Characters Hawkeye Pierce B. Dubin Robert Altman Stanford Tischler. Other media. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Love Story ". Bill was my great white hope. He blew the audition, though. I managed to get him another audition.
Christopher: Larry said he wanted someone with natural idiosyncrasies. That was Bill. Metcalfe: Wayne Rogers was one of six candidates we tested.
He was by far the most colorful and won hands down. Once he agreed, we put Wayne into the Trapper role. The two of them had a wonderful chemistry together. I thought I was dressing with an actress. They gave me a couple of lines and Gene leaves. So, I did my lines. I came back and played it straight. A group of performers built an ensemble and then a community. They got together on weekends, charted a bus to attend the Emmys together, celebrated weddings and mourned at funerals. Farrell: When I found out I got the part, my agent told me Alan wanted to have dinner with me.
He was full of interest in me, wanting me to know his love for the show, his intentions and concerns. It was one of the more extraordinary moments in my wonderful career.
Swit: The first day we met, I can still visualize the room. I see where everyone was sitting. It was an important moment in my life. We were all on the same page about what we were going to say. Alda: Most of the time actors disperse and go to their dressing rooms between shots. We sat around in a circle of chairs making fun of one another, having fun. I brought my mother from Hawaii to visit the set. Larry took her to lunch at the commissary.
Swit: [Linville] was a riot. Ten times out of 10 the directors were thrilled. The writers worked in a building originally built as a schoolhouse for Shirley Temple.
Metcalfe: You can have the greatest writers in the world, like we did, and never come up with some of the rich ideas we put on film. Dishell: We drove out to the L. We ended up doing a story about the receiving a shipment of eggs, which no one had eaten for months. Wilcox: A surgeon from the , Maurice Connolly, told us about a North Korean soldier brought in for surgery. He takes a hand grenade out and pulls the pin. Everyone not doing surgery in the OR got down on their hands and knees until they found the pin and put it back in.
We used that. We were that tuned in to what their experiences were. In addition to the transcripts, writers went searching elsewhere for ideas. One of his customers was Danny Thomas, who was American Lebanese. Harry tells Danny his son wants to be a writer. Larry never forgot that. Klinger became Lebanese because of Danny Thomas. We found it looked dull when the camera was talking.
That was perfect. Elias: Dave and I won a Humanitas Award for an episode about a soldier accompanying his wounded buddy to the It was based on a real story of a manager tagging along with a big star for an ophthalmologist appointment.
While there, the ophthalmologist asked the manager if he wanted his eyes checked, too. The manager agreed and the ophthalmologist discovered he had cancer. Alda: I was always thinking in terms of writing. I gave Larry a few scenes that I thought might work. My first script borrowed the idea from the play La Ronde , circling around, using a pair of long johns that went from one person to another. Farrell: I came up with an idea once and asked Burt what he thought of it. OK, let me take a shot at it.
They encouraged without dragooning anybody. Alda: I wrote an episode where Margaret sees a jockstrap on the table and starts going nuts. Hawkeye had walked through a clothesline and had them slapping him in the face. Is there something holy about the male genitalia? They never gave a reason why.
They just stuck to it. The next year, we had a similar moment and the same thing happens. The actors gained ownership by participating in table reads and contributing ideas.
Farrell: Gene would take us through the script, page by page, to see if anyone had any questions or suggestions. I thought, these people want to hear from the actors about the script? Swit: I was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with Margaret and Frank. She was a bright, ambitious and talented nurse. He also stabbed me with a scalpel in the OR. Burghoff: Larry and I worked out how to make Radar innocent in contrast to the sophisticated doctors.
That innocence became a special kind of sounding board for the insanity and horror of war. They agreed with me. Pollock: This surgeon told us a story about a field commander with a high casualty rate visiting their MASH unit. The doctors put a Mickey in his food, told him he had appendicitis and then operated on him to keep him from the front.
Mike had a problem with doing that. Farrell: I said B. We debated over it a long time. Metcalfe: Mike expressed some very good points. We decided B. Hawkeye ended up doing the operation alone. Isaacs: Ken and I rewrote it with Alan. We ended the show with Radar telling them there are choppers with more wounded on their way in. In other words, Hawkeye accomplished nothing. A few shows in particular stand out with cast members for what they represent, the envelopes they pushed and the emotions that surfaced from cast and audience.
At the end of season four, CBS asked for a last-minute additional episode. Burghoff: Larry knew at that point that no one knew the characters better than the actors playing them. It was a supremely divine matter of artistic trust. To my way of thinking, that episode should be in a museum. Farrell: I remember thinking how flattering that these geniuses wanted us to contribute our own take on who these people were.
It was typical of these wonderful people to try and figure out how to do something unusual, new and exciting. Alda: We were given recorders and a list of questions. Larry took the best of that and punched it up with better lines. Some of the best stuff came out that way.
How could anybody look upon that and not feel changed? Blake gets discharged and plans for his return home. He was such a tenderhearted, kind man. Farr: I heard NBC was trying to sabotage our show. Mac was a guest host on The Tonight Show and they were teasing him with the idea that he could be the replacement for Johnny Carson.
Reynolds: He had people telling him he could be a star. Some of the stuff put forward was quite exaggerated, outrageous promises that people were in no position to fulfill. Metcalfe: We thought he was making a mistake. The chemistry of a character, a performance — all fellow actors contribute to that success.
Reynolds: Burt, Larry and I talked it over. We all lamented that death on the show was as impersonal as it was on the news. Yeah, in time for the 50th Anniversary! Zip 2 days ago. It was filmed early in that season's production schedule Yeah, that must have been hard to have filmed the final episode and then have to go on and not let that knowledge get to you filming other episodes.
Like 2 Reply Delete. I moved into my condo the night this aired. We sat on the floor, surrounded by boxes watching the show. I still watch and love every episode!! As the cast members left and others took their place they were able to add to the show and keep it special. ALL were great in their roles and this is certainly a show that will go down in entertainment history and one of the best!!
Like 3 Reply Delete. I was stationed in Iceland when this originally aired. It took till it was released on DVD to finally be able to see it. Thank you for your service. Michael 3 days ago. There weren't many pause buttons in Big and expensive. Sure, by more people had them, but still not every household. So people had to watch the finale live, and wait for commercials or tye end to do other things. We got our first VCR in the late 's; it had wood paneling on the sides.
I begged for it so I could record All My Children while I was at school, but my dad who loved new technology wasn't too hard to convince. LarryLeeMoniz 24 days ago. This version seems to be the one replicated the most due to it's being the most photographed. F5Twitster LarryLeeMoniz 3 days ago. There were TWO identical signposts: one at the Fox Ranch set, and another in the camp set built on a Fox sound stage I was on that set in and have photos of the sign. The latter is the one that survived and was auctioned.
ToddLeBaron x60hz11 5 months ago. They were funny, but as the show moved along, it became more reality-based and we really got to know the characters a lot better. They were not one-dimensional characters, if you consider some of the things they put Margaret and Charles through, not to mention Radar and how well we got to know Col. They weren't carbon copies of the people who had left the show, and I applaud them for that.
Like 5 Reply Delete. DaleCasanovaLeggett 20 months ago. The rerererererererererererererererererererere runs are on true entertainment on sky and freeview. MikeBugal 20 months ago. The time capsule was dug up from its original location and had to be reburied twice Very arguably. It jumped the shark so many times they had to get a bigger boat. ToddLeBaron dwango77 5 months ago.
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