M*A*S*H - Season Five (Collector's Edition)
| M*A*S*H - Season Five (Collector's Edition) |
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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 "The best season of all" | 2008-07-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: AC1U7PPQJKA9D | |
| In every season of MASH there are some great unforgettable episodes, but mixed in every now and then you'll find a forgetable one or two. BUT not in season 5. In my opinion this is with out a doubt the best season in the series. The acting ensemble is as good as it will ever be in the series. Klinger comes up with the best ideas to get out of the army, that almost work, but never seem to. Frank is CRAZY, and you really see it here, Larry Linville is a stinking genius. The duo of Hawkeye and B.J. has melted into a comedic duo that is hard to beat. And on top of all that, Margaret gets married! For my money the best episodes of the whole series come out of this season namely, "Dear Sigmond" and "Movie Night' | |
| "Perfect Gift" | 2008-06-16 |
| - Reviewed By jodilo19 | |
| I gave this to my son for graduation and he was thrilled. MASH is his favorite re-run and he loves to see it without the commercials! | |
 "Season 5" | 2008-04-27 |
| - Reviewed By johnaholladay | |
| Season 5 was a turning point for MASH when it started to become more of a mixture of comedy and drama otherwise known as " dramaedy ". Making William Christopher a full cast member was a good movie but clearly the biggest move was Loretta Swit's character Margaret marrying someone other than Frank. I really did not the fifth season because I felt sorry for the actor Larry Linville playing Frank and later finding out that it was a nightmare for him as well for they had trailers where the actors would watch the episodes privately before it went on the air. Linville could no longer stand watching his character become a puppet and could not change his character. His character was mean-spirited and a rotten doctor and if they changed his character to be a good guy; the character and the show would be destroyed. Linville had signed a five year contract to do MASH and he honored his contract by doing all five years. Linville never regretted doing MASH but he is the only actor of the show to leave and not regret the decision. Linville was well liked by the entire cast and no one wanted Linville to leave the show. Linville's best friends were Jamie Farr and Mike Farrell on the show and tried to talk him into staying. But Linville told both that all of us all character actors and not lead actors and that his Frank Burns character could do no more and that Frank's character could not expand like the others could; there simply was no way out but to leave. Befor Linville's death in 2000, he became more popular than when he was on MASH because the public realized that the actor and character were not the same person. | |
| "Great old tv series" | 2008-02-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A262D24NFGSQY2 | |
| I been watching mash since I was very young. I am glad to have purchased mash for one of my best friends. She loves it very much. Quality is great, delivery was a little long but its ok, I still received it in very good conditions package sense. Overall, service is great. | |
 "MASH season 5" | 2008-01-19 |
| - Reviewed By admiraldme | |
| This was a good show in its day, but it is getting very old this many years later. The quality of the video could be a lot better. | |
| "Beginning of the end" | 2008-01-15 |
| - Reviewed By trhansen33 | |
| Whenever I think of MASH, I think of this season, mostly because it went in directions that changed the show forever. The Hot Lips/Burns relationship went away, as did the character of Burns. It produced some great moments but it never felt quite right. Larry Linville (may he rest in peace) played Frank Burns brilliantly and it was always great to have him and Hot Lips on the same team. And Hot Lips was no longer Hot Lips. She went from the funny army clown to the unfunny serious army nurse. She became boring, as did a lot of the others on the show.
To me, the show lost a lot of its comedy after season three, but it was still very good. After Larry Linville left, it really departed quite a bit from the show it had been. It became very preachy and more of a drama than a comedy. In fact, the laughs were very hard to come by after this season. I like Season Five and I do recommend it but I think the show suffered from the events that took place and it never regained the form it had early on. | |
| "MASH Season Five" | 2007-06-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A164HDYNILVDN1 | |
| Great DVD. Arrived in two days. Well packaged. enjoyable experience..James G. Everette | |
| "MASH" | 2007-01-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1VILXG2JKEMB5 | |
| The Above item was bought for a Christmas gift, So I can not review it for you. | |
| "A Very Good Season - Memorable Scenes" | 2006-12-27 |
| - Reviewed By gmartin735 | |
| This season includes one of my favorites of BJ playing a prank on Frank Burns paranoia in "Dear Sigmund". I viewed that one first when I got my shipment. Even years later I just about bust a gut when I saw this. Good comedy is timeless. Larry Lindville stayed on long enough to make this work. Only he could pull this off. Many other great episodes makes this season one to keep. The characters were fresh enough with BJ coming into the cast to give the writers leeway to explore the cunning mind BJ had and to bring Dr Sidney Friedman into a few episodes. It was interesting to show that even Sidney was affected by the war and the wounded souls he had to treat, even if it was in their mind. | |
| "Larry Linville's Final Season as Major Burns" | 2005-11-09 |
| - Reviewed By mh29255 | |
| The success of the 1970 film "MASH", which was directed by Robert Altman, inspired the production of one of the most successful and longest running TV series of all time: "M*A*S*H". While most of the main characters from the original film were portrayed in the TV series, only one of the film's actors reprised his role for the TV series: Gary Burghoff. Like the film, the show was about the men and women working in a fictitious U.S. Army "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" (or MASH unit) known as the 4077th during the Korean War in the early 1950's. At the beginning of the show's fourth season, two loved characters were no longer present: Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson, 1929-1996) and Capt. "Trapper John" McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), both of whom received orders to return home to the states; but Henry's plane was shot down and he was killed in the final third-season episode making it one of the most emotional and personal episodes of the entire series. The characters from the first three seasons who remained with the show into its fourth season included Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville, 1939-2000), Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit), Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda), Father Francis Mulcahy (William Christopher), Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) and Cpl. Maxwell Klinger (Jamie Farr). Two new regular characters were then introduced at the beginning of the fourth season to replace Henry and Trapper: Col. Sherman T. Potter (Harry Morgan) and Capt. B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell), both of which remained with the show for its remaining 8 seasons. However, the fifth season of "M*A*S*H" would be the final season for Larry Linville. As in the original 1970 film and the first three seasons of the TV series, "M*A*S*H" continued to demonstrate a lack of respect for the U.S. military by portraying many of its officers as being inept and incompetent. This was the formula used for Maj. Burns and the departed Lt. Col. Henry Blake, but whereas Lt. Col. Blake had a very likeable personality, Maj. Burns wanted to see a more disciplined command and was often quite a stool pigeon. Also, while being married and regarding himself as being a devout Christian, Maj. Burns maintained a romantic affair with Maj. Houlihan for the first four seasons. (In the film, it was while Majors Burns & Houlihan were passionately kissing with the entire MASH unit listening to them that Maj. Houlihan earned the nickname "Hot Lips".) Captains Hawkeye Pierce and the departed Trapper John McIntyre were typically disrespectful of the Army, but were completely honest about themselves, which is probably the main reason why they despised the hypocritical Maj. Burns so much. B.J., who replaced Trapper, quickly became Hawkeye's new friend and shared many (but not all) of Hawkeye's views. As in the film, Maj. Houlihan was particularly attractive, but many weren't particularly friendly towards her because, like Maj. Burns, she wanted to see greater military discipline. This often set Majors Burns & Houlihan at odds with Hawkeye and B.J. Though Col. Potter was more regular Army and quite different from Henry Blake, he too was not particularly fond of Maj. Burns and developed close bonds with Hawkeye and B.J., and later with Margaret. A special bond also developed quickly between Col. Potter and the 4077th's lowly company clerk, Radar. As always, it was essentially up to Radar to help keep things running smoothly; but the MASH 4077th continued to have the best survival rate for any wounded soldiers treated there. Hawkeye was an especially gifted surgeon, as were B.J. and Col. Potter; while Maj. Burns had probably barely made it through medical school. Father Mulcahy was as polite and helpful as ever while Cpl. Klinger continued to wear women's clothes in an attempt to get a "Section 8", which would give him a discharge from the Army. The fifth season of "M*A*S*H" that aired between 1976 and 1977 had the following 24 episodes: 1. "Bug Out". Believing that the 4077th having to relocate is nothing but a rumor, Col. Potter attempts to calm the situation until he receives orders that the rumor is true and the 4077th has to "bug out"! With Maj. Burns overseeing the move, the tents come down; but he refuses to let Klinger bring his dresses or Hawkeye & B.J. bring the still. (They come anyway.) Everyone then leaves, except for Hawkeye & Margaret who cannot yet move a wounded soldier. When they hear forces coming down the road into their deserted camp, will it be the Chinese? And, will Klinger ever recover from Col. Potter using his dresses to barter with? 2. "Margaret's Engagement ". Upon returning from Tokyo, Margaret's engagement announcement has an unexpected affect on Maj. Burns. 3. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind". Hawkeye is made temporarily blind while fixing the nurse's stove, but that doesn't stop him from having some fun with Maj. Burns. 4. "Lt. Radar O'Reilly". Radar unexpectedly becomes a lieutenant and has difficulty adjusting to his new rank, which he is finally able to give up. 5. "The Nurses". Margaret's authority over the nurses is tested when Hawkeye & B.J. help Lt. Baker (Linda Kelsey) have an impromptu rendezvous with her enlisted husband (Gregory Harrison). 6. "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan". When Margaret goes off to help some Koreans, the camp fears that she's been abducted and guess who shows up by good old Col. Flagg (Edward Winter, 1937-2001). 7. "Dear Sigmund". When Sidney Freedman (Alan Arbus) pays the 4077th a visit, he writes a letter to the deceased Dr. Sigmund Freud to tell of the various things going on, including a huge bon fire to boost camp morale and B.J. pulling a practical joke on Frank. 8. "Mulcahy's War". Father Mulcahy joins Radar in a visit to an aid station on the front lines and must perform a tracheotomy with radio assistance from the 4077th. 9. "The Korean Surgeon". When a wounded North Korean (Soon-Teck Oh) tells Hawkeye & B.J. that he's a doctor, they try to make him appear to be a South Korean. 10. "Hawkeye Get Your Gun". Hawkeye is forced by Col. Potter to carry a gun when he accompanies the colonel to a Korean hospital. 11. "The Colonel's Horse". A lot happens when Col. Potter visits Tokyo: his horse gets colic, Margaret gets appendicitis and Klinger gets depressed. With Frank's objections, Hawkeye performs surgery on Margaret upon her request. 12. "Exorcism". When Col. Potter orders a Korean spirit post to be moved, things begin to mysteriously go wrong all over camp until a Korean priestess exorcises the camp. 13. "Hawk's Nightmare". Sidney is called in to help Hawkeye deal with very troubling recurring nightmares. 14. "The Most Unforgettable Characters". B.J. & Hawkeye try to make Frank happy for his birthday while Radar tries to become a novelist by taking a correspondence course from the "Famous Las Vegas Writers School". 15. "38 Across". Hawkeye gets Col. Potter to get an old friend that's a whiz with crossword puzzles to come to the camp to help solve one. 16. "Ping Pong". When Cho Lin (Richard Narita) is unexpectedly conscripted into the South Korean army, his fiancée Soony (Sachito Penny Lee) doesn't believe that they will ever be married until he returns as a wounded soldier. 17. "End Run". When a severely wounded soldier that was a big football star is brought to the 4077th, Radar inspires him to stay alive. 18. "Hanky Panky". B.J. feels guilty after helping a nurse whose husband sent her a "dear Jane" letter. 19. "Hepatitis". When Father Mulcahy comes down with hepatitis, Hawkeye has to inoculate everyone in camp. 20. "The General's Practitioner". A wounded general wants Hawkeye to become his personal physician. 21. "Movie Tonight". 4077th personnel unwind when Col. Potter's favorite film, "My Darling Clementine", is shown; but Klinger's repeated problems with the film projector allows some live entertainment too. 22. "Souvenirs". Hawkeye & B.J. are determined to put a local dealer out of business who likes to sell items made from souvenirs collected by Korean children and soldiers in dangerous places, like mine fields. 23. "Post Op". When a large number of wounded arrive, everyone has to donate blood repeatedly. 24. "Margaret's Marriage". Everyone finally gets to meet Margaret's fiancée, Lt. Colonel Donald Penobscott (Beeson Carroll), including a terrified Frank. When Margaret & Donald decide to get married at the 4077th, Hawkeye & B.J. put Donald in a body cast as a joke. Overall, I rate the fifth season of "M*A*S*H" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it. In its eleven years of production, "M*A*S*H" was one of the best TV shows of its day and remains one of the best TV shows of all time. | |
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