Classic
bezoarrn | 08/29/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"It's a classic series with a long-lost, intelligent sense of humor not seen on TV these days. It was relevant then and still is now. It was a series with a social conscious. The DVD delivers quality better than I remember on the TV of old. Not much to say other than that. I'm still buying a season or so at a time until I collect them all.
I will say that Amazon's DVD packaging is horrible these days. When I first started buying the series over a year ago, it came in a box. Now it comes in a padded envelope! That's nuts! I have returned many, many DVDs lately because they come crushed, the inner plastic holders broken, and the DVDs scratched.
No matter what DVD you buy from them now, if it comes in an envelope - check it out immediately and return it if damaged. They pay the return postage and send you another one free of charge."
The best of the Trapper John years...
Mark J. Fowler | Okinawa, Japan | 08/19/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"It has been noted that M*A*S*H the series lasted longer than the Korean War itself. What an understatement! The three year war, if combined with both WW I and WW II just barely reaches the eleven year run of one of televisions greatest shows.
Only Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Loretta Swit as Hot Lips made the full eleven year journey. The character of Father Mulcahy is in every season, but in the first few shows a different actor portrays the priest before William Christopher embodied the role.
The cast is rounded out here by McLean Stevenson as Commander Officer Henry Blake, Larry Linville as Frank Burns, Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre.
The first season the show was exploring, experimenting, trying to find it's niche in prime-time early 1970s television. In this season the characters are more fully developed, even though several of the characters are broad buffoons - Frank and Henry are both closer to cartoons than to real people, and perhaps the brains behind the show felt compelled to have a few slapstick characters for a show billed primarily as a comedy. Once established, the later characters Colonel Potter and Major Winchester seemed much more human and the show developed a social conscience without losing any of the good belly laughs."
Mash is a great show to watch!
Virginia Scott Bowman | Rochester, VT | 01/12/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This ia a great series. The whole family will love it, too. Funny and great messages."