Length: 624 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 01/08/2002 Director: Hy Averback Cast: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Gary Burghoff, Larry Linville, McLean Stevenson, Jamie Farr
Plot: The television comedy MASH debuted in 1972. In the process of becoming one of the most successful and beloved programs in Tv history, it completely reinvented situation comedies. Based on Robert Altman's hit film, the sitcom ran for an astonishing 11 years. This three-disc set features the first 24 episodes of the historic program and is the complete collection of the legendary first season. Episodes include "Chief Surgeon Who?" "The Ringbanger" with Leslie Nielsen, and, perhaps the most groundbreaking episode, "The Moose." The line between comedy and drama has never been so delicately tread upon as in the series of the 4077th military medical hospital.
Length: 613 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 07/23/2002 Director: Jackie Cooper Cast: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, McLean Stevenson, Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr, Harry Morgan, Larry Linville, David Ogden Stiers, William Christopher, Burt Young, Jerry Zaks, Teri Garr, John Ritter, Joan Van Ark, Noriyuki Morita, Jerry Fujikawa
Plot: This complete second season of the sitcom set during the Korean-U.S. conflict earned the series four Emmys and features some of the best loved episodes in the series. Included among the 24 episodes are "Divided We Stand," "Radar's Report" (featuring Joan Van Ark), "The Sniper," and "Carry on Hawkeye," which won Jackie Cooper an Emmy for his direction.
Length: 613 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 02/18/2003 Director: Hy Averback Cast: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Gary Burghoff, McLean Stevenson, Jamie Farr, Larry Linville, William Christopher, Harry Morgan, Loudon Wainwright, Allan Arbus, Bobbie Mitchell, Mary Kay Place, Alex Karras, Basil Hoffman, Soon-Tek Oh, Dennis Dugan, Edward Winter
Plot: The adventures of the 4077th continue in this complete collection of the third season of the beloved sitcom. Highlights of the season include the first appearance of future cast member Harry Morgan who plays an odd general, Radar (Gary Burghoff) being bit by a dog, and the invention of Spam Lamb. Among the classic episodes: "Bulletin Board;" "House Arrest;" "Adam's Ribs;" and "Abyssinia, Henry"--the classic season finale where Henry (McLean Stevenson) is discharged and leaves for home. The season also proved to be the last for Trapper (Wayne Rogers).
Length: 632 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 07/15/2003 Director: Gene Reynolds Cast: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Ned Beatty, Joe Morton, Blythe Danner
Plot: Based on Robert Altman's movie of the same name, MASH became one of the longest running and most beloved series in American television history. This collection presents every episode from the fourth season, which introduces B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) and Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan). Episodes include "Welcome to Korea," "The Late Captain Pierce," "The Kids," "Soldier of the Month," "Hawkeye," "The Novocaine Mutiny," and many more.
Length: 632 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 12/09/2003 Cast: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, Jamie Farr
Plot: Based on Robert Altman's groundbreaking movie of the same name, MASH became one of the longest running and most beloved series in American television history. This collection presents every episode from the show's fifth season, as Hawkeye, B.J., "Hotlips" Houlihan, Radar, and the rest of the gang create laughs while saving lives.
Length: 637 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 06/08/2004 Cast: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr
Plot: Based on Robert Altman's groundbreaking movie of the same name, MASH became one of the longest running and most beloved series in American television history. This collection presents every episode from the show's sixth season--including fan favorites "Fade Out, Fade In" and "Major Topper"--as Hawkeye, B.J., "Hotlips" Houlihan, Radar, and the rest of the gang create laughs while saving lives.
Length: 676 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 12/07/2004 Cast: Alan Alda
Plot: One of the most popular and innovative television series in history, MASH aired for a record eleven years, and its finale episode attracted a larger number of viewers than any other single episode before or since. Based on Robert Altman's feature film of the same name, and set during the Korean War, the show was initially conceived as a critique on the Vietnam War, but eventually adopted a more character-driven, rather than situation- or issue-driven, plot. With a large ensemble cast, a few main players were in evidence, including "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) and his buddy John McIntyre, two top-notch doctors more interested in booze and women than operating. Dr. Frank Burns (Larry Linville) and the Senior Nurse, Lieutenant Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) were the two staunch military enforcers who were forever trying to get the two "playboys" court martialed. Ltd. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) was the ostensible camp commander, but the place was really run by Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff), who had superhuman hearing and knew what Blake was thinking before Blake did himself. Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) was the corporal constantly in pursuit of a section 8 discharge, and Father Francis Mulcahy (William Christopher) was the kindly local priest. Season 7 includes the episodes: "Commander Pierce, "Peace On Us," "Our Finest Hour," "None Like it Hot," "Major Ego," "Baby, it's Cold Outside," "Dear Comrade," "The Young And The Restless," "Hot Lips is Back in Town," "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys," "Ain't Love Grand," "The Party," and many others.
Theater Release Date: 1970 Length: 116 minutes Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date: 09/07/2004 Director: Robert Altman Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, Jo Ann Pflug, Rene Auberjonois, Roger Bowen
Plot: With the release of Robert Altman's MASH in 1970, a new form of comedy was brought to the big screen that would forever change the face of cinema. Altman's insistence on overlapping the characters' dialogue, photographing the film with fog filters and sloppy zooms, and a frank combination of jarringly graphic surgery footage with cynical humor, resulted in a timeless comedy that reflects the American counterculture's growing distrust of religion and government in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Politics aside, MASH is a classic motion picture that skyrocketed Altman to the upper ranks of Hollywood directors. Based on the novel by Richard Hooker, MASH follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers as they perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean Conflict. Led by the sardonic Captains "Hawkeye" Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and "Trapper" John McIntyre (Elliott Gould), the film has the feel of an absurd three-ring circus, and is composed of a series of vignettes rather than a traditionally unfolding narrative, creating that freewheeling feel so unique to early-'70s cinema.
