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Afterwards a first season in which M*A*S*H barely rated among television’s top fifty shows, the show received a boost in its second season when CBS switched their time slot to Saturday nights right afterwards "All in the Family."

Knowing a lot of new people would be tuning in to the second season, creator/writer Larry Gelbart reveals, "We wrote the first episode as a sort of second pilot to introduce all the new viewers to the characters." Nearly immediately afterwards the second season began, the show became a hit—and the actors became household names.

Little did they recognize the show was going to last longer than the war itself.
M*A*S*H redux. Mark up for another stint together with the 4077th. This three-disc set contains all 24 episodes from the superb second season (1973-74) of the series ranked by TV Guide as among the top 25 television shows of all time. The season opener, "Divided We Stand," is a deft reintroduction to these now iconic characters: bleeding-heart surgeon Hawkeye Pearce (Alan Alda in his signature role), kindred misfit spirit Trapper John (Wayne Rogers), clueless administrator Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), buttoned-up Frank Burns (Larry Linville), and unbuttoned head nurse "Hot Lips" (Loretta Swit). In this episode, a visiting psychiatrist compares the 4077th to determine whether the unit "can function as a team." His evaluation can serve as this series' mission statement: "These impossible people are in an impossible situate doing totally impossible things. They're mad--quite mad." M*A*S*H experienced no sophomore slump from its Emmy Prize-winning first season. It continued to subvert sitcom convention together with multiple-story episodes such as "Radar's Report." Scenes in the operating room have fun not including a laugh track (this DVD provides viewers the option of watching entire episodes minus the intrusive chuckles and guffaws). M*A*S*H in addition tackled such issues as racism ("Dear Dad... Three," "L.I.P.--Local Indigenous Personnel"), homophobia ("George"), and war atrocities (Hawkeye and Trapper try to get the Army to get responsibility for the accidental shelling of a South Korean village). Not this M*A*S*H forgot how to be funny. "Five O'Clock Charlie" and "For Would like of a Boot" are strictly for laughs. Hawkeye and Hot Lips memorably exchange flu shots in "Carry On, Hawkeye." Loyal viewers will note the emergence of several supporting characters, counting Jamie Farr's Klinger and William Christopher's Father Mulcahy. One in addition sees the (to some) unfortunate transformation of Gary Burghoff's savvy, crackerjack clerk Radar into a naïve innocent. Allan Arbus makes his first look as compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Friedman in "Radar's Report." This second-season set is representative of why M*A*S*H was a cut above. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 4 of 5  The second season of "MASH" is solid, yet still roughly executed   2010-08-06
By Gregory N. Perkins (Frankfort, KY USA)
The second season of "MASH" feels like the creative staff wanted to divorce themselves slightly from the movie and become more their own creative variation on the "MASH" brand. To that end, this season is largely a success. Overall excellence in the television series would have to wait for the following year.

The season premiere "Divided We Stand" plays like it might have looked like a good idea in the planning stage but is a halfhearted mess in execution. An outside official comes to see if the 4077th needs to be broken up, and predictably concludes that everything is just fine after all. Much better outings for the season include "Radar's Report." In this episode, Trapper John is pushed nearly to disastrous extremes, and Allan Arbus' laconic but kind psychiatrist makes his first appearance. His character was first called Milton Freedman, not Sidney Freedman. Other episode highlights are "Deal Me Out," featuring John Ritter as a crazed patient, and Pat Morita in one of two appearances as Captain Pak. A final very good show for the season is "The Trial of Henry Blake," as the unit's bumbling but kindhearted C.O. goes on trial on charges of being unfit for command.

A pared-down cast helps bring creative focus into greater clarity. First season side characters Ho-John, General Hammond, and 'Lt. Dish' are replaced by serviceable side characters that are less of a distraction from the main cast. The main cast remains the same, with Jaime Farr again recurring as Corporal Klinger.

The second season of "MASH" is very good, displaying the wit, intelligence and storytelling savvy that has made the series an ironclad television staple.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  MASH review   2010-06-09
By Erik E. Baker
Birthday present for my mom. We've watched all of the Episodes together already, so they seem to work just fine. Came in perfect condition.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Great long Running show.   2010-01-07
By B L
A little bit of everything rolled into one great show. We have quirky doctors, a crazy doctor, and very strict nurse and a commander with a big big heart.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Long live Col. Flagg!   2009-04-01
By kperk (THE Muscle Shoals Alabama)
You just can't get much better humor than with Col. Flagg and Frank Burns. Out of the thousands of great lines, 2 quickly come to mind.

Colonel Flagg: My orders are to do whatever it takes to break up this penicillin ring, and I have written permission to die in the attempt!

During a "forced" birthday party for Frank, filled with phony shows of emotion to him, Hot Lips whispers to Frank: You see Frank, they really love you.
In a gentle voice, Frank Burns: It was their hatred that fooled me.

The first 3 seasons: GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The 4077th in High Gear   2009-02-10
By Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA)
Hitting its stride midway through Season One, "M*A*S*H" emerged as a well-oiled machine in the fall of 1973. Producers Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds maintain an ideal balance of irreverence and poignancy in classic episodes such as "Five O'Clock Charlie," "Radar's Report," "The Sniper" and "A Smattering of Intelligence." You could not ask for a better serio-comic ensemble than Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff - with memorable visits from Allan Arbus (as psychiatrist Sidney Freedman) and Edward Winter (the paranoid CIA operative Colonel Flagg). Though the second year was uniformly strong, the 4077th reached its creative apex in Season Three. After years of butchered syndication prints, all 24 episodes are gloriously uncut and the DVD enables you to dispense with the obtrusive laugh track.


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