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M*A*S*H TV Season 3

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This was another excellent season of MASH with the humor goodness we are use to as well as some excellent episodes. This is also a Season we see more emotion with the characters specially in the episode "Abyssinia, Henry" where Henry Blake's plane is shot down on his way home. This is also the last season we see Trapper JOhn and Hawkeyee together in there comic duo.

Season INCLUDES:
"THE GENERAL FLIPPED AT DAWN: When Major General Bratford Hamitlon Steele arrives to inspect the 407, he decides to move the unit closer to the front an insane idea, but then the general is quite insane.
"RAINBOW BRIDGE" An unusual offer from the Chinese to swap POW patients nearly ends in disaster when a jittery Frank secretly brings a tiny gun to the meeting place.
"OFFICER OF THE DAY" Colonel Flagg finds himself up against the wiles of Hawkeye and Trapper after he orders them to patch up a North Korean prisoner so he'll survive until his execution.
"IRON GUTS KELLY" When General Iron Guts Kelly visits the 4077, his unfortunate demise on the cot in Houlihan's tent leaves his aide frantically scrambling to contrive a more heroic death.
"O.R." A hectic day in the O.R. has all the docs overworked, exhausted, and facing enormous pressure as they second-guess some of te day's countless life and death decisions.
"SPRINGTIME" Spring is in the air as Klinger learns his sweetheart back home wants to marry him, Frank and Margaret go on a romantic picnic, and Radar falls for a nurse named Louise!
"CHECK-UP" Trapper's ulcer appears to be his ticket home - until newly revised Army regulations from Headquarters arrive during his farewell party.
"LIFE WITH FATHER" Father Mulchy has his hands fully trying to meet the religious needs of many different faiths and also the needs of those receiving unwanted news during mail call.
"ALCOHOLICS UNANIMOUS" Frank, temporarily in charge of the 4077, causes a near riot when he dismantles the still in the Bachelor Officers' Tent and declares prohibition.
"THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A NURSE" Hawkeye and Trapper try to keep everyone's spirits up after the threat of an enemy parachute drop results in the evacuation of all the nurses.
"ADAM'S RIB" Fed up with a steady diet of liver and fish, Hawkeye has Radar order take-out from Adam's Rib, a rib-joint in Chicago, and his Klinger's uncle send it to the 4077.
"A FULL RICH DAY" Henry finds himself under pressure from Headquarters to find the body of a wounded solider who arrived at the 4077 then mysteriously disappeared.
"MAD DOGS AND SERVICEMEN" While the camp conducts a search for a dog that bit Radar, Hawkeye deals with a GI who's suffering from a dangerous case of hysterical paralysis.
"PRIVATE CHARLES LAMB" Hawkeye and Trapper work through the night to create a Spam lamb after Radar finagles a medical discharge for the lamb slated to be the main dish of a Greek feast.
"BOMBED" When friendly fire traps Margaret and Trapper together in the supply room, a jealous Frank finds himself blurting out the three little words Margaret has longed to hear.
"BULLETIN BOARD" A Shirley Temple movie, a sex lecture by Henry, and a cookout provide welcome, if hilarious, relief for the busy personnel of the 4077.
"THE CONSULTANT" A visiting doctor who says he can save a soldier's leg by using a new artery transplant technique shows up too drunk to operate when it's time to perform the surgery.
"HOUSE ARREST" Margaret says she witnessed Hawkeye taking a swing at Frank, but then quickly changes her story after catching Frank with a female colonel in her tent.
"AID STATION" Hawkeye, Margaret and Klinger gain new respect for each other after being sent to work together a station at the front.
"LOVE AND MARRIAGE" When Hawkeye and Traper are asked to five a Korean bride-to-be a clean bill of health so she can enter the states, they uncover a marriage scam being run out of Rosie's bar.
"BIG MAC" While a vist by General MacArthur has most of the the camp buzzing with excitement, Klinger sees the visit as the perfect opportunity to get dressed up - and discharged!
"PAYDAY" After giving the orphanage a $3000 overpayment that was in his monthly paycheck, Hawkeye faces arrest unless he can win the money back in the 4077 monthly poker game
"WHITE GOLD" Colonel Flagg takes all the 4077's penicillin, saying he needs to trade it to the North Koreans for information - but that's before he unexpectedly needs some for himself.
"ABYSSINIA, HENRY" While everyone is happy that Henry is being discharged and going home. Hawkeye and Trapper lament the fact that Frank will be the new commanding officer.

The original cast was firmly established and this season gave the show's creative staff freedom to flesh out the characters and make use of jokes that were all the funnier because we already feel like we know these people.

In the Colonel Potter years - meaning the last eight years - we didn't get to see the Klinger that is in his fullest bloomers in this season. If you were a MASH afficionado and you had the task of providing a one sentence biography of every character, wouldn't your description of Klinger HAVE to include "Lebanese Corporal from Toledo who dressed like a woman in an attempt to have the Army declare him insane and sent home?" This season benefits from the contrast between the two corporals - Klinger and Radar. Radar, with his Nehi-drinking, teddy-bear hugging innocence and Klinger, wearing dresses that wouldn't have been out of place on Hollywood's Red Carpets.

The show never gives a good send-off to Wayne Rogers' character, Trapper John McIntyre. Trapper and Hawkeye's relationship was always the centerpiece of the show, until Trapper leaves, replaced by B.J. Hunnicut (in the next season).

Lt Col Henry Blake leaves this season as well, and McClean Stevenson's final show "Abyssinia Henry" remains one of the most emotional of the entire eleven-year run.

There are several events in the show's history that remain emotional touchstones, but season three began to demonstrate the depth to which the creators could blend comedy and tragedy.

I'll be seein' ya, Henry.

Every episode clicks and they have the best episodes imaginable in this season! The cast was totally seasoned to their characters by this time! Among the best eps on here are the General Flipped at Dawn. This ep is of course the one where Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele (three e's not all of them in a row) shows up at the 4077th and acts zanier than Klinger! He is played by Harry Morgan soon to be Col. Potter in season 4! This ep is jam packed with clever laughs and its the truest winner of them all!

As always the show was a great return to days past when tv was full of laughter and entertainemnt. Sometimes the older shows are a valuable asset as they remind of how the simplicity of life was so good at those times. MASH was a great series and good clean fun show for the whole family. the schennaigans of the crew made it what it was a great show for years to come. Hawkeye and the gang keep you laughig as they make their way through their wartime duties and life. A bit of a reality check for those of us who never had to serve and a tribute to those who did and carry the memories for a lifetime. a bit of adult humor is involved in the series yet still good entertainment for the whole family M*A*S*H TV Season 3

Was the only season we didnt have. The kids love this series, and it is old home week for my husband and I. We both grew up with families who loved it. 'An oldie but a goodie'

I bought this for my husband, who is a huge mash fan. We enjoy watching episodes together. Although reruns can frequently be seen on tv, watching episodes sans commercials is a much more enjoyable experience. A must for every Mash fan.

This is the last season with Henry Blake and "Trapper John" McIntire.

This season contains some of the funniest episodes in MASH history:
Private Charles Lamb - A Greek Colonel shows his appreciation by throwing a dinner party and a lamb intended to be the main course is sent stateside to become Radar's new pet.

Rainbow Bridge - An agreement to exchange wounded soliders with the Chinese Army is the main story with Frank nearly defeats the purpose of the mission.

The General Flipped at Dawn Episode - Harry Morgan plays an eccentric General. Season 4 finds Morgan joining the cast as Henry Blake's replacement, colonel Sherman Potter.

Iron Guts Kelly - When a visiting General dies in Margaret's tent, Hawkeye and Trapper assist her. The general's aide plans to stage a more dramatic death in accordance with the general's reputation.

A Full Rich Day - Hawkeye narrates a tape redording to his father (dear dad) detailing what Trapper calls "a well rounded day of insanity". A missing Luxembourg Lieutenant, a mad Turkish soldier who speaks no English and an American GI holding the surgeons at gunpoint demanding that his seargant be treated first contributes to the madness. A personal favorite.

Quite possibly the best season of the show. Features some of the funniest and most powerful episodes including: The General Flipped at Dawn, Iron Guts Kelly, Private Charles Lamb, Rainbow Bridge and my personal favorite Officer of the Day. This season features the original cast at their best, the wisecracking Hawkeye and Trapper, the secret (or at least they think so) military obsessesed, often paranoid lovers Frank and Hotlips and the always adorable Radar. The season finishes with the highest rating episode of the entire series Abyssinia Henry.

It's a classic series with a long-lost, intelligent sense of humor not seen on TV these days. It was relevant then and still is now. It was a series with a social conscious. The DVD delivers quality better than I remember on the TV of old. Not much to say other than that. I'm still buying a season or so at a time until I collect them all.

I will say that Amazon's DVD packaging is horrible these days. When I first started buying the series over a year ago, it came in a box. Now it comes in a padded envelope! That's nuts! I have returned many, many DVDs lately because they come crushed, the inner plastic holders broken, and the DVDs scratched.

No matter what DVD you buy from them now, if it comes in an envelope - check it out immediately and return it if damaged. They pay the return postage and send you another one free of charge.

WHAT RETARDED PERSON SET ALL OF THE MASH SETS, WITH NO "PLAY ALL SETTING",
MUST BE A PERSON WHO DOES NOT WATCH. OR WHERE DRUGS INVOLVED
I am a MASH fan fanatic, when it was on TV, and I was disabled, I would watch these shows at least 3 times a day, now Im buying them, only to find out some moooron did not set them up with "play all episodes" setting, what a goofball this person must be. THIS IS THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THESE DISKS