"M*A*S*H" Guerilla My Dreams (1979)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Alan Alda

Writer:

Bob Colleary (writer)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

1 October 1979 (Season 8, Episode 3)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Hawkeye refuses to accept a South Korean officer's warning that a wounded civilian he brought in is a dangerous enemy guerrilla soldier. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Colonel | Doctor | Korean War | Captain

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 15

6:30 PM

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Guerrilla My Dreams

#8.3

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Mike Farrell	...	Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
Harry Morgan	...	Col. Sherman T. Potter
Loretta Swit	...	Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan
David Ogden Stiers	...	Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III
Jamie Farr	...	Cpl. Maxwell 'Max' Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Lt. Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy
Gary Burghoff	...	Cpl. Walter Eugene 'Radar' O'Reilly
Joshua Bryant	...	Sgt. Jack Scully (as Josh Bryant)
Haunani Minn	...	Guerrilla Woman
George Cheung	...	1st Korean Soldier (as George Kee Cheung)
Marcus K. Mukai	...	2nd Korean Soldier (as Marcus Mukai)
Connie Izay	...	Nurse Connie
Mako	...	Lt. Hung Lee Park

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:

This episode marks the first time the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" is uttered on an American network television series.

Quotes:

Lt. Hung Lee Park: You have done your duty. Now, I must do mine.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: [angrily] You son of a bitch!

Episode on the way the communism influences people's minds

I liked this episode more than others, although it's not on my Top 10 list . I especially liked the way the producers tried to show the audience how communism was affecting the lives of those people (N. Koreans) and how they were brainwashed into thinking that any American is the enemy and must be destroyed. There's a sequence where the sick N. Korean woman, being unwatched tries to escape out of intensive care and on her wait out she decides to pull the blood IV line from a US soldier's arm. I don't know if many of you realized that... and also in the end she screams and shouts at the doctors, who wanted to save her from being tortured and possibly executed by the S. Korean Lt. (played by Mako)