Thursday, May 26, 2016

M*A*S*H: The General's Practicioner

M*A*S*H: The General's Practicioner
CBS
February 15, 1977
Dramedy
DVD
B

Burt Prelutsky wrote this story where a general wants Hawkeye as his personal physician, and Radar takes care of the wife (or girlfriend?) and baby of a soldier who's being shipped home.  Both plots are handled well, and surprisingly don't intersect, like plots usually do on this series.  The script includes the words "bastard" and "hell," which was about as harsh as language got on network TV in those days.

Leonard Stone, who had recently played Dr. Ned Podbillion on The Bob Newhart Show, here is Col. Bidwell.

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