He never wears rank insignia on his fatigues, usually wears a bath robe instead, never polishes his combat boots, and only wears his Class A uniform when he believes appearance can achieve greater good but does not wear any of the decorations to which he is entitled. Episode 2/24, "A Smattering of Intelligence." Charles Winchester was born in his grandmother's house in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Beacon Hill, and is part of a wealthy family of Republican Boston Brahmins. CBS. She is the Regular Army head nurse of the 4077th and begins allied with Major Frank Burns against the more civilian doctors of the unit. He convinced a reluctant Hawkeye that the best thing for him now was to return to duty for the last days of the war. 16th Jan 2023, 9:55am. At the end of the episode, he listens to a recorded letter from his sister Honoria, who turns out to likewise be a stutterer. Trapper: "So are you, Sweetheart, but you don't know it.") Soon after the pilot episode, Burghoff noted that the other characters were changing from the film portrayals and decided to follow. Igor's role is generally comic relief. In the book, the character's full name is Hamilton Hartington Hammond, and he is stationed in Seoul. In the episode "O.R. She returns to the US to take a position in an Army hospital. In the TV series, he is first played by Bruno Kirby, though only in the pilot (in which he has no lines, is not spoken to, and is only visible in the background of a few shots). Captain B.J. The deaths of Glee cast members Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera, and Mark Salling are at the center of The Price of Glee as well as other tragedies like Melissa One of his most cherished possessions is his Good Conduct Medal, an award "only given to enlisted men", Potter explains to Radar while unpacking that he has a Good Conduct Medal with a clasp. ", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? After rehabilitation, he resumes his position as "Swampboy." is anywhere near the end of them. But despite his stern military bearing, Potter is a relatively relaxed and laid-back commander, not above involving himself in camp hijinks and understanding the need for fun and games to boost morale during wartime, particularly in the high-pressure atmosphere of a MASH. As a surgeon, he does not like the use of firearms and he refuses to carry a sidearm as required by regulations when serving as Officer of the Day. In the film, it is overtly sexual and broadcast throughout the camp when Radar puts a microphone under Hot Lips' bunk in her tent. [46] Among the characters Klinger has tried to dress up include Moses, Zoltan King of the Gypsies, Cleopatra, The Statue of Liberty, Snow White, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind; a ballerina, a U.S. Army female nurse, a 1920s flapper, a nun, and a Korean woman. Henry attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was the football team's athletic trainer. The AfterMASH episode "Madness to His Method" has as its frame Colonel Potter writing a letter in Missouri about the episode's situation to an unseen Freedman. He is a Catholic priest and serves as a US Army chaplain assigned to the 4077th. In the series pilot, it is clear that he is a surgeon as well as an administrator, and his first name is Hamilton. In the eighth-season episode "Dear Uncle Abdul", Klinger writes to his uncle who successfully used cross-dressing to stay out of the Army about the crazy goings-on in camp, ending with the reflection "It's no wonder I never got a Section Eight there's nothing special about me; everybody here is crazy!" Freedman's first appearance was in the episode "Radar's Report". [29][28], Her nickname "Hot Lips" has different origins in the original novel, film, and TV show. [13]in the Sept-Nov 1918 Argonne Forest, he was "lost for three days, taken prisoner, head shaved and beaten to a pulp". Assigned to quarters in "the Swamp" with Hawkeye and B.J., Winchester found the conditions there appalling, calling the camp upon his arrival "an inflamed boil on the buttocks of the world". He is depicted doing this in Hooker's two sequels, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine and M*A*S*H Mania. In the series finale, following the sudden death of the Chinese POWs he has been teaching a work by Mozart, Winchester states that music has transformed into a haunting reminder of the horrors of the war. The Duke Forrest character did not make it to the TV series. Duke makes racist comments about Jones, causing Hawkeye and Trapper to punish Duke. He was educated at Stanford University and was a member of the Tau Phi Epsilon fraternity. Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Jr. in the novel) was played by Donald Sutherland in the film. Potter joined the US Army horse cavalry as a private during World War I and subsequently rose to the rank of sergeant [An example of MASH Fantasy-the US Horse Cavalry never went overseas during World War I]. This is a minor error; Rizzo had re-enlisted in the Army in a previous episode. However, she continued to be featured in the opening credit montage sequence (wherein the MASH staff runs toward approaching helicopters) for most of the show's run. Burns' replacement Major Winchester has a grudging respect for Potter, even though their personalities are often at odds with one another. Spearchucker's role was limited. Coincidentally, actor Timothy Brown played most of his nine-year NFL career with Philadelphia and was selected to the team's Hall of Fame in 1990.[49]. Unlike Blake, he is not afraid to put his foot down when the camp's antics get out of hand, but this is motivated by not wanting to see his troops get into trouble outside of the camp. It is sadly inappropriate to give dessert to a child who has had no meal." She is good-natured and has a bubbly personality. He alternately claims to be affiliated with the CIA, the CIC, or the CID. Major Sidney Theodore Freedman, played by Allan Arbus, is a psychiatrist frequently summoned in cases of mental health problems. [31] In the seventh-season episode "None Like It Hot", after Margaret talks about a bathtub that is supposed to be kept secret, Hawkeye says to her, "Would you please keep your hot lips sealed? Episode 11/06, "Bombshells." 11 Seasons. He is bewildered by the doctors' amoral pranks and womanizing behavior, but is usually forgiving of their jokes and sarcastic remarks, commenting once that "humor, after all, was one of His creations". and a scene showing a jeep driving off with the deceased Ho-Jon, causing a brief pause in the poker game.[55]. She divorces him, regaining her self-confidence. The show was set at the fictional General Pershing VA Hospital in Missouri, where he served as chaplain. As an indication of their respect for him, in the final episode Hawkeye and B.J. formally salute Potter as he leaves the camp, one of the few times either is shown doing so. The completed film omits this storyline, although a scene showing Ho-Jon in the operating room remains with overdubbed dialogue (Houlihan: "That man's a prisoner of war, Doctor." After finishing his secondary studies at Choate, he graduated summa cum laude class of 1943 from Harvard College (where he lettered in Crew and Polo), completed his M.D. [42] He impishly refers to her as "my sister the Sister". He donates his winnings to the local orphanage. He and writer Larry Gelbart evolved Radar into a nave farm boy,[39] who still sleeps with his teddy bear and whose favorite beverage is Nehi brand grape soda. He also has his eccentricities, including a love of horses from his cavalry days and an ability to use his Regular Army connections to the unit's advantage. His full name was never mentioned in the series. The Korean doctor who examines Ho-Jon discovers that Hawkeye has given him drugs to induce hypertension and tachycardia (so that he will fail the induction physical). Freedman appears in 12 M*A*S*H episodes: "Radar's Report" (as Milton Freedman), "Deal Me Out", "O.R. Potter was created as a different type of commanding officer than his predecessor: a "Regular Army" career officer, and close to retirement. He mentions in one episode that he is from Brooklyn, which was the reason he didn't know what people who were heading to California in the late 1840s were looking for when quizzed. In both the film and the series, Hammond has a cordial relationship with Col. Blake. [47] In a season 3 episode, when asked what happened to "that surgeon you had from Georgia", Trapper answers, "He got sent stateside! Burns and Hawkeye recount different versions of the events. Flagg appears in six M*A*S*H episodes: "A Smattering of Intelligence", "Officer of the Day", "White Gold", "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? Classical music is one of his great loves, helping him to maintain his morale. It is framed and hung behind his desk during his tenure at the 4077th. However, she faced racial discrimination and he turned to bookmaking, and is only able to escape prison time when Sherman Potter offers a character reference and hires him as his assistant at the veteran's hospital in Missouri where he now works. He is transferred stateside for psychiatric evaluation, but although the 4077th is delighted to be finally rid of him, Burns has the last laugh. In the television series, he becomes the Chief Surgeon of the unit early in the first season. [18] In another episode, "A Smattering of Intelligence", Burns is gullible enough to believe that the US Army Corps of Engineers is going to make MASH hospitals amphibious. In "Comrades in Arms", Margaret receives a letter from Donald that was meant for another womana letter that says unkind things about Margaret and hints at Donald having an affair with the other woman. In "Henry Please Come Home" Hammond is personally responsible for Henry's short-lived transfer to Tokyo. He is an ardent supporter of the anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and appears irritated to learn his wife is becoming involved in Republican Party envelope-stuffing campaigns. Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is a supporting character in the television series, played by David Ogden Stiers. Midway through the series, the "Hot Lips" nickname phases out, with characters addressing her as either Margaret or Major Houlihan, though her nickname is still referenced occasionally. In the novel, Burns is a well-off doctor who attended medical school, but whose training as a surgeon was limited to an apprenticeship with his father in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Hawkeye remarks "Watch the cake die of malpractice!". [40] Another occasionally recurring gag is Radar's ineptitude with the bugle; he invariably mangles any calls he tries to play, and his bugle has suffered abuse such as being shot out of his hand and thrown into a roaring bonfire. Later, when Trapper and Hawkeye explain to the soldier that all blood is the same, he reflects upon his behavior. The wedding is cut short by incoming wounded, which leaves Donald in the mess hall, unable to move in his body cast. In the M*A*S*H 30th Anniversary Special that aired on Fox in 2002, Arbus was the only non-regular cast member to be featured on the special. Keeping with the show's tradition of replacement characters who are in some way the antithesis of their predecessors, Winchester is as skilled a surgeon as Burns was ineptalthough he had to learn how to perform battlefield medicine, a.k.a. Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter appears in the M*A*S*H and AfterMASH television series. On television, Alan Alda played the Captain. one from Korea, for being shot in the buttocks by a sniper; After the war, he went to medical school, and began his service as an Army doctor in 1932,[6] serving in World War II. He was played by George Morgan in the pilot episode of the series, but the producers decided that a quirkier individual was needed for the role.[41]. On one occasion, he borrowed a deactivated hand grenade from Igor and used it to scare B.J. Before he was drafted to join the US Army during the Korean War, he was on track to become chief of cardiothoracic surgery. One of those names, however, applies to Roy Goldman (see above), thus one can assume that the name was merely a one-time usage. meatball surgery to increasing his efficiency with the large number of critical patients that typically arrive at a time. This is demonstrated in his agreeing to perform Protestant church services for Colonel Potter ("Welcome to Korea: Part 2"), offering a prayer in Hebrew for a wounded Jewish soldier ("Cowboy"), and explaining the rituals of a Buddhist wedding to other attendees from the camp ("Ping Pong"). He carries with him a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise and has a racket of selling tickets for spying through a peephole into the nurses' shower. He is not seen again until the sixth-season episode "The M*A*S*H Olympics", in which Donald (played this time by Henry) arrives to visit Margaret and ends up taking part in the 4077th's amateur Olympics competition; he almost wins a race against portly Sgt. In the novel, the confrontation is less violent, and Burns is simply transferred to a VA hospital stateside. In the novel, he serves as a moral center and author's alter ego, chiding Trapper John for calling Major Houlihan "Hot Lips," which he never does himself. Posted on February 28, 2019 by admin. professes stronger moral values. In one early episode ["Hot Lips and Empty Arms"] she is very angry at herself when she finds her college roommate has a dream marriage with a rich doctor, children, a great house, a swimming pool, and a washing machine-all of which could have been hers. However he was later written to be in recreation of Trapper John when in one episode ("Movie To-night) he and Hawkeye sing a duet about how they both "work on patients through the day and on nurses through the night." Among those from the Medical School is listed one Benjamin Franklin Peirce [sic]. He also does not hold a World War II Victory Medal, which typically accompanied the Occupation Medal as its cutoff date was December 31, 1946. Originally from Honolulu, she described herself as "part Chinese, part Hawaiian" in Episode 8/11 "Life Time" and speaks Japanese, as revealed in "Communication Breakdown". As Burns was not above misrepresenting events to make himself look better, e.g., "The Novocaine Mutiny", it is unknown if he was telling the truth. He is from Philadelphia and is frequently seen wearing a Loyola sweatshirt. However, he is scorned for it by those who prefer strict military disciplines, such as Frank Burns and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. Also, where Burns was always the fall-guy and butt of Hawkeye's roasts and insults, Winchester often was able to match wits with Hawkeye and even zinged him back, which Hawkeye seemed to actually respect. 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