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I love MASH. I've seen every episode many times and none of them ever get old. As for the company clerk running the unit, I was assigned to more than one unit where the company clerk had a lot more stroke than seemed reasonable, but generally they were pretty good. I was actually assigned to a real MASH unit in the late 90s and a lot of the time it didn't seem like ANYONE was running it...
 
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The Outlaw Josie Wales is traveling with the women in the cart and there is a rectangular hole in the front with two 'reins' that the actual driver is using. Later on as they are rounding the turn near the 'home place' they are still in a two wheeled wagon but there is no longer a hole in the front of the wagon; just two lines. And, where did all the long guns come from? Josie and the two Indians didn't have them nor did the two women but suddenly the house has two or so by each window.
 
The old westerns are so much better to watch than the alternatives. When Gayle King comes on every morning I start cussing and my wife says "Time for Hopalong Cassidy." The good guys always win, everybody gets their pistol shot out of their hands and nobody dies. The rustlers go to prison. Not the real world for sure, but what the real world should be. Even the big orange cat in the floor loves to watch Hopalong.
 
Yaworski said:
Probably the only TV shows to have few technical/procedural errors were Dragnet, Adam-12, and Emergency.

If you watch them and pay attention to details, you see the equipment changing from season to season as the police or fire department changed their equipment.

I once read that for Adam-12, the hot sheet that they had clipped to the dash changed every shift. Not every episode, if a show covered three work days, there were three different hot sheets.

Randolph Mantooth said that there was a LA county firefighter/paramedic on set and if he said, "We wouldn't do that .. ." it didn't happen.

For the record, it irks me that Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter was always addressed as "Sergeant" and not "Gunny."
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Trust me Emergency was a laugh a minute at all of the mistakes. Both medical and firefighting.

How do I know this? Well when you twelve to sixteen firemen, some of whom did field medicine stuff paramedics will never be able to do, laughing at the mistakes it's sort of obvious.

Now don't get me wrong. It was good entertainment. It did serve to enlighten the public about the program and thus help increase both use and funding.
 
Fox Mike said:
The Outlaw Josie Wales is traveling with the women in the cart and there is a rectangular hole in the front with two 'reins' that the actual driver is using. Later on as they are rounding the turn near the 'home place' they are still in a two wheeled wagon but there is no longer a hole in the front of the wagon; just two lines. And, where did all the long guns come from? Josie and the two Indians didn't have them nor did the two women but suddenly the house has two or so by each window.
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Long guns came from the Comancheros. They were enroute to Ten Bears to trade whiskey and guns for gold.
 
Jeepnik said:
Trust me Emergency was a laugh a minute at all of the mistakes. Both medical and firefighting . . . Well when you twelve to sixteen firemen,
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Interesting. My friends who were firefighters at the time told me that it was very accurate. YMMV.

I'm not sure what that second sentence means.
 
The movie Tombstone was, IMO, one of the best westerns made, but....the one scene that really bothers me, is when they are having the gunfight at the OK Corral. Doc Holidays fires one shot from his "stree howitzer" into the air, and then fires two more shots. Same scene he "fans" his Colt and manages to fire at least 8 shots if I remember correctly.
 
Cofaler said:
I love MASH. I've seen every episode many times and none of them ever get old. As for the company clerk running the unit, I was assigned to more than one unit where the company clerk had a lot more stroke than seemed reasonable, but generally they were pretty good. I was actually assigned to a real MASH unit in the late 90s and a lot of the time it didn't seem like ANYONE was running it...
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I slept in tents like those in MASH while stationed at the missile range on the yellow sea in : YUPPERS !!!: KOREA and EVERYTHING that went on in MASH I saw happen in REAL LIFE. I never missed an episode of MASH and even watch the reruns too !!
 
It's that time of the year when one of my favorite movies comes on... The Three Godfathers. John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. This version is not the original though. There was a silent version and also a version where Chester Morris played the lead.
Interestingly enough, although the John Wayne version had the baby named Robert William Pedro Hightower, the role was played by a girl.
I am sure most of you can pick out... Ronald Reagan, Rosemary Lane, Erroll Flynn, William Boyd aka: Hopalong Cassidy, Chester Morris and Buck Jones

R. Reagan, Rosemary Lane, Erroll Flynn, Hopalong Cassidy, Wayne Morris, Buck Jones.jpg
 
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