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Here’s today’s image. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: Eye of the Hawk, who correctly identified “Iron Guts Kelly.”
Here’s today’s image. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: Big Daddy O’Reilly, who correctly identified “Mulcahy’s War.”
This article about William Christopher at Omoha.com is a few days old (it was published on October 10th) so it’s too late to catch him in “Church Basement Ladies” at the Arts Center at Iowa Western Community College. But check this schedule to see where the musical will be next. For the most part I stopped reporting the current goings-on of the actors and actresses from M*A*S*H several years ago and if not for the inclusion of the following I wouldn’t have linked to this particular article:
Did he ever tire of playing Father Mulcahy?
“Certainly not,” he said. “There we didn’t have the same words every week. They were wonderful scripts. We started out with Larry Gelbart, a brilliant writer with a wonderful sense of humor. He could write serious material, yet find a way to make it funny when it needed to be.”
Gelbart’s recent death was shocking, Christopher said, but he still connects regularly with his former “M*A*S*H” co-stars.
“We get together every few months and have dinner,” he said. Farr, Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell and Harry Morgan are frequently part of the group.
“Alan Alda isn’t on the West Coast much, but when he is he always gets in touch. That’s an occasion to get together.”
At the risk of sounding absurd, I do wonder if they ever slip into character around the dinner table.
Here’s today’s image. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: Mrs. Frank Burns, who correctly identified “None Like It Hot.”
I often browse eBay to see if anything interesting related to M*A*S*H is up for auction. In August of 2007 someone was selling what I believe is a press photograph for the series featuring McClean Stevenson and Gary Burghoff. They’re in character but Burghoff appears to be holding a script. If I had to guess I’d say this is from the very first season. Look at McClean Stevenson’s eyes. They’re crazy. And where does the cord on the phone Radar is holding go?
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Update
In the comments, Big Daddy O’Reilly pointed out that in addition to his crazy eyes McClean Stevenson is sporting some wild hair, which might mean this particular photograph was taken very early on, perhaps before the pilot episode was filmed. Take a look at the black and white promotional photo included in my feature Promoting The Premiere and you’ll see the same bushy hair. And speaking of hair, in that same photo Loretta Swit’s hair is pretty curly while in the pilot episode Margaret had relatively straight hair.
Furthermore, Phil suggests in the comments that the above photograph is flipped incorrectly. Here are Henry and Radar facing the other direction:
I’m no photographer but somehow it does look better this way.
Here’s today’s image. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: Mrs. Frank Burns, who correctly identified “Snappier Judgement.”
