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CBS
December 8, 1973
Dramedy
DVD
B
This is the best episode in awhile, helped along by the guest shots from Allan Arbus (Sidney Freedman) and Pat Morita (again as Capt. Sam Pak). The script by Gelbart and Marks is wittier than usual, including a Kafka joke. The performance by 25-year-old John Ritter as Private Carter is a little shaky, but then it's a tricky role, and again the laugh track is misused, with him threatening Frank with a gun played mostly for laughs.
Gwen Farrell (Wilson) returns. Tom Dever has his first of five M*A*S*H roles, this time as Lt. Rogers, while Jerry Fujikawa has his first of seven, as "Whiplash" Hwang. And Edward Winter, who'd done a guest shot on The Bob Newhart Show, is Capt. Halloran here, but would be Col. Flagg later, a much more gung-ho character as I recall. Note that there's no sign of Hot Lips.
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