M*A*S*H {MASH}: A FULL RICH DAY (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedy programs about the men and women of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H) stationed behind the lines during the Korean War. In this episode, Hawkeye Pierce tape records a message to his father, describing the previous day's chaos, which is then seen in flashbacks of the following:. a busload of wounded soldiers is brought to the hospital, including a dead soldier assumed to be from the Luxembourg contingent of the UN forces; a wounded Turkish soldier awakens in the operating room and attacks Henry Blake with a syringe full of sedative; a lieutenant brings in his wounded sergeant and demands he get priority treatment, forcing Henry and Frank Burns to perform surgery at gunpoint; and when the commander of the Luxembourg unit arrives to retrieve the body of his soldier, Radar can't find the corpse. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Alan Alda.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: December 3, 1974 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:25:55
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:28474
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Drama, medical; Korean War - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1972-1983
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Gene Reynolds … Producer, Director
- Larry Gelbart … Producer, Developed by
- Burt Metcalfe … Associate Producer
- Johnny Mandel … Theme Music by
- Alan Alda … Cast, Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce
- Wayne Rogers … Cast, Capt. John "Trapper John" F. X. McIntyre
- McLean Stevenson … Cast, Col. Henry Braymore Blake
- Larry Linville … Cast, Maj. Frank Burns
- Gary Burghoff … Cast, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly
- William Watson … Cast, Lt. Smith
- Jamie Farr … Cast, Cpl. Maxwell Klinger
- Curt Lowens … Cast, Colonel Blanche
- Michael Keller … Cast, Lt. LeClerq
- Kellye Nakahara … Cast, Nurse Able
- Sirri Murad … Cast, the Turkish Soldier