Henry in Love

Episode aired Jan 5, 1974
TV-PGTV-PG
25m

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Kathrine Baumann, Gary Burghoff, and McLean Stevenson in M*A*S*H (1972)

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Family man Henry falls in love with 20-year-old ex-cheerleader Nancy Sue Parker, who is less than half his age. Nancy visits Henry at the camp and comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surge... Read allFamily man Henry falls in love with 20-year-old ex-cheerleader Nancy Sue Parker, who is less than half his age. Nancy visits Henry at the camp and comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surgery.Family man Henry falls in love with 20-year-old ex-cheerleader Nancy Sue Parker, who is less than half his age. Nancy visits Henry at the camp and comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surgery.

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Director
- Don Weis
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- Larry Gelbart(developed for television by)
- Laurence Marks
- Richard Hooker(based on a novel by)
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Kathrine Baumann and McLean Stevenson in M*A*S*H (1972)

Gary Burghoff and McLean Stevenson in M*A*S*H (1972)

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson in M*A*S*H (1972)

Alan Alda, Kathrine Baumann, and Sheila Lauritsen in M*A*S*H (1972)

Alan Alda, Clyde Kusatsu, and Sheila Lauritsen in M*A*S*H (1972)

Alan Alda and Sheila Lauritsen in M*A*S*H (1972)

Alan Alda, Kathrine Baumann, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson in M*A*S*H (1972)

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- Don Weis
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- Larry Gelbart(developed for television by)
- Laurence Marks
- Richard Hooker(based on a novel by) (uncredited)
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The mid-life crisis hits 44 year old Henry Blake right in the gut; Henry returns from Tokyo invigorated. Henry is in love: the big LUV. Nancy Sue Parker is a civilian typist with the U.S. Air Force and will be 21 years old in August. When Nancy Sue visits the camp on Friday, she finds every one and thing "adorable." But Nancy Sue is a flirt who likes tall, powerful men. She even makes a play for Hawkeye. Will someone step in and keep Henry from wrecking his marriage and his life? —LA-Lawyer

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The character Nancy Sue Parker and her actress, Kathrine Baumann, were both from Independence, Ohio. Nancy Sue was a cheerleader from Ohio State, while Baumann was a cheerleader in real life at Independence High School but went to college at UCLA. Additionally, Baumann was Miss Ohio in 1969 and runner up for Miss America 1970.

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Henry's son Andrew was born sometime during the Korean War. Given the information from the end of season one, he would have been born at the earliest spring of 1951. Henry was sent home well before it was over (summer 1953). That places the events of this story at the latest autumn of 1952. Andrew would not yet have reached 18 months, in which case he could hardly have carried on a conversation with his father to the extent as shown, let alone be considered "man of the house."

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Hawkeye: [pushes Nancy away after she kisses him passionately] In the first place I want to thank you from the bottom of my mouth. Secondly, we're not in the parking lot at the prom. And lastly, one of us loves Henry Blake, and I think it's me. It was nice meeting you and your pom-poms.

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Featured in M*A*S*H: Abyssinia, Henry (1975)

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Buckle Down Winsocki
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Written by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
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7/10

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Frank Burns has been running the 4077th for over a week and has made the whole camp miserable (as he often does). Henry comes back from Tokyo. He has fallen in love with a spunky little 20 year old cheerleader. She is gorgeous, but she is only 20. He begins to talk about ending his marriage. The scenes with the two of them together are embarrassing, but he is in his forties and is having the classic midlife crisis. Radar is the voice of reason here, but Henry is so caught up in his elderly hormones, he can't see straight. Everything comes to a head when Hawkeye is left alone with the young lady after Henry is called into surgery. This is another episode where one can understand the longings of the lonely.

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