Everyone's seen MASH, right???

[sarren]

There were a lot of seasons of MASH, which have been shown in reruns here since I was a kid. I have NO idea which episodes were in which seasons.

Do you have 'favourite' seasons?

Which season/s were the best?

Do you have favourite episodes?

Which episodes do you think were the best?


The episode which has stuck in my mind forever is the one where Hawkeye is in psychiatric care and he's in denial and finally breaks down and remembers the traumatic event which tipped him over the edge. I cried and cried. In fact I'm teary thinking about it.


One of my favourite storylines is when everyone thought Charles was a bastard for not sharing his chocolate and he'd given it to the local kids.

Comments

[kremmen.livejournal.com]

Wow. You're mentioning a TV series that I've actually heard of!

Being from the era of watching actual TV when it went to air, I doubt I've watched every episode and I have no idea which series is which, apart from Blake/Trapper vs Potter/Hunnicutt.

My favourites were ones in which Hawkeye did something ludicrous and got away with it (eg Creating a fake doctor called Tuttle), but, really, it was one of the most consistently good programmes ever. The episode in which Henry left and the finale were the most memorable.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

That moment when Radar comes into the OR without a mask on to tell them that their CO had died on the way home. Wept.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

The one you've mentioned is the two hour finale - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.

I like the BJ seasons (4 onwards) best because I think Hawkeye and BJ have a deeper relationship than Hawkeye and Trapper did, and the episodes seemed to get more serious as the show went on.

My favourite is Period of Adjustment (Season 8), in which BJ is so upset that his daughter thought Radar was her father that he gets drunk and punches Hawkeye, and then there's an emotional scene between them in Potter's office. Next up would be the one where Hawkeye writes his will and leaves BJ's daughter a list of all the patients BJ treated during the war (Season 10).

I have quite a few of the later seasons.

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the seasons - I just know the order the cast left. Spearchucker was in the first season. Then Trapper left. Then Henry left. Then Radar. Then Frank.

I always remember the episode when Margaret was being especially tough on her nurses and they were being all put off buy it and, at the end of the ep, she breaks down, confronts them about how left out she feels saying, "Have you ever offered me a lousy piece of fudge?"

And there was the episode where the soldier needed a certain procedure completed in a certain amount of time, so there was a little clock in the corner for the entire episode, marking the progress. And the ep where a wounded soldier thought he was Jesus and Radar asked him to bless his teddy bear. And the South Korean spy who was wounded and the shrink figures out that the guy secretly has a death wish. And I liked the episode where the helicopter pilots were in competition to see who could bring in the most wounded and one of the pilots is in the Officer's Club and he bets that he can flip a syringe off a spoon and stick it into an orange.

Oh, and all the episodes with Col. Flagg were hysterical!

[angriest.livejournal.com]

The middle seasons are generally best, when they've relaxed into their roles, realised they can be serious from time to time, but haven't yet become overly serious and tormented.

There's an entire episode from the POV of a wounded soldier, I remember really liking that one. And "Abyssinia, Henry".

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

The devastatingly sad ones as mentioned - Abyssinia, Henry and Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.

An episode 'George' about a soldier who has been beaten up because he is homosexual. Frank tries to get him dishonourably discharged.

The episode where Hawkeye and BJ refuse to bathe until Winchester stops annoying them with his music, and the episode/s where Hawkeye and BJ get carried away with practical jokes.