"War of Nerves (M*A*S*H) ""War of Nerves"" is an episode from the TV series ""M*A*S*H"", the fifth episode of its sixth season. Originally airing on October 11, 1977, with a rebroadcast on June 5, 1978 (which saw CBS move the show to Mondays at 9 p.m.), it was written and directed by Alan Alda. Tensions are building at the 4077th, and morale is at an all-time low. Dr. Sidney Freedman is visiting to follow up on Tom, a soldier he sent back into battle. Uniforms are asked to be burned due to diseases. Meanwhile, the 4077 is at each other's"
"in ""M*A*S*H"". His wife and daughters lived in New Jersey, and he did not want to move his family to Los Angeles, especially because he did not know how long the show would last. Alda's father, Robert Alda, and half-brother Antony Alda appeared together in an episode of ""M*A*S*H"", ""Lend a Hand"", during season eight. Robert had previously appeared in ""The Consultant"" in season three. During the first five seasons of the series, the tone of ""M*A*S*H"" was largely that of a traditional ""service comedy"", in the vein of shows such as ""McHale's Navy"". However, as the original writers gradually"
"left the series, Alda gained increasing control, and by the final seasons had become a producer and creative consultant. Under his watch, ""M*A*S*H"" retained its comedic foundation, but gradually assumed a somewhat more serious tone, openly addressing political issues. As a result, the 11 years of ""M*A*S*H"" are generally split into two eras: the Larry Gelbart/Gene Reynolds ""comedy"" years (1972–1977), and the Alan Alda ""dramatic"" years (1977–1983). Alda disagreed with this assessment. In a 2016 interview he stated, ""I don't like to write political messages. I don't like plays that have political messages. I do not think I am responsible"
"2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the fifth-best written TV series ever and ""TV Guide"" ranked it as the eighth-greatest show of all time. In 2016, ""Rolling Stone"" ranked it as the sixteenth-greatest TV show. ""M*A*S*H"" was nominated for over 100 Emmy Awards during its 11-year run, winning 14: The show won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series (Musical or Comedy) in 1981. Alan Alda won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series (Musical or Comedy) six times: in 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983. McLean Stevenson won the award for"
"Allan Arbus Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer and the husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman (Major) on the CBS television series ""M*A*S*H"". Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg). He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play. Arbus was also a music lover. Before becoming an actor, he"
"at Theatre for a New Audience. Arbus died of congestive heart failure on April 19, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was 95. He was cremated and his ashes given to his family. Allan Arbus Allan Franklin Arbus (February 15, 1918 – April 19, 2013) was an American actor and photographer and the husband of photographer Diane Arbus. He is known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman (Major) on the CBS television series ""M*A*S*H"". Arbus was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg). He attended"
"surgeon. He achieved wide recognition in this role, in which his character was contrasted with those played by Alan Alda and others in the ensemble. During that period, the sitcom's tone had changed from pure comedy to more drama-focused story lines, as it reflected issues related to the Vietnam War (though ""M*A*S*H"" was set during the Korean War, it aired during the Vietnam and post-Vietnam era and tended to reflect this period in a roundabout fashion). He was offered a renewal for two more seasons when his contract expired, but he declined. After five seasons, Linville had grown tired of"
"similar shows, ""Medical Center"" focused on physician-patient relationships instead of the actual medicine itself. Dishell said that ""the disease itself didn't matter... [CBS] would give me a dramatic story and then I would build the medicine around it.” One challenge Dishell faced as a medical consultant for ""M*A*S*H"" was always making sure that the medicine Alan Alda and his fellow actors and actresses practiced was not too advanced. Dishell consulted medical textbooks from the 1950s and professional publications like the Journal of War Surgery to ensure the show’s historical accuracy. Dishell was also the medical reporter for NBC News from"
"15, they were married. They have three daughters: Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. Two of his eight grandchildren are aspiring actors. In an intimate interview Alda revealed that Arlene sometimes will call him ""Fonzi"" in reference to his birth name ""Alphonso"". The Aldas have been longtime residents of Leonia, New Jersey. Alda frequented Sol & Sol Deli on Palisade Avenue in the nearby town of Englewood, New Jersey—a fact mirrored in his character's daydream about eating whitefish from the establishment in an episode of ""M*A*S*H"" in which Hawkeye sustains a head injury. Alda began his career in the 1950s, as a"
"The Consultant ""The Consultant"" is the 17th episode in the third season of the television series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on January 17, 1975. It was written by Robert Klane, from a story by Larry Gelbart, and was directed by Gene Reynolds. Hawkeye and Trapper are off to surgical clinic in Japan, but instead of attending seminars and meetings, they intend to spend their time golfing and picking up geisha girls. Once arriving in Japan, the two cohorts sit at a bar and chum up to a civilian medical consultant, Anthony Borelli (played by Robert Alda, Alan Alda's real-life father)."
"Greatest TV Stars of All Time"". The following is a list of ""M*A*S*H"" episodes written and/or directed by Alda. Alda's prominence in the enormously successful television series ""M*A*S*H"" provided him a platform to speak out on political topics. He has been a strong and vocal supporter of women's rights and the feminist movement. He co-chaired, with former First Lady Betty Ford, the Equal Rights Amendment Countdown campaign. In 1976, ""The Boston Globe"" dubbed him ""the quintessential Honorary Woman: a feminist icon"" for his activism on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment. Alda played Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in the"
"was scheduled to guest star on """", portraying former police and naval officer John Winters, the father of the former main character . It is unknown whether he filmed his role before the series was redesigned and Rex Winters written off. After the release of his movie ""Tower Heist"", Alda was devastated when on December 7, 2011, his decades-long friend Harry Morgan from ""M*A*S*H"" died. Alda returned to Broadway in November 2014, playing the role of Andrew Makepeace in the revival of ""Love Letters"" at the Brooks Atkinson Theater alongside Candice Bergen. In 2016, Alda appeared in Louis C.K.'s web-based"
"also at the end of the third season, opposite Alan Alda. Both Morgan and Farrell were big fans of the ""M*A*S*H"" series during its early seasons before they both joined the cast, with Morgan having also appeared as ""General Bartford Hamilton Steele"" in the season-three episode ""The General Flipped at Dawn"" (for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Guest Role in a Primetime Comedy Series). Farrell stayed with the series for its remaining eight years on the air. During that time, he wrote five episodes and directed four. Since ""M*A*S*H"", Farrell has guest starred in ""Murder, She Wrote"";"
"in ""What Makes Sammy Run?"" (1964). He was also the host of the short-lived DuMont TV version of the game show ""What's Your Bid?"" (May–June 1953). Alda's first wife, and mother of actor Alan Alda, Joan Browne, was a homemaker and former beauty pageant winner. Alda was married to his second wife, Flora Marino, an Italian actress whom he met in Rome, until his death. Alda made two guest appearances with his son Alan on ""M*A*S*H"", in the episodes ""The Consultant"" (January 1975) and ""Lend a Hand"" (February 1980). The latter episode also featured Antony Alda (1956–2009), his younger son"
"and shame of war (from an intellectual and judgmental viewpoint), Radar could just REACT from a position of total innocence."" Burghoff was nominated for six Emmy Awards for ""M*A*S*H"" in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and, of those nominations, he won an Emmy in 1977. Burghoff's co-star Alan Alda accepted the award on his behalf. Burghoff left ""M*A*S*H"" after the seventh season because of burnout and a desire to spend more time with his family, though he returned the following year to film a special two-part farewell episode, ""Goodbye Radar"". He explained, ""Family, to me,"
"the law in Toledo. Colonel Potter wrote to him and offered him a job as his administrative assistant. Klinger's nemesis at General General was D'Angelo's executive secretary Alma Cox (Brandis Kemp), a mean-spirited woman who was forever trying to ""get the goods"" on him, from rifling through his desk to giving him just one day to prepare for a civil service exam, the latter of which, despite her underhanded efforts, he still manages to pass. Father Mulcahy, whose hearing was damaged in the final episode of ""M*A*S*H"", was suffering from depression and drinking heavily. Potter arranged for Mulcahy to receive"
"universal terms a time and place with such affecting clarity."" Writers for the show received several Humanitas Prize nominations, with Larry Gelbart winning in 1976, Alan Alda winning in 1980, and the team of David Pollock and Elias Davis winning twice in 1982 and 1983. The series received 28 Writers Guild of America Award nominations – 26 for Episodic Comedy and two for Episodic Drama. Seven episodes won for Episodic Comedy in 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has released all 11 seasons of ""M*A*S*H"" on DVD in Region 1 and Region 2."
"Life Time (M*A*S*H) ""Life Time"" is the 11th episode in the eighth season of the CBS television series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on November 26, 1979, it was directed by Alan Alda and was co-written by Alan Alda and Dr. Walter D. Dishell, M.D., the latter of whom was the show's medical consultant, along with phantom assistance from authors W.C. Heinz, Ring Lardner, Jr., who had written the script for the film ""MASH,"" and even Richard Hooker, himself a former U.S. Army MASH unit surgeon, and author of the 1968 novel "","" from which the film and series both drew"
"autobiography, ""Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned"", Alan Alda says that for this episode, he borrowed the structure from ""La Ronde"". ""In my version, the object that's passed from couple to couple is a pair of long johns during a cold spell in the Korean winter."" The Longjohn Flap ""The Longjohn Flap"" was episode #19 of the first season of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on February 18, 1973 and was the first episode of ""M*A*S*H"" to be written by series star Alan Alda. In the middle of a cold snap, Hawkeye receives a"
"inform 20th Century Fox, and the company soon sold the property where the box was located, unaware of its existence. The time capsule was then dug up by a construction worker who took it home. The construction worker tried to return the time capsule to the cast, but Alan Alda told the worker to keep it. As Time Goes By (M*A*S*H) ""As Time Goes By"" is the 255th episode of ""M*A*S*H"", airing on February 21 (first-run) and September 12 (repeat), 1983, and the last episode filmed. As it was the final episode filmed they took a moment to pay tribute"
"this episode. Alda credits ""Dreams"" as one of his favorite ""M*A*S*H"" episodes. In this surreal episode, the group performs surgery on 211 patients in 33 hours without sleep. The main characters attempt to get whatever rest they can between surgeries, but their dreams offer no relief from the war. Once the marathon of wounded ends, they consider getting some long-deserved sleep. However, Winchester's glib response of ""...to sleep, perchance to dream..."" (from ""Hamlet"", Act 3, Scene 1) causes them to reconsider sleep in favor of coffee to stay awake. In a parallel story, a young lieutenant in charge of the"
"their inspirations. In an episode where the story is told in real time, a wounded soldier arrives at the camp with a lacerated aorta, and the doctors rush to perform an arterial graft before it is too late. Hawkeye and the team have less than 20 minutes to replace a wounded GI's aorta graft, or he risks permanent paralysis. Life Time (M*A*S*H) ""Life Time"" is the 11th episode in the eighth season of the CBS television series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on November 26, 1979, it was directed by Alan Alda and was co-written by Alan Alda and Dr. Walter"
"Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series in 1974. The series earned the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series seven times: 1973 (Gene Reynolds), 1974 (Reynolds), 1975 (Hy Averbeck), 1976 (Averbeck), 1977 (Alan Alda), 1982 (Alda), 1983 (Alda). The show was honored with a Peabody Award in 1975 ""for the depth of its humor and the manner in which comedy is used to lift the spirit and, as well, to offer a profound statement on the nature of war."" ""M*A*S*H"" was cited as ""an example of television of high purpose that reveals in"
"Hayden, who was working as a high school English and drama teacher in Laguna Beach, California. They were separated in 1980 and divorced in 1983. They have two children, Michael and Erin. On ""M*A*S*H"", Hunnicutt's daughter also was named Erin. Also on ""M*A*S*H"", in the episode ""The Colonel's Horse"" (season 5, episode 12), Hunnicutt's father-in-law is Floyd Hayden, Hayden coincidentally being the maiden name of Farrell's wife, Judy. Judy Farrell also acted on ""M*A*S*H"" from 1976-1983 as Nurse Able, one of the few nurses with a recurring role. On December 31, 1984, he married actress Shelley Fabares. Farrell has been"
"high school English and drama teacher in Laguna Beach, California. They were separated in 1980 and divorced in 1983. They have two children, Michael and Erin. On ""M*A*S*H"", B.J. Hunnicutt's daughter also was named Erin. She has been married to Joe Bratcher since 1985. Judy Farrell Judy Farrell (born March 1, 1938) is an American actress most noted for her role as Nurse Able on the television comedy series ""M*A*S*H"". She performed small roles in several other television series, then later wrote 13 episodes for the soap opera ""Port Charles"". Farrell was born Judy Hayden and raised in Quapaw, Oklahoma."
"Days."" Robert J. Wilke played Sergeant Wilks, who advocates a more harsh treatment of Indian prisoners than does Pratt. Leonard Nimoy played Yellow Bear. When Rogers was approached for ""M*A*S*H,"" he planned to audition for the role of Hawkeye Pierce. He found the character too cynical, however, and asked to screen test as Trapper John, whose outlook was brighter. Rogers was told that Trapper and Hawkeye would have equal importance as characters. This changed after Alan Alda, whose acting career and résumé up to that point had outshone that of Rogers, was cast as Hawkeye and proved to be more"
"spoke on the differences between the Hawkeye and Trapper characters, saying, ""Alan [Alda] and I both used to discuss ways on how to distinguish the differences between the two characters as to where there would be a variance... My character [Trapper John McIntyre] was a little more impulsive [than Hawkeye]."" Rogers considerably reduced his Alabama accent for the character of Trapper. He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played the character in the Robert Altman movie ""MASH"", and was himself succeeded by Pernell Roberts on the ""M*A*S*H"" spin-off ""Trapper John, M.D.."" After three seasons, Rogers left the show. After leaving ""M*A*S*H"","
"secret."" The character Professor Milton Greene, Jack Donaghy's biological father, was played by guest actor Alan Alda, best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce from the television series ""M*A*S*H"". Alda and Alec Baldwin have worked together, having appeared in the 2004 biographical drama film ""The Aviator"". This was Alda's third appearance on the show. After the airing of the season three finale episode ""Kidney Now!', in which Jack organizes a benefit concert to get Milton a kidney, it was unknown whether or not the benefit concert for Milton was a success, however, in the season four episode ""Into the"
"actress-turned author Bonnie Jones, who appeared in five episodes of ""M*A*S*H"" as Lt. Barbara Bannerman, from 1967 until 1976, when the couple divorced. He and his current wife, actress Ann Sweeny, who also appeared on ""M*A*S*H"" as Nurse Carrie Donovan in two episodes, married in 1979 and have one son, Andrew Reynolds. Gene Reynolds Gene Reynolds (born Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal, April 4, 1923) is an American actor, television writer, director, and producer. He was one of the producers of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"". Reynolds was born on April 4, 1923 to Frank Eugene Blumenthal and Maude Evelyn Blumenthal in Cleveland,"
"M*A*S*H (TV series) M*A*S*H is an American war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983. It was developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film ""M*A*S*H"", which, in turn, was based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel """". The series, which was produced with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the ""4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital"" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War (1950–53). The show's title sequence features an instrumental-only version of ""Suicide Is Painless"", the original film's theme song. The show was"
"a copy of which is available in the book ""The Last Days of M*A*S*H"" by Alan and Arlene Alda. Eileen Saki Eileen Saki is an actress who was the final and longest-running actress to play Rosie, proprietor of Rosie's Bar in the television series ""M*A*S*H"". She also had a small but memorable role in the season 5 premiere episode as the head 'Madam' of a coquetteish group of prostitutes. The switching of actresses in the role of Rosie mimics the actual handing over of the real-life 'Rosie's Bar' during the Korean War from mother to daughter. Alan Alda became aware"
"Dear Sigmund ""Dear Sigmund"" is the 7th episode of the fifth season of the television series ""M*A*S*H"". It first aired on CBS on September 18, 1976. The episode was conceived, written and directed by cast member Alan Alda, who played Hawkeye Pierce on the show. Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) is having trouble working after one of his patients, whom he thought he had helped, commits suicide. He believes ""there's something special"" about the 4077th, so he goes to a poker game there one night and decides to remain for several weeks, to work through his feelings. During his time"
"CBS's ""M*A*S*H*"", appeared in ""Operation Mess"" on November 18, 1962. O'Toole is puzzled why the crew is grumbling about the food when Charlie was previously known as a superior chef. Ken Berry's character refers to O'Toole's first name as Terence. In ""Operation Potomac"" on December 9, 1962, with guest star Richard Eastham, O'Toole tries to determine why someone sent him a dress while the ship is in port near Washington, D.C. The unsolicited gift inspired lots of ribbing from his fellow crew members. Eventually, O'Toole learns the dress was for a female naval officer with the same name assigned to"