M*A*S*H: For Want of a Boot

M*A*S*H: For Want of a Boot
CBS
January 12, 1974
Dramedy
DVD
B-

An interesting, mostly funny look at the barter system that Hawkeye goes through to try to get his boot replaced.  (He's been waiting three months, while Klinger has been trying for a Section Eight for six months.)  Unfortunately, the script by Sheldon Keller is marred by too much sexist dialogue and gratuitous insults of Radar.  And I could've done without knowing that Margaret's birthday gift to Frank is the riding crop her mother gave her father on their wedding night.

Michael Lerner, who was Mr. Carolla on The Bob Newhart Show, is Capt. Futterman here.  Suzanne Zenor, who plays Nurse Murphy, would be Samantha on the first Three's Company pilot.  Patricia Stevens makes her first of fifteen M*A*S*H appearances, as Nurse Mitchell.  Johnny Haymer debuts as Sgt. Zelmo Zale.  Sheila Lauritsen (Nurse Sheila), Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky),  and Kellye Nakahara (Yamato) return.