"made me a soldier."" He eventually gives the medal to another patient. Gerald S. O'Loughlin guest stars as General Franklin Schwerin. This episode has been held up as an example of the changing sociopolitical views embodied by its characters, in this instance from more to less anti-authoritarian. Bombshells (M*A*S*H) ""Bombshells"" was the 246th episode of the ""M*A*S*H"" television series, and the sixth episode of the eleventh season. It first aired on 28 November 1982, and was rebroadcast 18 April 1983. In it, Hawkeye and Charles attempted to get Marilyn Monroe to visit the 4077th, while B.J. receives the Bronze Star"
"Mobile army surgical hospital (United States) The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations. The units were first established in August 1945, and were deployed during the Korean War and later conflicts. The term was made famous in the television series ""M*A*S*H"", which depicted a fictional MASH unit. The U.S. Army deactivated the last MASH unit on February 16, 2006. The successor to the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is the Combat Support Hospital. The American Expeditionary Force Mobile Hospital No.1 was established"
"television series was smaller than real MASH units. The fictional 4077th consisted of four general surgeons and one neurosurgeon, around 10 nurses, and 50–70 enlisted men. In an average 24-hour period, they can go through 300 wounded soldiers. By comparison, the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital had personnel including 10 medical officers, 12 nursing officers, and 89 enlisted soldiers of assorted medical and nonmedical specialties. On one occasion, the unit handled over 600 casualties in a 24-hour period. Mobile army surgical hospital (United States) The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as"
"created after an attempt to film the original book's sequel, ""M*A*S*H Goes to Maine"", failed. The television series is the best-known of the ""M*A*S*H"" works, and one of the highest-rated shows in US television history. ""M*A*S*H"" aired weekly on CBS, with most episodes being a half-hour (25 minutes) in length. The series is usually categorized as a situation comedy, though it has also been described as a ""dark comedy"" or a ""dramedy"" because of the often dramatic subject matter. The show is an ensemble piece revolving around key personnel in a United States Army ""Mobile Army Surgical Hospital"" (MASH) in"
"on October 9, 1982, while a second WC-27 survives at a South El Monte museum without any markings. The bus used to transport the wounded was a 1954 Ford model. In the last season, an M43 ambulance from the Korean War era also was used in conjunction with the WC-54s and WC-27. Series creators Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds wanted ""M*A*S*H"" broadcast without a laugh track. Though CBS initially rejected the idea, a compromise was reached that allowed for omitting the laughter during operating room scenes if desired. ""We told the network that under no circumstances would we ever can"
"served in 1990–91 included the 2nd MASH, 1st Medical Group, Benning; the 10th MASH, 1st Medical Group, Carson; the 115th MASH (DCARNG); the 475th MASH (341st Med Group, KY USAR); the 807th MASH (341st Med Group, KY USAR); and the 912th MASH (TN USAR). In 1997, the last MASH unit in South Korea was deactivated. A deactivating ceremony was held in South Korea, which was attended by several members of the cast of the ""M*A*S*H"" television series, including Larry Linville (who played Frank Burns), and David Ogden Stiers (who played Charles Winchester). MASH units have since been replaced by the"
"both a paramedic program with an emergency room hospital, which also focused on real-life rescues. Also in 1972, the first episode of ""M*A*S*H"" aired; the show's tone was generally comedic, but dark—poignant moments emanating from the death caused by war were not uncommon. This trend of comedy with undercurrents of darkness in medical TV shows can also be seen in ""Doogie Howser, M.D."", ""House M.D."", ""Grey's Anatomy"", ""Scrubs"", ""Code Black"" and ""Chicago Med"". In 1986, Casualty started airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Casualty continues to be aired, making it the longest running TV medical drama. Its sister"
"States Air Force produced a number of air-ambulance units for use in forward operating medical units, using helicopters for rapid evacuation of patients. The H-13 Sioux helicopter, made famous by the film and television versions of ""M*A*S*H"", transported 18,000 wounded soldiers during the conflict. The work of the Medical Air Evacuation Squadrons was a success and was repeated by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The use of helicopters for emergency medical evacuations extended to civilian practice by groups such as the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society. After the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash in 1952, ambulances in Britain were restructured to"
"way. They were paying for dinner."" ""Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"" was the final episode of ""M*A*S*H"". Special television sets were placed in PX parking lots, auditoriums, and dayrooms of the US Army in Korea so that military personnel could watch that episode, in spite of 14 hours' time-zone difference with the East Coast of the US. The episode aired on February 28, 1983, and was 2½ hours long. The episode got a Nielsen rating of 60.2 and 77 share and according to a ""New York Times"" article from 1983, the final episode of ""M*A*S*H"" had 125 million viewers. When the"
"""M*A*S*H"" movie and television series and was so successful that it continued to be manufactured through 1974. A design as well as a utilitarian success, it was added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of New York City in 1984. Young had become profoundly disturbed by the development of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War and decided that humanity needed a new philosophical paradigm. In August 1946 Young recorded in his notes the idea of the ""psychopter""— the helicopter as the ""winged self"", a metaphor for the human spirit. By October 1947"
"days of real time. Many of the stories in the early seasons are based on tales told by real MASH surgeons who were interviewed by the production team. Like the movie, the series was as much an allegory about the Vietnam War (still in progress when the show began) as it was about the Korean War. The episodes ""Abyssinia, Henry"" and ""The Interview"" were ranked number 20 and number 80, respectively, on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time in 1997. In 2002, ""M*A*S*H"" was ranked number 25 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In"
"Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals of the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. Radar's teddy bear, originally found at the ranch set, was never on display at the Smithsonian. Following completion of production, the prop was kept by the show's set designer. It was sold several times including to Burghoff himself. It was sold at auction on July 29, 2005 for $11,800, it sold again on March 27, 2015 for $14,307.50 after 19 bids. ""M*A*S*H"" was one of the first network series to feature brief partial nudity (notably Gary Burghoff's buttocks in ""The Sniper"" and Hawkeye in one of the ""Dear Dad"""
"MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors is a 1968 novel by Richard Hooker (the pen name for former military surgeon Dr. H. Richard Hornberger and writer W. C. Heinz) which is notable as the inspiration for the feature film ""MASH"" (1970) and TV series ""M*A*S*H"". The novel is about a fictional U.S. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea during the Korean War. Hooker followed the novel with two sequels. Additionally, a series of sequels of rather different and lighter tone were credited to Hooker and William E. Butterworth, but actually written by"
"the best efficiency rating of any M*A*S*H unit, and then Brigadier General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick. Their ruse is revealed but Henry decides to return anyway. Henry Please Come Home ""Henry Please Come Home"" was the ninth episode of the first season of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on November 19, 1972. It was written by Laurence Marks and was"
"""M*A*S*H"" finale aired in 1983, 83.3 million homes in the United States had televisions, compared to almost 115 million in February 2010. ""Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"" broke the record for the highest percentage of homes with television sets to watch a television series. Stories persist that the episode was seen by so many people that the New York City Sanitation/Public Works Department reported the plumbing systems broke down in some parts of the city from so many New Yorkers waiting until the end to use the toilet. Articles copied into Alan Alda's book ""The Last Days of M*A*S*H"" include interviews"
"also played a labor and delivery nurse in the 1988 John Hughes film, “She's Having a Baby”. Along with several other ""M*A*S*H"" cast members, she was a spokesperson for IBM. Nakahara still occasionally works as an actress, as well as working as a watercolor artist who paints and exhibits under her married name, Kellye Wallett. She has two children. Kellye Nakahara Kellye Nakahara (born December 10, 1950) is an American actress, best known for playing Nurse Kellye in 165 episodes of the television comedy ""M*A*S*H"". Nakahara was born on O‘ahu, Hawaii. Before becoming an actress, Nakahara moved from Hawai‘i to"
"a seriously wounded soldier who made it to a MASH unit alive had a greater than 97% chance of survival once he received treatment. The MASH unit made its way into popular culture through the 1968 novel """" by Richard Hooker, the 1970 feature film based on the novel, and the long-running television sitcom (1972–1983) also based on the novel. A 1953 film, ""Battle Circus"", also took place at a MASH. MASH units continued to serve in various conflicts, including the Vietnam War. During the Gulf War, in October 1990, the 5th MASH, 44th Medical Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort"
"Alda as Cpt. Hawkeye Pierce, Wayne Rogers as Cpt. Trapper John McIntyre, McLean Stevenson as Lt. Col. Henry Blake, Loretta Swit as Maj. Margaret ""Hot Lips"" Houlihan, Larry Linville as Maj. Frank Burns, Gary Burghoff as Cpl. Radar O'Reilly, William Christopher as Father Mulcahy,and Jamie Farr as Maxwell Klinger. Aid Station (M*A*S*H) ""Aid Station"" is the 19th episode of the third season of ""M*A*S*H"". It was originally broadcast on February 11, 1975. It's breakfast, supposedly, and everyone has something to say about the questionable food being served. Henry soon calls an officers' meeting in order to address an emergency on"
"makes a reference to his favorite soap opera, ""Just Plain MacArthur,"" a reference to a real radio soap from the Golden Age called ""Just Plain Bill"". This was the last episode to have the ""jazzier"" version of the theme song playing during the credits. Major Fred C. Dobbs ""Major Fred C. Dobbs"" is the title of episode #22 of the first season of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"". It originally aired on March 11, 1973. After witnessing Frank's berating of nurse Ginger Bayliss for no reason, Hawkeye and Trapper console Ginger and set Frank up for one of their ""getting even"""
"units would act as mobile hospitals for the treatment of wounded. By the beginning of the hostilities in Korea, all MASH units were undermanned and the difficult terrain in Korea prevented easy transport, making it very difficult for the MASH units to operate in the Pusan Perimeter battle. The 8055th MASH was the first such unit to arrive in Korea, being assigned to the 24th Infantry Division on July 9. Two more hospitals, the 8063rd and 8067th, would join the UN forces in the Pusan Perimeter fighting. The MASH units were routinely overwhelmed with patients due to shortages of transport,"
"it as air ambulances. This system turned out to be super effective. The fatality rate for US army wounded dropped from 4.5 percent in WWII to only 2.5 percent in Korea. MASH proved its worth in Korea and became a key part of armies afterward. Technological and medical progress have helped MASH to save many lives not only in battlefields but also during unpredicted incidents and less developed regions. To solve the mentioned issues and by combining the idea of the field hospital and platforms and structures of MASH, the mobile hospital was born. Mobile hospital A mobile hospital is"
"Sometimes You Hear the Bullet ""Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"" is episode #17 of the first season of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"", originally airing on January 28, 1973. This is the first episode in which the medical staff failed to save a wounded soldier, and one of the first episodes of the series showing a member of the hospital staff truly affected by death. Writer Carl Kleinschmitt was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for this episode. Frank Burns throws his back out while dancing with Hot Lips in her tent. While recuperating in Post-Op, he puts himself in for"
"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"
"""Baker"", both frequent names given to various nurses throughout the series. The episode netted director Jackie Cooper a Best Directing in Comedy Emmy. Carry On, Hawkeye ""Carry On, Hawkeye"" was the 35th episode of the ""M*A*S*H"" television series, and eleventh of season two. The episode aired on November 24, 1973. The 4077th MASH is in the midst of a flu epidemic, with Trapper bedridden, soon followed by Henry Blake and Frank Burns, leaving Hawkeye as the only surgeon and Margaret Houlihan as acting Commanding Officer. Calls to headquarters for another surgeon prove fruitless, so Father Mulcahy and Radar are called"
"which was used on only a limited basis. The Bell 47, in its military configuration as a H-13 Sioux, was central to the 1972-1983 television series M*A*S*H, as well as the 1970 film of the same name. In the 1979 Norman Jewison film, ""...And Justice For All"", the main characters go for a ride in a Bell 47G-2 that ends up ditching in Baltimore's Inner Harbor when it runs out of fuel. ""Chopper Squad"" was a 1970s Australian television series about a Bell 206 JetRanger used for rescue work in Sydney. The helicopter used was an actual rescue helicopter operated"
"officers modified the basic War Department for a standard 25-bed station hospital into a new theater and table of basic for a portable hospital of 25-beds. The new unit was capable of supporting small units in its camp-type version (with 4 female Army nurses and organic vehicles) or battalion and regimental combat teams in its task force version (without the 4 nurses and organic vehicles). Commanded by a Medical Corps captain or major, the new 29-man portable hospital had 4 medical officers 3 general surgeons and 25 enlisted men, including 2 surgical and 11 medical technicians. What really marked a"
"the patients can be evacuated. Dreams (M*A*S*H) ""Dreams"" is an episode from the television series ""M*A*S*H"". It was the 22nd episode of the eighth season, broadcast and aired on February 18, 1980 and repeated September 1, 1980. It was directed by Alan Alda. ""Dreams"" was conceived by James Jay Rubinfier and co-written with Alan Alda. The episode received two prestigious writing honors: The Humanitas Prize (1980), and a Writers' Guild of America nomination for episodic television writing in the dramatic category, which was a first as M*A*S*H received WGA nominations in both comedy and drama categories that same year. The"
"Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable (MUST) was a type of medical equipment system developed for field hospitals in the United States Army in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The system used inflatable shelters for ward and patient care space, and expandable shelters for operating rooms and other sections. They were powered by auxiliary power units which used JP-4 as fuel, producing power and air conditioning for the hospital in addition to air to keep the shelters inflated. A 60 bed surgical hospital in Vietnam could use up to 3,000 gallons of JP-4 per day to keep"
"Portable Surgical Hospital Portable Surgical Hospitals (PSH) were a type of field hospital. The PSH were units of the United States Army Medical Corps designed to be man-portable by the team manning the hospital. They were eventually replaced by MASH units. During the summer and fall of 1942, a team of Medical Corps officers modified the basic War Department Table of Organization and Equipment (T/O&E) for a standard 25-bed station hospital (T/O&E 8-560, 22 July 1942) into a new theater T/O and table of basic allowances (T/BA) (T/O 8-508-S-SWPA, 31 October 1942) for a portable hospital of 25-beds. The new"
"unit was capable of supporting small units in its camp-type version (with 4 female Army nurses and organic vehicles) or battalion and regimental combat teams in its task force version (without the 4 nurses and organic vehicles). Commanded by a Medical Corps captain or major, the new 29-man portable hospital had 4 medical officers (3 general surgeons and a general surgeon/anesthetist) and 25 enlisted men, including 2 surgical and 11 medical technicians. What really marked a radical departure was that all of the unit's equipment, medical and surgical supplies, and rations could weigh no more than the 29 men could"
"For the Good of the Outfit ""For the Good of the Outfit"" was the 28th episode of the television series ""M*A*S*H"", the fourth episode of season two. The episode was aired on October 6, 1973. Hawkeye and Trapper discover that most of the patients in their latest surgery shift are from the nearby village of Taedong, which has just been shelled. The shrapnel fragments they recover prove to be American, and they learn that the only artillery in the area is an Army unit. They file a report on the shelling in hopes of securing compensation for the village, ignoring"
"previous canvas tents. Since then all other configurations of army deployable hospitals have been inactivated or reconfigured to the CSH configuration. The last to convert was the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. In the mid 1970s the ""MUST"" designation was applied, (Medical Unit, Self Contained, Transportable). During the ""Cold War"", with the possible conflict with the Warsaw Pact, active duty MUST units would be staffed by all the basic personnel necessary (Medics, X-Ray Techs, Pharmacist, Cooks, Clerks etc.) Doctors, Nurses and Specialist would be mobilized and mate up with the unit in the Field. The Unit would be flown to"
"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."