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M*A*S*H - Season Six (Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MASH
EAN: 0024543113881
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
MPN: 024543113881
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 08, 2004
Running Time: 367 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 1972
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Editorial Review:
From a human standpoint, things are pretty tight at the 4077th. But adding a new character to a long-embedded, close-knit ensemble is a delicate operation. By M*A*S*H's sixth season, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and BJ (Mike Farrell) were partners in outrage against the war and army bureaucracy. With the departure of Larry Linville's Frank Burns, the much decorated series was in need of some new blood. Enter David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III. Just as Henry Morgan's authoritative Col. Potter was the anti-Henry Blake, so was Charles just what the doctor ordered to give Hawkeye and BJ a worthy foil. Charles was pompous and arrogant, but, unlike Frank, he was Hawkeye's equal in the operating room. And he gave as good as was given to him, as witness the conclusion of his inaugural Emmy-nominated episode, "Fade Out, Fade In," in which he turns the tables on one of Hawkeye and BJ's reptilian practical jokes. In season 6, Gary Burghoff's Radar is mostly missing in action (he would transfer out of the series in season 8), but he figures prominently in "Fallen Idol," one of Burghoff's and Alda's finest half-hours, in which Hawkeye lashes out at Radar's "Iowa naivete" and hero worship.
The season's primary dramatic arc is Margaret's (Loretta Switt) marital woes, culminating in the Emmy-nominated two-parter, "Comrades in Arms," in which Hawkeye and Margaret, trapped by enemy fire, engage in a little close-order drill. The humanization of Margaret continues in "Temporary Duty," which also features one of the most memorable visitors to the 4077th, George "Goober" Lindsey, as the wild and wooly Roy Dupree, a temporary transfer who drives BJ and Charles crazy. Alan Arbus's psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman, one of the series' most welcome recurring characters, makes a memorable return in "War of Nerves," one of his most dramatic episodes, in which a soldier Freedman sent back into combat, is unforgiving in blaming Sidney for his injuries. Two excellent ensemble episodes are "The Light That Failed, "in which the reading-starved camp shares a mystery novel, but doesn't have a clue what happens after the last page is missing, and "Mail Call Three," in which the camp reacts to news from home. Demerits again for no cast commentary, but this set once again offers viewers of the option of watching the episodes with or without a laugh track. --Donald Liebenson
Explores the day-to-day lives of the people who live and work at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) stationed three miles from the front during the Korean War.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 8-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great dvd
The Mash dvd I purchased was well worth the money. My husband watches it while he is on the treadmill. He has really enjoyed the dvd and it keeps him walking!!!
Rating: - M*A*S*H will always be one of my favorite series.
I still continue to enjoy the M*A*S*H series on DVD. I thoroughly enjoy the humor of these fine actors. The drama interwoven with the humor is well balanced, and makes for good entertainment.
Rating: - Mash is great even after all these years.
I bought these for my husband and I also enjoy watching them. We never get tired of them. The quality of the DVD's are excellent.
Rating:  - The addition of Charles was the best thing that happened to the later MASH seasons
This was Charles Emerson Winchester's first season (wonderfully played by David Odgen Stiers, a great character actor who is still doing wonderful work today). He replaced Frank Burns, who was quickly becoming a caricature in the 4th and 5th seasons. I ended up liking Charles much more than I probably should have. The audience was supposed to dislike him because he was a snob, an egomaniac, and a blue blood who stuck his nose up at the rest of the camp. Yet, he was a brilliant surgeon who knew ... Read More
Rating: - Goodbye Frank Hello Mr. Winchester
The addition of David Ogden Stiers lifts this Mash Series 6 to one of the best of the eleven. The opening episode Fade In Fade Out is especilly enjoyable as Winchester is exiled from protective Tokyo to the 4077. Winchester proves to be a prime time player in the series from this opening episode. He is much more complex a character than Frank Burns every was(not to say that Frank was not funny). He has standout performances in The Light That Failed, Dr Winchester and Mr Hyde, and The Smell of Music. ... Read More
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