I am so glad Gary Berghoff has theTeddy Bear ! Life was tough for him after the show and after all these years I do so hope he is doing well ! That Bear meant so much to his character, Radar. I bet it means just as.mich, if not more, to Gary.! We ❣️ love you Gary Berghoff !
Mash was, without a doubt, one of the finest shows to ever appear on TV. I’ve seen every episode several times, and still enjoy them. It seems to me the biggest key to its success was the evolution of the character Margaret Houlihan; from snivelling tart to someone of great emotional depth who became the beloved maternal anchor and respected moral compass of the camp. Of course that was only possible due to the outstanding work of Loretta Swit. So many great actors, characters, and stories, but she stands out for me.
MASH is my favorite show of all time! Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds were one of the greatest creative teams in tv history. My favorite character was Trapper. I'm glad Robert Klein didn't get the part. I loved Wayne so much more.
As an 8 year veteran of the us military the thing that always drew me out of the show was the lack of period appropriate hair cuts. This is supposed to be the military and late 40s/early 50s after all. It would be understandable if the doctors got a bit shaggy if they had had a particularly long period of ongoing surgery/ 20 hour days and the like (there was even a chapter in the book MASH about Trapper John's hair getting too long), but in the era the show was supposed to take place nobody would have their hair grown to below their ears, high and tight was even the civilian norm, and that would be especially true for the enlisted personnel. Same thing goes for Happy Days. Ron Howard was the only actor to keep his hair cut short for most of the run. They were period shows, clothes and hair should have been appropriate for that era.
I've always thought the hair thing was intentional, but I only have guesses about why. On the one hand, you can see why/how TV producers wouldn't be TOO gung-ho about period accuracy, as long as most of it was there. Also, actors of that era probably didn't want military haircuts. In-show, the doctors especially make a point of saying how much they are NOT "regular army", & I could see the haircuts being a way to show that (maybe that was even a thing among real-life Army doctors of the era?). But my personal theory is that it's a sly nod to how the show, while SET during the Korean War, is really about war in general, & especially about Vietnam, which was still underway when the show premiered. M*A*S*H cast, writers, & producers have given many interviews over the years, so I wouldn't be surprised if this specific question hasn't been asked & answered somewhere along the line.
@@robertepler189 Actors do many things to get and/or keep parts~ and are paid well once they have a steady gig. If the producers had said _maintain military-looking hair_ or go find another acting job where longer hair is appropriate, the actors would have found it worthwhile to maintain _military-looking hair._
I think having current hairstyles in period tv shows and movies filmed in at least the 70’s and 89’s. Besides M*A*S*H, I’ve noticed it in The Waltons (especially the daughters as they got older. I think production teams have a different t approach to it now.
Picky picky picky. The shows are about the interaction between characters - what they felt, etc. They are not about historical accuracy. Shows also have budgets: you cannot reasonably expect actors/actresses to spend months and years appearing as if they were living 20 or 100 years ago, and budgets don't allow for extensive wigs.
As was Sally Kellerman in the movie. Fun fact: my mom went to high school at the same time as both Sally Kellerman (Hot Lips in the movie) and Mike Farrell (BJ Honeycutt in the series). Hollywood High produced a good number of actors who became well known over the years.
Leslie Neilson was not made a star by the MASH series. He was a successful actor long before MASH, working in a lot of western TV series. My favorite actor on the series was Edward Winter. His "career" never really took off and I'm guessing he faded into obscurity. He was COL Flag, the CIA officer.
Flagg is my daughter's favorite character. He was hilarious! We love it when he didn't want to be seen leaving and jumped out Col. Potter's window. Then Hawkeye said the wind just broke its leg. 😂
Leslie Neilson starred with Anne Francis and Walter Pigeon in 'Forbidden Planet' way back in 1956. Arguably the finest SciFi flick ever made until '2001 A Space Odyssey' was released in 1968. So yeah, the man had a damn solid reputation long before M.A.S.H.
Edward Winter appeared as Colonel Flagg in an episode of AfterMASH. I’m in the UK and had never heard of the spin off until 2023, and watched it on UA-cam. It features the regulars Maxwell Q Klinger, Colonel Sherman T Potter and Father Francis Mulcahey. Shame it only lasted a couple of seasons; season two being cut short.
When the series was aired in the UK the canned laughter was absent cos the BBC agreed it was incongruous... And it always grates on me when I see clips/episodes with it.
I remember my mom was mortified when it was revealed that Frank Burns character was from our home town Ft Wayne IN,we were watching the show when it happened and ma goes “ OMG of all the places in this country he could be from that jack ass is from here😡! “ 😂
I knew Alan (1956-58) and Jamie (1957-59) both served in Korea after the war (Klinger's dog tags were Jamie's actual ones). You mentioned both of them serving, but didn't mention that Mike Farrell also served: Marine 1957-59.
Yes , MASH had been a worldwide success and is still on TV at least here in Germany. I gurss the mix of a satirical viewpoint of WAR itself and the people fighting and living in it made the show so great.´like NO TIME FOR SARGEANTS and NALL QUIET AT THE WESTERN FRONT. But MASH was by far not the first time featuring the MASH teams in Korea for this. Just think at BATTLE CIRCUS (1963) The film had featured Humphrey Bogart as a lonely physician in a MASH camp with June Allyson as his love interest.I guess even some of the footings of the movie went into the shots for the MASH series like transporting wounded on the JEEP HOODS and the Helicopter scenes That move is still to get on DVD, I bought mine at Amazon 4:20 Not to forget that Alan Alda had been one of the Co-Producers of the show itself, meaning he had put his own money into the project to make it run. No wonder he knew about the end of the HENRY BLAKE - role. Alda had even given his own father a role as a wisecrack Doctor who knew it all. :) 6:32 For a long time many in history interested fans had speculated that ERIN was a reference to Panacea ( = Universal Remedy ) the daughter of the famous physician Hippocrates who0 also had missed his daughters first years because he had been drafted into the Athenian Forces in the Peloponnesian War ( 431-404 B.C.)
My fave scenario was the one where the Swedish Army surgeon offered to give Klinger real sex-change operation: he ran away and stopped cross-dressing thereafter.
I am not through the whole video, but I can tell you that it has been said that it was supposed to be about the Viet Nam war, but it was set in Korea since the Vietnam war was still going on and was a source of great national distress. But true or not, MASH was/is iconic.
By the later seasons MASH had drifted a long way from the book, the book was the story of a group of young surgeons with equal billing. It goes to show how dominate Alda had become by the time Rogers had left, disgruntled with having to play 2nd fiddle to Alda, that the producers invented a new character with an actor who was happy to play 2nd fiddle, when there was a perfectly good but different to BJ character in the book, in Duke Forrest.
your video is good but you goofed one the first thing. MASH is based off of a real unit that was in the previous war- the cast themselves say this during some backstory extras on the dvd's so recheck your sources.
I stopped watching M*A*S*H two years in when Alan Alda made it all about Hawkeye! His constant complaining about how bad war is and he’s just a doctor and it turned out to be more about his whining and complaining, The producer should I change the name of the show from M*A*S*H to the Alan Alda show!
@@garypaquin9571 Yeah I heard that too. I saw a clip of him saying something to the effect of if you ever meet someone like Frank in real life get away as fast as you can. 😂
Loretta was just drop dead gorgeous. The TV series shows were 1000 times better than the movie. It is still watched a lot for it is on multiple stations & on a lot. Also, it is better watching than most stuff produced recently which is jumping and flashing consistently in angles & scenes every second giving you a horrible splitting migraine.
What I've heard is that nobody knew. In the usual UA-cam way of one video leading to another, the clip that brought me here was an interview with M*A*S*H producer Burt Metcalfe, where he says they didn't tell anybody until Gary Burghoff had to bring the message into the OR. He said it was because they didn't want the actors to even subconsciously play the episode knowing Blake would die, & maybe tip off the audience. Also, they wanted to get a more real, emotional, in-the-moment reaction. My two favorites are Loretta Swit crying & the surgeons only registering surprise & sorrow briefly, before they have to get back to work. Brilliantly done all-around, no matter HOW they pulled it off.
@@JoelYoungMarketingOnline I just saw the Larry Gelbart interview. You are wrong. Alan Alda knew, before the others. They were given the last page of the script, after the show was done shooting. It would have been wrapped, but Gelbart had the 6 actors sit on a bench, and informed them there was one more page. They got that page minutes before shooting. It took 2 takes, because although the actors did perfect, there was a lighting issue.
@@garyszewc3339 You said, "Gelbart had the 6 actors sit on a bench, and informed them there was one more page. They got that page minutes before shooting." I said, "All of the core cast was sat down and told about it beforehand." So I was right.
I watch reruns and I can not stand the fake laughs. I never liked it’s use in any form. It almost makes it in watchable. When ever they play the Henry Blake episodes I turn it way down and watch YT.
Eh, Duvall was great in (& for) the movie, & that version of the character is more like the book. But a lighter touch was needed for the show, I think, & IMO Larry Linville played THAT version of Maj. Burns expertly.
@@robertepler189 I agree. Larry played the part that made it so fun for Hawkeye and Trapper to give him a bad time. I thought Duvall's version was a bit dull (the character, not Robert himself that is).
Larry Linville would probably agree. His character was just a buffoon and comedy prop for Alan Alda. Duvall’s Major Burns would have eaten the television cast alive.
@@garypaquin9571 I was referring to his performance as Burns. He’s done good work elsewhere. The writing of the character was atrocious. Klinger was just as bad. Radar was the only exception. Everyone else was so over the top, with nothing to be over the top about
Why the H*E*L*L did you keep showing scenes from Hogan's Heroes, but not even mention or make comparisons between the 2 shows? And is the narration electronically created? If so, maybe y'all shouldn't have spelled the name of the show with the asterisks - it really sounds stupid! And for G_d's sake, if you're gonna make a video documentary, learn how the cast's names are pronounced! I guess this is what happens when the creators of these videos weren't even alive when the show originally aired 🙄
A great show, but I relay think more of the original cast should have stayed on. The series tried to do too much. Potter's Yogi bara' isms were lame. Somehow and Hot Lipps morphed into a new persona, she went from camp bitch to voice of reason that was no longer funny. Radar sounded more and more retarded as the show went on. BJ's character was not funny. I did appreciate Winchester as much as Frank. They made it to dramatic snuffing out it's core comedy. Even Klinger stopped being Klinger. The saving grace were the key guest stars like Flag, and Sidney the shrink.
I am so glad Gary Berghoff has theTeddy Bear ! Life was tough for him after the show and after all these years I do so hope he is doing well ! That Bear meant so much to his character, Radar. I bet it means just as.mich, if not more, to Gary.! We ❣️ love you Gary Berghoff !
Mash was, without a doubt, one of the finest shows to ever appear on TV. I’ve seen every episode several times, and still enjoy them. It seems to me the biggest key to its success was the evolution of the character Margaret Houlihan; from snivelling tart to someone of great emotional depth who became the beloved maternal anchor and respected moral compass of the camp. Of course that was only possible due to the outstanding work of Loretta Swit. So many great actors, characters, and stories, but she stands out for me.
One of the biggest things that was hidden from viewers was Gary Burghoff's disfigured left hand.
You can catch sight of it now and then throughout the show…
MASH is my favorite show of all time! Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds were one of the greatest creative teams in tv history. My favorite character was Trapper. I'm glad Robert Klein didn't get the part. I loved Wayne so much more.
Me too
I loved Loretta Swit, she was gorgeous
As an 8 year veteran of the us military the thing that always drew me out of the show was the lack of period appropriate hair cuts.
This is supposed to be the military and late 40s/early 50s after all.
It would be understandable if the doctors got a bit shaggy if they had had a particularly long period of ongoing surgery/ 20 hour days and the like (there was even a chapter in the book MASH about Trapper John's hair getting too long), but in the era the show was supposed to take place nobody would have their hair grown to below their ears, high and tight was even the civilian norm, and that would be especially true for the enlisted personnel.
Same thing goes for Happy Days. Ron Howard was the only actor to keep his hair cut short for most of the run.
They were period shows, clothes and hair should have been appropriate for that era.
I've always thought the hair thing was intentional, but I only have guesses about why. On the one hand, you can see why/how TV producers wouldn't be TOO gung-ho about period accuracy, as long as most of it was there. Also, actors of that era probably didn't want military haircuts. In-show, the doctors especially make a point of saying how much they are NOT "regular army", & I could see the haircuts being a way to show that (maybe that was even a thing among real-life Army doctors of the era?). But my personal theory is that it's a sly nod to how the show, while SET during the Korean War, is really about war in general, & especially about Vietnam, which was still underway when the show premiered. M*A*S*H cast, writers, & producers have given many interviews over the years, so I wouldn't be surprised if this specific question hasn't been asked & answered somewhere along the line.
@@robertepler189 Actors do many things to get and/or keep parts~ and are paid well once they have a steady gig. If the producers had said _maintain military-looking hair_ or go find another acting job where longer hair is appropriate, the actors would have found it worthwhile to maintain _military-looking hair._
I think having current hairstyles in period tv shows and movies filmed in at least the 70’s and 89’s. Besides M*A*S*H, I’ve noticed it in The Waltons (especially the daughters as they got older. I think production teams have a different t approach to it now.
Picky picky picky. The shows are about the interaction between characters - what they felt, etc. They are not about historical accuracy. Shows also have budgets: you cannot reasonably expect actors/actresses to spend months and years appearing as if they were living 20 or 100 years ago, and budgets don't allow for extensive wigs.
@@ericg4042 horseshit, it's a haircut.
Many sites report Jamie Farr wore his real military dog tags.
Even when Alda wasn't on screen, you could hear his big mouth in the background.
Loretta Swit always reminded me of Elizabeth Montgomery. They're both beautiful in my opinion.
No mention of Harry Morgan playing a different character before he was cast as Potter…
He was in the episode "The General Flipped at Dawn" as General Steele.
@@albundy6008 Funny episode! 👍🏻
he played a detective on dragnet
He was also in a number of westerns. Probably the one he's remembered for the most was the mayor in Support Your Local Sheriff.
@@wayracz6691 He played detective Bill Gannon, Jack Webb's partner, also reprising that role in the movie "Dragnet" with Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd.
Loretta Swit was 🔥🔥.
As was Sally Kellerman in the movie. Fun fact: my mom went to high school at the same time as both Sally Kellerman (Hot Lips in the movie) and Mike Farrell (BJ Honeycutt in the series). Hollywood High produced a good number of actors who became well known over the years.
Leslie Neilson was not made a star by the MASH series. He was a successful actor long before MASH, working in a lot of western TV series. My favorite actor on the series was Edward Winter. His "career" never really took off and I'm guessing he faded into obscurity. He was COL Flag, the CIA officer.
Flagg is my daughter's favorite character. He was hilarious! We love it when he didn't want to be seen leaving and jumped out Col. Potter's window. Then Hawkeye said the wind just broke its leg. 😂
Leslie Neilson starred with Anne Francis and Walter Pigeon in 'Forbidden Planet' way back in 1956. Arguably the finest SciFi flick ever made until '2001 A Space Odyssey' was released in 1968. So yeah, the man had a damn solid reputation long before M.A.S.H.
Let's face it, Flagg was a stupid character that served no purpose, it was hardly going to be a stepping stone to greatness for Ed Wjnter.
Edward Winter appeared as Colonel Flagg in an episode of AfterMASH.
I’m in the UK and had never heard of the spin off until 2023, and watched it on UA-cam.
It features the regulars Maxwell Q Klinger, Colonel Sherman T Potter and Father Francis Mulcahey.
Shame it only lasted a couple of seasons; season two being cut short.
Col. Flagg also played Capt. Holloran in the episode "Deal Me In".
One of my favorite shows.
Thank You for sharing this, from My past, it brings back memories. Good and not so good. I am 77 years old now.
Actors are entitled to their private lives, imo! Regardless of personal flaws and weaknesses, it was and is a great show!
WOW! The things you find out years later about MASH!!!😀😀😀
When the series was aired in the UK the canned laughter was absent cos the BBC agreed it was incongruous... And it always grates on me when I see clips/episodes with it.
Thing was, it was almost unanimous among the cast to never use it in a operating room scene.
Sure would like to know who the running nurses are in the opening scene of every MASH episode. Never seen them credited.
They were just extras on the set. Always wondered on that too.
The one in front sure is familiar.@@samuelhowie4543
I remember my mom was mortified when it was revealed that Frank Burns character was from our home town Ft Wayne IN,we were watching the show when it happened and ma goes “ OMG of all the places in this country he could be from that jack ass is from here😡! “ 😂
The set was burned down in a wildfire, so it was written into the script pf "Bug Out".
The National Guard Museum in Topeka, Ks. has a reproduction of “the Swamp” on display.
Luckily in UK we got the whole series Without the canned laughter. So much better.
Mash ended for me after Mclean and Wayne left, it became the Alan Alda Show.
Interesting. I was opposite. I liked the seasons after McLean and Wayne left. I thought it became more realistic.
I knew Alan (1956-58) and Jamie (1957-59) both served in Korea after the war (Klinger's dog tags were Jamie's actual ones). You mentioned both of them serving, but didn't mention that Mike Farrell also served: Marine 1957-59.
I loved the movie mash and the show mash
I ŕead the book. Saw the movie more than twice. Saw most of the TV over the years. The show could make me laugh and, at times, cry.
MASH in the UK, thankfully, didn't have a laughter track.
Such a great show. No talk about Frank Burns?
instead of studying for an important exam for my degree l watched the 2 hour final
Yes , MASH had been a worldwide success and is still on TV at least here in Germany. I gurss the mix of a satirical viewpoint of WAR itself and the people fighting and living in it made the show so great.´like NO TIME FOR SARGEANTS and NALL QUIET AT THE WESTERN FRONT.
But MASH was by far not the first time featuring the MASH teams in Korea for this. Just think at BATTLE CIRCUS (1963) The film had featured Humphrey Bogart as a lonely physician in a MASH camp with June Allyson as his love interest.I guess even some of the footings of the movie went into the shots for the MASH series like transporting wounded on the JEEP HOODS and the Helicopter scenes That move is still to get on DVD, I bought mine at Amazon
4:20 Not to forget that Alan Alda had been one of the Co-Producers of the show itself, meaning he had put his own money into the project to make it run. No wonder he knew about the end of the HENRY BLAKE - role. Alda had even given his own father a role as a wisecrack Doctor who knew it all. :)
6:32 For a long time many in history interested fans had speculated that ERIN was a reference to Panacea ( = Universal Remedy ) the daughter of the famous physician Hippocrates who0 also had missed his daughters first years because he had been drafted into the Athenian Forces in the Peloponnesian War ( 431-404 B.C.)
Whatever became of “The Klinger Collection?”
Why did we all fancy Hot lips.. Loretta Switt?... Myself included lol
My fave scenario was the one where the Swedish Army surgeon offered to give Klinger real sex-change operation: he ran away and stopped cross-dressing thereafter.
Love Loretta Swit!❤
They never used the laugh track when it ran on the BBC.
I am not through the whole video, but I can tell you that it has been said that it was supposed to be about the Viet Nam war, but it was set in Korea since the Vietnam war was still going on and was a source of great national distress. But true or not, MASH was/is iconic.
IMASH did not run longer than the war. The Korean war has not yet ended, there is only an armistice.
When M*A*S*H was shown in the UK, it was done so without the laughter track.
My favorite show of all times
Great show
By the later seasons MASH had drifted a long way from the book, the book was the story of a group of young surgeons with equal billing. It goes to show how dominate Alda had become by the time Rogers had left, disgruntled with having to play 2nd fiddle to Alda, that the producers invented a new character with an actor who was happy to play 2nd fiddle, when there was a perfectly good but different to BJ character in the book, in Duke Forrest.
Shocking!
I love mash 0:12 0:12 0:12
You said the series was twice as long as the war. You are wrong the war is still going on the war never ended.
Wrong. War was never declared, either -something cannot end that never started. It was known as a police action.
Thank you for correcting me you're right it never was a war @@ericg4042
All ready new this nothing new that we didn’t know.
Alan Alda first TV appearance was on the Phil Silver's show,
your video is good but you goofed one the first thing. MASH is based off of a real unit that was in the previous war- the cast themselves say this during some backstory extras on the dvd's so recheck your sources.
I stopped watching M*A*S*H two years in when Alan Alda made it all about Hawkeye! His constant complaining about how bad war is and he’s just a doctor and it turned out to be more about his whining and complaining, The producer should I change the name of the show from M*A*S*H to the Alan Alda show!
The show was aware of green issues in that it reused the same old scripts.
All the topics in this video have been public knowledge for 30 years.
No mention of MAJ Frank Burns?
Yes! He was the character we all loved to hate. Larry Linville played him so well.
@@Mick_Ts_ChickToo well, actually. He left because of a fear of being typecast but it was too late. Off screen he was said to be a very nice person.
@@garypaquin9571 Yeah I heard that too. I saw a clip of him saying something to the effect of if you ever meet someone like Frank in real life get away as fast as you can. 😂
I actual have a copy of Walter,
I remember watching the first episode, & thought it was a load of crap. Never watched it again until the early 80's, how I was wrong.
Loretta was just drop dead gorgeous. The TV series shows were 1000 times better than the movie. It is still watched a lot for it is on multiple stations & on a lot. Also, it is better watching than most stuff produced recently which is jumping and flashing consistently in angles & scenes every second giving you a horrible splitting migraine.
ALAN Alda…. not AARON….. ALAN…… get the names right!!!!! 🙄🤦🏼♀️
Opie Taylor was already famous before MASH!
It's not true about Alan Alda being the only one to know about Henry Blake's demise. All of the core cast was sat down and told about it beforehand.
What I've heard is that nobody knew. In the usual UA-cam way of one video leading to another, the clip that brought me here was an interview with M*A*S*H producer Burt Metcalfe, where he says they didn't tell anybody until Gary Burghoff had to bring the message into the OR. He said it was because they didn't want the actors to even subconsciously play the episode knowing Blake would die, & maybe tip off the audience. Also, they wanted to get a more real, emotional, in-the-moment reaction. My two favorites are Loretta Swit crying & the surgeons only registering surprise & sorrow briefly, before they have to get back to work. Brilliantly done all-around, no matter HOW they pulled it off.
@@robertepler189 And I saw a YT video where one of the actors themselves told it the way I said. Interesting....
@@JoelYoungMarketingOnline I just saw the Larry Gelbart interview. You are wrong. Alan Alda knew, before the others. They were given the last page of the script, after the show was done shooting. It would have been wrapped, but Gelbart had the 6 actors sit on a bench, and informed them there was one more page. They got that page minutes before shooting. It took 2 takes, because although the actors did perfect, there was a lighting issue.
@@garyszewc3339 You said, "Gelbart had the 6 actors sit on a bench, and informed them there was one more page. They got that page minutes before shooting."
I said, "All of the core cast was sat down and told about it beforehand."
So I was right.
No laugh track in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
The series finale aired just as the AIDS crisis was polarizing America.
I watch reruns and I can not stand the fake laughs. I never liked it’s use in any form. It almost makes it in watchable. When ever they play the Henry Blake episodes I turn it way down and watch YT.
I wish they hid Larry Linville. Watch the movie and Robert Duvall’s performance.
Eh, Duvall was great in (& for) the movie, & that version of the character is more like the book. But a lighter touch was needed for the show, I think, & IMO Larry Linville played THAT version of Maj. Burns expertly.
@@robertepler189 I agree. Larry played the part that made it so fun for Hawkeye and Trapper to give him a bad time. I thought Duvall's version was a bit dull (the character, not Robert himself that is).
Larry Linville would probably agree. His character was just a buffoon and comedy prop for Alan Alda. Duvall’s Major Burns would have eaten the television cast alive.
@@garypaquin9571 I was referring to his performance as Burns. He’s done good work elsewhere. The writing of the character was atrocious. Klinger was just as bad. Radar was the only exception. Everyone else was so over the top, with nothing to be over the top about
Ok some info was kind of new but most of them were useless minutiae.
B. J. Hunnicutt ? wasn't in the book, so he don't count. IMO. ✌️
Klinger wsdn't in the book either, or the film: he was an "expy" of Yossarian in Catch-22.
Why the H*E*L*L did you keep showing scenes from Hogan's Heroes, but not even mention or make comparisons between the 2 shows? And is the narration electronically created? If so, maybe y'all shouldn't have spelled the name of the show with the asterisks - it really sounds stupid! And for G_d's sake, if you're gonna make a video documentary, learn how the cast's names are pronounced! I guess this is what happens when the creators of these videos weren't even alive when the show originally aired 🙄
Is the thumbs down reaction only here, for me to see, or can everyone see it. Either way, no sub from me.
Dopey childish narration.
A great show, but I relay think more of the original cast should have stayed on. The series tried to do too much. Potter's Yogi bara' isms were lame. Somehow and Hot Lipps morphed into a new persona, she went from camp bitch to voice of reason that was no longer funny. Radar sounded more and more retarded as the show went on. BJ's character was not funny. I did appreciate Winchester as much as Frank. They made it to dramatic snuffing out it's core comedy. Even Klinger stopped being Klinger. The saving grace were the key guest stars like Flag, and Sidney the shrink.
If it didn't have Rogers and Stevenson it didn't appear on my t v😮 utube sux ,f j b 😊😊😊😊