1988 IBM ads M*A*S*H Col. Potter meets Trapper John!
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2021
- Col. Potter finally meets Trapper John for the first time, as the original MASH cast reunites for several TV commercials for IBM Personal System/2 products recasting them in a business office with new IBM computers. Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, Larry Linville, Harry Morgan, Bill Christopher, Loretta Swit, and Wayne Rogers tout "the next generation of power, speed, and graphics," with a whopping 256 colors! Originally broadcast in early April 1987 and rebroadcast in 1988. The BetaGems channel also has the later 1988 IBM ad featuring Alan Alda crossing the flooded office in an inflatable life raft, "1988 IBM ad M*A*S*H cast, Alan Alda television commercial."
The BetaGems channel also has "1999 IBM Just Socks television commercial," "1989 IBM Technology At Work television commercial," "1985 Family Computing Magazine TV commercial," "1988 DeVry Computer Education TV commercial," "1989 Kelsey Jenney Business College computer classes TV ad," "1988 Epson Computer television commercial," "1987 Nintendo TV ad - Super Mario Bros, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, more," "Activision 1984 commercial Pitfall II Lost Caverns Atari 2600," "April 1990 Family Fun Center TV ad, San Diego," "Milford Amusement Center May 1992 musical TV commercial We've got the fun," and "Game Boy 1991 vintage TV ad."
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on RUclips or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.
In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area. 
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When you see something like this you realize it is about the people. The talent. No matter the setting you want to watch more. They were very special
you almost forget that half have passed on and the others retired or have fizzled out as actors…
then again, Wayne Rogers probably knew what Gary Burghoff was talking about since he was a stock market fanatic with a decent haul from it
@@bostonrailfan2427 No joke love your username. I worked on the Boston/Worcester line for some years.
I sometimes wonder why there are some who still think that with all the important things that go on in this world the only things that matter are people and relationships.
@@mwholms4536 Narrow minded. Self absorbed with a lack of empathy for others. That is what my take is.
@@jasoncamp483 The relentless mantra of the Liberal Left, in fact. (Let's Go Brandon!)
Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers, William Christopher, and Harry Morgan. May they Rest In Peace!!
You forgot Gary Burghoff and Jamie Farr.
@@mrjohnklake They're still alive
Someday, we will all rest in peace.
@@roncaruso931 Thanks for the keen insight
@@MrAschiff Your welcome.
Seeing Trapper back with the group was outstanding!!!!!
He needed some investment money
We miss him so I wish he still around
Nice to see the many generations of the cast, although Mac Stevenson, Alan and Dave Ogden Stiers aren't in this ad.
@@georgemaster689 Potter was the only character from the second group of starring cast and supporting cast.
Still can't believe he left that show even playing second fiddle.
what a nicee group of people, such great chemistry. They should all be in a tv series together.
Yeah if only
And it should be a wartimes series where they all play medical doctors patching up wounded soldiers
@@josephjones8648 Hah ha ha. they alreaddy did that.
@@3dartistguy I know 😊
😂😂😂
Whoever thought of this ad gimmick was definitely smart.
Didn't really help sales much, but they were fun to watch.
They had to! PS/2 were junk!
@@guytech7310 they weren't all awful. But between stepping on their dick with Microsoft and OS/2, and deciding to get all proprietary with the hardware, more specifically the MCA architecture which was way better than the ISA bus. The model 25 was hot garbage, though. We had a computer lab full of them and they were just awful. IBM was horrible at marketing their shit.
@@bigdrew565 They were absolute horrible.There is areason why Microchannel failled. & superseceed by EISA & PCI.
Hearing William Christopher exclaim, “it’s a miracle” made me wish that it was 1981 again.
Now I'm wishing the M*A*S*H cast had been brought back together for an office-based 80s sitcom, lol. Even in such short durations about completely different subject matter, you still feel the camaraderie between them all.
Also, these ads are lit and filmed really well. Looks like a film more than a tv commercial.
sadly only half of them are still alive…
They did. They just continued to call it M*A*S*H.
After M*A*S*H they created a sitcom about a veteran's hospital in the USA. Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy were the characters starring. The show received I think a 2 star rating. Mostly because people also wanted to see characters such as Hawkeye or Margaret or BJ.
@@SamLallo There was also Trapper MD. Different actor but it is the same Trapper from MASH.
A series about an office? Radar could shout, “Choppers. They sound loaded. Must be the CEO and board of directors flying in. All shifts report to their terminals and look busy!”
this is like finding hidden treasure - whoever thought this up just instantly plugged into some of the greatest team chemistry ever captured on camera
I remember when the company I worked for then purchased IBM PS/2s. They had 20MB hard drives. We thought that was a lot of disk space. 😄
These days, one app can be double or triple that! 😂 💾💾💾
I use to work on 16K TRS-80's. 20MB WAS!!! :-)
@@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991How technology and times have changed.
I remember pricing a model 80 with 128mb Ram. It was $10k
20 megabytes?? Me and my Smith Corona word processor with 744kb diskettes would have been SOOOO jealous!
I grew up sneering at M.A.S.H thinking it was lame . Hit 30 and watched it in it's entirety. Absolutely phenomenal. It's the characters and the journey not just one liners here and there . You watch thinking it'll never work if Trapper, Frank, Radar or Henry leave the show BUT they never try to replace them , they bring new characters in.. Winchester , potter ... BJ. It's just a joy. Bittersweet at times but always a treat .
Trapper, Frank, and Henry made the show fun
BJ, Winchester, and Potter made the show absolutely ICONIC
@@k1productions87 agreed. They were all integral in their own unique ways.
Probably Alda's growing influence, but all of the original characters that were married were cheating constantly. The cheating was ushered out with the replacements (yes, BJ cheated once, but that episode sucked).
While Frank Burns was a weekly punching bag for Hawkeye, Trapper John and B.J. Hunnicut, Charles Emerson Winchester III was a worthy opponent, who often gave it right back to them.
@@kensellers4082 Charles was intelligent and a very skilled surgeon who had compassion . I love the episode where they're winding Charles up so he just drops the entire tent on them .
What’s so fascinating if you look at movies and commercials, you see the evolution of computers.
Interesting bit. I see they had Larry Linville still playing Burns. They were all playing their respective MASH characters without identifying themselves as such.
But Father Mulcahy was never rude to Burns in the show like here.
Larry Linville was a great actor and comedian, and a really nice guy in real life. My mother and I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Linville in a dinner-theatre engagement in New Orleans way back in the 70s, about a couple of years or so after he left MASH, in which he was starring in a production of A Thousand Clowns.
It was creepy. Like they were thinking about a new vehicle for all those actors whose careers had fizzled out after the show ended.
@@terryrose4804 I mean tbh you can’t tell me Father Mulcahy didn’t have reservations about Burns
Notice here, Mulcahy is in a tie, not a collar. He seems to have left the priest-o-sphere.
I miss my extended family . They were always there 8p.m. Mondays.
I cried while watching the very last episode of M*A*S*H.
A lot of us did.
I met Gary in 83 while AFTERMASHwas being filmed in San Pedro, California
Yeah that one scene on last episode hit us all hard..I grew up on M*A*S*H..1st time I am seeing these commercials..better late than never
Really good commercials. They are kind of in character and nothing seems forced. Still great chemistry. Enjoyed seeing those little gems.
"Can we talk to each other? Only if we have to." Most prescient thing in the whole commercial. (256 colors!)
It was the M.A.S.H reunion we wanted and needed
The show of shows
Harry Morgan first appeared in an episode of MASH with the original cast in The General Flipped At Dawn as a crazy general.
He was singing “Mississippi Mud”!!!👍🏽
"A RADISH will never stand in the way of victory" ....Marshall Foch!
Loved that episode! I could watch that over and over and NEVER get tired of it! THAT is what makes good high quality television.
Col Blake's story about the little bird in the cage is genius...."he just fell off his perch and broke his bill.....!!!
@@dgwaters The funny thing is I had NEVER seen that episode BEFORE Harry Morgan came on as Col. Potter.
I had no idea that he had an appearance before Colonel Potter. So seeing that episode had me mesmerized by his portrayal. Great episode.
at the end, it would have been funny if col potter had turned to trapper and said something like, “who’s the new guy?”
i should have been in advertising…
Radar in his natural habitat
It's like some alternative dimension version of M*A*S*H and I would totally have watched it. 😅
I never saw these ads, but my sister picked up a yard sale PS/2 in the mid-nineties and it came with a demo floppy that went through a bunch of selling points, one of which was a 256 color picture of Loretta Swit and the gang here.
I remember being excited watching these IBM commercials with the M*A*S*H alumni.
I was happy to see Wayne Rogers, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff with the others again.
I remember Alan Alda doing a commercial but he was on his own and McLean Stevenson was featured in an ad for another company.
Did you notice the narrator of this ad (Len Cariou) also played Alan Alda's best friend in the movie "The Four Seasons?" (1981) Probably just a coincidence.
Alda was actually a spokesperson for IBM before this campaign. He did appear in a commercial with David Ogden Stiers and Harry Morgan. The only MASH actor who didn't appear in the campaign was Mike Farrell, who had a policy not to do any commercials for several years after MASH ended. (I seem to remember him selling life insurance in the 90s, though.
I watch four episodes of M.A.S.H. per day, five days per week. I NEVER get tired of it!
And what a treat to see them doing these IBM commercials. Wonderful!
metv right?
@@Sue-gq7xv Yes, MeTV.
Wow I don’t remember seeing any of these commercials….how awesome!
Me either, but I'm sure I did see them.Seems like something they'd put on with The Super Bowl.
I actually snorted, seeing Larry Linville's little Frank smirk XD.
If I remember correctly most of the actors on the show said Larry Linville was one of the nicest guys to work with.
Side note before he went into acting he was studying to be an aeronautical engineer .
@@thepayne7862 I've heard that as well. Apparently, in addition to being bored with playing a flat character, Linville wanted to leave the show due to the stress of him being so completely different (ie; Nice) from his character.
@@davididiart5934 I could see that also the tone of the show was changing to more serious and the character of Frank wouldn't really work with shift in tone.
Franks smirk and when he flares his nose
I remember reading an article that there was talk in Hollywood circles of reuniting the MASH the cast in an office sitcom in the wake of these commercials, even if it had nothing to do with MASH. But it never got off the ground.
I used PS2's in the 80's and watched MASH reruns so this is 💯 pure ice blue nostalgia! Thank you!
I couldn't bare finishing this add. Seeing them all got old. In my head trapper radar are all still the same age as they were in Mash.
Zsoft PC Paintbrush was used for the graphics along with the SHOW command which did the animation of the graphics. The animation scared the heck out of the film crew with many asking how much longer before computers did the acting.
In 2024...
It's funny to hear them go on about how 'efficient' those machines were, in comparison to what we use now. This was even pre-Internet. I suppose by the 2060's they'll be laughing at our computing 'efficiency' as well.
Indeed. The 4K of today is the 256 of tomorrow
Pre-internet but at least they had LANs to connect machines locally assuming the office was wired for it,
Old Adult in 2060: "You kids and your direct neuralink to your quantum computer. You think you have it rough? Back in my days, we had to view our data on a LED screen, input our responses using a keyboard, and point to what we wanted to do with a mouse."
Me (if I live that long): "Please, back when I was younger, we didn't even have a mouse and we had to look at those cancer-causing CRT screens, in four colors."
I hate to think of 2060 seeing what we've become since 1995.
It's even funnier to me that the tech in these commercials seems older than the television show MASH, which left the air some 5 or 6 years before they aired. But I guess that's the Power Of Reruns.
Amazingly, this perfectly-appointed ad campaign had nothing to do with the Super Bowl. It was just good, creative nostalgia advertising for ad's sake.
Great seeing Trapper again and, more pertinently, still looking and sounding like we remember.
I was working at IBM in Yorktown, NY, when these came out. Alan Alda came to take a tour of the building. A few of us from the mail room decided to try and see him. We were going towards him and decided it wouldn't be a good idea to run into him when he's with the head of the building, so we went into another hallway, unfortunately that was a dead end. They kept walking .
Strange to see them in more “modern” settings. But still the chemistry ⚛️ is tip top subliminal :-)
256 colors! LMAO. And we were glad to finally get those 256 VGA colors. So many years of choosing between Green or Amber.
This is so much fun to see! I am watching all of the episodes of MASH again. They show four episodes a night. Season four began last night.
Tonight they are airing the show finale and interviews with many of the cast, I assume, in honor of Veterans Day.
I don't ever remember seeing these commercials! Priceless!
Nice to see Frank!!
I have no recollection of this ad... I feel like I missed something epic.
This is priceless. I have never seen these before. I would like to add these to my MASH collection.
OMG! I have been in IT way too long. I worked on these back in the 80/90's. The keyboard was cast aluminum. The network cards were 8MB/sec. We ordered them with a 50MB hard drive and 8MB Ram. All this was over $2500.00 each.
Oh, I remember the PS/2's all too well. Interesting though that none of these commercials featured their brand new GUI OS/2 that IBM released at the same time. These all appear to be running straight DOS 🤔
@@jim2lane We had IBM Series 400 they gave us a package of this. 35 1.44 disk that took over an hour to load. Then it was a RAM pig. Pure junk and IBM knew it.
IBM Model M keyboard. Considered by many to be one of the finest keyboards ever made.
@@johnruschmeyer5769 I have one and they are still great!
Weren’t they great, though? I loved showing new techs the technology after their initial run… “8-bit ISA slot? Micro channel architecture? What are those?!?” 😄
This is a remarkable series of TV commercials! I regularly viewed US prime time TV back then, but I don't recall ever seeing these ads when they ran.
Neither do I. They must have been placed in specific markets (cities) instead of national airtime buys at the network level
Yes, I don’t remember seeing these IBM commercials being aired on any NYC stations back then.
Could have been on the network evening news where ads seem to run together, easy to miss.
@@kurtsnyder4752 That would make sense, as myself a CBS network news viewer back then, if the IBM spots ran on ABC or NBC network newscasts, I would have never seen them.
@@bloqk16 Thinking further, Jimbo's got a point with the marketplace where I grew up and live is Minnesota, specifically the Minneapolis/Saint Paul tv station broadcast(never had cable or satelite) area and we had the business market plus a strong agriculture area, so saw business/banking spots along with seed and fertilizer ads which would NOT have aired in a Northeastern Corridor area as they haven't nearly so large a farming community segment of the viewing audience demographic. Definitely would have aired in LA, SF,DFW metroplex, Miami, and of course NYC, WDC and Boston markets.
Very cool! Don't remember this but glad it exist.😊
I do believe the sarcasm I exhibited from a very early age to present, can be attributed to the M.A.S.H series, writers included.
M*A*S*H* is still my favorite.
I lived in Japan at the time these commercials aired in the US. My loss - I would have loved to have seen them.
IBM keyboard were the best I loved them .
I still have my System II Model 30. It was required for engineering students in 1987 at Virginia Tech.
This must have been difficult for Larry to do. I hate that this character was so tough for him to do because it brought a whole bunch of joy to the world. Thanks Larry for stepping into the line of fire once more and bringing some more smiles to the world.
I doubt it was difficult. I'm sure he liked the money.
It’s sad watching this. Most of them are gone.
Looks like there was a very brief glimpse of Tracy Ullman after the IBM ads, probably in a promo for "The Tracy Ullman show", which was on in 1988. I was a big fan of the show at the time, it was what introduced us to "The Simpsons". I think I vaguely remember these M*A*S*H cast IBM ads from around then also.
Trapper and Frank!!!! OMG, great to see them both back...nothing at all against BJ and Charles, it's just great to see both those guys back with the crew! :)
By the mid-90s my workplace had all these PS/2s sitting in a pile in a storage shed. We couldn't even give them away. It was the beginning of electronic waste...
Yep, ancient and slow computers. It was always business dress mode back then, no relaxing clothes.
Pathetic and clueless attempt by IBM to shut out all the PC competition with their new “licenced” architecture. Worked well 😝😂
Wasn’t Apple also competing with IBM at the time
@@FlyingMitch I think Alan Alda by himself, did a commercial shortly after the cast from MASH did theirs.
@@wlsmojo yes, Microchannel, I forgot all about that! 😆
I kept expecting Gary to say to the person on the phone "Oh, hey, Sparky!"
1:28 256 colours. Oh I remember when that was the tops.
I used to sell these in the late 80's
I remember the posters
Memories!
What exactly was the concept behind using the cast of the then-cancelled MASH for IBM spots?? Usually, when there's not just a single spokesperson for a brand, there's a sort of high-concept -- like, were they trying to sell PCs to an older crowd that missed the show, was the idea that they were all in the army (on TV) so it implied efficiency? Not the perfect examples (b/c these are both singular spokespeople), but Don Adams telling people to "be smart" by using a certain hotel chain or John Ratzenberger telling people to buy post office stamps. Any clue?
THANKYOU for posting this
Remember when working was so inefficient that this is all you had to do to replace two people.
Loved Loretta Swit! ❤
Sorry, but they met in season 3, episode 1 - The General Flipped at Dawn.
Harry Morgan played a crazy general. He returned a year later as Colonel Potter.
Lucky us! We get to enjoy both Blake and Potter!
1988 MASH reunion without Alan Alda
Love how everybody is putting Frank Burns down lol
This just gets better and better thanks !
This is almost like watching mash again
Harry Morgan is from my hometown!
HOF crew and to see Trapper John & Col. Potter together in the same scene is incredible!
Trapper and "Potter" met in the third season, when Henry Morgan played a General for just one episode.
I am absolutely obsessed with the filters and lighting used in these ads. I am curious who produced these. This had to cost a fortune.
I did summer stock theatre with William Christopher in Greensboro N.C. in '84. He was as sweet, kind and unassuming as you might imagine. He played in a two man show with Joe Sears in "a Greater Tuna". Amazing!
I'd completely forgotten about these ads. The 1st 1 was classic.
Seeing Loretta Swit out of uniform reminds one how drop dead gorgeous she was.
This was great...but I don't recall ever seeing this at the time
Technically correct. However, Harry Morgan has appeared on the show as Gen. Steele and had scenes with Wayne Rogers and McClean Stevenson. Alan Alda was pushing Mach's apple computers so he could not participate in this commercial.
Never knew about this!! I’m grinning from ear to ear. God, I loved that show!!! 😊❤️👍😃
Wow, I never knew these commercials existed...or at least I had forgotten about them if I ever did see them. So much fun seeing so many of them together again ....almost back in character at times. Great!
This is awesome
I don't remember ever seeing this commercial back in the day but it put a smile on my face, especially seeing Larry Linville, RIP, to all these great actors who have passed
Radar saying “yo!” When he picks up the phone is such a cute nod to mash
"Keep your yo's to yourself" - Col. Potter.
DID NOT know this existed!
This is pretty cool I never saw these ads
Me either, and I'm all about anything M*A*S*H! I wonder if these were regional commercials.
I forgot all about these, thanks for posting it
I can only imagine how high IBM sales went after these commercials aired.
I remember these add spots and they were great!! And I can't remember if these spots came before or after the Charlie Chaplin IBM ad campaign.
A great reunion
256 colors! Now that’s amazing.
Blast from the past ...I'm quite sentimental
"256 colors on the screen at once!" lol
Honestly say I never saw this until now
Cut my IT teeth on these PC’s - the company I joined in ‘89 was an IBM shop so I got to know the PS2 model 30’s, 50’s, 55sx’s and 70’s intimately, all connected via token-ring at 16mbps! - heady stuff
I don't remember ever seeing these commercials. I thought i watched a lot of TV and a lot of commercials in 1988. Maybe because I was a Commodore guy and ignored the IBM commercials. Then I remembered that I went off to Basic Training in the summer of 1988. I didn't watch as much TV as I thought that year.
While I only remember the third commercial (nad only seeing it once, with my parents), I do remember: we were all floored.
It's hard to think of what's more nostalgic now: all thse departed M*A*S*H actors, or a time when IBM was actually a company that made computers!
These commercials make me miss Mash
Right on 👍👍
Don’t forget, Alan Alda was the spokesperson for Atari computers just a few years before that. Just goes to show you how iconic that TV show really was.
Alda also was a spokesperson for IBM even before this campaign.
That made me smile......so great to see the gang back together.....they all look like they can do another episode of MASH
This was back in '88 when they were all still with us.
I don't remember HotLips having that perm.
@@mwholms4536 She did at least once. When she gave herself a perm and caught laryngitis and could go see a Dr.s presentation so the Dr came to see her personally.
256 Colors! Imagine!!!!
Rest in peace, Harry, William, Larry, and Wayne.
That was odd: Seeing Father Mulcahy (Bill Christopher) rip on Maj. Frank Burns (Larry Linville) when that bit really belongs to Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce. (Alan Alda) At least they got Maj. Margaret Houlihan's (Loretta Swit) draw towards power. :)
thanks for putting the actors' names in your comment, I'm sure we wouldn't have known who they are.
The ultimate aphrodisiac according to Nancy Reagan.
@@Eggmanontheair 40 years of age or younger?
Alda was probably too full of himself to do a commercial.
@@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain I think at this time he was doing Atari computer commercials. He would later join the cast on the IBM commercials.
These are great!
as a guy who grew up in the late 90s watching these is nostalgic as it gets
Waiting for Radar to say hello Sparky yeah more casualties..