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Wednesday, October 5, 2022
M*A*S*H*UGA
M*A*S*H
1972-1983 CBS
M*A*S*H week continues with four more days of parodies. Yesterday was a look at the movie, now day one of four of the television show.
M*A*S*H*UGA
MAD #166, April 1974
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
Based on the movie, it eventually became its own thing. It still centered on the two main characters, “Hawkeye” Pierce (Alan Alda) and “Trapper” John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), drinking and womanizing surgeons in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, but sanitized for TV.
The Colonel was Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson)
The corporal was “Radar” O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff), the only one who reprised his movie role. They didn't have a regular Chaplain early on, though one did become a main part of the cast later on, as we shall soon see.
Majors Frank Burns (Larry Linville) and Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (Loretta Swit) were strict by the book practicioners who had an on and off affair, he an enlisted married man, and she an army brat. Early on they were the foils of Hawkeye and Trapper John.
Radar was called that because he saw and knew all before everyone else.
When there was a lot of hype about their last season, MAD did another parody.
M*U*S*H
MAD #234, October 1982
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Jack Davis
By this time, M*A*S*H had evolved into something different. Some of its cast had left and some members were added. Mostly because of the influence of Alan Alda, the show became more socially conscience.
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) became one of the added cast members. Maxwell Klinger (Jamie Farr) was a supporting character who became a regular. His schtick was that he dressed in drag in hopes that the brass would think he was too crazy to be in the military.
Trapper John was replaced by B.J. (Mike Farrell). Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) replaced Col. Blake. Hawkeye would go into soliloquys about how war was bad.
They phased out the “Hot Lips” nickname and Klinger stopped feigning insanity.
Harry Morgan had previously been on Dragnet.
Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Steirs) replaced Frank Burns.
From TV Spinoffs Yet to Come by Tom Koch and Harry North, in MAD #206, April 1979. Radar actually did have a short- lived spinoff called W*A*L*T*E*R.
From When American TV Programs Are Shown in Russia by Lou Silverstone and Angelo Torres, in #272, July 1987. Funny thing is this wasn't far off from what Hawkeye actually had to say about the war.
From TV Theme Songs by Frank Jacobs and Sam Viviano, in #266, October 1986.
Two covers for the Swedish edition of MAD.
B*A*S*H
Bananas Looks at TV (reprint from earlier issue)
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano
The campgrounds had fake road signs labelling everyone's home town.
Col. Potter had a pet horse. It's drawn as Spark Plug from Barney Google here, it had a sheet over it so the artist wouldn't have to draw the body.
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