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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 3206
Released: November 11, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After a first season in which M*A*S*H barely rated among television's top fifty shows, the show received a boost in its second season when CBS switched their time slot to Saturday nights right after "All in the Family."
Knowing a lot of new people would be tuning in to the second season, creator/writer Larry Gelbart reveals, "We wrote the first episode as a sort of second pilot to introduce all the new viewers to the characters." Almost immediately after the second season began, the show became a hit-and the actors became household names.
Little did they know the show was going to last longer than the war itself.
M*A*S*H TV Season 2 Reviews:
classic 
2009-08-29 - 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...
2009-08-19 - 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.
Slow Coming but a great show to watch 
2009-03-20 - I love MASH, and season two is hilarious. However it did take a long to to get the DVD.
WELCOME BACK TO THE 4077
2009-01-21 - Season two includes the following episodes:
"DIVIDED WE STAND"
Threatened with possible reassignment, the 4077 presonnel try to impress a psychiatrist, only to revert to their usual behavior shortly after his arrival.
"FIVE O'CLOCK CHARLIE"
The errant bombings of a misguided North Korean pilot become the subject of gambling and sightseeing until Frank spoils the fun.
"RADAR'S REPORT"
Love, tragedy, duty and cross-dressing round out the activities in a typical week at the 4077th.
"FOR THE GOOD OF THE OUTFIT"
Hawkeye and trapper are outraged by the accidental shelling of a South Korean village and an attempted cover up by the US.
"DR PIERCE AND MR HYDE"
Angry, heartsick and exhausted after a nearly 3 day work shift, Hawkeye becomes even more slap happy than usual.
"KIM"
A tiny Korean boy wins the affection of Trappper, who hopes to adopt him.
"L.I.P.(Local Indigenous Personnel)
An enlisted man wants to marry the mother of his child, who happens to be Korean. The looks like a problem until Hawkeye steps in to help.
"THE TRIAL OF HENRY BLAKE"
Hot lips and Frank face off against Hawkeye when they try to get Henry ousted as commander of the 4077
"DEAR DAD ... THREE"
Hawkeye updates his dad on the depths of tragedy and heights of humor taking place at the 4077th hospital unit.
"THE SNIPER"
The 4077th is plagued by a persistent young sniper bent on bringing down the "enemy" single-handedly.
"CARRY ON, HAWKEYE"
When a nasty flu infiltrates the 4077th, Hawkeye is the only doctor fit to operate.
"THE INCUBATOR"
Hawkeye and Trapper crash a press conference held by Army brass in an effort to get an incubator for their unit.
"DEAL ME OUT"
Despite troubling interruptions in the form of medical emergencies, the weekly officers' poker game at the 4077th thrives.
"HOT LIPS AND EMPTY ARMS"
Feeling the pangs of age and childlessness, Hot Lips impulsively requests a transfer.
"OFFICERS ONLY"
Hawkeye and trapper arrange for everyone at the 4077th to enjoy pleasures of an officers' club - whether they are officers or not.
"HENRY IN LOVE"
While on leave in Tokyo, Henry becomes infatuated with sweet young American who only has eyes for him-and everyone else at the 4077th!
"FOR WANT OF A BOOT"
Hawkeye starts a chain reaction of inter-Army bartering as he wheels and deals for a new pair of boots.
"OPERATION NOSELIFT"
Although cosmetic surgery is not high on the Army's list of priorities, Hawkeye and Trapper arrange for a nose job for an enlisted man.
"THE CHOSEN PEOPLE"
A Korean girl claims Radar is the father of her baby, to everyone's surprise, including Radar's
"AS YOU WERE"
Just when the 4077th becomes cozy with a lull in casualties, business as usual picks up again.
"CRISIS"
Personnel on the 4077th respond in typical fashion when supply lines are cut and shortages are imminent.
"GEORGE"
Hawkeye and Trapper decide it's time to blackmail Frank when he tries to obtain a dishonorable discharge for a homosexual soldier
"MAIL CALL"
When Frank's stock portfolio arrives in the mail, Hawkeye becomes an instant investment advisor who gives very bad advice.
"A SMATTERING OF INTELLIGENCE"
Two separate government spies show up at the 4077th to investigate Frank, so Hawkeye helps them both out-with completely contradictory information.
NEVER HAVE RECIVED THIS ITEM 
2009-01-20 - ORDERED THIS ITEM ON DEC. 18-08 AND WAS TO GET IT BY THE DEC.28-08. CONTACTED THE AMAZON AND THEY SAID IT WILL BE SHIPPED JAN. 3-09 TO JAN. 9-09. NOTHING YET. THEY CHARGED MY CREIT CARD ALL READY. NOT RIGHT!!!!!!
