The first time that M*A*S*H* introduced a ‘regular Army’ character who wasn’t either certifiably insane, or gung-ho, and uncaring of his men. Colonel Potter was human.
@@Fred_L. They don't put that one on the air anymore bc Gen. Steele goes into a rendition of "Mississippi Mud" after seeing some African Americans. There's also ones they don't air in the USA anymore because Trapper and Hawkeye have an Aussie friend who's always drunk, and a bro hanging out at "The Swamp" they refer to as "Spear chucker Jones"
As much as I loved Colonel Blake in the first three seasons, Colonel Potter was a much better fit for the more serious tone the show would eventually develop as the series went on. He was an army man with a heart of gold, someone who was serious enough to hold his unit together while never forgetting that his subordinates were all people dealing with too much and needed a break every now and then.
Blake was very likeable, but he was a pushover. He enabled some very shifty behaviour in his unit. Potter was by the book, but a total "salt of the earth".
This show was very clever in introducing their replacement characters. Potter was smart and fair, BJ was a family man but a playmate to Hawkeye and the replacement for Frank Burns, Charles Winchester III was a stroke of genius, Snobby but smart and gave as good as he got. The casting and writers did a great job.
@@slewone4905 Matter of your opinion, not likely shared by many, if at all. What they were was different but of the same quality. Gave the show the ebbs and flow of life. Some people stay, others come and go. Definitely contributed to the show's longevity and success in reruns.
The way the show wrote each characters shortcoming as a cover for their insecurities and the actors abilities to understand that and execute it is second to none. It had not been achieved before and hasn't been done since.
I’m not a huge fan of show but I likes it a lot better once Larry Linville left. They developed Loretta Swit into a more mature character and David Ogden Stiers was more of a match for Hawkeye and BJ
I really liked the fact that Potter didn't respond with indignation to how O'Reilly initially presented himself. He simply instructed the corporal where to put his gear and asked what purpose the foil served. He could've very easily started throwing his weight around.
Great character fleshed out by Mr. Morgan. That speech he makes in the ep. where he shouts “why can’t they end this stupid war” as his voice breaks was one of the most emotional moments I ever saw on TV
The episode that goes through an entire year, from new year's to new year's, where he starts with "and may we all be home before she's over" and ends with him choking up while saying "and may we all be home before she's over," always stuck with me, too.
The episode with the tontine. The bottles that he and his squad mates found in France during WWI and he was the last man standing. His toast to his old friends brought a tear to my eye.
@@jasonkoch3182 ... That episode bothered me because it completely destroys the MASH timeline. Colonel Potter assumed command of the 4077 in September of 1952 but the year long episode starts in 1951 during the time that Henry Blake and Trapper John would have been there. So the writers of that episode are basically telling us that they never existed.
First time I saw MASH was as a kid and it was on after my bed time. I came out to get a drink and the first scene I ever saw had Klinger walking past the Swamp in a dress smoking a cigar. Been a fan ever since.
Harry Morgan:s Sherman T Potter had some absolutely massive shoes to fill in the form of the fallen arches of McLean Stevenson's lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake and he did a damn good job and the writers definitely helped us adjust Remember his last big TV role was officer Bill Gannon in dragnet
Harry Morgan was a notorious scene stealer as a character actor in several films. Just watch him go toe to toe with James Garner in Support Your Local Sheriff and John Wayne in The Shootist. Great stuff.
In "A Bridge Too Far", a tough sergeant, played by James Caan, brings his young CO, badly wounded in the head, to the field hospital, where the doctor takes a quick look, pronounces him too far gone, and tells "Eddie" to get the patient out of there. Eddie refuses and pulls his sidearm on the doctor, threatening to shoot him unless he tends to his friend. The doc does, and sees that indeed he can be saved. Later, the doctor tells Eddie that "he'll live, with one helluva headache." Then he praises Eddie for having the temerity to pull a gun on him, and says, "I hope it was worth it", explaining that he couldn't simply overlook this, that despite his preference to just let it drop, he couldn't afford to compromise discipline. He then brings Eddie to an MP Lieutenant, and explains to him what happened. The bewildered MP doesn't understand what the doc wants, so he tells him..."count to ten, as fast as you can, and then Sergeant Dohoun can leave." The MP does that, and the doc dismisses him. The doc then tells Eddie, "you really scared me, you dumb son of a bitch. Tell me, would you REALLY have shot me?" Eddie just smiles, salutes the doctor, then leaves.
@@u.v.s.5583 - Agreed. Farrell was a leftist puke in the mold of Henry Fonda who only got more and more annoying as the show went on. This war only lasted 2 years, and the original cast went for 3... so as far as I'm concerned this show ends there. They were the best episodes anyway.
I actually like Potter more than Henry Blake. I liked how they found the balance between Army and relatable to the audience. He was always in control. Blake wasn't.
Mainly by design, I believe. Potter was career army. Blake was just a doctor who happened to be in command. Personally, I don't see one as better than the other, just different. I am glad they made Potter his own character instead of trying to make him just like Blake though, as many other shows have done when replacing characters.
I was surprised to learn that Col. Potter served so many more years on the show than our beloved Col. Blake ---------- but he brought much-much more to that role. :*-)
How about the short scene with Pat Morita as Captain Pak, where he, Col. Blake and Father Mulcahy are eating spicy Korean food... Blake and Mulcahy are using chopsticks, while Capt. Pak is using a fork.
my personal favorite is the 3 stars rank of a Lieutenant General. For some reason, it just looks better than the 2 stars of a MG and the 4 stars of a GEN. But yeah, Eagles look cool, too.
Does anyone know why O’Reilly wasn’t in the very last show - he was as much, if not more, to the show than most of the Nurses, yet he wasn’t there. If he had left before the end I don’t remember him doing so.
Gary Burghoff left the series in 1979. The show went off the air in February of 1983, with the series finale. I always wished Col. Flagg had been in the finale.
I watched the "VERY FIRST" episode of mash (I'm older than dirt). After that I was hooked..never missed an episode right to the end of the show...Felt an emptiness inside when the show ended...like I lost my good friends...
Colonel Potter arriving, he is driving same jeep stolen from the General at Kimpo AB by Pierce, Radar and Hunnicutt in the episode "Hello Korea". The General's jack probably was saluted again.
Our OC once did an experiment on two squadrons. One squad was run as per normal and the other was as strict but less shouting and screaming at the troops. 2nd squadron turned out to be better behaved and better at following commands. Etc. Was very interesting.
The caveat is that it's harder to find people who can do it the second way. The reason we even have the word "leadership" is that you can't just snap your fingers and get it.
Shouting and screaming is usually overdone, but there is reason to that madness. When actual shells are falling, bombs are going off and trauma is quickly becoming priority number one, people trying to fight and save lives have to work in that crap and get their jobs done or everyone falls apart, dies or loses everything they care about. The shouting and screaming in training or at down times, can help to prepare regular folks to operate under true madness later on.
Honestly has a touch of movie MASH to this, with Radar being completely off with his tanning. In another universe, I could see this being the opener to the sequel to MASH with Harry Morgan playing movie-Blake's replacement.
I appreciated that Potter knew when not be bothered by little things, like Radar sunning himself and not noticing him, as he came up the ranks and knew what the soldiers life was like. Another officer could of made his life hell with that kind of first impression, He still knew when to be tough when the situation called for it though.
Fun fact: In the Czech version of the series, the background laughter was removed due to the setting of the entire series, and the writers themselves acknowledged that it was a good idea
@@laurabeane8862 you guys miss the point...SUN gives you energy and foresight...remember this not about...tanning yeah ok but knowledge....radar h' ears the choppers before anyone else.....SUN ENERGY.PLASMA.3.6.9. IN.BETWEEN MOVIE2022..TESSA AND SKYLAR....HELLO.....TESSLAR....SKY......TESLA...MOVIES AND INDICATION SECRETS OV THE WORLD WE LIVE IN...ENJOY PEOPLE
Agreed 1-3 was Korea. 4-11 was Nam, despite the situation it was Nam. They weren't even trying to cover the Nam surplus equipment and they wore almost exclusively 1960s uniform fatigues. When the show started the Vietnam War was winding down to a US SVA victory. By Season 4 the peace had blown up, the 94th Congress wouldn't resupply the SVA as the treaty called for if the NVA violated the DMZ or SV ...which they had done over 1000 sorties. Then the Saigon fly out of the US Embassy....so MASH had always been a protest of the war (using Korea as camouflage)...so the producers made it more obvious
I enjoyed Blake's time on the show, but Potter is, by far, the better character. I kind of feel like Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender draws a lot of inspiration from him. They have a lot of similar features. Warrior, healer, leader...occasional goofball. Something that often goes overlooked is that Potter was the only one in the unit who didn't just see combat, but was actually part of a fighting unit, at least in WW1. And considering how devastating that war was, that he's still kicking through it, and WW2, should give anyone pause when thinking about messing with him. I think the Blake years were alright, but the show was trying too hard to be a "TV safe" version of the movie. When Potter, Honeycut, and Winchester came on, the show really finally became entirely it's own thing, and stopped trying to be like the movie. And, in my opinion, it's better than the movie.
Man the show really stepped it up as soon as BJ, Winchester and Potter were in. Trapper was nice but he was always deep in Hawkeye's shadow, Honestly I forgot all about him a few seasons after he left. Blake, while overall likeable, still showed too much behavior unfit of an officer, especially one in charge of an entire unit. it's surprising how the 4077th stayed afloat under him. And Burns... He was a heaping crap pile that everyone kept adding more to. The man has no depth and whenever they tried to add some he was still shallow to thrive.
A friend, a veteran of Vietnam, told me that "within 5 minutes of taking command, Frank Burns would've been taken out behind the mess tent and had a grenade dropped in his skivvies! He also said that he had seen two men walk behind the mess tent. One man walked away and the other man was carried away on a stretcher, with his head covered."
I guess for comedic effect it works, but realistically out of everybody in the camp Radar is the one that most likely would have looked up to see who was coming and then especially when they were honking the horn.
Especially prominently displaying that "eagle" in a combat zone. Not terrifically smart. Hence why often a senior officer not only didn't display his rank, he was also not to be openly saluted, and if driven, often "rode shotgun", and had an M1 carbine slung over his shoulder.
@@SantomPh Early in the series, it was claimed the MASH unit was three miles from the front. Looked a bit too comfortable for that. Enemy snipers could and did infiltrate our lines.
Loved MASH as a kid in the UK were we got the version without the laughtrack, now whenever I see it even on some of the higher number channels it is the US version and the horrible canned laughter just destroys the programme and makes it unwatchable
But you can see it in the pilot when he catches a football, just as he hears choppers coming (the first time - just before the credits/theme music begins!).
The first time that M*A*S*H* introduced a ‘regular Army’ character who wasn’t either certifiably insane, or gung-ho, and uncaring of his men. Colonel Potter was human.
Indeed, he was the father-figure they all needed.
He was a "Mustang" who lied about his age to fight in WW1
Meanwhile MASH had introduced the very same actor before - as a regular army character who was certifiably insane.
Harry Morgan probably thought it was a one off again.
@@Fred_L. They don't put that one on the air anymore bc Gen. Steele goes into a rendition of "Mississippi Mud" after seeing some African Americans. There's also ones they don't air in the USA anymore because Trapper and Hawkeye have an Aussie friend who's always drunk, and a bro hanging out at "The Swamp" they refer to as "Spear chucker Jones"
As much as I loved Colonel Blake in the first three seasons, Colonel Potter was a much better fit for the more serious tone the show would eventually develop as the series went on.
He was an army man with a heart of gold, someone who was serious enough to hold his unit together while never forgetting that his subordinates were all people dealing with too much and needed a break every now and then.
Idk. In the last 30 or so episodes Henry began to get pretty serious.
Yes. I think his character could have been developed more.
Blake was very likeable, but he was a pushover.
He enabled some very shifty behaviour in his unit.
Potter was by the book, but a total "salt of the earth".
This show was very clever in introducing their replacement characters. Potter was smart and fair, BJ was a family man but a playmate to Hawkeye and the replacement for Frank Burns, Charles Winchester III was a stroke of genius, Snobby but smart and gave as good as he got. The casting and writers did a great job.
all three , far better than the previous.
@@slewone4905 I totally disagree.
@@slewone4905 Matter of your opinion, not likely shared by many, if at all.
What they were was different but of the same quality. Gave the show the ebbs and flow of life. Some people stay, others come and go. Definitely contributed to the show's longevity and success in reruns.
The way the show wrote each characters shortcoming as a cover for their insecurities and the actors abilities to understand that and execute it is second to none. It had not been achieved before and hasn't been done since.
I’m not a huge fan of show but I likes it a lot better once Larry Linville left. They developed Loretta Swit into a more mature character and David Ogden Stiers was more of a match for Hawkeye and BJ
I really liked the fact that Potter didn't respond with indignation to how O'Reilly initially presented himself. He simply instructed the corporal where to put his gear and asked what purpose the foil served. He could've very easily started throwing his weight around.
I just now realized how impressive it was that Potter, who BTW was a full colonel, drove himself to the unit rather than relying on a driver.
He behaved like a real officer should.
The NCOs are for direct discipline and correction. Officers should need to get aggressive
@@nolanboles8492 As a 1Lt I got in trouble once for driving myself during summer camp. Officers are supposed to have drivers
He’s seen much worse.
Field grade RA officer (Mustang). They’ve seen it all.
Col. Sherman Potter was my favorite character. A soldier who was also a healer. He reminded me of a great uncle who served during WWII.
I really believe for his whole acting career Henry Morgan was borne to play Col. Potter
. He was perfect.
I always liked Sherman Potter. He was regular army, but smart enough to treat the people under his command as regular people.
This Man fought in "The War to end all Wars" - only to fight in two more.
Col Potter character did a lot to save MASH !
Did he ever. Harry Morgan was a perfect replacement.
Both Potter and Winchester did a lot when it came to changing the overall tone of the show.
Acting comes natural to Harry Morgan as if he's the character.
Sucked after that actually
@@beanzbeanz really sucked when it became a sitcom instead of a dark comedy.
A nice reminder of when TV wasn't all reality crap.
Great character fleshed out by Mr. Morgan. That speech he makes in the ep. where he shouts “why can’t they end this stupid war” as his voice breaks was one of the most emotional moments I ever saw on TV
The episode that goes through an entire year, from new year's to new year's, where he starts with "and may we all be home before she's over" and ends with him choking up while saying "and may we all be home before she's over," always stuck with me, too.
The episode with the tontine. The bottles that he and his squad mates found in France during WWI and he was the last man standing. His toast to his old friends brought a tear to my eye.
@@jasonkoch3182 ... That episode bothered me because it completely destroys the MASH timeline. Colonel Potter assumed command of the 4077 in September of 1952 but the year long episode starts in 1951 during the time that Henry Blake and Trapper John would have been there. So the writers of that episode are basically telling us that they never existed.
We see so much of Col. Potter's decency in that scene. The frustration, the caring, the second-guessing, all of it comes forth.
I remember the episode you've quoted. I think the enemy started using white phosphorus & the 4077th had to apply a jelly before operating
One of the great TV shows ever! I liked Harry Morgan. He brought low key humor and a more realistic character as the commander of M*A*S*H 4077.
Loved watching this series as a kid together with me dad and my mom and sister. Good old days. Great show!
First time I saw MASH was as a kid and it was on after my bed time. I came out to get a drink and the first scene I ever saw had Klinger walking past the Swamp in a dress smoking a cigar. Been a fan ever since.
Harry Morgan:s Sherman T Potter had some absolutely massive shoes to fill in the form of the fallen arches of McLean Stevenson's lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake and he did a damn good job and the writers definitely helped us adjust
Remember his last big TV role was officer Bill Gannon in dragnet
MASH got serious when Col. Potter arrived.
Harry Morgan was a notorious scene stealer as a character actor in several films. Just watch him go toe to toe with James Garner in Support Your Local Sheriff and John Wayne in The Shootist. Great stuff.
I loved this show. There was humor, romance and a lot of sad moments and that made it very human and realistic in my opinion.
Best exchange between Radar and Potter was when he found a horse and presented it to the colonel as a surprise. Awesome stuff.
My uncle Bob was a colonel in the army. He was also a doctor. He commanded MASH units in Nam. You didn’t fuck with uncle Bob
Is it true that the mash unit in Vietnam is worst than the mash unit in Korea?
@@RubidouxFalcon1988 can’t answer that.
In "A Bridge Too Far", a tough sergeant, played by James Caan, brings his young CO, badly wounded in the head, to the field hospital, where the doctor takes a quick look, pronounces him too far gone, and tells "Eddie" to get the patient out of there. Eddie refuses and pulls his sidearm on the doctor, threatening to shoot him unless he tends to his friend. The doc does, and sees that indeed he can be saved. Later, the doctor tells Eddie that "he'll live, with one helluva headache." Then he praises Eddie for having the temerity to pull a gun on him, and says, "I hope it was worth it", explaining that he couldn't simply overlook this, that despite his preference to just let it drop, he couldn't afford to compromise discipline. He then brings Eddie to an MP Lieutenant, and explains to him what happened. The bewildered MP doesn't understand what the doc wants, so he tells him..."count to ten, as fast as you can, and then Sergeant Dohoun can leave." The MP does that, and the doc dismisses him. The doc then tells Eddie, "you really scared me, you dumb son of a bitch. Tell me, would you REALLY have shot me?" Eddie just smiles, salutes the doctor, then leaves.
My favorite all time show in life. Miss these days
Potter and Hunnicut were great replacements for Henry and Trapper, but I still miss them.
Potter yes. The other guy was a huge miss. The only other decent replacement was Winchester.
@@u.v.s.5583 - Agreed. Farrell was a leftist puke in the mold of Henry Fonda who only got more and more annoying as the show went on. This war only lasted 2 years, and the original cast went for 3... so as far as I'm concerned this show ends there. They were the best episodes anyway.
@@56squadron so your rightwing? on the side of the rich? lol idiot.....
I miss that show. It had some of the best writing in television.
Loved it when Col. Potter came along.
Yeah, showed a couple of folks how to curb their attitudes... namely Hoolihan and Burns.
Henry was the big brother. Potter was the father.
@@kossttamojaan Henry could also be the easy going Uncle everyone loved.
I actually like Potter more than Henry Blake. I liked how they found the balance between Army and relatable to the audience. He was always in control. Blake wasn't.
Mainly by design, I believe. Potter was career army. Blake was just a doctor who happened to be in command. Personally, I don't see one as better than the other, just different. I am glad they made Potter his own character instead of trying to make him just like Blake though, as many other shows have done when replacing characters.
@@billybones1694 It was a gamble that paid dividends!
I was surprised to learn that Col. Potter served so many more years on the show than our beloved Col. Blake ---------- but he brought much-much more to that role. :*-)
Blake was a womanizing buffoon. But, it was a good balance for Houlihan and Burns always trying to gung ho everything.
How about the short scene with Pat Morita as Captain Pak, where he, Col. Blake and Father Mulcahy are eating spicy Korean food... Blake and Mulcahy are using chopsticks, while Capt. Pak is using a fork.
Love the subtlety of that scene!
Capt Pak ROK
Father Mulcahy GOD
Henry was the best
Sheldon on Big Bang Theory said Koreans use forks not chopsticks!
And Pak was right and the others were wrong.
@@kurtcobainpizza5606 would you really have an Hern Blake as commanding offocer or rely on someone like Col Potter?
Of all the Insignia in the Military, the Eagles worn by Colonels and Navy Captains are the best.
Never got farther than Specialist, U.S. ARNG 🇺🇸
Sure are. I have two of em. Friend of mine retired from the navy got em for me.
my personal favorite is the 3 stars rank of a Lieutenant General. For some reason, it just looks better than the 2 stars of a MG and the 4 stars of a GEN. But yeah, Eagles look cool, too.
Watched the series finale of Mash on Veterans Day and it made me realize how much I miss all of the MASH characters from beginning to end.
Yeah, it's a great show on MeTV. Can't stand Maj. Burns... AKA "Ferret-Face."
Does anyone know why O’Reilly wasn’t in the very last show - he was as much, if not more, to the show than most of the Nurses, yet he wasn’t there. If he had left before the end I don’t remember him doing so.
@@minkgin3370 he left before the end..and Klinger took his place
@@mottthehoople693 …..yes, thanks, I surmised that. Just thought it was a shame he wasn’t there at the end as he had a good part in the show.
Gary Burghoff left the series in 1979. The show went off the air in February of 1983, with the series finale. I always wished Col. Flagg had been in the finale.
When I was a kid and first saw this episode, I was like, cool General Steele is the new head guy...oops I was wrong ...lol
Me too
I watched the "VERY FIRST" episode of mash (I'm older than dirt). After that I was hooked..never missed an episode right to the end of the show...Felt an emptiness inside when the show ended...like I lost my good friends...
That's quite an accomplishment, not having missed an episode over that number of years.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter I was hooked from the 1st episode...I later got hooked on the Sopranos..never missed an episode..
Colonel Potter arriving, he is driving same jeep stolen from the General at Kimpo AB by Pierce, Radar and Hunnicutt in the episode "Hello Korea".
The General's jack probably was saluted again.
What, we can’t get another ten seconds? “That sun’ll take the hide right off you, son!”
Our OC once did an experiment on two squadrons. One squad was run as per normal and the other was as strict but less shouting and screaming at the troops. 2nd squadron turned out to be better behaved and better at following commands. Etc. Was very interesting.
The caveat is that it's harder to find people who can do it the second way. The reason we even have the word "leadership" is that you can't just snap your fingers and get it.
@@siler7 Yea I hear you. Some folk wont walk the straight and narrow on their own hay. Regards.
Shouting and screaming is usually overdone, but there is reason to that madness. When actual shells are falling, bombs are going off and trauma is quickly becoming priority number one, people trying to fight and save lives have to work in that crap and get their jobs done or everyone falls apart, dies or loses everything they care about. The shouting and screaming in training or at down times, can help to prepare regular folks to operate under true madness later on.
The episode where Potter gives his horse to the woman whose father is dressed in his old Korean veteran uniform who reluctantly climbs off the horse.
After his recovery form What Did You Do in the War, Daddy.
Which also features General Bolt from Kelly's Heros.
They are all connected.
I always thought that this was out of character for Radar. His Midwest personality wouldn’t blindly say that to anyone especially in the army.
Same here but at the same time he just finished having to serve burnes so he was probably just done with everything
@@Fade2BlackMCfade
Wasn't it *Blake* that he had to serve?
@@mckinleymac3452 yea but after Blake left for home and his helicopter crashed he had to serve burnes
@@Fade2BlackMCfade
That's right, I forgot there was a short time that Burns was in command.
Thank you
@@mckinleymac3452 no problem bud
MASH IS MY FAVORITE SHOW
Just like the Paul Simon song says, " Still Crazy After All These Years. "
The start to an amazing friend. Father/ son relationship !!
Honestly has a touch of movie MASH to this, with Radar being completely off with his tanning. In another universe, I could see this being the opener to the sequel to MASH with Harry Morgan playing movie-Blake's replacement.
I appreciated that Potter knew when not be bothered by little things, like Radar sunning himself and not noticing him, as he came up the ranks and knew what the soldiers life was like. Another officer could of made his life hell with that kind of first impression, He still knew when to be tough when the situation called for it though.
At the end of this episode, he's found in The Swamp, sharing a drink with Hawkeye and BJ, singing old ditties.
And he told Hawke and BJ how he got his purple heart! 🤣🤣🤣
That show never ages.
Seeing him play the crazy general, to the loving hard ass colonel. Is a bit of a leap to say. But he did a great job of it.
BUFFALO BAGELS!! DONKEY DONUTS!!! PIGEON PELLETS!!! MONKEY MUFFINS!!! COW COOKIES!!! HORSE HOCKEY!! MULE FRITTERS!!!!
…he reading the mess hall menu? 🤣
LOWER THAN GOLPHER'S BASEMENT!
@@blockmasterscott Lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great addition to mash
Fun fact: In the Czech version of the series, the background laughter was removed due to the setting of the entire series, and the writers themselves acknowledged that it was a good idea
Great show and characters thank you
His original appearance as General Steele going kookoo at the compound was hilarious.
Yep. And there's no way it could be made in Hollywood today with all the PC BS.
I was 12 when this was on TV. It was compulsive viewing in the 1970s when TV was still worth watching.
The one time Radar didn't see something coming...
I always hoped that at the end of the series than "the end of the cnflict Col. BLAKE would have show up as a POW
" That sun will blaze the skin right off of you!"
Yep. And it was cloudy outside 😄
@@laurabeane8862 you guys miss the point...SUN gives you energy and foresight...remember this not about...tanning yeah ok but knowledge....radar h' ears the choppers before anyone else.....SUN ENERGY.PLASMA.3.6.9. IN.BETWEEN MOVIE2022..TESSA AND SKYLAR....HELLO.....TESSLAR....SKY......TESLA...MOVIES AND INDICATION SECRETS OV THE WORLD WE LIVE IN...ENJOY PEOPLE
Greatest character in 1980s television. Became the prototype for Captain Picard, and many others.
Please cite your source
- Horse cookies, there are four lights, and now vamoose!
There really are 2 MASH,'s. S 1-3 and S 4-11.
All have that special feel of a terrific series that I have enjoyed for 40 years now.
😎👍😁
Agreed 1-3 was Korea. 4-11 was Nam, despite the situation it was Nam. They weren't even trying to cover the Nam surplus equipment and they wore almost exclusively 1960s uniform fatigues.
When the show started the Vietnam War was winding down to a US SVA victory. By Season 4 the peace had blown up, the 94th Congress wouldn't resupply the SVA as the treaty called for if the NVA violated the DMZ or SV ...which they had done over 1000 sorties.
Then the Saigon fly out of the US Embassy....so MASH had always been a protest of the war (using Korea as camouflage)...so the producers made it more obvious
Who remembers Harry Morgan in earlier episode as looney major(?). Cannot find thru 11 seasons of back episodes!-lol...Almost gave me migraine!
S3 E1. "The General Flipped at Dawn".
Yes I saw that one having not seen it b4 and it was disconcerting ..because I just thought he'd lost it but he was a general...
The General Flipped at Dawn, premiere of Season 3
"Tell my wife the dried prunes are working fine. Best thing since the Gatling gun!"
Priceless
The best thing to happen to MASH was the arrival of Col. Potter.
I think I can count on one hand the bad episodes
@@GeneralG1810 and those all were veiled political ones done by Alda and Farrell
Adding Harry Morgan to the show was a brilliant idea.
A Colonel driving a Jeep!
I saw this a lot when I was in the Marines, officers driving on their own.
When you're a corporal you'll have to assume that whoever is honking that horn so obnoxiously is going to outrank you.
My favorite episode!
You missed the Col.'s response at the end..... the BEST part.
god i want one of those jeeps .
I enjoyed Blake's time on the show, but Potter is, by far, the better character. I kind of feel like Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender draws a lot of inspiration from him. They have a lot of similar features.
Warrior, healer, leader...occasional goofball. Something that often goes overlooked is that Potter was the only one in the unit who didn't just see combat, but was actually part of a fighting unit, at least in WW1. And considering how devastating that war was, that he's still kicking through it, and WW2, should give anyone pause when thinking about messing with him.
I think the Blake years were alright, but the show was trying too hard to be a "TV safe" version of the movie. When Potter, Honeycut, and Winchester came on, the show really finally became entirely it's own thing, and stopped trying to be like the movie. And, in my opinion, it's better than the movie.
The first time radars radar didn’t work
I remember watching a young Henry Morgan as Jack Webb's side-kick in DRAGNET
Det. Bill Gannon
go easy on him; he's a good kid
Potter made this show. Great character
In earlier days Col. Potter was Pete Porter, Spring Byington's neighbor on December Brides in the middle to late 50's. A great actor.
It was great watching it in the UK, no laughter track
The start of a beautiful friendship.
Colonel Potter: in this sun it will tear your hide off ☀️☀️☀️☀️
Man. What a great show this was.
Top-notch.
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Man the show really stepped it up as soon as BJ, Winchester and Potter were in.
Trapper was nice but he was always deep in Hawkeye's shadow, Honestly I forgot all about him a few seasons after he left.
Blake, while overall likeable, still showed too much behavior unfit of an officer, especially one in charge of an entire unit. it's surprising how the 4077th stayed afloat under him.
And Burns... He was a heaping crap pile that everyone kept adding more to. The man has no depth and whenever they tried to add some he was still shallow to thrive.
A friend, a veteran of Vietnam, told me that "within 5 minutes of taking command, Frank Burns would've been taken out behind the mess tent and had a grenade dropped in his skivvies! He also said that he had seen two men walk behind the mess tent. One man walked away and the other man was carried away on a stretcher, with his head covered."
Colonel Potter. My all-time favorite character.
Harry Morgan one of my favorite human beings of all time
I always wondered why Radar's sixth sense never warned him the Potter was driving up...
"That sun'll rip the hide rightoffaya."
I guess for comedic effect it works, but realistically out of everybody in the camp Radar is the one that most likely would have looked up to see who was coming and then especially when they were honking the horn.
Radar is always so stressed and nervy so when he relaxes, he really takes his foot off the pedal.
Good show
Blake wasn't such a bad guy, but he didn't have the same fire and fury that Colonel Potter had when it came to getting things done.
A Colonel, Driving a jeep... alone... That's a sniper's dream.
Especially prominently displaying that "eagle" in a combat zone. Not terrifically smart. Hence why often a senior officer not only didn't display his rank, he was also not to be openly saluted, and if driven, often "rode shotgun", and had an M1 carbine slung over his shoulder.
@@selfdo the base wasn't really anywhere near the front lines that a sniper would get him.
@@SantomPh Early in the series, it was claimed the MASH unit was three miles from the front. Looked a bit too comfortable for that. Enemy snipers could and did infiltrate our lines.
Best show ever
WELCOME TO THE NEW COMMAND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ....MCWJW 1974/2021+- OWNED THIS SET ABOUT 3/4 XZ!!!!
I love Radars reaction
_MASH_ is sooo much better with Colonel Potter in command of the 4077th
Very good CO
“Nakeditity” 😂🇺🇸
Possibly the best meeting of two personalities on an established show ever.
Loved MASH as a kid in the UK were we got the version without the laughtrack, now whenever I see it even on some of the higher number channels it is the US version and the horrible canned laughter just destroys the programme and makes it unwatchable
Those were the days my friend!
I thought Potter couldn't drive.....
"He's regular Army!"
"And I'm regular crazy!"
I like Henry Blake I think the series got better when Colonel Potter came into the show
So sad it finshed! John P.
I wonder if Frank and Charles would have liked each other.
How I miss these fictional characters...
True story, the actor who Radar had a deformity on his left hand, and came up up with some ingenious ways to hide it from the camera.
But you can see it in the pilot when he catches a football, just as he hears choppers coming (the first time - just before the credits/theme music begins!).
@@WendyCR72 yeah, he wasnt always successful and you see it from time to time.
Col Potter, yea I'd follow that man into combat any day.
Radar meets his boss Sherman T. "The Colonel" Potter has arrived.