"M*A*S*H" No Laughing Matter (1981)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Burt Metcalfe

Writers:

Elias Davis (written by)
David Pollock (written by)

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

16 February 1981 (Season 9, Episode 13)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

Hawkeye's challenge to go through a day without telling a joke is complicated by Winchester's amusingly desperate attempt to curry the favor of a hated visiting officer. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Colonel | Doctor | Korean War | Captain

US TV Schedule:

Thur. July 23

6:00 PM

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No Laughing Matter

#9.13

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
Jamie Farr	...	Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Father Francis Mulcahy
Robert Symonds	...	Col. Horace Baldwin
Eileen Saki	...	Rosie
Jeff Maxwell	...	Igor Straminsky
Mae Hi	...	Korean Woman
Nathan Jung	...	Korean Man
Kellye Nakahara	...	Lieutenant Kellye Yamato

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Goofs:

Continuity: When David Odgen Stiers joins the cast as Major Winchester he is transferred to the 4077th by Colonel Baldwin, a full-bird colonel. However, when the Colonel Baldwin character visits the 4077th in episode 13 during the 9th season he is a Lt. Colonel.

Quotes:

Col. Potter: When the major hears about this, he's going to sneeze a brick!