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Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead (1982)
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"M*A*S*H" (1972)Original Air Date:
4 January 1982 (Season 10, Episode 10)Plot:
While Klinger is sick, he communicates with the ghost of a dead soldier. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Through a dead man's eyes moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | Alan Alda | ... | Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce |
 | Loretta Swit | ... | Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan |
 | Mike Farrell | ... | Capt. B.J. Hunnicut |
| Harry Morgan | ... | Col. Sherman T. Potter |
 | Jamie Farr | ... | Cpl. / Sgt. Maxwell "Max" Q. Klinger |
 | David Ogden Stiers | ... | Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III |
| William Christopher | ... | Lt. / Capt. Father Francis J. Mulcahy |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Perren Page | ... | Driver |
| Randal Patrick | ... | Hicks |
| Kario Salem | ... | Private Weston |
| Jeff Tyler | ... | Soldier |
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Although the plot seems a bit superficial, and "out there" to many, the moral of the story remains. Through the dead man's eyes we see and hear the doctors and nurses argue and waste time over trivial things while surrounded by death. In the final scene as he walks through camp, you hear a nurse complain about a broken nail, illustrating that what appears to be a crisis to one, is trivial when faced with death on such a scale as war. The vehicle might be a bit hokey, but the message stays the same. The World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq I and II, in each situation, people have been plunged into chaos and death without a personal stake. Farmers, soldiers, families have died for someone else's ideas, while someone else worries about a hangnail or who is on duty during the next shift.
Thornton Wilder spoke of it in Our Town, the play. "Mother 'n daughter....husband 'n wife....enemy 'n enemy.... money 'n miser....all those terribly important things kind of grow pale around here. And what's left when memory's gone, and your identity, Mrs. Smith?"