"M*A*S*H" Major Ego (1978)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Alan Alda

Writer:

Larry Balmagia (writer)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

6 November 1978 (Season 7, Episode 8)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Major Winchester lets his surgical prowess go to his head when a "Stars and Stripes" journalist comes to interview him. But the journalist is more interested in making moves on Margaret than getting the story.

Plot Keywords:

Directed By Star | Reference To Bette Davis | Nurse | Colonel | Doctor

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
Greg Mullavy	...	Capt. Tom Greenleigh (as Greg Mullavey)
David Dean	...	Private Sutton
Patricia Stevens	...	Nurse Baker
Phyllis Katz	...	Triage Nurse
Frank Pettinger	...	Anesthetist
Roy Goldman	...	Roy Goldman

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Pierce! Ignore them, captain. I assume that you'll want to start with some biographical information?
Capt. Tom Greenleigh: Well, I really don't have room for that. Just the facts.
Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Oh, you w- of course. Well, I was born in upper Boston, where my family had lived for five generations...
Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: In a modest, 20-room log cabin.
Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Due to my background and breeding, it was inevitable that I attend the finest schools: Choate, Harvard...
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: The Massachusetts Institute of Snobbery...

Movie Connections:

References Beyond the Forest (1949)