The Real Reason Why These Actors Left MASH
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- The show MASH was a big hit, capturing hearts and minds with its blend of comedy and drama. But behind the scenes, not everything was smooth sailing. Some of the key actors, who seemed like they would stay forever, suddenly left the show. What made them walk away from such a successful series?
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My Dad was in Korea, he couldnt stand MASH. He would say I was there, and there was nothing funny about it.
My dad served in the Pacific and Europe, defended Australia and England, helped liberate Norway and France. He could not stand Hogan's Heroes. He did not want me to serve and would not talk about it. Mash was more insulting to me and my brothers and sisters, Navy corpsmen.
TYREE HM2
God bless your dad 🇺🇲
@kennethtyree4770 : My dad felt the exact same way about that show. He was in the Pacific theater.
The man who wrote the book the movie was based on was clear about how he hated that TV show.
I don't blame him. My respects to him. I despise dim witted people who are clueless to the fact the Koreans were happy we were there and are one of our staunchest allies.
Stevenson said in an interview that he left not because he wanted the leading role, but because the show was moving away from being an ensemble show and becoming more and more about Hawkeye. To him the fact that it was supposed to be an ensemble show and, with Alda’s growing influence and power, was shifting to a show centered around him. This cut deeply into the other characters storylines.
Yes Alda ruined it and the preachy writing. Couldn't stand the show after a while even with some good cast members. Alda wasn't one of them.
Well it ruined Allan Alda! He was so type cast he never really got another part!
The reason was because Alda was that good . He was a clear break out star . It wasn’t because Alda demanded it , like some here say .
@@pooddescrewch8718 if you say so.
@@pooddescrewch8718 He definitely was the most popular character, at least in the first few years. The producers saw him as the show's core and focused on him the most. It's all about ratings and money.
When the actors started writing and directing the show, it lost its spontaneity. They tried too hard to push social agendas, making the humor seem forced.
Social agendas, environmental agendas, religious agendas...ANY agenda ruin entertainment.
Just tell a blanking story.
Its nothing like it would be today though. Now it would be insanely agenda driven and pushing modern politicals and issues into Korean war stories.
Agree 100%.
I was born in mid 60's and I understood the humor and would explain the jokes to some adults. At the time I found it sophisticated humor but I was a kid. Now I watch it and the jokes and lines seem so obvious. And I think if they said this it would of been funnier. I considered it funny and one of the greatest shows ever. But now I don't.
Alan Alda didn't ruined the show.
EDIT: Alda ruined MASH.
The episode where Blake's death was revealed to the TV audience was Gary Burgoff's best acting moment. I love this show and thought all of the actors were awesome.
As a 9 or 10 year old and watching in reruns, when Henry died I was so shocked that I couldn't watch it for years. That was beginning of the end of the great mash episodes.
@@leitheparsons1186 I did like Henry Morgan as Col Potter, and Winchester was an interesting character. Jaime Farr was always great.
The death of Henry Blake was kept secret from nearly the entire cast. This is one of the reasons that the reactions were so realistic.
Correction Harry Morgan
Many have commented that the show was not as good in the later years for a variety of reasons. While I agree that the quality was not as good near the end of its run, I still loved the show all the way through.
There is only so much you can stretch out an idea. MASH was never meant to go 11 seasons.
The war was like two days. Just kidding. But very short compared to the show length
@@davidadams5280 3 years...MASH 11 years...almost 4 times longer than the war.
If you want to talk about a show that stretched out an idea too much, it would be The Simpsons. 35 seasons and the characters haven't aged a day. 😄
I was always a Colonel Flagg fan.
Me too that dude was kicking.
I knew a guy just like him in the USMC, never knew what rank he was, he would just appear, he was a good guy though, but definitely "different".
He should’ve been on the show more, and definitely in the last season or last episode. He stole the show when he was on it.
SAME HERE....BEST CHARACTER ON THE SHOW
"You're dumb, Freedman, very dumb! But you've met your match in me!"
I grew tired of Alan Alda. ‘Hawkeye’ took up too much of what could have been a more compelling cast of characters.
He was always trying to make it a political statement and act like a martyr. He was sickening. It ruined the show for many people.
It became in many ways, the Hawkeye show. I would’ve liked to have seen more character development on Frank Burns rather than him just being an adulterous foil for Hawkeye jokes.
@@TheSubwaysurfer Have you actually read the book it's based on...by the REAL LIFE Hawkeye - MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
@@Plasmastorm73_n5evv The author hated the series and the TV version of Hawkeye:
"author Richard Hornberger once said that the series "tramples on my memories" because he wrote the novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" inspired by his own experiences as a surgeon in the Korean War, but his real disdain was for the show's version of Hawkeye and the man who played him. It's hard to imagine anyone having an issue with Alda, but Hornberger apparently had some serious beef."
The main reason Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson left after the third season was that Alan Alda was going to leave and the show was going to not be renewed. Rogers and Stevenson both picked up other shows. The Network gave Alda associate producer credits and a big pay bump to stay, which he did. But it was too late for the other two stars. I met Wayne Rogers when he invested in a company I worked for and he confirmed this story.
OK, I will play along.....Are you saying AFTER the third season was over, and Blake was killed in the show that Alda was also going to leave? Why was Alda going to leave?j Was this because he knew the other two were leaving also?....In other words, did they ALL want to leave to become INDIVIDUAL stars away from an large cast show???? None of the fans knew Trapper was leaving Mash, until the beginning of the 4th season, so Rogers could have easily been brought back, had they given him some position/credit.....Just a bunch of egomaniacs.....actors are strange folks...
@@user-sb8yy6zj4q He wasn't. Rogers left after a contract dispute because the show was moving into the Hawkeye show, and so did Stevenson. Both admitted it was a bad move on their parts but at the time was the thing to do.
When I was young, I really liked watching MASH; however, I can't stand it now. I never realized how completely obnoxious Hawkeye/Alan Alda was, but Potter/Harry Morgan and Winchester/David Ogden Stiers make it worth watching.
So true Alan Alda was a bore.
AA gave me the impression that he thought wisecracks coupled with supposed 'thought-provoking' insights were a sign of intelligence and anyone slightly 'right'(in HIS eyes)of Karl Marx was a KKK N**i warmonger,I think the term 'empty vessels make most noise' was tailor-made for him.
I grew to dislike Alan Alda/Hawkeye - Col. Potter & Charles were the only bright spots in the later years.
Same
Ogden Stiers was definitely an improvement over Frank Burns' character.
I met Larry Linville. Nothing like Frank Burns. Witty, warm and all around nice person. It is tragic that he died young and have an opportunity to explore roles that could have expanded his portfolio. He was certainly capable of it. Kind of side note- he and Burghoff were good friends and stayed in touch
That said, the Frank Burns character was enormous fun and Larry put everything into it
Yes he was. I met him at a convention in Portland Oregon when I was a kid (teenager)
my dad, a Korean vet hated it. He said Hawkeye would be court marshelled for insubbordination
Your dad was tighter than a frog’s ass
If McArthur a noted 5 star general could be fired, so too could a mediocre saw bones like Hawkeye!
God bless your dad. I never understood why MASH was popular anyway.
It was a TV show. It wasn't meant to be accurate to reality. It wasn't about Korea anyway, it was a thinly veiled analogy to Vietnam. They couldn't have made a show about Vietnam at that time because it was too controversial.
@@edmundcharles5278a 5 star general can be replaced by just promoting another 4-star general. A soldier with a medical degree and experience doing fast surgeries under combat settings is tougher to replace, and thus probably got quite a bit more slack than an average grunt.
Got to be too preachy halfway through.
Once Alan Alda became more involved in the writing and production of the show, the series started its steady drop in quality.
I agree with you and scottcaldwell it got preachey and more like a soap opera with comic relief, when alda took over the show lost its earlier light hearted humorous edge, and for no particular reason it seemed they (or alda) axed the guitar player that was in the original movie as well.
True
It was always politically driven . From day one .
@@pooddescrewch8718yes, but you can noticeably see the changes, to Alda's leftism. Stevenson and Wayne left because they were no longer in the feature mix as much...just sidekicks.
Stevenson left because they were paying him peanuts. He was killed off to show other cast members that if you quit, you wouldn’t be able to return.
He said he left because the show was quickly becoming the Alan Alda show and moving away from being an ensemble show.
Most of the characters were well played by the actors. The last few years of the series, Alda became a predictable stage hog of poor quality. He began to think that he was Groucho Marx. Frankly, he wasn’t. His arrogance turned him under.
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I realized that Alda was a stage hog as was his character, so I focused more on the other actors. I loved Col. Blake and Col. Potter, Radar, and Clinger.
McLean Stevenson said it and Wayne Rogers nailed it, when he said: “I joined an ensemble cast show that became The Alan Alda Show. So I left.
And, indeed it was all Alda all the time.
It’s very uneven and ranges from a few great shows, some good, many mediocre, and too many bad shows.
I didn't like Alda and then I couldn't stand him so -- it was over for me. Alda was Hawkeye and Hawkeye was Alda both on and off Mash.
Wayne and Mcclean were my utmost favorite for sure. I didn't watch after these two left. Plus I was getting older and busy. I don't watch the reruns. Either.
Alda would get scripts changed to give Trapper’s funny lines to Hawkeye, and Rogers had enough of that.
Do you know why it became so centered on Alan Alda ? Its because the people demanded it and as an egalitarian ensemble not centered on Alan Alda the ratings were enough to ensure the survival of the series . Alan Alda was their insurance against unemployment . Wayne Rogers did not have that effect .
@@dennisv8934 That never happened . The writers elected to spotlight Alda . Largely because Alda was far more capable AND popular than Wayne Rogers . Want proof ? The show continued easily without him and he did feck all without MASH .
So in essence they left because they didn't want to play second fiddle to Alan Alda on what would become the Alan Alda Show.
The best episodes were the ones with Sidney and Col. Flagg.
Flagg was the GREATEST!
Gary Burgoff lives near me in an RV park where residents own the lots. Access is limited to those with the gate code. I've been to this park numerous times, but never saw him and never looked for him. He lives a very modest lifestyle. He wants a private life and his neighbors respect that. None of them will tell where he lives. He is a skilled fisherman, and goes out into the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently he is locally famous for his skill in handcrafting fishing lures.
He used to sell them. When my mom and dad lived in LA dad bought a few of Gary's lures he mad. I still have one that my dad never used.
Wayne Rogers was much funnier than Alan Alda . Alda was a Grucho Marx spin off and it showed. Rogers had me laughing more than any other.
I agree with you. I stopped watching it when he left.
A veteran will always play the "I was there and it wasn't like that" but this is tv you idiots trying to enlighten yes laugh at it. Most vets seem to patronise us civilians for not suffering PTSD as if we don't have a political say in sending these brainwashed pawns off to war
I think Linville had the most challenging role.
Roger Bomen, who played Lt. Col Henry Blake in the film passed away February 16, 1996. The day after McLean Stevenson.
It was the stupidest role on the show . Of course it was a challenge . All of the other characters were plausible but Burns was a caricature . He did it well but I thought it detracted more than it added
@@pooddescrewch8718
Same for Flagg.
I stopped watching it after the first few years when the anachronisms became too overwhelming. Instead of a 1950s Mobile Army Surgical show it became a sociology platform.
I saw an interview with Stevenson where he said he thought the audience liked and wanted to see HIM....he didn't figure out till later that they liked HIS CHARACTER
you gotta be a fool not to have seen THAT
He was going through a lot of family issues and the flying back and forth from his home to California after he promised to be home more, got really tiring. He started turning into someone he hated himself and the other cast members didn't like what Gary had become.
The series lasted longer then war it was based on.
almost six times longer.
@@dean-ph2wwalmost 4 times longer.
@@antonnakic8539 You're right. It lasted 37 months which times four is 12 years and 4 months. Was.it 11 seasons?, I thought it was longer. It seemed like it was on tv forever.
@patrickradcliffe3837
Not the only show to do that. The Young Riders, about the Pony Express, lasted 3 years. Twice as long as the real Pony Express. But Combat is the real winner of the three, lasting more than 5 times longer than it's original subject. Set in World War 2 starting at D day and covering the war in Europe, Combat was on for 5 years. D day was June 6, 1944 and VE day was May 8th 1945 so the portion of World War II Combat covered, in actuality lasted 11 months but Combat had 5 good years.
@@cmurdock5256 I loved Combat when I was a kid in the 60s. They could never produce a show like that for television these days. Too expensive.
This was really Vietnam disguised as Korea. It started out funny, but became a Hollywood anti war platform for Alan Alda.
Commies took over
Yep, look at the local people in the background and what they were wearing, it was Vietnamese gear, and the most despicable thing they did, they used Japanese actors as Koreans you have any idea what the Japanese did to the Koreans,
It always was antiwar
@@user-bl6ne3hc6nOh come on
@@pooddescrewch8718 ,,, at least very anti-military.
I stopped watching the show because I couldn't stand Hawkeye. He was wanting everything to go his way. You couldn't do what you wanted to do but you had to do what he wanted to do. I caught a lot of flack for that. Yet after the show and years after the show Alan alda actually came out and said that. He said Hawkeye was really not a nice guy. And he didn't understand why people didn't see it. Hawkeye was caring of others especially patients, but he was very self-centered.
Yeah, it kind of became the Hawkeye show for a couple of episodes.
Once BJ appeared the show took a strong left tilt and became preachy and too political. The fun loving Hawkeye became a self-centered focal point with ego driven dialog. Up through Trapper the show was great and then it went downhill every season.
@@tnoonan5777 Because Alan Alda became one of the lead writers.
Nearly every actor with any name recognition was on Love Boat
Whoop-dee-doo
I was thinking the very same,should have been called the Life Boat, if your agent can't get you on that you're finished and so is he/she.
I heard if you were on your way up the ladder of success or on your way out of Hollywood you were hired to play on the love boat.
I had worms in my stool that did guest shots on Love Boat.
Let's take a moment to remember the first Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Southerland. RIP sir and thank you for all the memories.
🙏Mr. Sutherland. 👏
Uh...nope. The ORIGINAL Hawkeye was Richard Hooker...The guy who WAS Hawkeye. He was a real life MASH surgeon in the 8055th
I met Larry Linville in the very early 80s. Such a nice man...RIP, Sir.
My father loved this show. It pissed him off a lot (he often raged at how a couple of generic Asian actors played multiple Asians, from Korean to Chinese), but he loved it. He served in WW2 and the Korean War as a Marine. He received five purple hearts before he was done. Perhaps his admiration for the men and women who treated him in both wars explains his love for the show.
Please thank him for his service! A real life hero!
Alan Alda ego ruined the show
No
I Disagree!
Too much was focused on him.
@@jonathanstein5049 Who else had that much charisma with the viewers ? Alda was made the star by the fans .
Alan Alda, comes across as arrogant, not only here, but in other shows.
Good attempt at telling a story as to why the actors left. Instead of just telling the truth, they could not stand a certain actor who tried to make everything about himself.
*Cough* ALDA *COUGH*
When wayne rogers , maclean Stevenson and larry linville left the show went downhill.
yeah, I agree. those three key actors were essential to the storylines.
Aww, I don't agree. They all were great! I was a MASH groupie for years.
Wayne Rogers was easily replaced.
Yes. Those three made the show.
BJ Hunnicut by Mike Farrell was an insufferabe character
Total commie he was horrible
Couldn't stand him. Annoying as f**k.
The actor is even more insufferable .
@@tracyarmstrong2953 He was complete trash.
I can't stand Mike Farrell
Larry Linvelle was a genious.
He really was.
The cast loved the Rader character but hated the actor. Larry Linville was the opposite. They hated the character but loved the actor.
I've also read the Alda was just as condescending and abusive to Linville off-camera.
@@bartdrennon1764 Where did you hear that? Larry Linville was nothing like the character Frank Burns and other cast members enjoyed working with him. He was described as friendly, kind and down to earth. Because there was tension between Alda and Burgoff, It's possible that Linville might have been caught up in that defending Gary who was close friends with Linville.
Gary was well loved for quite some time, until he started having marital problems and it took a toll on him. Even Gary said he hated what he was becoming. He chose to leave the show to save his marriage but it failed regardless.
Alan Alda just over acted every scene . Then it did get preachy so very very preachy .
He was right
@@pooddescrewch8718no communist is right.
Yeah, but from interviews with many of the cast... it was what the writers and producers wanted. Exactly why Wayne left the show... Sadly, I found BJ to be way funnier and loved his more subtle humor (and when it was in your face too)... Still, the show is a classic and I watch often to this day (the Mrs. gave me the complete DVD collection for Christmas years ago). Even though so much of the tech in the show is beyond out dated.. it still feels like it's so good it could be a hit today.
AMEN !
@@InCountry6970 huh ?
Wow, no mention of this.... "To evoke genuine emotions of shock and sadness, the final O.R. scene was kept a secret from the cast until immediately before filming; only then did Gelbart hand out the last page of the script. As a result, Stevenson was still on the set and saw the final scene being filmed." Henry Blake's death was also regarded as the most controversial episode in the series.
I loved ferret face aka frank
Frank burns eats worms!😂😂😂
"Mind your own beeswax, nosy Nate" 😅
"It's nice to be nice.....to the nice."
😂😂😂.
"That's not my department, sir - intelligence is something I try to avoid"
Though I was a teen, I couldn't watch it any more when it became the "What Alan Alda will lecture us on this week" show.
It always sickened me Alda went on rants portraying America as a war monger when, in fact, we were in Korea to help them stay free from communist takeover. The Koreans we thrilled and grateful we were, and still are, there, so anti war mash is a hypocritical Hollywood lie.
They took advantage of the Vietnam War to go to their anti-war garbage and that's fine is the anti-American stuff that really is shameful, every time there was a war crime it was an American when a village got blown up it was American an Air Force pilot flying over bombing civilians it was an American , making generals looking like morons, , it's probably the most anti-American TV show ever,
Just remember Alan Alda Liberal type always has been
Alan went on rants about how disgusting war is period, and he is right!
paulprigge1209,
Yeah those liberals, how dare they think about all of humanity, and how when we work together we do better.
Why not be like the reptilian brain thinkers with the Survival of the fittest, or the what's in it for me, and if it's not for me, then who is taking from me. Yeah, I'm on Alan's team sanity.
All the always speaks about American motive in Korea but it seems to me South Korea is doing pretty damn well these days. I guess that was an accident?
The original mash cast was great. Honeycutt made me want to vomit as did alda after a while with his rants. Funny it seems South Korea is doing pretty well these days. Guess that was an accident
The Honeycutt character drove me nuts. I couldn't stand him. Beta male and p***y.
I read sometimes back the writer of the book wasn't a fan of the series on TV. He really was a guy that had respect for the Military and didn't agree with the direction of the show.
He liked the first few seasons, like most fans, but when Alda took over he hated what it had become.
author Richard Hornberger once said that the series "tramples on my memories" because he wrote the novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" inspired by his own experiences as a surgeon in the Korean War, but his real disdain was for the show's version of Hawkeye and the man who played him. It's hard to imagine anyone having an issue with Alda, but Hornberger apparently had some serious beef.
The real reason is, it went from a show with a great cast to the Alan Alda liberal hour
EXACTLY!
let alone it was on for too long
@@daDurvisJealously over salary . Aldas success continued
Wonder why
Amen brother!
@@daDurvis 4 times longer that the actual war it was about.
They may have hated it, but the show made many of them wealthy and famous. Many people work at jobs they don’t long. Actors are premadonas.
Prima Donas not premadonas.
27:09
"The Series Premiered On CBS In 1972 And Burghoff Was The Only Actor From The Movie Asked To ReturnTo The Role"
No, Rene Auberjonis was also offered to reprise the role of Father Mulcahey, but he'd turned it down
Not quite. 2 actors reprised their roles.
When "Trapper John" left the series ,,,, that was not good. His replacement was the worthless, unfunny, waste of oxygen "B.J." Honeycutt. ugh!
What a sweetheart.
Nailed it!
I'm in complete agreement with you about that character!!👏 Not only was he about as funny as a funeral, but he was a beta male and quite the p***y.
He (the character & actor) are liberal socialist yahoos -
Frank was the best. Once he left, it wasn't as funny. The show slowly became a left wing lecture tour, meaning not funny, just p.c.lectures.
You going to cry snowflake?
I disagree Frank was good I agree however so were the other characters, BJ Charles and colonel potter and others had their moments too
I hated Frank he was a PUSSY
I love when people moss something from the beginning, but then think something changed
Maybe because the guy doing the writing actually served in Korea during the war...Mr Alan Alda. Jamie Farr was the only other cast member to serve in the war, and he served in the 6th infantry Div in both Korea and Japan.
When the actors realized they were funny, they weren’t funny anymore.
True
They didn't mention William Christopher or Jamie Farr in the cast
...because they did not leave the show!
Lipstick on a pig!! Everyone of these actors got so jaded by their success in MASH that they thought that they were deserving enough to jump onto the next gravy train!
Most actors would give their right arm to be a part of such an iconic show! I guess it's human nature to take things for granted?
Hawkeye was portrayed by Donald Sutherland who passed away yesterday at 88
In the movie
did he? i didnt mind him. i first saw him in "kelly's heroes" as oddball, playing a hippy 30yrs early along with the terminology was a bit silly though.
I dont know how much it was their desire to expand their craft as to their ego, thinking they were much better and bigger than they really were
I still preferred the original film to tv show
Same.
The book is way better than that.
Gary Burghoff I respect the most. never remarried after divorce. Got the hell out of hollywood and kept perfecting his Jazz drumming and did wildlife art work. Relocated to a small city area out in the south. Good man.
I read years back that Stevenson's character was killed off because the producers never wanted him to come back as he had been a royal pain in the arse. Ironic that he regretted it years later.
He and Rogers demanded more money and a bigger spotlight.
Notice tgey changed Radars character after first season to a wimp. The first season he was a wise acre.
Burghoff made his feature film debut in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970). Although several actors from the original film made guest appearances in the television series M*A*S*H, Burghoff was the only actor to continue as a regular, in the role of Radar O'Reilly. Although he played the same character in the series as in the film, Burghoff has cited differences in the portrayal:
In the original feature film M*A*S*H, I created Radar as a lone, darker and somewhat sardonic character; kind of a shadowy figure. I continued these qualities for a short time until I realized that the TV M*A*S*H characters were developing in a different direction from the film characters. It became a group of sophisticated, highly educated doctors (and one head nurse) who would rather be anywhere else and who understood the nature of the "hellhole" they were stuck in. With [Larry] Gelbart's help, I began to mold Radar into a more innocent, naïve character as contrast to the other characters, so that while the others might deplore the immorality and shame of war (from an intellectual and judgmental viewpoint), Radar could just REACT from a position of total innocence.
Gary changed the character to match the direction the rest of the cast were taking their characters.
MASH, although taking place in Korea, was all about Vietnam! That's why the original movie was so popular!
WRONG! Mash was about the book written by the real life surgeon Richard Hooker (pen name) Who served in MASH 8055 and was (like hawkeye) a prankster and drafted into the ARMY.
Yeah radar was great my favourite❤❤
Loved Sidney the Field psychiatrist!
He was married to Diane Arbus, a fasinating artist.
Yes, there were incredible, honorable, and talented actors. There must have also been some incredible writers and behind the camera people. Fantastic show.
The actress you picture with Gary Burghoff is not Janet Gale: it is Darlene Carr.
It became Alan Alda's show.
Hawkeye was insufferable. Winchester was okay.
My wife became very very irritated by Alda's showboating in repeat viewings. I gotta admit - he does wear thin ...
I always liked and preferred him. Of course, I was a child when I watched it. If I watched it now, I may think differently of him.
@@pallaszina Alda's character was self centered buffoon and a political activated cartoon joke.
Winchester was superb, as was Larry Linville (?)
Linville as Frank Burns.
Wanted to watch this but the background 'music' was too distracting.....why? Don't understand the point of annoying sounds in videos....?
The original cast, of the first 3 seasons, were the best, none of the replacements were as good as the ones they replaced!
Alda's sidekick replacement was a big libturd like him. Couldn't stand watching from that point on.
I liked Winchester because he could equal and surpass the
Self-centered Hawkeye character.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!!!!!!
Potter & Winchester were good to offset Hawkeye's preaching - BJ was there to support Hawkeye's liberal ideals (BJ from CA was so true of CA liberal socialist stance even then in the 70's)
Disagree, I like Potter way better than Blake
Alan Alda is/was preachy. He is/was fortunate to find an audience. I don't care why the actors left. It was a good gig for most of them.
"You'd operate on a yellow red before a white American. That sounds pretty pinko to me comrade"
Colonel Flag
"Couple of cutey pies ain't ya " 😅
Best character on the show!
Mash came on at 1030pm when I was young. Boy was I nappy at school. 😂
Humanity over war. Sounds good to me.
In unity there is strength. 💎 Individually, as they left, they would have realised that.
For my money, MASH was the best sitcom of all time. A big reason for that, IMO, is that it was set in the past, so they couldn’t use contemporary humor like most sitcoms do. It’s humor had to be much more timeless, so it still stands up even after many years.
I'll say the first 4 years was, after that, to political,
My favorite show, until Ego Alda took over.
Best sitcom of all time for me is "The Beverly Hillbillies."
I disagree- Seinfeld beats it hands down!
@@edmundcharles5278 Your opinion is a valid as anyone else’s, but wait 40 yrs. and see if people still think it’s funny. I kind of doubt it myself. I was a fan of Seinfeld too, but I think it was a thing of it’s own time and people won’t really get it in years to come. 😊✌️
shows like the love boat fantasy island and murder she wrote were where washed up actors went
period....people left this (and other shows) and just mostly disappeared
In 1959 I was wondering about in South London and went into a movie house , sat down and watched "Odd`s Against Tomorrow!" WOW! the best film noir ever made , even turned me on to modern jazz! Ed Begley and MJQ etc etc,
Interesting how Jamie Farr's character as Klinger was not mentioned. He was there from the beginning. I guess wearing dresses isn't politically correct to remember.
Jamie Farr was the only actor from MASH who served in the real Korean War
This is about people who left the show mid-stream, not ones joined late or were there for every series.
Klinger was wayyyyyy ahead of his time!
@@edmundcharles5278Really? How so? He was a straight man tying to use a loophole to get out of military service.
@@worrywart1311 Klinger wasn't in the original movie or the book the movie and show were based on.
Weird that no one on that show ever got promoted. Most of them I understand, but why wouldn't Radar get a third stripe? Add me to the others saying Alda ruined the show in its later years. After MASH, his best roles were villains. Just saying.
Late in the series Klinger got promoted to Sargent.
@@rickbrannon815 Thank you.
Klinger was promoted from corporal and sergeant
Father Lt. Frances Mulcahy was promoted to Captain midway through the series. Corporal Radar O'Reilly was briefly and fraudulently promoted to Lieutenant in a prank initiated by Captain Honeycutt Also you have to remember this was all happening from 1950 to 1953... not a lot of time to earn a promotion.
If you've never seen the movie 'Same Time Next Year' with Alan Alda add it to your list. A very young Alan Alda but wonderful acting and neat story.
Another movie I remember was The Four Season staring Alan Alda Sally Fields that was a 1981 movie.
His first TV appearance was on a episode of Bilko.
Alan Alda was born in 1936. That would make him 41 or 42 when Same Time came out in 1978. He was made to look young by make-up and then aged as the story takes place over a very long time.
He went to the same High School I attended (me much later), Archbishop Stepinac in White Plains, N.Y. F.Y.I., Jon Voight also attended that school.
His costar was the magnificent Ellen Burstyn. When you see him playing the piano, he is hitting every note correctly. It is a fantastic movie.
Love that movie❤
Definitely a classic. The only way to watch M*A*S*H is episode by episode. Without trying to connect up the Continuity what might’ve happened in a previous season.
It lasted 11 seasons, the script writing, and character development was wonderful.
The irony of Corporal Klinger, staying in Korea, at the end, was a neat twist
The only thing that bugged me was hot lips hairstyle in the last couple seasons. It was more like Linda Evans of dynasty rather than a nurse in Korea in the 1950s. Even as a teenager back then I noticed that.
Larry Linville, LEDGEND. RIP SIR. & Thank you.
This vid makes me want to watch the actual show.I just dont know where i can watch it 😅😅 great video by the way! 👍🏻
It is on Me-TV network daily.
Forget the show, instead watch the movie!
@@edmundcharles5278 The movie stank! Waste of good celluloid.
Hulu.
Hulu used to have it as part of their on demand option
Hawk eye could really get on my nerves with some of his America is horrible and holier than now rants and raving. He was a horrible at fake crying also.
He should’ve done more to support the veterans that were ordered to fight. Instead of trying to make them feel worse than they already did.
He could’ve done so much to help but instead he thought he would judge.
Judge this.. that show wouldn’t have made it a whole season if made today. The only reason it made it back so long ago is there was no such thing as cable for most of the country
Alan Alda sucked then and he still sucks today for making that awful show
I agree!
it was that fake laugh of his that used to piss me off.
MASH was such a huge show that really nobody who was a major character, ever reached that level of success once they left the show. I grew up watching the series and it still resonates all these year later. I bought a complete copy of the series on DVD and and now watching it all over again. It is still better than most of the rubbish on TV these days.
Alda did.
For me,any episode written or directed by Alan Alda were the worst,far too preachy and self righteous.
Alan Alda was great in the show by far the most talented actor in the series. I'm not into his left wing stuff either but it's still one of the best shows in TV history. 💯🙏🇺🇸
Like all shows when the Stars or a star has too much influence on the show it goes down.
The Ghosts of Mississippi was not a TV movie, it was a feature film directed by MEATHEAD Rob Reiner.
Reiner directed it, but Lewis Colick wrote it.
While in high school, Gary axted in the Belfry Theater, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where Harrison Ford and Paul Newman got their starts. Gary's mother was the choreographer at Belfry. BTW, it's pronounced DELavan.
Great Documentary. I’m a HUGE fan of MASH and remember tuning in every week to see how funny and yet the changes that took place in the series
Ojai is pronounced “Oh High”.
This (& other obvious mispronunciations) is why I can’t stand “machine voices” permeating so many of these documentaries. Hire actors, for heaven’s sake!
@@SandiClaus-bd7jn That would take away from the profits...can't do that...better to lose audience members than cash. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you're an American actor and don't want to get typecast and/or don't have an incredible agent; your best bet is to try acting in Europe. The actors are much better and playing different roles and being accepted by the fans, who tend to be more open minded too change.
Besides the fact that the writing across the pond is much better too.
The only thing I know about Gary Burgoff was he was known a the Birdman of Malibu and he was a pretty good drummer.
I wonder if any of these actors were being approached by other directors or producers before leaving M*A*S*H or if they completely took the risk?
Rogers took the risk, he said he had nothing lined up and it hurt his career leaving the show when he did. He and Stevenson were labeled difficult to work with even though they just wanted a seat at the table. The problem is the whole show was SUPPOSED to be about Hawkeye from the start. The real life Hawkeye Richard Hooker wrote the book based on his service in MASH 8055th
Mash was good for 3 years , downhill after that. Mash was really about Vietnam.
The first 3 seasons, so funny, laugh all the way thru.
Not so much the other 8 years.
This didn’t cover the actors that left after the first season
But by September 1951, mindful that the war was unpopular, the Defense Department decided that those who had been in combat the longest would go home first. As in World War II, they set up a point system to determine eligibility for rotation back to the States. This time, actual combat would count more than mere service. It worked this way: A soldier earned four points for every month in close combat in Korea. He or she earned two points for rear echelon duty in Korea and one point for duty elsewhere in the Far East. Later, a fourth category was added: service in division reserve earned three points a month.
The military set rotation stateside at 43 points for enlisted men and 55 points for officers. In June 1952, the point total was reduced to 36 and 37 points respectively. However, just having the points did not guarantee rotation: A soldier had to wait for his or her replacement to arrive in Korea.
The goal was for combat veterans to earn rotation after about a year of duty. But as welcome as it was, rotation of the most experienced combat veterans was inherently a critical failure. Yes, it was welcome relief for those who had faced the enemy most closely and, yes, the rotation system boosted the flagging spirits of those on the home front who had lost faith in the war: Both now had a fixed goal to be able to get away from the seemingly endless slaughter.
But the system carried costs: a degrading of combat effectiveness. There was a constant turnover of 20,000 to 30,000 men a month, and these were the very combat veterans who had managed to live through the carnage and had accepted the physical, mental and technical demands of front-line combat. These men were being replaced by green recruits, in many cases under-trained, who lacked those skills.
The shortage of experienced combat officers was just as critical. The Korea rotation system, announced in September 1951, meant that by 1952, many officers with World War II as well as Korean War experience - i.e., those most capable of leading troops in the most efficient and casualty-reducing manner - were eligible to go home, and they did. The result was that combat professionalism of American soldiers tended to stagnate over time.
Even more deadly to American troops was the way enemy Chinese Communists handled their forces: Their soldiers were in the army for the duration. The only way for them to go home was either victory or death. The result was that increasingly inexperienced American units faced an increasingly more professional enemy.
This is what they used to show why people disappeared from each season.
In the beginning great show. Than Alda, and other liberals such as Farrell ruined it.
Jesus christ, your mind is ruined with all of this woke bullshit.
Wow - a full documentary less the price-tag! Have to come back to it!
M.A.S.H. lasted longer than the actual Korean war!
4 times longer
The movie was a lot better than the tv show. That said, if the show was done today it would be sooo much better than either
The first few years were funny, then the show became a anti war Hollywood p.c. lecture tour, not funny at all anymore.
Thank you for your comment. I loved the show, but as I got older, I realized how anti-military and anti-authoritarian it was.
It was anti-war, not anti-military.
THEY TOLD US THE TRUTH. WAR MONGERS HATE THAT.
musicalme27,
What's wrong with that? The last thing we need is an Authoritarian State!
Guess you never saw the movie.
One of the best sitcoms of all time, i liked all the characters that left, i think Wayne Rogers did the best after Mash, i would of plugged away & tried to stay on the show till the end.