>>>>>>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.
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>>>Yeah, but was he directing and producing from the beginning?
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>>>I think he started to take more control towards the end of the series.
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>>>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.
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>>I agree, When it was Hawkeye and Trapper, the show was a lot more funny. later, after the Censors got their claws into it. They started having to appeal to the moral (family) aspects. The same happen to "Tool Time". Tim Allen is a funny guy (from a male presective). But as the years went by, one could see that the censors started to restrict the type of humor he could do. And more moral type shows were made. And the show slowly went down hill from there.
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>Yup. Henry Blake, Hawkeye, Trapper, Hullahan and Frank Burns... that was a great cast. You can throw in there the black guy that was on the show in the beginning, I liked him too.... whatever happened to him anyway?

And the big guy with the cowboy hat with the big mustach (sp?).