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(13,877 posts)gopiscrap
(23,762 posts)applegrove
(118,737 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I cried during the last episode.
applegrove
(118,737 posts)months now. I look forward to seeing that last episode again soon. It's been 30 years.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)yet I still remember the last episode.
applegrove
(118,737 posts)the chicken was blurted out by hawkeye. I remember clearly watching it in a friends basement. Two guy friends had dressed up in dressinggowns and cowboy hats in honor of Hawkeye too. What great writing on that show.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)on a TV series. Alda said he sometimes talked to the actor playing Sidney as if he WERE a psychiatrist...
The actor playing Sidney died recently...Alda reminisced about him on Morning Joe...
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)applegrove
(118,737 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Another series to consider surprisingly is "Combat!". It was NOT pro-war at all.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)MASH comes on at 6pm Pacific time, Combat! is on very late at night - 3am, I think, but that's only an hour or so after I get home from work. You're right, it is a good show.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Hills Are For Heroes:
Guaranteed this one will cause the whole group here to lose it:
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)It was the first TV show I recall that attempted to show Vietnam, warts-and-all.
I remember the crusty old Platoon Sergeant saying "there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way and the military way."
My dad (Army veteran) and me (Air Force veteran) wholeheartedly agreed with that!
malthaussen
(17,215 posts)and have been getting the DVDs recently to remember. It is amazing, really, just how profoundly anti-war it was. And of course, the late Vic Morrow was brilliant.
-- Mal
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....or their phone or pad. Still, we just got a new 3d led smart TV that can access the wifi so Youtube can be in the living room. (And that's after I went through the trouble of building a media center pc.)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)we've seen them all over and over again but there are so many over its long span we have enough variety and are pleased to see our old favorites...amazing how that show evolved over the years...
redwitch
(14,946 posts)It was funny and poignant and intense and very, very human.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)but the governing class is not.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)calimary
(81,392 posts)And it struck me not long ago - YES, it demonstrates how liberal the US used to be. Remember when Frank Burns was considered a fool and a crackpot for the things he said and the beliefs he spouted? That's how CONservatives were treated and portrayed and regarded back then. As fools and buffoons and loony-tunes and crackpots. They've been allowed to go mainstream and get respectable since then, unfortunately. I always liked that characters such as Frank Burns were treated as they deserved to be treated. Now, they're almost lionized.
I LOVE "M*A*S*H"! So does my husband. We never missed it when it was a first-run series. And now, we play the DVDs fairly frequently. We call it "comfort watching" at our house. Often we'll have a "'M*A*S*H' Binge!" The only problem is, the earlier seasons on DVD don't play through all the episodes - there's no "play all" on there, so it's not as easy to doze off to as the later seasons where you click on "play all" and you're good to go for three hours or more.
One of the best TV series - EVER.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)after the local news I move away from ET et al and watch the opening credits. If I see the name David Ogden Stiers in the credits, I keep surfing. Cannot stand Dr. Winchester.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)It is on at 7pm and a different episode at 7:30pm PST. You don't need cable either. It is on ME-TV which has all kinds of great shows from the sixties and seventies. ME-TV can be found on channel 20.2
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)...so I'm not sure why Frisco is missing out.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)David__77
(23,452 posts)And he always told me that "if the rick want to have their wars, they should fight them!"
I never got into the show as it seemed too dreary for me for entertainment, but I appreciate its sensibility.
ananda
(28,873 posts)Daamm. Daammm
Uncle Joe
(58,386 posts)Thanks for the thread, Blue In AK.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)I will NEVER forget that night or how damn great that show was. I still have a crush on Hawkeye Pierce.
calimary
(81,392 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)DO tell more
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Perhaps you were being sarcastic? It's getting near impossible to tell these days on DU.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)but do you deny the basic truth?
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Fiction often is used to reveal truth...
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I do not disagree with the sentiment of the words in the OP. My problem is much like Paladin's, I was bugged by the Hawkeye character's self-rightiousness.
I have probably seen every episode M*A*S*H at least three times. For those of you who mention that it is not on TV anymore like it is some sort of conspiracy, the reason it is not on all that much anymore is that it was worn out, people have seen all the episodes and the ratings fell. The same thing happened to Cheers, it will happen to other TV shows with huge ratings.
I am amazed that people here are comparing William Shakespeare and John Steinbeck to Larry Gelbart.
Paladin
(28,269 posts)Alan Alda's terminal self-righteousness got on my nerves after a while.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)That's when the self-righteousness and finger-wagging began. I liked the character of Charles and it was ok for a while, but it was hard to watch the last couple seasons and I was a huge fan of the show.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Granted, by the last season, the actors had taken over the show and it got preachy, but even then it had its moments.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)I'm not saying that the Actor isn't important in the delivery and getting the point out to the public, I'm only saying that the thought and its expression is best attributed to the person who first said it, in print of course.
IveWornAHundredPants
(237 posts)Just the character.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I did NOT say this wisdom of Alan Alda, although I'm pretty sure he agrees with this.
Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)Directed by: Alan Rafkin
Written by: Burt Prelutsky
Another quote for you though attribution is tricky so you get a link instead.
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"
The most notable person to use the phrase is John F. Kennedy. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/207500.html
And sometimes the light exposes a less savory element. The writer of season 5, episode 20 has gone (or always was) full blown bagger.
locks
(2,012 posts)In the 1970s during the Vietnam war John Kerry sounded like Hawkeye when he testified before Congress. Sad isn't it.
Ocelot
(227 posts)And set it in Iraq or Afghanistan. Sure it'd suck compared to the original series, but it would get a moral message out that is sorely lacking in today's TV programming.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)but these days, he almost defines normal.
It's a shame.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)It seems like it is ALWAYS the innocents who Pay the Price for the greed of the 1%.
DURec.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Always stopped what I was doing when I heard the opening theme song come on.
Radar says, "listen". Someone says, " I don't hear nothin'....Choppers...wait for it....
BEST TV SHOW EVER
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)...................................