CBS
December 8, 1980
Dramedy
DVD
B
Karen Hall's first of nine M*A*S*H scripts is easily the best so far this season. Margaret's father, Colonel Alvin "Howitzer" Houlihan (Andrew Duggan, who played both Eisenhower and LBJ at points in his career), visits and she does her best to make him proud but he seems cold and distant. Not to get overly Freudian, but we get a lot of insight into why Margaret is the way she is, from her bossing the nurses (ten of them at this point) to how she relates to men. And I like how we see that Potter is more fatherly with Margaret than Howitzer is. The subplot with the bootleg meat seems like it'll be a bit of a retread, but it comes to a satisfying conclusion.
Art LaFleur, who was Ivan in Rescue from Gilligan's Island, is the MP here and would soon be a Bartender on Soap. Jeffrey Kramer (this time Sgt. Morgove) and Kellye Nakahara (Yamato) return. Alda directed.
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