"M*A*S*H" Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde (1973)

Director:

Jackie Cooper

Writers:

Alan Alda (writer)
Robert Klane (writer)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

13 October 1973 (Season 2, Episode 5)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

After Hawkeye is kept awake in surgery for 3 days straight he decides to find out who started the war. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Colonel | Doctor | Korean War | Captain

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce
Wayne Rogers	...	Captain John McIntyre
McLean Stevenson	...	Lt. Colonel Henry Blake
Loretta Swit	...	Major Margaret Houlihan
Larry Linville	...	Major Franklin Marion Burns
Gary Burghoff	...	Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly
Buck Young	...	O'Brien
Herb Voland	...	Gen. Crandell Clayton

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The title makes reference to the novel 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Quotes:

Trapper: [Hawkeye wakes Trapper] What - What is it?
Hawkeye: Wake up.
Trapper: I thought you were asleep.
Hawkeye: Something funny is happening here, and I'm finally beginning to notice it. For the past couple of days, I've been making some very careful observations. There's a war going on here. People walking around with guns. Uniforms. Dozens of bodies coming in by helicopter and without exception, every single one of them is mangled in some way. Don't you see? It all adds up. There's guns, uniforms, wounded bodies.
Trapper: You figured that out, huh?
Hawkeye: I'm beginning to see a pattern.
Trapper: Why don't you go to sleep? You're turning into a 170-pound fruitcake.
Hawkeye: If I thought I could stop it just by going to sleep, don't you think I'd try?
Trapper: Look, close your bulbs, and it all goes away. Two or three hours later, it'll be tomorrow. If that gets unbearable, you check out again. See how it works.
Hawkeye: Somebody - and it wasn't you or me - started this war. Now who was it? What, did two guys slap each other with gloves and challenge themselves? It isn't Pearl Harbor, we already had one of those. I-I gotta find out who started it.
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Movie Connections:

References Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)