News
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
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Actor Warren Stevens, best known for his role in 1956′s Forbidden Planet, passed away Tuesday (March 27th) at the age of 92. Stevens played Colonel Chaffey in Season Four’s “The Gun,” the man whose missing gun nearly sent Radar to the stockade. He began his acting career in the late 1940s and worked continually for almost six decades (his last credited role at the Internet Movie Database is for a 2007 film called Carts). In addition to M*A*S*H, Stevens made guest appearances on dozens of shows, including The Twilight Zone, Hawaiian Eye, Star Trek, Bonanza, Ironside, Police Woman and ER. He co-starred in Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers from 1956-1957; from 1969-1970 he provided the voice of unseen studio chief John Bracken on Bracken’s World (when the series returned for a second season, Stevens was replaced by Leslie Nielsen, his co-star from Forbidden Planet and also a M*A*S*H guest star).
Warren Stevens in “The Gun”
Obituaries can be found at CBS News and Variety (registration may be required).
(Thanks to Dan).
Name That Episode II
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
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The Name That Episode game is played Tuesdays and Thursdays, with images posted randomly between 12PM and 6PM Eastern. Players can participate as often as they like. An archive of past rounds can be found here. Today’s image can be found below. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: chuckles, who correctly identified “Edwina.”
Name That Episode
Series History
Posted Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 at 10:30 am
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After reporter Robert Pierpoint, whose voice was heard announcing the end of the Korean War in “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen,” passed away last year at the age of 86, I wondered whether the audio heard in the episode was Pierpoint’s original radio report or a recreation. Two people left comments stating they had heard or read that it was in fact a recreation. I was flipping through Suzy Kalter’s The Complete Book of M*A*S*H the other day and came across the following in Burt Metcalfe’s essay about Season Eleven:
The voice of Robert Pierpoint, which is broadcast over the PA system to give the steps toward the signing of the peace treaty, was real. We had thirty-year-old tapes, but the quality was so bad that Pierpoint agreed to rerecord. Static was later added to make it sound authentic. Pierpoint basically repeated his announcement of the end of the war as it was then.
So there you have it, straight from the executive producer.
Source:
Metcalfe, Burt. “Season Eleven (1982-1983).” The Complete Book of M*A*S*H. Suzy Kalter. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984. 217.
M*A*S*H on Jeopardy!
Posted Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
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I’m not watching Jeopardy! nearly as often as I used to, so it is possible there have been M*A*S*H clues that I’ve missed. There was one last month that I’ve been meaning to add to my M*A*S*H on Jeopardy! page and today I finally got around to doing it. During the February 21st episode, in the Double Jeopardy round, this was the $400 clue in the “Death on a Sitcom” category: “In 1975, Lt. Col. Henry Blake was discharged from the Army, then from life in a place crash on this show.” One of the contestants was able to ring in with the correct answer.
Name That Episode II
Posted Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
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The Name That Episode game is played Tuesdays and Thursdays, with images posted randomly between 12PM and 6PM Eastern. Players can participate as often as they like. An archive of past rounds can be found here. Today’s image can be found below. Can you name the episode it’s from? Feel free to post guesses in the comments section. As always, the winner gets bragging rights.
And the Winner Is: Seoul City Sue, who correctly identified “Your Retention Please.”
Name That Episode
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