M*A*S*H - Season 1

Pros: Some really great episodes, including the pilot and "Ceasefire"
Cons: A few lesser episodes. Otherwise, none.

Although M*A*S*H had already had two successful incarnations as a best-selling novel by Richard Hooker (real name, Richard Hornberger) and the hit film adaptation by director Robert Altman, it is the 1972-1983 TV series that most of us are ...

Pros: Almost all the acting; episode "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
Cons: Two of the actors, excessive absurdity and goofiness.

In 1968, Richard Hooker published a novel called MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors about his experience in the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. A movie version came out in 1970. Many better, however, know the ...

Pros: Excellent ensemble cast, brilliant scripts, realistic plotlines, extremely funny yet poignant, quality transfers
Cons: no extras on the discs but quality paper inserts

War is not funny. It is many things, but war itself is not funny. But in the most horrible of places and times that people in war find themselves in, there are the moments of great irony. It is these moments that MASH brings so poignantly to our screens, ...

Pros: Fond memories of the classic show; With or without laughtrack
Cons: No trailers

Growing up in the late 1970's and early 1980's it was a ritual around our house for dad to turn the TV onto M*A*S*H every week and relive one of the darker periods of American military action through humor. This was a show that could make you cry and...