M*A*S*H - Season Two (Collector's Edition)
by Alan Alda, Don Weis, Gene Reynolds, Hy Averback, Jackie Cooper
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Actor: Alan Alda, Larry Linville, Loretta Swit, McLean Stevenson, Wayne RogersDirector: Alan Alda, Don Weis, Gene Reynolds, Hy Averback, Jackie Cooper
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Primary Contributor: Wayne Rogers
Primary Contributor: Larry Linville
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 612 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of M*A*S*H - Season Two (Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Long live Col. Flagg!
Summary: 5 Stars
You just can't get much better humor than with Col. Flagg and Frank Burns. Out of the thousands of great lines, 2 quickly come to mind.
Colonel Flagg: My orders are to do whatever it takes to break up this penicillin ring, and I have written permission to die in the attempt!
During a "forced" birthday party for Frank, filled with phony shows of emotion to him, Hot Lips whispers to Frank: You see Frank, they really love you.
In a gentle voice, Frank Burns: It was their hatred that fooled me.
The first 3 seasons: GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!
DVD Review: The 4077th in High Gear
Summary: 5 Stars
Hitting its stride midway through Season One, "M*A*S*H" emerged as a well-oiled machine in the fall of 1973. Producers Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds maintain an ideal balance of irreverence and poignancy in classic episodes such as "Five O'Clock Charlie," "Radar's Report," "The Sniper" and "A Smattering of Intelligence." You could not ask for a better serio-comic ensemble than Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff - with memorable visits from Allan Arbus (as psychiatrist Sidney Freedman) and Edward Winter (the paranoid CIA operative Colonel Flagg). Though the second year was uniformly strong, the 4077th reached its creative apex in Season Three. After years of butchered syndication prints, all 24 episodes are gloriously uncut and the DVD enables you to dispense with the obtrusive laugh track.DVD Review: A great Show Season 2
Summary: 4 Stars
MASH is one of my top 10 favorite TV Shows of all time and it is a joy to see the antics of these Mobile Army Surgical Hospital doctors. I am not a big fan of seasons 1-3 because the characters seem to too cartoonish for me and story lines seem a little weak. I guess the producers wanted to keep close to the movie which was a little on the corny side. With these faults, the show remains a classic for all generation and the dialogue is rather simple to understand. Season 2 continues the tone for the introduction part of the show to millions of viewers.
If I rated Films or TV Series based on whether I liked them, I would have rated the entire series a 5 or a 6, but I rarely do this. Each episode is high quality and the sound is great. They bring back the joy I originally had when I first saw them minus the commercials (which are really not that important.) One problem exists the DVD itself dose not have a lot of features. You can not "play all", there are no filmographies or even a list of the extra and cameos that made M*A*S*H one of the best shows. It would have been more interesting to see where all those extras went off to do.
I highly recommend the series with these limitations.
Enjoy
DVD Review: The most awesome series ever!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with this product. it came in without a blemish on any of the disks which allowed me to watch the most awesome 2 season of a series!!!!!!! i love mash! alan alda is brilliant!DVD Review: MASH hits its stride
Summary: 4 Stars
The best seasons of MASH, for me, are those that feature the final cast grouping - with B.J., Potter, and Winchester - but this second season of MASH is still very enjoyable (and better than the first). The original cast is in its best form here, comfortably settled into their characters. My objection to the early seasons is twofold: (1) everyone behaves more or less the same way (e.g. everyone cheats on their spouse) so there's a redundancy of characters; (2) Frank is too buffoonish to serve as an effective foil for Hawkeye and Trapper. Luckily, there is a lot of variety in this season - they are not all Burns vs. Hawkeye and Trapper storylines. More importantly, we start to get a glimpse of the underlying respect that Margaret has for Hawkeye - she can separate the skills of the brilliant surgeon from the sophmoric prankster, much to her credit as a growing character.
Also importantly, we continue to get a sense of the growing extended family of the 4077 Field Hospital. Psychiatrist Sydney Friedman makes a couple of appearances, and Klinger's role continues to grow. Most importantly is the injection of the warmth and humanity of Father Mulchahey - he brings a needed dose of down-to-earthiness, and is presented with respect and sympathy (unlike many Catholic priests in sitcoms).
The key to the success of MASH was the development of controversial storylines. In this season, they tackle racism (several times) and homosexuality. Captain Pak, the Korean liaison officer, gets into a couple of episodes and has some choice lines regarding the "assistance" of U.S. troops on Korean soil ("We thank you from the bottom of our bomb craters") - a comment on war in general that would resonate with current Iraqi and Afghan civilians. Other highlights include a trip through the empire-building beauracrats of any large military operation in "The Incubator", Trapper deciding to desert so he can see his daughters in "Mail Call", Hawkeye and Margaret running the hospital by themselves (and dragooning Radar and Mulchahey as nurses) in "Carry on Hawkeye", and Korean squatters moving into the compound claiming it's their farmland in "The Chosen People". The biggest guest star of the season is John Ritter as a post-trauma stress disordered patient who threatens to kill Frank in "Deal Me Out." There are also some episodes played straight for laughs, the best being "Five-O'Clock Charlie", wherein an inept North Korean in an ancient crop duster attempts to blow up a nearby ammo dump every day at 5 pm.
Unfortunately, this is another bare-bones disc, featuring the episodes only. There is the option to play with or without the laugh track (when played without there are some weird pauses where the laughter would be, but overall it's much preferable to that inane 70's laughter!).
Description of M*A*S*H - Season Two (Collector's Edition)
After a first season in which M*A*S*H barely rated among television's top fifty shows, the show received a boost in its second season when CBS switched their time slot to Saturday nights right after "All in the Family."Knowing a lot of new people would be tuning in to the second season, creator/writer Larry Gelbart reveals, "We wrote the first episode as a sort of second pilot to introduce all the new viewers to the characters." Almost immediately after the second season began, the show became a hit-and the actors became household names.
Little did they know the show was going to last longer than the war itself.
M*A*S*H redux. Sign up for another stint with the 4077th. This three-disc set contains all 24 episodes from the superb second season (1973-74) of the series ranked by TV Guide as among the top 25 television shows of all time. The season opener, "Divided We Stand," is a deft reintroduction to these now iconic characters: bleeding-heart surgeon Hawkeye Pearce (Alan Alda in his signature role), kindred misfit spirit Trapper John (Wayne Rogers), clueless administrator Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), buttoned-up Frank Burns (Larry Linville), and unbuttoned head nurse "Hot Lips" (Loretta Swit). In this episode, a visiting psychiatrist evaluates the 4077th to determine whether the unit "can function as a team." His evaluation can serve as this series' mission statement: "These impossible people are in an impossible place doing totally impossible things. They're mad--quite mad." M*A*S*H experienced no sophomore slump from its Emmy Award-winning first season. It continued to subvert sitcom convention with multiple-story episodes such as "Radar's Report." Scenes in the operating room play without a laugh track (this DVD gives viewers the option of watching entire episodes minus the intrusive chuckles and guffaws). M*A*S*H also tackled such issues as racism ("Dear Dad... Three," "L.I.P.--Local Indigenous Personnel"), homophobia ("George"), and war atrocities (Hawkeye and Trapper try to get the Army to take responsibility for the accidental shelling of a South Korean village). Not that M*A*S*H forgot how to be funny. "Five O'Clock Charlie" and "For Want of a Boot" are strictly for laughs. Hawkeye and Hot Lips memorably exchange flu shots in "Carry On, Hawkeye." Loyal viewers will note the emergence of several supporting characters, including Jamie Farr's Klinger and William Christopher's Father Mulcahy. One also sees the (to some) unfortunate transformation of Gary Burghoff's savvy, crackerjack clerk Radar into a na?ve innocent. Allan Arbus makes his first appearance as compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Friedman in "Radar's Report." This second-season set is representative of why M*A*S*H was a cut above. --Donald Liebenson
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