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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 1734
Released: November 11, 2008 |
| Our Price: $15.99 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
As the fourth season opens, Hawkeye returns from a 3-day R&R pass in Tokyo to find Trapper has been sent Stateside. Hawkeye races to the airport but arrives just as Trapper's plane takes off. Too late to tell his friend good-bye, he in nevertheless just in time to welcome Trapper's replacement, Captain B.J. Hunnicutt. Once Hawkeye gets over his anger and disappointment, he realizes B.J. is a worthy ally and takes the newcomer under his wing. "The first thing you learn here, B.J., is that insanity is no worse than the common cold. You've heard of a military post? Ours is a compost. Only the wounded are new. The tedium is relieved only by the boredom. So pitch in, muddle through, pip-pip. Never mind the reason why, ours is but to do and not let 'em die."
Then Colonel Sherman T. Potter arrives to take over command of the 4077. Not only are Frank and Hot Lips outraged that Frank has lost his command so quickly, but Hawkeye and B.J. know that a Ã"âliferÃ"â Army commander could spell big trouble for them. But then a single reminiscence from Potter puts the docs at ease: Ã"âHad a still on Guam in World War II. One night it blew up. ThatÃ"âs how I got my Purple Heart.Ã"â
M*A*S*H TV Season 4 Reviews:
Love M*A*S*H! 
2009-09-22 - I love the Mash Videos and enjoy having them. Our Cable Channel used to carry them, but now not so much. The videos have scenes that don't play on the syndicated version, anyway.
Welcome to Korea, BJ and Colonel Potter
2009-09-14 - Perhaps the largest transition of the many in the eleven year run of MASH comes in this season with the addition of Mike Farrell (as new surgeon BJ Hunnicut) and Harry Morgan (as veteran surgeon of three wars Commanding Officer Colonel Sherman Potter.)
Still present are Klinger, Radar, Frank, Margaret and the ever-present Hawkeye.
The tone of the show shifted significantly. Where Trapper and Henry Blake had been married men not above a little good-natured adultery, BJ and Colonel Potter are devoted husbands. Even Hawkeye begins to be rebuffed by nurses. The earlier seasons were decidedly sillier (a frequent sight was Henry Blake being nearly blown up in comic fashion). Harry Morgan brings both a no-nonsense military professionalism and a good-natured, common sense approach to military leadership.
The one hour opening episode shows Hawkeye returning from a 3 day debauchery to find Frank Burns in command and Trapper just left. He hikes a ride with Radar to the air base and finds he has barely missed Trapper as Radar picks up B.J. This wise episode gives the viewer an opportunity to miss Trapper as well prior to establishing, by the end of the episode, that BJ is just as capable of standing up to "Old Ferret Face". In the second episode Frank finds that his Command has lasted just one episode as he is being relieved by "Regular Army" (as opposed to the draftees called up into active reserve duty) Colonel Potter. At first Hawkeye is horrified to find a 30 year career Army officer in command, but by the time they share their first operating room and first trip to the Swamp's still Hawkeye and BJ find that their new CO is a kindred spirit and his experience is a bonus.
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.
Great season!!!!!!!!
2009-05-03 - Another great season. The transistion from a series without Henry and Trapper to one with Col. Potter and B.J. went very well.
M.A.S.H. 
2009-02-25 - Thought I was getting the collectors edition but did not. Also, the insert with the show preview was not in the package.
