Post by brenth on Aug 26, 2015 11:04:01 GMT -5
ARE YOU NOW, MARGARET?
Production: S-602 (171)
Aired: September 24, 1979 (171)
Writers: Thad Mumford and Dan Wilcox
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest Stars
Jennifer Davis - nurse
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Lawrence Pressman - R. T. Williamson
Leland Sun - Chinese patient
"I've never been so close to a man who has the ear of the man with his finger on the pulse of the nation."
Father Mulcahy interrupts O. R. to announce that a congressional aide, R. Theodore Williamson, has dropped by. The aide tells Colonel Potter that he just wants to interview everyone and he does. After Williamson talks to Margaret, Hawkeye, BJ and Winchester, the staff starts to get suspicious why he is there. When they ask him, he accuses Margaret of being a communist sympathizer. He refuses to show his proof, but instead turns the tables on Margaret and asks her to name all of her college friends or she and her family will be dishonored. After protests from the others, the aide gives her two days. Margaret thinks about what would happen to her and her father and then reminisces her college days. Klinger, meanwhile, is running around taking pictures in hopes of winning a Stars and Stripes photo contest. Hawkeye and BJ try to get Margaret off the hook by telling Williamson about her love life. Williamson then goes to her tent to bribe her with dropping the charges if she would sleep with him. When he attacks her, Klinger jumps out of the closet and takes a picture. The doctors, then, threaten to send it to his wife. The thing that finally stops the investigation is when Williamson's wife is found to be having an affair with Congressman Daniel Lurie (the one Williamson works for).
Trivia: What society did Walter Philip Crichton set up?
Scandal Rocks Capitol Hill!
Congressman Daniel Lurie caught in love nest with aide's wife. "My husband drove me to it," sobbed a tearful L. Shirley Williamson. "I needed more than a man who's married to his work first and me second."
Potterism: "Bushload of bushwah"
It's amazing to think how far our political culture has evolved just since the late 70's when a politician having an affair was a significant political scandal. Harry Truman is still president in this episode.
Lawrence Pressman had movie parts in "Shaft" and "Nine to Five" but he became a familiar face as Dr. Canfield in "Doogie Howser, M.D.". This is Leland Sun's third of four appearances on M*A*S*H. This episode won a Writer's Guild Award for Thad Mumford and Dan Wilcox in 1980.
This episode and the next, "Guerilla My Dreams", have political undertones and you may like or hate these episode based on your politics. I could easily get on my soapbox about a few things in these episodes, but this is not the place.
Production: S-602 (171)
Aired: September 24, 1979 (171)
Writers: Thad Mumford and Dan Wilcox
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest Stars
Jennifer Davis - nurse
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Lawrence Pressman - R. T. Williamson
Leland Sun - Chinese patient
"I've never been so close to a man who has the ear of the man with his finger on the pulse of the nation."
Father Mulcahy interrupts O. R. to announce that a congressional aide, R. Theodore Williamson, has dropped by. The aide tells Colonel Potter that he just wants to interview everyone and he does. After Williamson talks to Margaret, Hawkeye, BJ and Winchester, the staff starts to get suspicious why he is there. When they ask him, he accuses Margaret of being a communist sympathizer. He refuses to show his proof, but instead turns the tables on Margaret and asks her to name all of her college friends or she and her family will be dishonored. After protests from the others, the aide gives her two days. Margaret thinks about what would happen to her and her father and then reminisces her college days. Klinger, meanwhile, is running around taking pictures in hopes of winning a Stars and Stripes photo contest. Hawkeye and BJ try to get Margaret off the hook by telling Williamson about her love life. Williamson then goes to her tent to bribe her with dropping the charges if she would sleep with him. When he attacks her, Klinger jumps out of the closet and takes a picture. The doctors, then, threaten to send it to his wife. The thing that finally stops the investigation is when Williamson's wife is found to be having an affair with Congressman Daniel Lurie (the one Williamson works for).
Trivia: What society did Walter Philip Crichton set up?
Scandal Rocks Capitol Hill!
Congressman Daniel Lurie caught in love nest with aide's wife. "My husband drove me to it," sobbed a tearful L. Shirley Williamson. "I needed more than a man who's married to his work first and me second."
Potterism: "Bushload of bushwah"
It's amazing to think how far our political culture has evolved just since the late 70's when a politician having an affair was a significant political scandal. Harry Truman is still president in this episode.
Lawrence Pressman had movie parts in "Shaft" and "Nine to Five" but he became a familiar face as Dr. Canfield in "Doogie Howser, M.D.". This is Leland Sun's third of four appearances on M*A*S*H. This episode won a Writer's Guild Award for Thad Mumford and Dan Wilcox in 1980.
This episode and the next, "Guerilla My Dreams", have political undertones and you may like or hate these episode based on your politics. I could easily get on my soapbox about a few things in these episodes, but this is not the place.