MeTV Presents the Best of Col. Henry Blake
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2020
- The 4077th's first commanding officer had many memorable moments!
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Featured episodes:
-M*A*S*H:
-“Operation Noselift” (Season 2 Episode 18)
-“The Trial of Henry Blake” (Season 2 Episode 8)
-“The Sniper” (Season 2 Episode 10)
-“Sometimes You Hear the Bullet” (Season 1 Episode 17)
-“Dear Dad...Three” (Season 2 Episode 9)
-“Deal Me Out” (Season 2 Episode 13)
-“To Market, To Market” (Season 1 Episode 2)
-“Cowboy” (Season 1 Episode 8)
-“Abyssinia, Henry” (Season 3 Episode 24) 
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On March 21, 1975 the MASH episode featuring the death of Henry Blake was shown for the first time on TV. My father had died of a heart attack earlier that day. He loved the show.I was lying on the couch trying to watch TV, a bewildered 17 year old who was dealing with the loss of her father, and that was the episode which came on. The death of my father and the death of Henry Blake are forever entwined in my mind. Here I am in my 60s, but I cannot see that episode without thinking of the devastating personal loss I experienced that day.
Carla that's a touching story. I also grew up watching this show with my dad who loved it. I was blessed to have my dad around till this summer when he passed. I am 51 yrs old now and your comment brings me back to those days ( 1970s and 80s) watching these great shows. God bless!
@@davidmedeiros2856 Thank you. TV is usually so shallow, but there are some shows which speak to the heart of our humanity, and they are memorable.
I’m sorry for your loss. The void never goes away does it. 😕
@@wheelie642 Thanks. It's true. You always feel the loss. It's just that you adjust. But even now there are things which make me think of him. A son with his eyes and some of his mannerisms help. It makes me wonder about nature and nurture, sometimes, when I watch my 30 something son who never knew his grandfather but reminds me so much of him.
I attended a hockey game that day. The game had been on TV in Washington DC, so they pre-empted the MASH episode. I got home in time to watch Henry be killed off. My story isn't nearly as emotional as yours, Carla, but it's funny that I remember it so well. I guess it's the dramatic TV version of JFK being killed. Everyone remembers where they were.
Two minutes isn't enough for the best of Henry Blake.
Alan Alda may have been the star of the show, but it was the rest of the cast that made it really funny. Henry and Frank were the funniest. Hawkeye was more funny when Frank was involved. Henry was hilarious with his knack of flubbing his words. "A gurney is used to transfer patients to and from from. That's what I meant by my yes sir sir."
There are times when Henry proves he is not the joke he too frequently appears to be. He is worthy of his position, and he did not deserve his fate.
I wonder how Henry and Trapper would have evolved and developed had they stayed on the show. I think they had the potential to be more 3-dimensional characters.
@@Summer_Reigns If you've ever seen the 80s sitcom "House Calls," with Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave, I think we have a good idea how Trapper might have developed. Still a little crazy, but more balanced.
@@kali3665 Henry and Trap were fine characters as written and had dimension. The show was just more subtle originally and it had humor and depth alike. :Later on it was merely pretentious and really boring not more deep. See my channel for info about North Korean mass-,murderer communist Kim ll Sung!
I agree, sad that the writers decided to be @$$holes about him leaving.
I love when Henry was drunk. That speech to Hawkeye was fantastic.
They're getting a brand new Temple never even been prayed in. 🤠
@@KeithFroehlich07 boy that gets ya right where you live.
@@KeithFroehlich07Was I singing? I thought I was dancing.
One of the best shows on tv. Over 45 years
I didn't grow up with this show. I only started watching it in the last few years; all eleven seasons are on Hulu right now, which I've got. I'm in my early 30s and still live with my mother and stepfather, and I suggested that, for family TV night, we start binging this. They agreed.
Last year, a documentary about MASH premiered on Hulu. It was early in the morning when I started watching it (I work from the afternoon to the night). My stepfather, who HAD grown up with the show, walked in, very much like a sitcom character in retrospect, and said "Oop! Warning; spoilers!" Because we were like...one, one and a half, two seasons or so into MASH. I remember kinda scoffing and rolling my eyes, saying something like "Stepdad, it's an eleven-season TV show that ended back in the 80s. I'm PRETTY sure I'm good." To which he responded with "Okay," shrugging his shoulders, and going to work from his office in our house.
I think my jaw literally dropped when that documentary got to the part about how Henry Blake was written out of the show when his actor decided to leave. My stepdad was right; who knew?
For a while, I thought maybe Henry Blake's death was so effective in part because no one saw it coming. I told myself "I DO. I DO see it coming. That'll make it easier...right?"
Well, we reached Season 3. We reached the ending.
It was NOT easier. If anything, knowing it was coming made watching the show even WORSE. We saw Blake agonizing over not being able to be there for his wife when she went into labor. We saw him both excited and relieved when he learned that she and their new baby were both okay. We saw him agonize over the hard decisions he had to make in his position, like which patients to leave to die while they focused on which ones to focus attention on, and we saw him look forward to when he could leave soldier life and go back to being a husband and father. We watched all of this, knowing he wouldn't even get to MAKE it home to kiss his wife, hug his kids, and hold his new baby.
Mom and I both cried at the end of the Season 3 finale. My stepdad didn't bother with any 'I Told You So's.' While Mom and I were crying, he got up and came back with a box of tissues that he placed between us.
IDK what the point of me typing all this is. Except for maybe 'Damn good TV is damn good TV. If that's true, then it doesn't matter how much time has passed since it ended.' This show's made me laugh and cry in ways no other TV show has, and I have nothing but respect for everyone who was involved in making it. This show made me love this guy, and made me cry my eyes out when he died, and it takes a VERY special show to do just that.
Henry Blake's death and Hawkeye's breakdown in the last episode sent me to tears. Im glad I was introduced to this show.
Radar never behaved and Henry never came back to kick his butt.
Miss you colonel. 😔
McClean Stevenson was a great comedian. You should see him on The Tonight Show. He knew how to tell real personal stories and make you laugh.
I have the entire DVD’s collection of this series. No regrets
Why would there be regret? M*A*S*H was one of the greatest television shows ever created. You have taste and appreciation for the good things, sir.
@@xaenon Thank you. Also “no regrets “ because my good sir, the DVD doesn’t have the audience laughing effect.
I can't wait until I get the entire series on DVD!!
I've always thought I could accept the fact that his plane had "no survivors" until this was uploaded.
I really like Potter, but I sure miss Henry...
1:36 The line that changed the course of the show.
Henry is one of my favorite characters. I wish he’d stayed on the show longer. Potter was a good replacement for the most part though.
One of his best moments is missing from here: “But first, remove the fuse.”
Agree completely, I'm sure he regretted leaving. Another best moment when navigating the mine field. That should put your in the heart of downtown Berlin.
I liked him taking to Klinger while he was trying to golf.
“ You’re the one that looks like Gone with the Wind!” 😂😂😂
As a pre-teen, I crushed on Henry for the whole time he was on the show.
Agreed--one of the all time best TV 📺 shows!
When henry was going gome and col potters horse from radar abd toasting potters fellow soldiers from WW1 was my favorite mash episodes
1:35 This episode and speech were a freaking gut punch.
R.I.P. Henry. 😔
This show should have had way more spin offs.
The producers made sure his character could never come back, and not have a spin-off series.
This is only TV character I ever seen whose death seems like losing a real person.
Even now, after all these years I still cannot watch Radar tell everyone in the operating room what happened.
It was sad when Henry died but it goes to show not everyone important survives in war
Blake: What am I signing, Radar?
Radar: You initial to show that you didn't sign, when you initialed. Then you sign here, to authorize the initials, that you initialed, when signed your signature, instead of your initials
Blake: Do you understand any of this?
Radar: I try not to, Sir. It slows up the work
Still some of the funniest TV ever
My favorite line from Henry Blake, "This is a test of my leadershipmanship."
Henery is the Best!!
Henry was hilarious but also had a heart too. I wish he’d stayed. I never liked Potter as much.
Boy that Sylvia Jaffe is loaded for bear. 🤠
What they did to him was a hate crime
Oak?
Nope. It oak.
McClain Stevenson was soooooo GOOD as "Henry Blake"!!!! This Show started going downhill after they killed Henry off!!!!
One strange thing of mash was that skeleton figure always focused on and near henry blake especially really creepy when he was going home i got the spookies from
Henry Blake was befuddled as a commanding officer during the calm times. When things turned sour, there was no one you'd rather have in charge. He was an excellent doctor and hospital administrator. When the bombs started dropping during the Army-Navy game, he was way ahead of everyone else - until he took fragments in his head and went dippy...
Lt col Henry Blake was funny. He played a good part
So in the scene where Colonel Blake leaves and Radar walks in the operating room to deliver the message of his fate is it true that that scene in the operating room had to be re-cut? It was said that something went wrong in the first take.
Yeah, Larry Gelbart said in an interview that they had to do a second take, because the camera guy said there was a shadow and something else went wrong. Gelbart didn't think that Gary Burghoff could repeat the emotion he showed in the first take, but he did. Gelbart said that after watching the scene, McLean Stevenson went to his dressing room and cried for two hours. He did not attend the wrap party for the cast and crew.
I've wanted to recreate Henry's hat. Buti know what it's like to hook myself.
Jack Soo from Barney Miller can be seen in this video.
LOL. 💜
😂😂😂😂😂
I hope y'all will reply to this who saw the Disney movie The Cat from Outer Space?????!!!!...both of M*A*S*H*'s commanding officers were in it McLean Stevenson and Harry Morgan
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately his actions mirror our prime Minister Morrison.