M*A*S*H: Dear Peggy

M*A*S*H: Dear Peggy
CBS
November 14, 1975
Dramedy
DVD
C

This Fritzell & Greenbaum story has a nice opening scene in the officer's hall (or whatever it's called), but as it goes on, it makes less and less sense.  One minute Margaret is helping the camp try to set a jeep-stuffing record and then the next she's being gung-ho about something with Frank.  Father Mulcahy goes against his policy of not writing to patients' families before the conditions are stabilized, just to please his superior (Ned Beatty).  Koreans are trained to work in the OR, but their English lessons, from both Frank and Hawkeye, are meaningless rote, as if no one around is actually bilingual.  Another episode that needed a rewrite, and that's not even counting that Hawkeye refers to Nixon as the Vice-President, presumably prematurely.

Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky), Bobbie Mitchell (this time Lt. Cage), Kellye Nakahara (Yamato), and Dennis Troy (this time as an MP) return.  This is the first of thirty-one M*A*S*H episodes Burt Metcalfe directed.