Disc 1-3: M*A*S*H Season 1
Disc 4-6: M*A*S*H Season 2
Disc 7-9: M*A*S*H Season 3
Disc 10-12: M*A*S*H Season 4
Disc 13-15: M*A*S*H Season 5
Disc 16-18: M*A*S*H Season 6
Disc 19-21: M*A*S*H Season 7
Disc 22-24: M*A*S*H Season 8
Disc 25-27: M*A*S*H Season 9
Disc 28-30: M*A*S*H Season 10
Disc 31-33: M*A*S*H Season 11
Disc 34: M*A*S*H (The Movie)
Disc 35: M*A*S*H: Televisions Serious Sit-Com Bloopers My Favorite M*A*S*H Cast Interviews Last Day of Filming Jocularity PSA’s Saxophone Promo Just the FAQs – Game
Disc 36: M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion Fan Base Memories of M*A*S*H Script from never made episode This M*A*S*H-tastic 36-disc collection is one for the television time capsule. It contains all 11 seasons of this multi-Emmy Award-winning series, PLUS Robert Altman’s 1970 iconoclastic anti-war classic, PLUS two discs of special features, including two reunion specials and a series retrospective episode of A&E’s Biography. As with the individual season sets, there are no new episode commentaries, a major disappointment. But M*A*S*H-ophiles will enjoy this set’s other bonus features, including emotional behind-the-scenes footage of the filming of the last half-hour episode, “As Time Goes By,” the inevitable bloopers, interviews with cast members as well as fans about their favorite episodes, a segment about the series’ “Jocularity,” a parade of PSAs (cut down on salt to avoid heart disease), and the text of an unproduced script penned by Alda for an episode titled, “Hawkeye on the Double.” All of this material (except for a commemorative booklet) is available elsewhere in different configurations, but this space-saving (albeit ungainly packaged) box set collects them all under one tent.
Adapted for television by legendary comedy writer Larry Gelbart, the series has long since supplanted Altman’s film in the public’s consciousness. Life and death at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War doesn’t seem like ripe fodder for a comedy series, but M*A*S*H masterfully balanced laughter and tears (less so in its later, more preachy seasons). It often does play better without a laugh track (a viewing option for all episodes). During its run, M*A*S*H survived several delicate operations, including the departure of Gelbart after season 4 and the loss of core ensemble members McLean Stevenson as Col. Henry Blake and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John (after season 3), Larry Linville as Frank Burns (after season 5) and Gary Burghoff (a veteran of the original film) as Radar (after season 8). The show thrived with the introduction of some new blood, Henry Morgan as “regular Army” Col. Potter and Mike Farrell as compassionate BJ (season 4) and David Ogden Stiers as elitist Charles Emerson Winchester III (season 6).
M*A*S*H was honored with the prestigious Peabody Award “for the depth of its humor and the manner in which comedy is used to lift the spirit and, as well, to offer a profound statement on the nature of war.” This was a sitcom that did not always leave you laughing, as witness the classic season 3 episode “Abyssinia, Henry.” And throughout its run, M*A*S*H broke the sitcom mold with several episodes, including “The Interview” (season 4), in which Clete Roberts interviews the staff of the 4077th, “Point of View” (season 7), subjectively seen through the eyes of a wounded soldier and “Life Time” (season 8), which unfolds in real time. M*A*S*H boasted one of television’s greatest ensembles, fully embodied characters who each became icons, most notably Alan Alda, who served with distinction as Hawkeye, the series’ soul and conscience. But a special salute to Loretta Switt, whose Margaret Houlihan went from “Hot Lips” to nobody’s pushover. From the “Pilot” to the feature-length finale, “Goodbye, Farewell & Amen,” still the most-watched episode in history, this essential (but not so much if you bought the individual season sets) collection honors one of television’s greatest half-hours. –Donald Liebenson
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April 19, 2008
#1
Mash-Martenis and Medicine
I was sent 2 collections of Mash and I ordered one, Discount DVD said that it was an internal problem and to sent it back and they would credit my account, I sent both of the sets back and have only been given credit for one of the sets, I let Discount DVD know about this by email and , they said they would check on it and I haven’t heard from them. They owe me $121.92.
Thank you Gen Whitney I don’t know what to do now, please help me
April 19, 2008
#2
As far as I’m concerned MASH only lasted three seasons and wasn’t worth a dime after Wayne Rogers and McClean Stevenson left, however, I am as angry as al those who’ve been buying up those heartwarming Alda-written/directed seasons. I want the bonus material, but there is no way I’m shelling out $200 to get it. Besides, what would I do with all those gentle father and son moments between Radar and Col Potter, or those hilarious quips between Klinger and Soon Lee? Sorry Fox, I guess my cynicism just about matches yours…
April 19, 2008
#3
Since seeing this on the Wednesday before Turkey Day, packaged and priced lower than any other set, I was breathless when I read it had the movie. I immediately went to the last show in my mind, hearing and invisioning the helicopter taking off. Then to RADAR calling out the arrival of the same and I felt cruelly soothed in comfort. I have been hearing the theme song and helicoptoers for 3 days. I want this set and can not afford it due to a committment of no buying due to Christmas in Disneyland! If I buy it, I know I will not be able to resist my urge to watch the last episode first, then the movie, then the 11 seasons in order. Yet this is not mash, one season at a time, aticipatied, wanted and to grow with. With the end at the end. I could name off each and every character with no visual to look at to my 8 and 11 year old and yet trying to answer their question, I could not ever, begin, in any way to describe MASH. I know how you feel, the ones who feel burned by the slow release. My first episode of my beloved of all time “I Love Lucy” started at $150, dropped to $100 and then rereleased at half that with each consecutive season narrower in box size (more episodes per disk) and less expensive. Yet like a real TV show, I got to re-experience the wait, the building of excitement as I got my hands on Season II then III etc. It is not a ploy, I am a marketer. At the the time of release of the first season, no one believed the American Consumer would want nor pay for a huge bulk of disks. The cost, 11 seasons, oh, $750. You can be angry or relish in the fact that you have the set, have what I covet and now I must buy the set or can not see buying it at all, and then, my uncontrollable self will be at the last show first. Your way is better. You are angry at Fox Media? Then send your disks back, as, in the commercial, it says MASH so many dollars, the experience of now, priceless. The fact my two kids walk around with in my daughter’s case with a I Love Lucy Purse and Wallet while imitating the Harpo Marx scene with her friends and brother as a challenge, and in my Son’s case, parrating to me the expression, when I error, “You have some e’splaining to do” is worth every penny. They learned who John Wayne is, Harpo, Hedda Hooper, William Holden, Rock Hudson and more. They learned as I did, it is OK to be a feisty red hed, (gray in my case at 48) . They learned my discussion re Fred of it is not Ok to refer to your wife as…… Finally, they both learned that the so often proclaimed words with the stomping of her right foot by Lucy, of “But OHHHHH Ricky….. eventually always led to what we know, the women run the show no matter how loud the man barks… “LUCY<<<<< so do me a favor and go listen to the theme song and a helicopter and veiw an epidisode where Hawkeye and Pierce make fun of Frank! I cant buy the whole set and yet my mind says 11 seasons mutiplyed by 30 dollars and I only see one hundred dollars difference. Lots of money. So I put back the kids Guitar Hero on the shelve (eighty dollars) and I am going to do it as should be, slowly, one by one. Count your blessings. Thanks Fox. For the topper, my kids were watching I love Lucy instead of today’s selection of nonsense. IF any one saw it thru you, do you realize, you, yes you, helped to remind someone of the ausurdity of war via the tube. Better than the Simpsons or Southpark?
April 19, 2008
#4
The product was never sent. I had to apply to Amazon to get my money back.
April 19, 2008
#5
I am so put off by all the complaints about FOX screwing over the fans. Sure, it was not cool of them to do. I get that. But in a review of the content of the series, you are reviewing the corporate media group, not the show itself. Shame on all of you.
The show is fantastic and this box set is a fans dream come true.
Was I upset at first? You bet. What did I do about it? Well, since I assume you all know how to find the internet and Amazon, I don’t get why you did not do what I did.
Before the general listing for the whole box set came on Amazon, I listed all 10 of my individual seasons here for sale. And I was able to list them for between $17 and $25 each, making roughly $200 in about 2 weeks selling the individual sets.
When Amazon listed the box set for $139, I ordered it. And guess what? I may have lost money from the $30 each I paid for the individual sets, but I made a profit by selling them and buying the box set.
Simple math folks. You all could have and should have done the same. Don’t cry about it because you didn’t use your heads.
Now, to the point – the show, the series, everything about it is 5 stars all the way. Sure, some ups and downs over the seasons, but for sheer entertainment and elightenment value you can’t go wrong here. The extras are nice for a show that came and went before VHS was popular and there were few extras to be had. the lost script is a real gem. and you get the movie too. All that for well under $200 (unless you keep waiting). A steal of a deal if you ask me.
And I played the game and beat Fox at it’s own greed. I got the first 10 seasons as they came, enjoyed them well over the extra $10 worth I invested, then sold them to others and upgraded to the deluze while pocketing about $60 in the process.
I’ve got nothing to complain about.