"M*A*S*H" Fade Out, Fade In (1977)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Hy Averback

Writers:

James Fritzell (writer)
Everett Greenbaum (writer)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

20 September 1977 (Season 6, Episode 1)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Frank Burns cracks up over Margaret's marriage while on R&R in Tokyo, and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is sent to the 4077th as a replacement by a vindictive superior officer. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Colonel | Doctor | Korean War | Captain

US TV Schedule:

Thur. July 23	5:00 AM	TVLAND	Fade Out, Fade In	#6.1
Thur. July 23	5:30 AM	TVLAND	Fade Out, Fade In	#6.1

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce
Mike Farrell	...	Captain B.J. Hunnicut
Harry Morgan	...	Colonel Sherman T. Potter
Loretta Swit	...	Major Margaret Houlihan
David Ogden Stiers	...	Major Charles Winchester
Gary Burghoff	...	Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly
Jamie Farr	...	Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Father Francis Mulcahy
Rick Hurst	...	Capt. Schaeffer
Raymond Singer	...	Dr. Berman
Robert Symonds	...	Col. Horace Baldwin
Tom Stovall	...	The Sergeant
William Flatley	...	M.P. Sergeant
James Lough	...	Driver
Joseph Burns	...	Patient

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

Major Winchester was stationed in Tokyo before he was transferred to the 4077. His commanding officer, Col. Baldwin, sent him for a 48-hour stay (annoyed because he owed Winchester $672.17. for losses in cribbage), but Potter asked for Winchester to be permanently reassigned. When Baldwin visited the 4077th later, Winchester let Baldwin win his money back, hoping to go back with him to Tokyo.

Quotes:

Charles: Sir, my father knows Harry Truman. He doesn't like him, but he knows him.
Col. Potter: Fine, you have dad call Harry, then have Harry call me, and then we will work something out. In the mean time, vamoose.
Charles: Yes, sir, I am... vamoosing. But know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer.
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