>>>Actually the earlier shows of M*A*S*H, pre-Honeycutt episodes, were very good... IMO.
>>>Hawk-Eye, "Trapper John" McIntire, Frank Burns and Henry Blake characters made that show so good in it's early days.
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>>>Then it started to go down hill when "Trapper" left the show.....
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>>I think that's when Alan Alda took over. Once all the morality lessons started seeping in, that's when I lost interest.
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>Alen Alda "Hawkeye Pierce" was on the show from the beginning.

Yeah, but was he directing and producing from the beginning?

I think he started to take more control towards the end of the series.

I'm not saying that he's a bad director, or whatever. I think he's a fine actor. Hawkeye was a better character when "Trapper" was around and Margaret had more personality with Frank Burns and unmarried.