M*A*S*H: Good-bye Radar, Part 2

M*A*S*H: Good-bye Radar, Part 2
CBS
October 15, 1979
Dramedy
DVD
B

Yes, Burghoff's final appearance on this show, although he'd appear as Radar on After MASH.  Levine & Isaacs give him a nice send-off, as well as show how Klinger will use his street smarts as he takes over the job of company clerk.  Radar gets some memorable kisses, a big one from "Hot Lips," and a couple cheek kisses that he's to pass on from BJ to Peg and Erin when they meet him in San Francisco (to change planes I assume).  Morgan's tears look genuine when he says goodbye.  And Hawkeye, who's the one that Radar's been closest to all this time, finds his own ways to say goodbye.  The episode is a bit too drawn out to be a B+ but overall satisfying.

David Dozer (this time the Dispatcher) and Kellye Nakahara (Yamato) return.  Whitney Rydbeck, who was a page on the Davy Jones episode of The Brady Bunch, is Sgt. Hondo McKee here and would be the voice of George the Robot in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.