MASH???

[Kevin]

We go back and forth on television streaming services. Right now we have Disney. Just for a few months because it’s l$20 per month. Yikes!

Anyway, they have MASH. All 11 seasons. I used to watch it back in the day. But now tonight I just watched the first episode of season 11 and now I’m halfway through the very last episode.

My daughter and I watch shows and talk about the actors. What they’ve been in, etc.

Most actors from MASH are now gone. Alan Alda and RIZZO and Radar and a few others are still around. But that’s about it.

 

[RugerForum]

I do like watching MASH. Especially later at night.

 

[hittman]

MASH is on daily here on TVLand. Great show.

 

[WAYNO]

We talk about MASH occasionally, here and elsewhere.
MASH was released as a TV show while I was still in the Army. Horribly inaccurate, it was still our safe place while America was busy hating me.
I love MASH and watch it nearly every day.
Recently, my boy wrote to the remaining actors, thanking them for me.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Key-Lassic!
We always watched it live every week around my house. My Dad was a twice wounded Korean War combat veteran, and generally a very stoic person. But, on more than a few occasions, I personally witnessed him LHAO while watching M*A*S*H ...

 

[Kevin]

I do remember watching MASH back in high school with my parents.

I know the 2 hour finale was the most watched tv show at the time. Kinda like the season finale of Cheers. But this has a lot of memories.

 

[41Dude]

We go back and forth on television streaming services. Right now we have Disney. Just for a few months because it’s l$20 per month. Yikes!

Anyway, they have MASH. All 11 seasons. I used to watch it back in the day. But now tonight I just watched the first episode of season 11 and now I’m halfway through the very last episode.

My daughter and I watch shows and talk about the actors. What they’ve been in, etc.

Most actors from MASH are now gone. Alan Alda and RIZZO and Radar and a few others are still around. But that’s about it.

I worked at a liquor store during MASH finale. We sold these specialty bottles.
Fun stuff.

 

[contender]

Count me in as another MASH fan. I was in the Army when it was being aired. We'd watch it in the break room. I would tell them; We are getting our weekly dose of OJT!

It comes on nightly on METV here. I still watch it,, and know all the episodes too. Yep,, it was inaccurate,, but it was FUN to watch! Still is!

 

[roylt]

Channel 7.3 here in Iowa. "Me Tv". Has two hours of MASH Monday - Friday. Also an hour of Andy Griffith. Good clean TV. Although some of MASH does push the envelope a bit with the sleeping around stuff.

 

[eveled]

The show lasted longer than the Korean war did! .

 

[blume357]

A lot longer...
I'm sure I've told my father's story about his experience with a MASH unit in Korea. He got pneumonia while on the Submarine he was station on waiting to land at Inchon and so once inland his sergeant decided he needed to go to a MASH and get well... so my father walked back to one and entered a tent... what he saw was a soldier sitting in a chair leaning over and the back of his head open and brain exposed with a doctor standing behind him poking at his brain and smoking a cigarette... as my father watched this the ash on the doc's cigarette fell off into the guy's head. My father turned around and headed back North to find his company.

 

[Yaworski]

I liked the first couple seasons but then the show got too preachy after Alda became the producer. I watched it through the end but haven't watched it on a regular basis since then.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I didn't like the reruns in the '80's and so I never tried it again. Too young to watch it in the '70's. My parents would have steered me away due to the cross-dresser anyway. They're so conservative I wasn't allowed to watch The Facts of Life, Three's Company, or even Mr. Rogers.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

My Dad was in a Mash unit in WWII.
He liked the show Mash.

 

[vito]

I enjoyed the show when it ran on network TV but it was pure fantasy. I was on active duty during those years, in the Army's medical service and served in Army hospitals, and in a Medical battalion in Vietnam during that time, and real life had virtually no similarity to what was on the TV show.

I'll admit that more recently I tried to watch an episode of "MASH" and found it ridiculous and not even entertaining. But then again, I feel the same toward most of the TV shows from that era as compared to what can be seen now on cable and streaming services.

 

[Yaworski]

But then again, I feel the same toward most of the TV shows from that era as compared to what can be seen now on cable and streaming services.

Yeah, we watched a lot of stuff that was really bad in retrospect. Chips, the Incredible Hulk, TJ Hooker, MASH. Scooby-doo.

 

[usmc69]

At a local resale shop, I found a boxed set of all the seasons of MASH and the original movie included. Cost was $4.00, thought it was a good deal.

 

[Fox Mike]

Great show! It is a lot like being around helicopter pilots. Never know "what next". If you notice that in the club there is a picture (painting) of a Huey. The Huey wasn't yet built in the 1950s when the show time-frame was set. They also wear black boots. Black boots didn't appear till well after Korea, 1957 to be exact. I know...it's TV

 

[Armybrat]

My Dad was in a Mash unit in WWII.
He liked the show Mash.

My wife’s cousin was a Korean War combat medic, but dunno if he was ever in a MASH unit…or if he watched the tv show.
His decorations:

 

[Yaworski]

If you notice that in the club there is a picture (painting) of a Huey.

Never noticed that.

They also wear black boots. Black boots didn't appear till well after Korea, 1957 to be exact. I know...it's TV

Never noticed that either.

Now the show is really ruined for me

 

[RonEgg]

I saw MASH the movie while on R&R. Didn’t find it a bit funny then. It took awhile. My son and I watched a lot of TV MASH. He loved it.

 

[RC44Mag]

My wife’s cousin was a Korean War combat medic, but dunno if he was ever in a MASH unit…or if he watched the tv show.
His decorations:
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Silver Star do you know the story behind it?

 

[blume357]

For years I had a book on Emergency War Surgery published for NATO and the directions for doing triage for the wounded being brought in was the exact opposite of how it was depicted on MASH.

 

[g5m]

I was in the service when the movie came out. Although the situations were much different the relationships were accurate. My CO knew the Doc who wrote the original book.

 

[mirglip]

I don't understand how people can watch television. I find it insulting.
The main purpose of television is to convert grey matter into brown matter.

 

[Fox Mike]

I don't understand how people can watch television. I find it insulting.
The main purpose of television is to convert grey matter into brown matter.

Many watch for entertainment, some for the 'news', some because they are unable to get out and about, such as my wife. Then there are those that do not watch for various reasons, they are too intelligent, some too cheap to buy one, and some just to tell others how to live their lives

 

[Yaworski]

Then there are those that do not watch for various reasons, they are too intelligent, some too cheap to buy one, and some just to tell others how to live their lives

I knew a guy who claimed that he didn't watch TV other than history shows or sports. However, if you mentioned any show, he'd tell you the back story of the characters, who was in it, and who the producers were. Either he memorized "TV Guide" or he was fibbing about how much TV he watched.

 

[vito]

I'll admit I spend a lot of time watching TV. That is what I do most nights after dinner and until I go to bed. But in recent years I watch relatively little that is on the traditional networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS and much of the time watching shows or movies on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO-Max, Apple TV and Hulu. And while I have disdain for the Leftist focus of PBS, there are more than a few good shows on public television, including some made in the U.K. Maybe the best part of Prime Video is "Brit Box" which is a small charge above having Amazon Prime but many of the shows are particularly good. One that comes to mind right now is "Blue Lights". Very well done.

 

[Yaworski]

I'll admit I spend a lot of time watching TV.

When I was younger and did more stuff outside of work, I watched far less TV. I had my car club, Scouts, refereeing basketball, umpiring, etc. Now I watch TV in the evenings.

One that comes to mind right now is "Blue Lights". Very well done.

You mentioned that before which prompted me to look up the show. I enjoyed it and binge watched it. Interesting contrast between American policing and British policing or, more specifically, Northern Irish policing.

Another British police show that I enjoyed was "Foyle's War."

 

[GasGuzzler]

When I was younger and did more stuff outside of work, I watched far less TV. I had my car club, Scouts, refereeing basketball, umpiring, etc. Now I watch TV in the evenings.

I used to coach and umpire, then band boosters, then golf ... but the social drinking and smoking (but not at home) meant I spent no time at home therefore no time watching TV. Now I am home from work 10 minutes after the bell rings and usually don't leave until morning so YouTube is now on the big screen and not just my phone. Don't watch any "shows" per se but channels that "do things to stuff"... like car stuff. The family watches and learns with me. Nice to turn over a new leaf. TV is not all bad. Fictional shows generally are in my opinion but allowed as entertainment in moderation.