- An hour-long series retrospective. A reporter, Clete Roberts, interviews the staff. Mixed in are scenes from past shows.
- Newsreels highlight this one-hour special. Minutes mean lives at the M*A*S*H units and reporter, Clete Roberts, has returned to speak again to the 4077 personnel. Everyone is present or in flashback, from Lt. Colonel Henry Blake and Trapper John McIntyre ...even pesky, loveable lug, Major Frank Burns rounds out the current cast as the reporter questions the guys and gals of the 4077. At home, Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is crowned at age 27, Marilyn Monroe pouts and waves, Joe DiMaggio throws and slugs, Nixon seems to ponder and Albert Einstein and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion chat in a garden as the Korean War wages. Pres. Truman (Give 'em hell, Harry!) defends US foreign policy, Nixon does "Watergate prequel lite" and DDE promises to go to Korea... while GIs from 16 nations are being wounded and dying. The continued battle of war and peace, love and hate that evolves between Hawkeye and Margaret is well illustrated. There is drinking, practical joking, singing, squabbling, camaraderie, hero-worship, leadership, craziness, sex, the 2 rules of war, prayer and romance which keep the 4077 sane. The newsreels depict more men and more equipment pouring into Korea as the gang recounts the things that have changed them and also, the things they will never ever forget about their time in Korea. In 99% of the cases, it boils down to family and love.—LA-Lawyer
- Newsreels highlight this one-hour special Oct 9th, 1952. Minutes mean lives at the M*A*S*H units and reporter, Clete Roberts, has returned to speak again to the 4077 personnel as it continues to have the best record of any MASH unit in the army. Everyone is present or in flashback, from Lt. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and Trapper John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) ...even pesky, lovable lug, Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville) rounds out the current cast as the reporter questions the guys and gals of the 4077. Hawkeye says that most time people just do their jobs and try and forget that there is a war going on.
Episode cuts from when bombs go off just outside the OR, and US army intelligence claiming that there is no shelling in the MASH sector. Surgeons work around the clock to keep up with the number of wounded passing through the MASH units. Hawkeye and Potter go to a forward aid station. Trapper and a nurse take a 10 mins break, together. Radar getting Henry to sign all the forms most of which even he doesn't understand (he tries not to, as it slows up the work). The incubator saga. The army says an incubator is a luxury item for a MASH unit and is not on its Basic Equipment list (BEL). They can have a jukebox or pizza oven. Klinger finds it tough to do things the army way. Back home in Toledo, when you need something, you just steal it. Radar says back in Iowa, when you need something, you just ask for it.
Radar misses having his own room, Potter misses his wife, Mulcahy misses the chapel, Hawkeye misses the state of Maine. Margaret misses a sense of order and discipline (she remembers the times when Frank used to play CO in Henry's absence. Frank orders a cannon fire which hits Radar's morning bugle). BJ misses his wife's cooking (Adam's ribs episode).
At home, Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is crowned at age 27, Marilyn Monroe pouts and waves, Joe DiMaggio throws and slugs, Nixon seems to ponder and Albert Einstein and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion chat in a garden as the Korean War wages. Pres. Truman (Give 'em hell, Harry!) defends US foreign policy, Nixon does "Watergate prequel lite" and DDE promises to go to Korea... while GIs from 16 nations are being wounded and dying.
Potter calls MASH 4077 the best people he worked with his whole life (Radar gifts Sophie to Potter). Trapper gets drunk and tries to leave the army. Hawkeye talks about how he loves BJ (One of the earlier episode, when he has sex with a nurse going through a divorce and then feels guilty about it). Even Mulcahy struggles to say something good about Winchester (recap of all the times Winchester whines about being forced drafted into the 4077). Winchester hates Hawkeye but admires his skill as a surgeon (recap of when Hawkeye dressed as a mad doctor, he hates to carry a gun, hates Frank). Margaret, passionate, career army gal. She had an affair with Frank, then had a brief fling with Hawkeye, before marrying Donald.
The continued battle of war and peace, love and hate that evolves between Hawkeye and Margaret is well illustrated. There is drinking, practical joking, singing, squabbling, camaraderie, hero-worship, leadership, craziness, sex, the 2 rules of war, prayer and romance which keep the 4077 sane.
Temperature gyrate between freezing and boiling. Even before winter arrives, the temperatures dip below zero. The most brutal climate to hold a war in. The time went MASH burnt all its furniture to stay alive (they received mosquito netting and summer underwear as supplies for the winter). Hawkeye drinks for relaxation. Mulcahy gambles (the winnings go to the orphans. Almost all of it), Winchester is into classical music, BJ is into practical jokes (the time he played practical jokes on everyone at the 4077th, including blackening the rims of Potter's binoculars which gave him a black eye). Hawkeye has sex with half the nurses that go through the 4077. He is the social director of the 4077th.
Klinger the camp bozo nut case, who always try to buck out on a section 8. He has tried to convince Henry and Potter, without luck. He has tried every General, Col, and Major who ever passed through the 4077th, but no dice. Once he tried to inflate a rubber dinghy in the Inchon river to get to Seoul, from there the plan was to get to the sea of Japan, and then to the Golden Gate. Plenty of fake letters from home (dying father, father dying last yr, Mother dying last yr, mother and father dying, mother father and older sister dying, mother dying and older sister preggers, half of the family dying and the other half preggers) Nobody wants to be in the war, away from family and amongst the death and the destruction. Each one of them depend on each other for emotional support. Radar remembers the day when Henry was discharged (the whole unit salutes Henry and he asks Frank to take it easy. Kisses Houlihan on the lips) and then died on a plane crash on the way back home.
The newsreels depict more men and more equipment pouring into Korea as the gang recounts the things that have changed them and also, the things they will never ever forget about their time in Korea. Houlihan remembers the time when the nurses and her had a spat as they didn't trust her and vice versa. Hawkeye will remember the face of every wounded who went through the 4077th. He cant imagine going home. Houlihan says that the people at the 4077th are family. In 99% of the cases, it boils down to family and love. Klinger says there were 3 good times at MASH 4077th. Potter feels younger being with the motley crew. He is a better human being. Mulcahy says that when it is cold, steam rises from an open cut wound and the cold, tired doctors would warm their hands on the open wound.
The whole team is sick and tired of death, blood and the insensitivity towards human life and the casualness towards it.
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