The website Just My Show, which calls itself “The Retro Pop Culture Podcast,” has a brand new show celebrating the 35th anniversary of M*A*S*H. Podcasts are Internet radio shows that can be downloaded to mobile devices like iPods, or just listened to on the computer. You don’t need an iPod to listen to Just My Show, though. The podcast, which features new interviews with Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicut), William Christopher (Father Mulcahy), and Jamie Farr (Klinger) can be found here.

Robert Symonds, who appeared in two episodes of M*A*S*H as Colonel Horace Baldwin, died Thursday at age 80 according to Variety.com. Colonel Baldwin was the man responsible for sending Charles Emerson Winchester, III (David Ogden Stiers) to the 4077th. He first appeared in the Season Six episode Fade In, Fade Out and returned in the Season Nine episode No Laughing Matter. The article lists dozens of theater productions Symonds was involved with, in addition to his numerous television and film roles.

A few months ago I got an e-mail from a M*A*S*H fan who has put together a website devoted to the opening credits of the series. It chronicles the evolution of the opening credits over the years as cast members came and went and is very impressive. Unfortunately, at the time I was working on the relaunch of my own site and did not put up a link to this fan’s effort. Well, here it is: dirwuf’s M*A*S*H Opening Credits website. I have also added it to the Links page. Check it out.

Welcome to the brand new M*A*S*H, Finest Kind website!

Way back in 1999 when I started my very first M*A*S*H site, it was little more than a regurgitation of information readily available on the Internet (see the About page). There was an episode guide, a list of characters, Klinger’s stunts, Radar’s pets and all the common features of a M*A*S*H fan site. Over the years, I slowly shifted the focus from the common to the uncommon; I became interested in the unexplored aspects of M*A*S*H.

There are still several excellent general fan sites dedicated to M*A*S*H (see the M*A*S*H Links page). But what you will find here at M*A*S*H, Finest Kind is different and unique. Hopefully it will be as interesting to others as it is to me. I have plenty of ideas for new additions and update — but if I waited to launch this new site until I everything I was considering was added, it would never be finished! So, be sure to check back every now and again for new content.

Some highlights I am particularly fond of:

• AfterMASH
• M*A*S*HBack
• Entertainment Tonight Spotlight on M*A*S*H
• Comparison of “Our Finest Hour” on DVD & VHS
• Nurses of the 4077th
• Anachronisms in M*A*S*H

And much, much more.

I have yet to decide the best way to archive the seven years of news stories about M*A*S*H — I may not even put them up. According to my site statistics, nobody reads them.