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

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Charles S. Dubin

Writer:

Allyn Freeman (writer)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

27 March 1978 (Season 6, Episode 24)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Between the Swamp-mates trying to top each other, the camp deals with a bad batch of morphine and a corporal who shoots down invisible enemy gliders.

Plot Keywords:

Morphine | Sock Puppet | Reference To Audrey Hepburn | 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
David Ogden Stiers	...	Major Charles Winchester
Gary Burghoff	...	Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly
Jamie Farr	...	Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Father Francis Mulcahy
Hamilton Camp	...	Corporal 'Boots' Miller
Andrew Bloch	...	Saxton
Donald Blackwell	...	Graham
Peter Zapp	...	Rifkin
Paul Linke	...	Collins
John Kirby	...	Duncan
Michael Mann	...	Sgt. Glassberg

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Anachronisms: While the three surgeons are boasting to each other who they have dated, Charles claims to have dined with Audrey Hepburn. She had gained no prominence in the U.S. until Roman Holiday (1953), which was released in 1953, after the Korean War.

Quotes:

Cpl.: [miffed by a competing crazy in camp] The only thing I don't understand is why he's not an officer.

Movie Connections:

References Topper (1937)