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Alan Alda

Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce

Wayne Rogers

Capt. 'Trapper John' McIntyre

McLean Stevenson

Lt. Col. Henry Blake

Loretta Swit

Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan

Larry Linville

Maj. Frank Burns

Gary Burghoff

Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly

Mills Watson

Sgt. Condon

Jamie Farr

Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger

William Christopher

Father Francis Mulcahy

Odessa Cleveland

Lt. Ginger Bayliss, RN

Bobbie Mitchell

Lt. Gilbert, RN

Kathleen Hughes

Lorraine Blake

Arthur Abelson

Milt Jaffe

Louise Vienna Keene

Sylvia Jaffe
(as Louise Vienna)

Sivi Aberg

Anna Lindstrom

Sheila Lauritsen

Nurse Sheila
(uncredited)

Kellye Nakahara

Lt. Kellye Yamato, RN
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The story that Pierce and McIntyre relate to Sgt. Condon about Charles R. Drew (the black doctor who developed the process for preserving blood plasma) dying for lack of a blood transfusion because the hospital refused admit him since he was black is untrue. Although the story is told in several books, Dr. John Ford, one of the passengers in Dr. Drew's car, said that the injuries to Dr. Drew were such that a blood transfusion would have killed him faster. According to Dr Ford "We all received the very best of care. The doctors started treating us immediately. I can truthfully say that no efforts were spared in the treatment of Dr. Drew, and, contrary to popular myth, the fact that he was a Negro did not in any way limit the care that was given to him."

Goofs
Hawkeye and Trapper tell a racist white patient that Dr. Charles Drew, who invented the process to store blood, bled to death after a car crash because he was black and a "whites only" hospital refused to admit him. While Dr. Drew did in fact invent a way to store blood, and died in a car crash, the story surrounding the "whites only" hospital is not true according to his biography.

Quotes
Lt. Colonel Henry Blake: I was never very good with my hands.
Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly: I guess that's why you became a surgeon, huh sir?

Connections
References Gunga Din (1939)

Soundtracks
Makin' Whoopee
(uncredited)
Written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn
On phonogaph in the Swamp and partially sung by Alan Alda

Mash is really a good series and often funny as was made in the 70',maybe this kind of comedy today won't well received...but was successfully otherwise didn't have eleven seasons,in this episode Hawkeye writing a letter to your father telling some news and situation but the most interesting is about the Sergeant Condon who needs a proper color blood...anyway a good episode really!!!