"M*A*S*H" Hawkeye Get Your Gun (1976)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

William K. Jurgensen

Writers:

Jay Folb (story)
Jay Folb (teleplay)

TV Series:

"M*A*S*H" (1972)

Original Air Date:

30 November 1976 (Season 5, Episode 10)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers. |

Plot Keywords:

Reference To Betty Grable | Gun | Character Name In Title | Nurse | Colonel

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce
Mike Farrell	...	Captain B.J. Hunnicut
Harry Morgan	...	Colonel Sherman T. Potter
Loretta Swit	...	Major Margaret Houlihan
Larry Linville	...	Major Franklin Marion Burns
Gary Burghoff	...	Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly
Jamie Farr	...	Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Father Francis Mulcahy
Mako	...	Major Choi
Richard Doyle	...	M.P.
Thomas Botosan	...	Sergeant
Jeff Maxwell	...	Igor Straminsky
Carmine Scelza	...	G.I.
Phyllis Katz	...	Nurse Able
Jae Woo Lee	...	Korean Guard

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The title comes from the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun" with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, and book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields based on the life of Annie Oakley. The original Broadway show "Annie Get Your Gun" opened at the Imperial Theater on May 16, 1946 starring Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton and ran for 1,147 performances.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: As Hawkeye and Potter are leaving in the jeep to go to the aid station, you can see in the rear shot that the passenger, supposedly Potter, has black hair.

Quotes:

Col. Potter: [drunk] Confidentially, Hawkeye, I couldn't hit a bullet with the side of a barn.

Movie Connections:

References Mrs. Miniver (1942)