also mentions serving in Korea with B.J. [18] In another episode, "A Smattering of Intelligence", Burns is gullible enough to believe that the US Army Corps of Engineers is going to make MASH hospitals amphibious. His wife eventually learns of the affair and threatens him with divorce; he denies it, describing Houlihan as an "old warhorse" and an "army mule with bosoms", beginning a rift that leads to her engagement to Donald Penobscott, a handsome lieutenant colonel stationed in Tokyo. Captain B.J. left for Korea. 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 military service by dressing himself as a U.S. Navy WAVE. Gelbart, Larry & Marks, Lawrence. In the final episodes of the series, Klinger gets engaged to Soon Lee Han (Rosalind Chao), a Korean refugee; when proposing to her, he suggests she wear the wedding dress he had himself worn in one of his attempted Section Eight escapades and explains to her what white means in his culture. Potter receives more respect than Blake did from Major Houlihan, but Major Burns harbors a grudge against him after being passed over for command. I don't care if you are passing, watch your mouth." When Ginger is doing her rounds in post-op, she looks at his chart and says, "They've got you down as white. Calling her "Hot Lips", Trapper suggests that they should get together since he has become Chief Surgeon and she is the Chief Nurse. Sadly, in the nearly four decades since the show went off the air, many of the main cast members have passed away, including William Christopher (Father Mulcahy), Episode 1/17, "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet." [36] After Burns ran amok in Seoul on leave and was promoted and transferred back to the United States, Colonel Potter asked for, and got, Winchester's permanent transfer to the Double Natural. However, most fans of the show claim this is actually Flagg's first appearance, with Halloran simply being one of Flagg's many aliases. First aired November 30, 1976. In the early part of the series he was a stock character of comic relief who usually talked about the Korean orphans taken care of by Catholic Nuns. Production never proceeded past the pilot, which aired once on CBS. He visited the camp to do a psychiatric evaluation of Klinger, who was aiming for a Section 8 discharge). Afterward, Mulcahy reluctantly helps the doctors to stage the famous "Last Supper" faux suicide, to convince Painless that he should continue with life. As an indication of their respect for him, in the final episode Hawkeye and B.J. formally salute Potter as he leaves the camp, one of the few times either is shown doing so. (Gary Burghoff is the other.). When Hawkeye walks into the mess tent naked, for example, Goldman is the first one to notice, dropping his metal tray in shock. Despite Trapper's efforts, however, she becomes romantically linked with Hawkeye in a few episodes. [citation needed]. Although he is ordained as a Catholic priest, Mulcahy demonstrates both an inclination towards Christian ecumenism and a studious interest in, and familiarity with, non-Christian faiths. Henry is a good man and a capable surgeon but an ineffectual commanding officer. He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, Benjy (Sr.), in the novel and in the series from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read". This was after he told the gun "You're fired. The character appeared in all but three of the subsequent episodes. Although the character was originally intended to develop a romance with Houlihan,[citation needed] the chemistry between the two was not there, so Charles and Margaret maintain a platonic, professional friendship. Played by Odessa Cleveland on the TV series, Ginger is one of few nurses to have a recurring, speaking role in the series as the same character. In talking to psychiatrist Sidney Freedman he first says that the woman had suffocated a chicken, until Freedman led him to admit the repressed memory - the horror of a mother smothering her own baby. He served briefly in World War II; in 1950 he was drafted into the US Army Medical Corps and sent to serve at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. On occasion, he assumes temporary command of the 4077th in the absence or disability of Colonels Blake or Potter. In the episodes "For the Good of the Outfit" and "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde", Dennis is General Clayton's jeep driver. He is depicted doing this in Hooker's two sequels, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine and M*A*S*H Mania. They remembered him with tremendous Blake had affairs with a call girl, an underage girl, three nurses at the 4077th MASH, and a recent college graduate member of the press corps (the last so serious that Henry came close to deserting his family for her). She refuses to leave Korea until she finds her family, leading to the irony that although the end of the war means Klinger is free to return to the US, he chooses to stay with her in Korea and aid in her search. The character's middle name was Harmon in the film and Wendell in the novels. Key episodes in this development include the season 5 episode "The Nurses", in which she plays the role of a stern disciplinarian, but breaks down in front of her nurses revealing how hurt she is by their disdain for her; and "Comrades In Arms" (season 6), in which Hawkeye and Margaret make peace as they endure an artillery barrage together while lost in the wilderness, though they had also shown more mutual respect for one another before, when they have to go help a front-line aid station in "Aid Station" (season 3). Radar is also one of the very few people Hawkeye Pierce has ever saluted (an event that occurred after Radar was wounded during a trip to Seoul and was given a Purple Heart and when he leaves to go home), showing just how much Pierce respects him. In the film, Ho-Jon is drafted, and Hawkeye drives him to the induction center. In the novel, the confrontation is less violent, and Burns is simply transferred to a VA hospital stateside. 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 as a way to write him out of the series. Potter refers to Burns as a head twerp; Hawkeye tells how they became enemies when he remarked Burns lost more patients than food poisoning; Trapper John sneers Burns couldn't cut salami without bungling it; B J remarks that Burns became a surgeon after washing out of embalming school. He was educated at Stanford University and was a member of the Tau Phi Epsilon fraternity. Radar frequently looks to the doctors for advice, and increasingly regards Henry Blake and then Sherman Potter as father figures, having lost his elderly father at a young age. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake is introduced in the 1968 novel M*A*S*H and is also a character in the film (played by Roger Bowen) and television series (played by McLean Stevenson). [2] His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.[3]. In the series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", Hawkeye experiences a mental breakdown when a Korean woman responds to his frantic demand that she quiet her infant child lest enemy soldiers hear it and discover them, by suffocating it. McLean Stevenson: 68, born November 14, 1927 died February 15, 1996. His name is a play on the name of the Russian classical music composer, Igor Stravinsky. He was not promoted, but made it clear that he was American "with an American wife and American son, Billy Bubba". Played by Linda Meiklejohn. Between long sessions of treating wounded patients, he is found making wisecracks, drinking heavily, carousing, womanizing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan. This is demonstrated in his agreeing to perform Protestant church services for Colonel Potter ("Welcome to Korea: Part 2"), offering a prayer in Hebrew for a wounded Jewish soldier ("Cowboy"), and explaining the rituals of a Buddhist wedding to other attendees from the camp ("Ping Pong"). He is later promoted to Sergeant ("Promotion Commotion") and begins to take his duties even more seriously; the writers had decided to "tap into his street skills" to flesh out his character. This version of the character is in continuity with the film rather than the TV series, but no other characters from either production appear in this series, making Trapper John the only M*A*S*H character to be depicted on-screen in the present day at the time of airing. Potter is from Hannibal, Missouri, one-quarter Cherokee[12] and possesses a passion and fondness for horses. 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. He ends up quitting the show before, due to feeling that creates burnout in regards to performing his character. [5] When he is ordered by Colonel Potter to carry his issue pistol on a trip to an aid station and they are ambushed on the road, he fires it into the air rather than at their attackers. In the episode "Rainbow Bridge", he has to decide whether to send his doctors into enemy territory for an exchange of wounded prisoners, but he hems and haws before telling his doctors, "Whatever you guys decide is fine with me." The character is seen and heard only once, in the first-season episode "Tuttle". In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college; in the series, he is non-athletic. Seen only during season one. 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. Charles Winchester was born in his grandmother's house in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Beacon Hill, and is part of a wealthy family of Republican Boston Brahmins. His medical incompetence causes Colonel Blake to instead assign Trapper John as Chief Surgeon. I never want her at my table again!" Hunnicutt was created to replace him, with the two part Season Four opener created to explain his absence (the third episode introducing Col. Potter was intended to be the premiere episode). Spearchucker was shown during several episodes during the first season of the series. While Trapper expresses great love for his wife and daughters, he also fraternizes with the nurses a great deal with no pretense of fidelity. Radar appeared in every episode of the show's first three seasons. [43] He is an amateur boxer and boxing fan; an old priest and mentor in Jesuit school taught his students that boxing built character and Mulcahy coached boys in the sport at his local CYO chapter before being assigned to the 4077th. But despite his stern military bearing, Potter is a relatively relaxed and laid-back commander, not above involving himself in camp hijinks and understanding the need for fun and games to boost morale during wartime, particularly in the high-pressure atmosphere of a MASH. Though Winchester did embody some antagonistic qualities similar to that of Burns, he proved over the course throughout his time on the series to be a very different character than his predecessor, being far more intelligent, humane, kind, and skilled in surgery. Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale was portrayed by Johnny Haymer. Ginger's last appearance was in the season 4 episode, "The Late Captain Pierce". On television, Alan Alda played the Captain. All told, Cleveland appeared in 25 episodes of M*A*S*H spanning seasons 14. For instance, in the sixth-season episode "Patent 4077", when Margaret is in a bad mood after losing her wedding ring, a nurse describes her as "Hot Lips Houlihan: Blonde land mine". Burns' replacement Major Winchester has a grudging respect for Potter, even though their personalities are often at odds with one another. 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. Besides Houlihan, Burns has had affairs with his housekeeper, his receptionist, and two nurses at the 4077th. Burns further asserts that the other surgeons could not keep up with him and complained that he was pushing them too hard. Her family lives in Honolulu according to her statements in the final episode. She is frequently seen fraternizing with Trapper and Spearchucker, even playing a game of "strip dominoes" with the latter in the first-season episode, "Chief Surgeon Who?". The entire cast reunited in 1991 for Memories of M*A*S*H on CBS. In 2002, the surviving cast members came together for the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Reunion Special on FOX. The Duke Forrest character did not make it to the TV series. She confesses to Klinger that she envies him for having a hometown as an army brat she has moved around so much she could never make any friends. CBS. In the book, Duke Forrest is described as under six feet tall, with red hair, blue eyes, and 29 years old. At the end of the episode, he listens to a recorded letter from his sister Honoria, who turns out to likewise be a stutterer. In the episode "O.R. 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 of the 4077th. 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Potter is well-liked by his subordinates, especially Radar, who comes to see him as a mentor and father figure after Blake's transfer stateside and subsequent death. TVPG. Episode 2/24, "A Smattering of Intelligence." In "Bombshells", he is an ambulance driver for the 8063rd MASH and does not seem to recognize BJ Hunnicutt. In both the film and the series, Hammond has a cordial relationship with Col. Blake. She divorces him, regaining her self-confidence. Klinger is an Arab-American of Lebanese descent from Toledo, Ohio (like Farr himself). She is the Regular Army head nurse of the 4077th and begins allied with Major Frank Burns against the more civilian doctors of the unit. and Hawkeye. The marriage does not last long; she later finds out a visiting nurse had had an affair with him. His full name was never mentioned in the series. Sometimes, for special calls, Sparky requires a bribe to arrange the connection. In the film and the subsequent TV series, Frank Burns' rank is that of major. [17] In "The Novocaine Mutiny", Burns is left in temporary command when the 4077th is inundated with a deluge of casualties. When Radar places a hidden microphone inside Hot Lips's tent as she and Frank Burns have sex, members of the camp listen in, and Mulcahy at first mistakes their conversation (and noises) for an episode of The Bickersons, leaving abruptly when he realizes otherwise. He alternately claims to be affiliated with the CIA, the CIC, or the CID. In one episode, "Officer of the Day", he appears with another soldier and his last name is said to be Carter or Willis (it is unclear who is being referred to). On one occasion, when asked how he knows what bet to place, he looks to the sky with a smile. For the Australian public servant, see. Ho-Jon was portrayed by Kim Atwood in the film, and Patrick Adiarte in the series. Margaret receives her official divorce decree from Donald in the episode "Hot Lips is Back in Town". Margaret promptly accepts, leading to a falling out with her former flame Frank Burns. Distraught and exhausted, Burns, speaking on the telephone to his mother, tells her that Major Houlihan had just pretended to like him, "like Dad used to.". Company clerk Radar 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. He is from Philadelphia and is frequently seen wearing a Loyola sweatshirt. A nurse at the 4077th, who at times casually dates both Hawkeye and Trapper. Roy Goldman is a medic who is assigned various duties at the 4077th. Ginger is a commissioned Lieutenant but is not a stickler for rules or military discipline like Major Houlihan. Benjamin (Hawkeye) Pierce: Responsible For The Death Of A Baby. 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 dollar apiece. Finally, in the season seven episode "Peace on Us", Margaret announces she's getting a divorce due to Donald transferring himself to San Francisco without telling her. Clayton, like Hammond, is in charge of several medical outfits including the 4077th. 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. Winchester is often adversarial with Hawkeye and B.J., but joins forces with them if it is justified. He runs the camp public address system and radio station, which are often used in minor gags; in one episode he transmits messages to a Navy carrier by Morse code. Morgan died peacefully in hospice care at the age of 96, and his "M*A*S*H" colleagues stayed close with him until the end. It was these abilities that earned him the nickname "Radar". An experimental procedure was said to have restored most of his hearing. Captain "Ugly" John Black was portrayed by Carl Gottlieb in the movie, and John Orchard in the TV series. Potter initially takes a hard line against Klinger's attempts to get discharged but is convinced to let him continue cross-dressing and eventually assigns him to be his new company clerk. Skerritt was 37 years old at the time. Burns and Hawkeye recount different versions of the events. Regarding his family life, he is divorced from his wife; the only mention of his children is that he has a grown son. In the movie, he is played by Bud Cort, and Boone's humiliation at the hands of Maj. Burns leads to Trapper striking Burns later that day. [19], A borderline-incompetent surgeon (he twice failed the medical exams and only passed by buying the answers the third time - even so it took him seven years to complete medical school), his reputation for incompetence has spread even to the South Korean Army. His nickname comes from an incident in which he was caught having sex with a woman in the lavatory aboard a Boston & Maine Railway train: she claimed in her defense that "he trapped me!". It is Mulcahy who alerts the doctors that the camp dentist "Painless" is severely depressed. This frustrated Rogers, and in combination with a dispute over the terms of the original five-year contract, he quit the show shortly before production of the fourth season began; the character of Trapper was abruptly discharged from the Army and sent back to the United States. Flagg appears in six M*A*S*H episodes: "A Smattering of Intelligence", "Officer of the Day", "White Gold", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? In "Run for the Money", he stands up for a wounded soldier whose comrades and commanding officer mock his stuttering, encouraging the young man to live up to his intellectual potential. 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). One time he accidentally had an unplanned one-night stand while comforting a nurse, and was also similarly tempted into having an affair with a visiting female journalist. 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 brief O.R. The show was set at the fictional General Pershing VA Hospital in Missouri, where he served as chaplain. In the film, Hammond is dismissive of Major Houlihan and her negative report about Blake, while in the TV series Houlihan is a sometime lover whom he remembers fondly. Major Margaret J "Hot Lips" Houlihan appears in the novel, the film (played by Sally Kellerman), and the TV series (Loretta Swit). "[citation needed], Hammond is a brigadier general who is in charge of several medical outfits, including the 4077th. When Colonel Potter takes command, Klinger immediately tries the same with him, but Potter sees through the scam immediately. He also has his eccentricities, including a love of horses from his cavalry days and an ability to use his Regular Army connections to the unit's advantage. Hailing from the fictional small town of Forrest City, Georgia, Duke ends up sharing a tent with Hawkeye, Frank Burns, and Trapper John. He was portrayed by Harry Morgan and replaced the departing character of Henry Blake as commander of the 4077th MASH. For other uses, see, "Walter O'Reilly" redirects here. Like Roy, he is a medic, and he is frequently seen together with Roy. Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Samuel Flagg is played by Edward Winter. [37] However, Winchester still has to adjust to the realities of field medicine. In the film, when it is proposed that "Spearchucker" Jones will bunk with the other surgeons in the Swamp, Duke is disrespectful (implied to be because of his Southern heritage), until he is rebuked by Hawkeye and Trapper. He is responsible for repairing the jukebox in the officers' club after the Marines bust it up. 16th Jan 2023, 9:55am. He also appeared in two episodes of AfterMASH, and starred in 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 regular character played by a single actor. 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. He later comments that he is 62, making the 1890 birthdate more credible. Although just one of an ensemble of characters in author Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, in the television series Hawkeye became the center of the MASH unit's medical activity. The couple has a daughter, Erin, who was born shortly before B.J. He also has claimed to be in two different theaters of War during World War II: In the summer of 1944 on Guam; in December 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge. He is mentioned frequently throughout the sixth and seventh seasons, particularly about problems Margaret and Donald are having. The completed 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." Penobscott is not seen until the season-ending episode "Margaret's Marriage", wherein Donald (played by Carroll) arrives to marry Margaret at the 4077th. Unlike Blake, he is not afraid to put his foot down when the camp's antics get out of hand, but this is motivated by not wanting to see his troops get into trouble outside of the camp. [21] In the season 3 episode "O.R. Both medals were stolen by Hawkeye and given to people who deserved them: an underage Marine (played by Ron Howard);[25] and a Korean mother and her infant son who had been shot just before she gave birth. 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. The character was inspired by two real-life Korean War MASH head nurses: "Hotlips" Hammerly,[28] an attractive blonde of similar disposition,[citation needed] and Janie Hall. Flagg resurfaces a few years after the war, in a Hannibal, Missouri courtroom (as seen in the AfterMASH episode "Trials"). Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Jr. in the novel) was played by Donald Sutherland in the film. Corporal (briefly Second Lieutenant) Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly appears in the novels, film, and TV series. Staff Sergeant Luther Wilson Rizzo was played by G. W. Bailey. Government should get out of his liquor cabinet".[4]. While most of the staff is not religious, they treat Mulcahy with some respect. one from Korea, for being shot in the buttocks by a sniper; After the war, he went to medical school, and began his service as an Army doctor in 1932,[6] serving in World War II. Other aliases include Major Brooks, Captain Louise Klein, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy, and Chaplain Goldberg.[48]. Comedy. series (played by Pernell Roberts). Webwritten by Joe Rutland July 9, 2021 5:45 pm. In the original novel, Ho-Jon is described as a 17-year-old Korean, tall, thin, bright, Christian, and living in Seoul. In season six, he receives a Dear John letter from Laverne saying she has found another man, whom she later breaks up with, then becoming engaged to Klinger's supposed best friend. Cutler was played by actress/singer Marcia Strassman. Trapper spends much of his time on the series engaging in mischief with Hawkeye Pierce, with the two playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan, drinking, and trying to seduce women. In an early episode, however, before his character becomes more of a buffoon, he demonstrated himself to be an efficient, though again micromanaging, commander. Hot Lips!" [14] That means he was an enlisted man for at least eight years before he becomes a doctor. Donald is introduced in name only at the start of the fifth season. One of Ginger's most prominent roles comes in the season 2 episode, "Dear DadThree" where a wounded soldier requests that he be given blood only from white donors. For the film, the voice is sometimes listed as that of Marvin Miller and sometimes as that of David Arkin, who played Staff Sergeant Vollmer. Henry would never meet his son. It is sadly inappropriate to give dessert to a child who has had no meal." Age during show: 39-50. In the screenplay, Ho-Jon is wounded and sent to the 4077th; however, his surgery is unsuccessful, and he dies. When Hawkeye and B.J. invite Potter to their tent for a post-surgery drink, he is very affable and complimentary of their brewing skills, even giving them tips on how to improve their gin still and get a higher yield of alcohol. [45] In other episodes, Klinger pleads with Allah to help him out of a jam. In "Henry Please Come Home" Hammond is personally responsible for Henry's short-lived transfer to Tokyo. In all iterations, the Spearchucker character is a superior surgeon who was also a stand-out collegiate athlete. What was the name of the other show the mash crew played in? The same thing happened to the character in the television series. (Based on what was told and shown in the course of the series, these would include the World War II Victory Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Campaign Medal, the U.N. Service Medal, the Meritorious Unit Commendation, the Commendation Medal, the Purple Heart, and possibly a Legion of Merit; plus the Combat Medical Badge for his periodic service at battalion aid stations.) In the wake of her split with Burns, she becomes more comfortable with at least some of the unit's more unorthodox ways and as time progresses, becomes a willing participant in some of the hijinks. He carries with him a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise and has a racket of selling tickets for spying through a peephole into the nurses' shower. (Sparky seems to be at his desk around the clock). In the movie, General Hammond's first name is Charles, and he is very enthusiastic about football, challenging the 4077th to a game against his 325th Evac unit. 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