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105 of 110 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yet another great season of an epic show, October 19, 2004
There are many enjoyable episodes in this season. Though this season is the last for Radar, aside from his final episode in season 8, MASH went on. This show, for better or worse, survived on through the many changes in cast. Radar was no exception.
Commander Pierce - Much to his own dismay Hawkeye takes charge and finds that the grass isn't greener on the other side of command.
Peace on Us - Hawkeye goes to the peace talks when they change the rules on discharge for doctors. Margaret's marriage to Donald hits a real rough patch, prompting her to get a divorce.
Our Finest Hour - The second of the documentary style shows that are shown in black and white and color. This one looks more deeply at the characters and their feelings about the war, family, and being away from home.
The Billfold Syndrome - A talented medic forgets his own name and Sydney is called in. Charles stops talking to B.J and Hawkeye after being turned down for a prestigeous post back in Boston. This gets a minor war going on between the Swamprats.
Major Ego - Charles' ego gets much higher when he saves a patient, and Stars and Stripes sends a reporter.. He sees a chance to get home. Klinger shows some of his more extravagant flair when the reporter shows up to interview Charles.
Point Of View - This show is shown from the view of a patient, for the entire show. You see a distracted Potter, and an enraged Charles. This episode was very very well done.
An Eye For A Tooth - Hawkeye, B.J, and Margaret trade a series of practical jokes, with Charles helping both sides. This series of jokes include a lemon pie, a full sized dummy, and a special mail delivery. Father Mulcahy goes on a mission of mercy after being passed over again for premotion.
Dear Sis - Father Mulcahy writes his sister over a Christmas holiday and tells of how he feels lost in the middle of a war zone.
The Young And Restless - A young brilliant surgeon bruises a few egos upon his visit displaying new surgical techniques.
C*A*V*E - A serious barrage of fire at the camp sends them to a cave, much to the dismay of Hawkeye, who suffers from clausterphobia. He an Margaret head back to camp under heavy fire to save patient who needs emergency surgery.
Rally Round The Flagg, Boys - Colonel Flagg goes way over the top and thinks everyone is a commie symp. He is copiously aided by Charles. Hilarious ending. This is the last show in which we get treeted to Flagg's raving paranoia. He left the show with some real flair.
A Night at Rosies - Hawkeye escapes a long night of surgery, and a horrid breakfast at the mess tent by heading for a drink at Rosies. He gets beer and then pours it over cereal. Then B.J follows, then Radar, Charles, and many others. Klinger heads to a floating crap game. The crowd pulls an all night binge to escape the war. This gets into Potter's craw, but he relents when he realizes that it's just what they all really need. This is also where we meet Scully, who's AWOL. He later becomes a love interest of Margaret.
The Party - B.J works hard on getting the loved ones of the main cast members together for a huge party. This happens after Radar offers his mother's help, and Potter hands him his home address. Peggy, his wife, had recently ruined the stove while canning. Radar says that his mother puts something special in it to keep it from boiling over. Potter talks about how good a canner Mildred is. This happens in the middle of a bug out, and return to camp when the Chinese pull of a huge offensive. This also happens while B.J has a patient that may never walk again, or have no feeling.
I prefer M*A*S*H after season four. I wasn't as crazy about the first few years. I enjoy the later episodes, because they got away from the slapstick humor and touched upon many many issues from suicide, blindness, love, hate, envy, infiltration, peace talks and so so much more.
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48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Four-Oh-Double-Seven: Season Seven, August 26, 2004
The seventh season of M*A*S*H in known for the first season where the character B.J. Hunnicut wears a bushy mustache.
This was an all-right season, but it was Radar's final season. The character came back for his final episode (a two-part one) in the following season: season eight. A touching episode it was.
Here are some highlights, eight of the 25 from the season:
"Commander Pierce" - Hawkeye is left in charge of the camp, while Col. Potter is away, and realizes how hard the job is.
"Peace on Us" - After peace talks are stalled in Panmunjon, Hawkeye travels there himself to help out.
"Our Finest Hour" - A newscaster returns to the 4077th to do a follow-up interview with the leading characters, which in done in a documentary-style. This is a sequel to the season four episode "The Interview". This episode acts as a 'clip show' for the series (which means we see famous moments from older episodes). The highlight clips are in color, the rest of the episode is shot in black & white. The episode is an hour long.
"Major Ego" - After Major Winchester revives a dying patient with a heart massage, a photojournalist from the 'Stars and Stripes' newspaper arrives to publicize the already arrogant surgeon.
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" - Where Winchester receives a polar suit on a cold winter week, making everyone else jealous.
"Point of View" - an infamous episode where the camera throughout the entire episode is meant to be from the eyes of one of the wounded at the M*A*S*H unit. We see what he sees: arriving by helicopter, examined, being operated on, and being treated in the Post-Op unit.
"Hot Lips is Back in Town" - Colonel Potter becomes concerned over Major Houlihan, who is celebrating her just granted divorce; Radar becomes infacuated with a new nurse, and asks Hawkeye (who seems to be the pro) for help.
"Rally Round the Flagg, Boys" - The psycho CIA agent Col. Flagg arrives (in his final M*A*S*H episode) accusing Hawkeye of being a communist sympathizer.
So check this season out, and wish Radar a good-bye with his final season, not counting his season eight farewell episode.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Wonderful Season of "M*A*S*H", November 16, 2005
The success of the 1970 film "MASH" (directed by Robert Altman) inspired the production of one of the most successful and longest running TV series of all time: "M*A*S*H". While most of the main characters from the original film were portrayed in the TV series, only one of the film's actors reprised his role for the TV series: Gary Burghoff. Like the film, the show was about the men and women working in a fictitious U.S. Army "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" (or MASH unit) known as the 4077th during the Korean War in the early 1950's.
Having been on the air for so many years, it was not surprising that some of the original characters/cast members were no longer part of the show. This included Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson, 1929-1996) and Capt. "Trapper John" McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) following the show's third season, and Major Frank Burns as played by Larry Linville (1939-2000) at the end of the show's fifth season. Coming into its sixth season, the original characters/cast members still part of "M*A*S*H" included Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda), Father Francis Mulcahy (William Christopher), Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) and Cpl. Maxwell Klinger (Jamie Farr). Col. Sherman T. Potter (Harry Morgan) had replaced Lt. Col. Henry Blake and Capt. B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) replaced Trapper at the beginning of the show's fourth season and to begin the show's sixth season, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) had replaced Maj. Burns.
Unlike Major Burns, Maj. Winchester was a good surgeon, but annoyed eveyone with his pompous attitude due to being an heir of a wealthy Boston family. The arrival of Maj. Winchester changed the flavor of the show, but similar to how they treated Maj. Burns, Hawkeye & B.J. enjoyed playing a number of practical jokes on Maj. Winchester.
Though the cast had changed, as in the original 1970 film and the first six seasons of the TV series, "M*A*S*H" continued to demonstrate a total lack of respect for the U.S. military by portraying many of its officers as being inept and incompetent. However, with the departure of Maj. Burns, Maj. Houlihan, who got married at the end of the fifth season, was more focused on her troubled marriage to her husband stationed in Tokyo. Col. Potter was not particularly fond of Maj. Winchester, but appreciated his medical skills. The special bond that had developed between Col. Potter and the 4077th's lowly company clerk, Radar, continued and, as always, it was essentially Radar's responsibility to help keep things running smoothly. Father Mulcahy was always polite and helpful while Cpl. Klinger continued to wear women's clothes in an attempt to get a "Section 8", which would give him a discharge from the Army.
The seventh season of "M*A*S*H" that aired between 1978 and 1979 featured the following 25 episodes:
1. "Commander Pierce". Hawkeye gets to experience what it's like to be in command of the 4077th when Col. Potter is away.
2. "Peace On Us". Disgusted with the war and the stalled peace talks at Panmunjon, Hawkeye impulsively drives to Panmunjon to give the representatives at the peace talks a verbal thrashing.
3. "Lil". When a visiting nurse (Carmen Mathews, 1914-1995) about the same age as Col. Potter catches the Colonel's eyes, Radar gets upset and has the Colonel get a phone call from his wife.
4. "Our Finest Hour". A visiting reporter, Clete Roberts (himself, 1912-1984), returns to the 4077th for a follow-up series of interviews. Archive footage of Trapper & Col. Blake is included.
5. "The Billfold Syndrome". Hawkeye & B.J. send Charles a phony telegram to cheer him up after he is rejected from getting a position at a prestigious Boston hospital. Sidney Friedman (Alan Arbus) also pays a visit.
6. "None Like it Hot". When Hawkeye & B.J. obtain a portable bathtub to get relief from a heat wave, everyone in camp eventually finds out and wants to use the tub too. Meanwhile, Klinger uses the heat as another ploy to get a "Section 8" and when Radar has to have his tonsils removed, everyone wants some of his strawberry ice cream.
7. "They Call the Wind Korea". A wind storm makes everything difficult at the 4077th.
8. "Major Ego". Frustrated with her husband tying up their joint bank account, Margaret contemplates an affair with a visiting captain (Greg Mullavy).
9. "Baby, it's Cold Outside". Charles upsets everyone when he enjoys a winter suit that keeps him warm while everyone else is freezing.
10. "Point of View". In a very wonderful episode, events at the 4077th are shown from the eyes of an unknown wounded soldier.
11. "Dear Comrade". Charles enjoys the attentions given to him by a hired servant, Kwang (Sab Shimono), who is really a North Korean spy. When the 4077th doctors don't know how to treat a strange rash, Kwang provides them with a smelly but highly effective folk remedy.
12. "Out of Gas". Charles accompanies Father Mulcahy to obtain much-needed Pentothal from black marketeers.
13. "An Eye for a Tooth". Father Mulcahy gets upset when he's passed up for promotion until he hears about a chopper pilot's promotion and does something very unexpected.
14. "Dear Sis". Father Mulcahy writes a letter to his sister, who is a nun, and recounts various things going on at the 4077th.
15. "B.J. Papa San". B.J. starts to spend a lot of time with a Korean family that he substitutes for his own back home.
16. "Inga". Hawkeye is captivated by a visiting Swedish doctor named Dr. Inga Helversen (Mariette Hartley) until she upstages him in the operating room.
17. "The Price". Col. Potter gets upset when his horse disappears, until he finds out who has her.
18. "The Young And The Restless". Winchester gets upset when a young visiting doctor (James Canning) upstages him.
19. "Hot Lips is Back in Town". Upon getting her divorce, Margaret drives Col. Potter nuts as she tries to improve everything in celebration of her new-found freedom.
20. "C*A*V*E". Hawkeye has to face his claustrophobia when 4077th personnel must seek refuge in caves during a heavy artillery barrage.
21. "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys". Winchester gets his first taste of Col. Flagg (Edward Winter, 1937-2001) when he accuses Hawkeye of being a communist sympathizer.
22. "Preventive Medicine". Klinger turns to voodoo to try and get out of the army.
23. "A Night at Rosie's". An excellent episode in which just about everyone at the 4077th ends up spending a lot of time at the nearby Rosie's Bar.
24. "Ain't Love Grand". Charles tries to woo a Korean woman (Sylvia Cjang) that he meets at Rosie's, but she quickly tires of him. In the meantime, a nurse (Kit McDonough) finds the cross-dressing Klinger attractive until he puts on his uniform.
25. "The Party". When the 4077th has to bug out, B.J. tries to get all of the 4077th personnel to have a reunion party for all of the families back home in the states.
Overall, I rate the seventh season of "M*A*S*H" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it. In its eleven years of production, "M*A*S*H" was one of the best TV shows of its day and remains one of the best TV shows of all time.
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