M*A*S*H {MASH}: FOREIGN AFFAIRS (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, Reddish, an American public relations man, attempts to convince Chong-Wha, a wounded North Korean pilot, that he should defect to the west. Reddish arrives at the 4077th believing that Chong-Wha purposely landed his plane in South Korea in order to collect the $100,000 reward and American citizenship offered by the United States Army to any defecting pilot. Unfortunately for Reddish, Chong-Wha would rather go to a P.O.W. camp than to the United States. Reddish, however, refuses to give up and tries desperately to get the pilot to change his mind. Meanwhile, Charles finds himself falling for Martine, a French Red Cross Nurse with a sordid past that would not receive a warm welcolme in Boston. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Alan Alda.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 8, 1982 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:24:49
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:28609
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Defectors; Drama, medical; Korean War - Comedy; United States. Army - Surgeons
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1972-1983
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Burt Metcalfe … Executive Producer
- John Rappaport … Supervising Producer
- Dan Wilcox … Producer
- Thad Mumford … Producer
- Dennis Koenig … Producer
- Stanford Tischler … Associate Producer
- Charles S. Dubin … Director
- David Pollock … Writer
- Elias Davis … Writer
- Larry Gelbart … Developed for television by
- Alan Alda … Production (Misc.), Creative Consultant
- Gene Reynolds … Production (Misc.), Creative Consultant
- Lionel Newman … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Supervisor
- Johnny Mandel … Theme Music by, Theme song "Suicide Is Painless" by
- Alan Alda … Cast, Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce
- Mike Farrell … Cast, Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
- Harry Morgan … Cast, Col. Sherman T. Potter
- Loretta Swit … Cast, Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
- David Ogden Stiers … Cast, Maj. Charles Winchester
- Jamie Farr … Castl, Cpl. Maxwell Klinger
- William Christopher … Cast, Father Francis Mulcahy
- Jeffrey Tambor … Cast, Reddish
- Melinda Mullins … Cast, Martine
- Soon-Teck Oh … Cast, Joon-Sung
- Byron Chung … Cast, Chong-Wha
- Buddy Farmer … Cast, the M.P.
- Patrick Romano … Cast, the French Soldier
- Joann Thompson … Cast, the Nurse
- Dennis Troy … Cast, the Corpsman