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Summary: Changes in Characters and Tone, but Not in Quality
Review: M*A*S*H the series: Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), Radar (Gary Burghoff), Klinger (Jamie Farr), Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan), Hot Lips Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), and Frank Burns (Larry Linville) are the core of a great cast telling the story of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, just a few miles from the front in the Korean War, trying to stay sane in an insane situation. Great irreverent comedy.This VHS set: This is a three-tape set giving you the 24 episodes of the entire fourth season. McLean Stevenson is out and Harry Morgan is in; Wayne Rogers left and Mike Farrell came; more drama and seriousness were injected. The increased level of serious drama reminds me more of the original movie, which was very funny and VERY serious. I've been watching the reruns on late-night TV for years, and did not realize how much had been edited out of those (to squeeze in more commercials). Now, these tapes bring us the episodes uncut. It's fun watching them and going, "Hey, I don't remember that!" A good buy; a good set of tapes to have on the shelf for rainy (or snowy) days.
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Summary: Another great season of M*A*S*H on DVD!
Review: Once again, I am finding myself riveted to my TV to watch M*A*S*H. I felt that Season Two was the best, but Season Four matches it. Replacing McLean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers with Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell was a shot in the arm for the series. Harry Morgan has got to be one of the best actors I have seen! He can be funny as anything, be serious when he has to, or do the deadpan one-liner better than anyone. I always enjoyed his work more than Stevenson's. And Mike Farrell is a terrific character actor. He too is funny, but can lay on the serious acting superbly. Because of the changes in the show from Blake and Trapper to Potter and BJ, it helped executive producer Larry Gelbart do his best writing. The last episode in the set, "The Interview," is one of the best, if not the best, episodes of M*A*S*H. That happened to be Gelbart's last show. Then Burt Metcalfe took over as executive producer, and the tone of the show changed. This DVD collection is a must-have for any fan of M*A*S*H! (I believe there is an Amazon special where you can get Seasons Two and Four as a package - the two best seasons of the show, in my opinion.)
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Summary: The Worst Season of MASH
Review: The Best show ever at least the 1st 3 years it is sad at this point to see this happen why could they have not kept Trapper
John MacIntyre and Lt.Col Henry Blake that just plain sucks doesn't it.why did you kill him in a plain crash he did not deserve that kind of fate he had a son he never got to see
if your a fan of Mas buy the 1st 3 years and the Last year.It
was good after season for but not great it was about a 7.5/10
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Summary: The best thing that ever happened to the 4077th
Review: MASH is my favorite television show of all time, and the changes that came with Season Four are the reasons why. The first three
seasons of MASH are my least favorite, although they did contain
some classic and memorable episodes. Replacing the prepetually
clueless Colonel Henry Blake with regular-army Colonel Sherman Potter was brilliant. Harry Morgan's Colonel Potter was a much more three-dimensional character, and he possessed some great
qualities: compassion, home-spun wisdom, kindness and more overall depth. Replacing Wayne Rogers' smart-mouthed and irritating Captain Trapper John McIntyre with Mike Farell's sweet and devoted family-man Captain B.J. Hunnicut was a welcome change for me. Trapper John is and always has been my very least favorite MASH cast member. B.J. was a much more likeable character, but he still proved to be the perfect "partner in crime" for Hawkeye, as they became best friends. The final change did not come until Season Seven, when the idiotic, annoying, one-dimensional Major Frank Burns, played effectively by Larry Linville, went off the deep end and was replaced by the
aristocratic, arrogant and highly skilled Major Charles Emerson Winchester, brilliantly portrayed by David Ogden Stiers. Only then is the 4077th's "changing of the guard" complete. From Season Four on, MASH was a show that posessed tremendous heart & warmth. Before that, producers tried too hard to make the show just like the movie version (which I loathe & despise, by the way)...a black comedy with irreverance and idiotic practical jokes and slapstick at the foreground. The show matured and began to focus on "serious" episodes, which I have always preferred over the "funny" episodes. Yet no other show has ever been so adept at perfectly balancing comedy and drama seamlessly within the same episode. MASH simultaneously made you laugh hysterically and pulled at your heartstrings with gut-wrenching poignancy. MASH was also the only televsion show I have ever seen where old characters were replaced by new characters who were FAR superior to the old ones...that move usually proves to be the kiss of death for a popular and successful show. Not so with Season Four and on at the MASH 4077th. Those welcome changes made it the greatest show in television history.
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Summary: MASH
Review: I liked MASH better with Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell then McLean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers. I like the jokes better with Mike Farrell and Harry Morgan. Especially when Harry Morgan shows up as Col. Potter. The scene that broke him in was after surgery he said. "Boy, I sure could use a belt." Ever since then he is always blasted. Now he is a cool C.O. I even like the words that he says. Like when Radar gives him a horse for the Col's. Birthday and Col. Potter almost falls and Major Burns thats disgusting and potter say, "Son, that's a tiptoe throught the Tulips. Cause Col. Potter loves horses. So you should buy MASH seasons with only Col. Sherman T. Potter he is funnier then Lt. Col. Henry Blake.
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Summary: Excellent New Beginning For The 4th Season
Review: This is the first DVD set I purchased from the mash collection, and its amazing. First I was not a fan of Wayne Rogers, or Mclean Stevenson. I thought Harry Morgan did a much better job as C.O. of the 4077. Mike Farrell also did a much better job as B.J. Hunnicut. The episodes I really enjoy are "change of command", "The Bus", "Dear Mildred"(Harry Morgan was excellent in this episode", "Dear Peggy"(Klinger gets his), "The Novocaine Mutiny"(funny as sin!), and of course "The Interview". This is a MUST for any mash fan!
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Summary: The Absolute Best season in the series
Review: The problem with the Blake and McIntyre characters, especially the latter, was that they were way too similar to the overbearing Pierce character. Season 4 solves all that. The 20 plus episodes are all, with the exception of one or two, top rate. The first three set up the MASH that will be around the next 2 or 3 seasons, introducing Honeycutt and Potter. Then the series really gets going, showcasing all characters, including Klinger, Radar, Father Mulcahy, and even Sgt. Zale in one bizare setting or another. Larry Linville settles into his snibbling idiot Frank Burns role nicely, and, love or hate the character, this is Loretta Swit's best season by far. Sidney Freeman and Col. Flagg show up and go at it over a soldier who believes he's Jesus Christ. The only time MASH bores me is when they spend an entire episode focusing primarily on one character, particularly Pierce. I didn't care too much for the episodes surrounding Hawkeye's father, or him involved in a jeep accident. Also included is the episode where Hawkeye meets up with his former fiance. What makes MASH great is the seriousness of the medical tasks followed by the complete lunacy of the rest of their lives. Too much hard drama spoils that, and season 4, with only mild exceptions, puts the show where it belongs: intelligent comedy. If you can only get one MASH season, by all means, this is the one.
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Summary: Outstanding!!!!
Review: The best part of the DVDs is viewing episodes that I have seen hundreds of times and spotting large swatches of video which have, for years, been cut out of the syndicated series. Forever a classic, I love owning the complete sets and will preorder each available edition. However, although I give the set five stars for presenting a crystal clear uncut set of MASH episodes. There are some points which could be improved upon. In the spirit of DVD, namely the little extras which are fathomable on this new digital format, I would like to see more material included. Candid stills from shooting the episodes, interviews with the cast, voice overs etc etc. As a diehard MASH fan, any little tidbit of material would be well recieved. Nudies of Loretta Swit would be a good start. ;)
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Summary: The best series of all time
Review: I remember watching M*A*S*H reruns on TV when I was in my early-mid teens and absolutely loving it. My sisters and I all got into the playful characters that graced the screen. They were funny, each unique, and at the same time, they had a sensitivity about their work that was touchingly beautiful. Now 22, I count down the days until the release of each DVD in the series. I watch them over and over again, reliving the humor and repeating the occasional quote where appropriate. I love M*A*S*H - the uniqueness of the characters, the situations that they find themselves in and how they get out of them, the delightful humor of them all (often without meaning to be)... and I am thrilled that they have put this fabulous series on video and DVD.
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Summary: My favorite show of all time
Review: I love seeing the series on DVD. I have been watching the re-runs for years, ( I was too young to appreciate it the first time around) and it is so nice to see all the parts that were cut out. M*A*S*H was a groundbreaking series in television as it is the only show that portrays the Korean War and also brought forth the combination of drama and comedy (much like All in the Family). I will never tire of this show as I have seen some of the episodes so many times I can recite them word for word but they still make me laugh. I really enjoyed the first three seasons with Mclean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers but feel that Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell brought a lot to the show too. Also like how in the later seasons they have more Klinger and Father Mulcahy. This season and season 5 are probably my all time favorites though because they have Harry Morgan and Larry Linville who I also loved in his portrayal of Frank Burns. I guess to wrap it up I just LOVE this show and will never tire of it.
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