Earliest M*A*S*H Memory?
Jason Barber
hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
My first memory is of watching the "Private Charles Lamb" episode with my
dad. As it was originally broadcast in 1974, I would've been 6 years old.
The reason it sticks out is because I thought the "spam lamb" was a real
lamb's head! Oh, the horror!
--JKB
Glenn
under way by the time I starting watching it (either that or my parents didn't
want me watching it). My first memory of M*A*S*H was Father Mulcahey
performing a Tracheotomy on a patient that stopped breathing while en route
back to the 4077th. I think that I was twelve or thirteen at the time.
104. Mulcahy's War (U-812)
November 16, 1976
Written by Richard Cogan
Directed by George Tyne
Guest Stars: Brian Byers, Ric Mancini, Richard Foronjy, Ray Poss
After Frank discovers that Danny Fitzsimmons has shot himself to get
out of combat, Father Mulcahy is called in. Realizing his lack of under-
standing of the fighting, Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station where
they encounter the front. Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheotomy guided
by Hawkeye on the radio.
104. Mulcahy's War (U-812)
November 16, 1976
Written by Richard Cogan
Directed by George Tyne
Guest Stars: Brian Byers, Ric Mancini, Richard Foronjy, Ray Poss
After Frank discovers that Danny Fitzsimmons has shot himself to get
out of combat, Father Mulcahy is called in. Realizing his lack of under-
standing of the fighting, Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station where
they encounter the front. Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheotomy guided
by Hawkeye on the radio.
Jason Barber wrote:
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George Hiebert
suitable for kids but my dad wanted to check it out so we did. I liked
it right off the bat.
Forbin II
>hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
>broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
>dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
>
>My first memory is of watching the "Private Charles Lamb" episode with my
>dad. As it was originally broadcast in 1974, I would've been 6 years old.
>The reason it sticks out is because I thought the "spam lamb" was a real
>lamb's head! Oh, the horror!
>
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I was 13 when the show began, but I believe it ran right after All in the
Family - has my memory faded on that score?
At any rate, I recall most vividly seeing Klinger in the dress for the first
time....it may seem mundane now, but that was pretty shocking for the time.
Men in dresses on national television was not the norm.
Then again, neither was hearing Archie's toilet flush.....
I'm wondering if Elsig (or anyone who has looked at earlier reviews of the
show) can tell us if the reaction to Klinger in my small midwestern home town
was reflected throughout the country....
Forbin
29savoy
"Jason Barber" <bar...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Although it may be hard to nail down a specific episode, I'm curious
to
> hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the
original
> broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
> dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
>
> My first memory is of watching the "Private Charles Lamb" episode
with my
> dad. As it was originally broadcast in 1974, I would've been 6 years
old.
> The reason it sticks out is because I thought the "spam lamb" was a
real
> lamb's head! Oh, the horror!
>
>
>
My first memory of MASH was the poster for the movie. I was 8 years
old, and we were at the movie theater. I don't remember what movie we
went to see, but I do remember the hand in the form of a peace sign,
the helmet on one of the fingers, and the woman's legs holding up the
hand.
As for the TV show, the one episode that I recall as my first memory
was "Abyssinia, Henry", when I was 12. I couldn't believe that Henry
was killed. Didn't seem fair. I guess that was the point.
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>Although it may be hard to nail down a specific episode, I'm curious to
>hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
>broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
>dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
>
>My first memory is of watching the "Private Charles Lamb" episode with my
>dad. As it was originally broadcast in 1974, I would've been 6 years old.
>The reason it sticks out is because I thought the "spam lamb" was a real
>lamb's head! Oh, the horror!
Seeing the original movie while I was in college.
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The show ran on NRK in Norway in the late 70's and early 80's. The first show
I can remember was the episode with the soldier who believes he is Jesus
Christ. After that I guess I saw the show now and then but I don't remember
it. It wasn't until TV2 started showing the series in 93 that I got hooked.
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"Now I know why they shoot people at sunrise. Who wants to live at six
o'clock in the morning?"
Dukette89
our next door neighbors wouldn't answer their phone when M*A*S*H aired. I was
about 7 or 8 when the show premiered.
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Genna Reeney
One night, my grandfather started watching this show with helicopters and
army people. I walked away (I was 12.)
Every now and then, as the credits start rolling, I'll think of him.
--
Genna
Elsig
show) can tell us if the reaction to Klinger in my small midwestern home town
was reflected throughout the country....
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Not that I'm aware of.
Larry G.
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Radarcom
part of one of the greatest line-ups in TV history. But I remember the
fourth-season premiere airing in the one-hour format on Friday night. It was
memorable, of course, for BJ's debut. M*A*S*H didn't last on Friday nights
long, but at least I knew enough to follow it whereever it aired.
S. C. Cleary
> hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
> broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
> dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
Henry talking to Hawkeye at the end of Sometimes You Hear the Bullet.
I don't think that I watched the first few years of the show in the original
broadcast run (I was 10 when SYHTB first aired), so this must have
been in syndication when I was a young teen. I remember sitting on
the sofa in my parents' gameroom, and being so moved by that
dialogue that I was in tears. It left me surprised, scared and confused...
after all, nothing like this had ever been addressed on the Brady Bunch
or the Partridge Family!! This was about war, and about death....pretty
serious stuff.
Looking back, I think that MASH had more influence in
setting my moral and compassionate compass than my parents,
my teachers, or my religion did.
S. C. Cleary
> Although it may be hard to nail down a specific episode, I'm curious to
> hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
> broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
> dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
Henry talking to Hawkeye at the end of Sometimes You Hear the Bullet.
I don't think that I watched the first few years of the show in the original
broadcast run (I was 10 when SYHTB first aired), so this must have
been in syndication when I was a young teen. I remember sitting on
the sofa in my parents' gameroom, and being so moved by that
dialogue that I was in tears. It left me surprised, scared and confused...
after all, nothing like this had ever been addressed on the Brady Bunch or the
Partridge Family!! This was about war, and about death...serious stuff.
Looking back, I think that MASH was more influential in
Radnoti
first episode I saw was the one with Hawkeye as officer of the day in the
third season (sorry I'm not up on my titles)
and he ends up taking Trapper's poker winnings . When they did that plot
again with the goat eating the money--another example of the early writing
better than the later (wrong topic, I know, haha). Anyway, yes, then the
hour long BJ intro always stands out as one of my favorite episodes and
memories
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in 1990. Here in Indiana, WTTV4 was showing it at nights at 7:30. It was part
of a line-up that consisted of Kate & Alley and Brady Bunch episodes. I would
eat dinner and run to my parents bedroom to watch the TV at night. I'd have my
Barbies out and playing with them right until MASH would come on and then I'd
stop and start watching it. I guess the first episode I vividly remember
seeing is Abyssinia, Henry. Even as an 8-year old I found it sad.
Dawn
KeroppiYC
>seeing is Abyssinia, Henry. Even as an 8-year old I found it sad.
>
>Dawn
Abyssinia, Henry was the very first episode of M*A*S*H that I remember
seeing too. I was only 10 and didn't know anything about the characters but I
cried anyway. I didn't really get hooked on M*A*S*H for a couple of years
though because it always ran past my bedtime (haha).
-Liz
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: I was 13 when the show began, but I believe it ran right after All in the
: Family - has my memory faded on that score?
Its first year it was on Sunday night. The second year it was on, it came
after All In The Family on Saturday night, and its third, if I remember
aright. Its fourth year it was on Friday opposite Chico and the Man for a
few months, then moved to Tuesday. A few years after that, Monday (year
six?), where it remained for the duration.
George Hiebert
> Its first year it was on Sunday night.
Yup, I remember that Sunday night slot!
>The second year it was on, it came after All In The Family on
Saturday night,<
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Bob Newhart and MTM also part of that
Saturday line-up? Can't quite remember.
T-Lupe
I used to imitate the opening credits when the doctors would run
underneath the helicopter blades. It's the same way we had to walk
past Dad's chair so we wouldn't get in the way of the TV.
I also remember using a VCR the size of a crib to tape the episodes
for my Dad while he was at his golf league. I used to edit out the
commericals with a remote that still had to be plugged into the unit.
To this day, watching a funny M*A*S*H episode with my father is still
one of the best times I ever have with him...Thanks, Elsig.
"Jason Barber" <bar...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Although it may be hard to nail down a specific episode, I'm curious to
>hear about people's earliest memories of MASH - either during the original
>broadcast run or through syndication. Perhaps a character, a line of
>dialogue, or a bit of imagery sticks out?
>
>My first memory is of watching the "Private Charles Lamb" episode with my
>dad. As it was originally broadcast in 1974, I would've been 6 years old.
>The reason it sticks out is because I thought the "spam lamb" was a real
>lamb's head! Oh, the horror!
>
>--JKB
>
>
>
Elsig
the best times I ever have with him...Thanks, Elsig.
>
It's awfully nice to be part of that kind of memory.
Larry G.
Radarcom
back, they don't seem very similar. I guess those were the days where
well-written, funny and issue-oriented were enough reasons for viewers to stick
from one show to the next.
CBS "transplanted" the 8:30-11 line-up (MASH, Hawaii Five-O and Barnaby Jones)
to take on NBC on Fridays the following fall (Sanford/Chico/Rockford/ Police
Woman) and if failed. I assume an exec was slapped silly for it.
Tuttle
was a pilot in Korea. My first vivid memory of the show was
in The Sniper, when Radar ran back into the shower and his
towel fell of and you caught a glimpse of his butt. I was a
little kid and I had never seen anyone's butt other that my
little sisters and maybe Mom's and Dad's. I couldn't believe
that someone's butt could be shown on television, I think I
laughed for the rest of the night. So, outside of my
immediate family the first naked person I ever saw was gary
Burghoff.
I also remember the last time I cried before my
parent's divorced and the first time I cried after they
divorced were both at episodes of M*A*S*H. I was watching
Goodbye Radar Part II with my Dad, and when Radar left camp
and Hawkeye found his teddy bear, I bawled. I was only about
seven or eight and he was my favorite character, I thought
the show was about him. I ran to my room and drew a picture
of him on my chalkboard and wrote "GOODBYE RADAR I LOVE
YOU". The next time I remember crying was watching Goodbye,
Farewell, and Amen with my stepfather and his friend. When
Hawkeye saw B.J.'s GOODBYE from the chopper, I lost it. My
stepfathers friend tried to console me by saying it would be
on in reruns, but I wouldn't have any of it.
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Jeff
was not of the show itself, but it was
listening to my dad's wartime experiences,
(he served in Korea from Oct.52 until Jan'53). I remember him saying
something about MASH units, and then, of
course, I heard that M*A*S*H was set in
Korea, so I watched out of curiosity. The
rest, is as they say, history. Funny, he never cared much for the show,
though.
=^=
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
Forbin II
>Its first year it was on Sunday night. The second year it was on, it came
>after All In The Family on Saturday night, and its third, if I remember
>aright.
Thanks Paul, but wasn't All in the Family on Sunday nights? I could be
remembering wrong, I was pretty young, but I thought so.....
Or maybe all those years of "Lassie" addled my brain....
Forbin
Radarcom
remembering wrong, I was pretty young, but I thought so.....>>
It bounced from Tuesday to Saturday (where it became a hit and preceded M*A*S*H
in 1973-1974) to Wednesday at 9 (because 8-9 was made the "family hour") back
to Saturday to Monday to Sunday for its last two seasons before becoming Archie
Bunker's Place.
Forbin II
>M*A*S*H
>in 1973-1974)
Thanks...I guess Lassie fried more brain cells than I realized....
Forbin
Ron Kitchell
football around and they hit Hot Lips in the nose, ruining her chance at a date
with the camp hunk.
No.....that wasn't it.
Hmm, actually, my first memory of MASH was watching "The Smell of Music" in
syndication on the CBS-affiliated station. I must have liked it because I've
been watching it ever since.
God Bless,
Ron
Rusty
stay up to watch MASH it came on at 9PM on the east coast. i
continued to watch MASH as often as i can, i taped the 24
hour TV marathon aired in Atlanta in in the late 80's. I was
just thinking about a song they all sang in when a movie
they were showing in the mess tent broke...but i can't
remeber it all... only the refrain..."I don't want no more
army live, please mom i wanna go, but they won't let me go,
please mom i wanna go home." it was about the doctors,
nurses, privates, corporals in the ARMY.. do you remember
it? email me the words if you can. THANKS !!!
Lucky
home with my mom and she was watching repeats of MASH. I remember it was
"Comrades in Arms". Of course I didn't understand anything, but I remember
the image.
EMDRoberts
pushing him out of the boat. Now I'm not a big fan of the last few seasons and
I think Alda's control probally has a lot to do with it, but he is usually a
very good actor. But in this particular scene I think he really overacted. It
still cracks me up every time I see it.
Mandy
"I was delighted that the bastards hired me back." Charles Keating on being
rehired on Another World
Abigail
<URL:news:9309473...@www.remarq.com>:
++ i look back and remeber how i had to beg my mom to let me
++ stay up to watch MASH it came on at 9PM on the east coast. i
++ continued to watch MASH as often as i can, i taped the 24
++ hour TV marathon aired in Atlanta in in the late 80's. I was
++ just thinking about a song they all sang in when a movie
++ they were showing in the mess tent broke...but i can't
++ remeber it all... only the refrain..."I don't want no more
++ army live, please mom i wanna go, but they won't let me go,
++ please mom i wanna go home." it was about the doctors,
++ nurses, privates, corporals in the ARMY.. do you remember
++ it? email me the words if you can. THANKS !!!
That's in the FAQ last time I looked.
Abigail
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Jeff and Nicole Blackburn
in sound bites by verses. I think there is also the written lyrics too.
Unfortunately I can't remember which site it is. If I come across it I will
pass it on to you.
Nicole
David Long
Whether or not it's the one you're thinking about, my site "Best Care
Anywhere" has the lyrics to many songs and the wav files. The URL is
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5576/
Abyssinia,
David Long
Gary Burghoff, "The Birdman of Malibu"
http://members.tripod.com/gary_burghoff/
Best Care Anywhere
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/5576/