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 M*A*S*H - Season 3 (3 DVDs)
 M*A*S*H - Season 3 (3 DVDs) ... Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL / In honouring M*A*S*H's third series with the prestigious Peabody Award, the judges praised it "for the depth of its humour and the manner in which comedy is used to lift the spirit and, as well, to offer a profound statement on the nature of war." Contained on three discs, the third series comprises several benchmark episodes illustrative of what the Peabody judges called "television of high purpose." In "Rainbow Bridge" Hawkeye (Alan Alda), Trapper (Wayne Rogers), Radar (Gary Burghoff), Klinger (Jamie Farr), and an opportunistic Frank Burns (Larry Linville) participate in a swap with the North Koreans of wounded POWs. In "The Consultant", Robert Alda (Alan's dad) guest stars as a visiting doctor who cracks under the pressure of operating so close to the front. And the shocking season finale, "Abyssinia, Henry", took a page from Mister Roberts and killed off commanding officer Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), who was en route home. M*A*S*H's sense of humour did not go AWOL. The season opener, "The General Flipped at Dawn", earned guest star Harry Morgan an Emmy nomination for his performance as a certifiable general and paved the way for Morgan to join the cast in season four. "Adam's Ribs" is a classic episode in which Hawkeye orders out to Chicago for a very special delivery of spare ribs. In "Iron Guts Kelly", the war's "greatest fighting general" gets a little too gung-ho and perishes in Margaret's (Loretta Swit) tent. To paraphrase the title of one episode, this was a full, rich season that offered each member of one of television's finest ensembles the opportunity to shine. But Alda, who earned a Golden Globe award that year, fully emerges as the series' star. --Donald LiebensonNewest Review: ... He spends most of his time daydreaming about being back home and generally signs anything placed in front of him by his ... more ... Company Clerk and right-hand man Corporal 'Radar' O'Reily. It is often joked that Radar runs the camp rather than Henry and in many ways this is quite possibly true. He fetches and carries for most members of the camp, feeds and waters the surgeons on duty, organises all of the paperwork and seems to be the only one that knows how everything on the unit works. At one point in the series he even takes to tucking Hawkeye and Trapper into bed although they do return the favour by giving him advice rather like father ...more |
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M*A*S*H - Season 3 (3 DVDs): Could both shifts please report to O.R (2469 words)
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M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical hospital) was a television series that ran for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983. The series was set in the Korean War and based around the oddball characters that served in the 4077th MASH. The series itself fits into the category of black comedy set in the Korean War. It is probably the best place here to mention that this series does not insinuate ever that war or the situations is causes is a funny thing or that it is comedic in any way shape or form. It simply highlights how in the toughest of situations it is often the humour of those that remain that prevails the longest. Sort of along the 'they can crush us but they'll ... Read the complete review
Abysinnia, Henry (4575 words)
by - written on 05/07/07 (Very useful, 130 readings)
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~~~Background~~~ In 1968, a man named Richard Hooker penned a blackly humorous novel entitled M*A*S*H, A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It became a popular read, and spawned several sequels, all still available on the second hand market (check out Amazon, both .com and .co.uk). The original book told the tale of surgeons Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank Burns and their comrades at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, and its sequels after the war. In 1971, a film adaptation of the original was released in cinemas and gathered a huge following. Inspired by the film, the books, and by the plot of the 1961 novel catch-22 by Joseph Heller (it is a ... Read the complete review
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