As part of my 2025 rewatch, season six is on my agenda in June. So fr this year, I have featured a script from the season I am rewatching that month. For season four, I wrote about the script for “Change of Command” (04×02) since it was in that episode that we met Colonel ShermanContinue reading “Script Spotlight 45: “Fade Out, Fade In””
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M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 5
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. About half way through watching season five, I receivedContinue reading “M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 5”
Thank you, Loretta Swit
Like all of us in the M*A*S*H community, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Loretta Swit today. She is best known for playing Major Margaret Houlihan for all eleven seasons of M*A*S*H, but her love for M*A*S*H and its fans never wavered. Whether she was being interviewed, appearing on M*A*S*HContinue reading “Thank you, Loretta Swit”
MishM*A*S*H 44: H-G Toys Puzzles
Last month I wrote about the M*A*S*H puzzles that were released by Milton-Bradley in the early 1980s. In the post, I lamented that the puzzles and products released in the 1980s didn’t include the early cast including Frank and Radar. Thankfully, the company H-G Toys released a series of puzzles in 1976 that featured someContinue reading “MishM*A*S*H 44: H-G Toys Puzzles”
From the M*A*S*H Library 44: “CBS: The First Fifty Years”
What is it? Chiu, Tony. CBS: The First 50 Years. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1998. Why should M*A*S*H fans care? For eleven years, M*A*S*H aired on CBS and it was a staple of their primetime lineup along side shows such as All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. InContinue reading “From the M*A*S*H Library 44: “CBS: The First Fifty Years””
Script Spotlight 44: “Souvenirs”
As we are well into May, and I have been rewatching M*A*S*H season five, I knew I had to choose an episode from the season to review. I am missing scripts for about half of season five, so that narrowed down my options. As I looked through the scripts in the collection, the cover ofContinue reading “Script Spotlight 44: “Souvenirs””
Press Pass 42: McLean Stevenson and Cher (1975)
For years, M*A*S*H fans swore that a show in the mid-1970s had a scene of McLean Stevenson as Lt. Col. Henry Blake in a raft saying that he had survived the plane crash. Then, in 2016, RJ at mash4077tv.com found the clip and solved the mystery! There was a scene in which Blake says thatContinue reading “Press Pass 42: McLean Stevenson and Cher (1975)”
M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 4
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 February, I proclaimed that M*A*S*H season two wasContinue reading “M*A*S*H Rewatch: Season 4”
MishM*A*S*H 43: Milton Bradley Puzzles
In the early 1980s, there was a deluge of M*A*S*H themed licensed products. The products were released in coordination with 20th Century Fox Television, and I have previously written about a licensed product kit that included a wide variety of items. M*A*S*H fans could buy M*A*S*H themed alcohol, action figures, Halloween costumes, trivia games, clothing,Continue reading “MishM*A*S*H 43: Milton Bradley Puzzles”
From the M*A*S*H Library 43: “The Classically American Comedy of Larry Gelbart”
What is it? Malarcher, Jay. The Classically American Comedy of Larry Gelbart. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. Why should M*A*S*H fans care? Larry Gelbart was the co-creator of M*A*S*H and was the executive producer of the series for the first four seasons. While he left the series before it ended, his influence was felt for allContinue reading “From the M*A*S*H Library 43: “The Classically American Comedy of Larry Gelbart””
The M*A*S*H Historian 