M*A*S*H: Ceasefire

M*A*S*H: Ceasefire
CBS
March 18, 1973
Dramedy
DVD
B

Laurence Marks and Larry Gelbart co-wrote the script, based on a story by Robert Klane.  As with The Bob Newhart Show, its a penultimate episode that feels like it should be a season-closer.  Not only because the war seems to be over, but because there's a general wrapping up characters and their inter-relationships.  And, yes, there's irony to none of them knowing how much longer the war, and even more so the series, would continue.

Patrick Adiarte (Ho-Jon, now more fluent in English), Odessa Cleveland (Lt. Bayliss), Bonnie Jones (Lt. Bannerman), Lynnette Mettey (Lt. Griffin), Marcia Strassman (Nurse Cutler), and Herb Voland (Gen. Clayton) all return.  This is the 100th program I've awarded a B.