Script Spotlight 51: “The Incubator”
After wrapping up my 2025 rewatch of M*A*S*H last month, I had to go back to an alternate method of finding scripts to review each month. For the last eleven months, I have reviewed a script in the season I watched as part of the rewatch. December is a holiday…
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M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 11
Throughout 2025, I will rewatch M*A*S*H and review each season on the final day of each month. I am rewatching the episodes in broadcast order using the DVDs from the 2000s with the laugh track left on. You can find an archive of these rewatch posts here. When I started “Hey,…
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From the M*A*S*H Library 50: “Glued to the Set”
What is it? Stark, Steven D. Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events that Made Us Who we are Today. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Why should M*A*S*H fans care? M*A*S*H is part of what is now considered to be the “golden age of television.” In his book,…
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MishM*A*S*H 50: M*A*S*H Bed Sheets
In addition to my M*A*S*H rewatch in 2025, I seem to be fixated on M*A*S*H licensed products from the late 1970s and early 1980s. When I first began the collection, I never planned to buy products that were sold to the public. I wanted to focus on production materials such…
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Script Spotlight 50: “Strange Bedfellows”
It is already November, which means that I am in the final season of my M*A*S*H rewatch. It has been quite the journey rewatching M*A*S*H this year, and I am looking forward to finishing the series and sharing my thoughts later this month. Meanwhile, I knew I had to find…
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Press Pass 45: “First Jacket”
By the early 1980s, M*A*S*H was a mainstay in American popular culture. The series had remained in the top ten in ratings since the second season, and it would end with the best ratings ever for a scripted television series. M*A*S*H had some famous fans including King Charles III of…
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The M*A*S*H Historian 4th Anniversary
As the site reaches its 4th anniversary, I look back on the last 48 months in disbelief. I can’t believe it has been four years. I can’t believe how much the collection has grown in the last four years, and I really cannot believe how the site has been received…
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M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 10
Throughout 2025, I will rewatch M*A*S*H and review each season on the final day of each month. I am rewatching the episodes in broadcast order using the DVDs from the 2000s with the laugh track left on. You can find an archive of these rewatch posts here. I can’t believe I…
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MishM*A*S*H 49: Durham’s Action Figures
As I have made my journey through the M*A*S*H licensed products universe, I have written about a variety of products ranging from M*A*S*H themed alcohol, action figures, Halloween costumes, games, a train set, toys, and clothing (I previously wrote about a licensed products kit distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Television). Last month, I wrote about a beach towel…
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From the M*A*S*H Library 49: M*A*S*H Theater Play
What is it? Kelly, Tim. M*A*S*H: A Full-Length Comedy. Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1973. Kelly, Tim. M*A*S*H: A One-Act Cutting. Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1973. Why should M*A*S*H fans care? The original M*A*S*H novel not only led to a successful film and television series, it spawned an adapted play that has…
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M*A*S*H Headlines 5: Tears Flow as M*A*S*H Completes Filming
“M*A*S*H Headlines” is a new, limited series of posts that focuses on the press reaction to various events in the M*A*S*H timeline. The Press Pass posts focus on the press materials released by 20th Century Fox and CBS, but this series of posts focuses on the press coverage of M*A*S*H events including…
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Script Spotlight 49: “Blood and Guts”
As we enter fall, I am beginning to run out seasonal based episodes to review each month! In 2025, though, I have been rewatching one season of M*A*S*H per month. For season ten, I looked through the list of episodes and picked one at random. The winner was “Blood and…
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M*A*S*Hish 16: 1979 Commencement Address by Alan Alda
As the popularity of M*A*S*H grew in the 1970s, so did the popularity of Alan Alda. As Hawkeye Pierce, Alda was the lead actor of M*A*S*H, and it is primarily from the perspective of Hawkeye that we see life at the 4077th. This makes sense as this was how the…
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M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 9
Throughout 2025, I will rewatch M*A*S*H and review each season on the final day of each month. I am rewatching the episodes in broadcast order using the DVDs from the 2000s with the laugh track left on. You can find an archive of these rewatch posts here. In 2007, I bought…
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From the M*A*S*H Library 48: “M*A*S*H: The Comedy that Changed Television”
What is it? Sheinfeld, John. M*A*S*H: The Comedy that Changed Television. Crew Neck Productions, 2024. Why should M*A*S*H fans care? This is the first full length M*A*S*H documentary to be released since M*A*S*H: When Television Changed Forever in 2022, and this documentary features never before seen interviews with the cast. Since those…
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