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M*A*S*H - Season Two (Collector's Edition)
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Categories General   General AAS   M*A*S*H   Alda, Alan   Farr, Jamie   Linville, Larry   Morgan, Harry   Rogers, Wayne   Swit, Loretta   Comedy   Television   Averback, Hy   Cooper, Jackie   Reynolds, Gene   Tokar, Norman   Weis, Don   Wiard, William   Father's Day   All Fox Titles   20th Century Fox Collector's Editions   ( M )   Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Trade-In   DVD   Boxed Set   US & CA DVDs: Region 1   1970 - 1979   English   Emmy Awards   Collector's Edition   Collector's & Special Edition   Grade Level (feature_five_browse-bin)   Audio Type (feature_six_browse-bin)  

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Description
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 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 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.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  A great Show Season 2   2008-12-02
By J. FERRARA (Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania)
MASH is one of my top 10 favorite TV Shows of all time and it is a joy to see the antics of these Mobile Army Surgical Hospital doctors. I am not a big fan of seasons 1-3 because the characters seem to too cartoonish for me and story lines seem a little weak. I guess the producers wanted to keep close to the movie which was a little on the corny side. With these faults, the show remains a classic for all generation and the dialogue is rather simple to understand. Season 2 continues the tone for the introduction part of the show to millions of viewers.

If I rated Films or TV Series based on whether I liked them, I would have rated the entire series a 5 or a 6, but I rarely do this. Each episode is high quality and the sound is great. They bring back the joy I originally had when I first saw them minus the commercials (which are really not that important.) One problem exists the DVD itself dose not have a lot of features. You can not "play all", there are no filmographies or even a list of the extra and cameos that made M*A*S*H one of the best shows. It would have been more interesting to see where all those extras went off to do.

I highly recommend the series with these limitations.

Enjoy
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The most awesome series ever!!!!!!!   2008-10-06
By Elizabeth
I am very pleased with this product. it came in without a blemish on any of the disks which allowed me to watch the most awesome 2 season of a series!!!!!!! i love mash! alan alda is brilliant!



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