MASH: Season One

Lynn’s Druthers Marathon, part 3



Data
Title: MASH: Season One
Year: 1972-1973
Network: CBS
Episodes: 24, at 25 minutes each
Creators: Richard Hooker (novel); Larry Gelbart (developer)
Directors: William Wiard (4 episodes), Gene Reynolds (3), Hy Averback (3), Don Weis (3), Jackie Cooper (3), Earl Bellamy (2), Michael O'Herlihy (1), E.W. Swackhamer (1), Lee Philips (1), Bruce Bilson (1), Terry Becker (1), James Sheldon (1)
Writers: Larry Gelbart (8 episodes), Laurence Marks (6), Robert Klane (4), Burt Styler (2), Hal Dresner (2), Sid Dorfman (2), Bruce Shelly (1), David Ketchum (1), Jerry Mayer (1), Carl Kleinschmitt (1), Sheldon Keller (1), Alan Alda (1), McLean Stevenson (1), Richard Baer (1)
Starring: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff
Music: Johnny Mandel (theme); Lionel Newman (music supervisor)
I saw it: on video (have on DVD), over the past couple weeks
Synopsis: hijinks in an army hospital

My reaction
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Music: Get it out of my head!!!
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). Works a lot better as a TV show than a movie, even if it does have a laugh track. At times it gets a bit McHale's Navy, what with the zany antics and bumbling higher-ups, which is kind of annoying since for the most part it's an intelligent show. There are no bad episodes, though; at its worst, it's pleasantly amusing.
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