Post by brenth on Oct 21, 2015 11:13:39 GMT -5
THE YALU BRICK ROAD
Production: S-607 (176)
Aired: November 19, 1979 (179)
Writer: Mike Farrell
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest Stars
Gary Burghoff - Radar
G. W. Bailey - Rizzo
Byron Chung - North Korean Patrol Leader
Roy Goldman - corpsman
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Kellye Nakahara - Nurse Kellye
Soon-Teck Oh - "Ralph"
Bob Okazaki - farmer
"There's just nothing quite like the feeling of being needed, is there?"
All of the camp is coming into post-op with salmonella and Colonel Potter deduces that it was the turkey they had for dinner. Father Mulcahy is the only one in camp who doesn't have the illness since he had been with the orphans that night. Winchester and Margaret return from a seminar in Seoul and find much work to be done. Winchester thinks he is above doing nursing duties because he is "a doctor, not a woman" but, after Margaret threatens him, he consents to wash the sheets. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and BJ are returning from R and R with the antibiotics that the camp needs. BJ is driving too fast and rolls the jeep. While the two doctors are walking, they meet up with a North Korean soldier who surrenders to them and is given the name, Ralph. Ralph saves their lives when four more North Korean soldiers find them. Continuing home, they run into an old farmer whom they name Fred who can't walk by himself. They carry him home and, in thanks, the peasants let them borrow a motorcycle. Hawkeye and BJ finally make it home as Winchester is hanging up his clean sheets to dry. "Spokes" Honeycutt drives the motorcycle right through them.
Trivia: What is the name of the man who sold Klinger the turkey?
Soon-Teck Oh plays the third of his three roles as a North Korean that either surrenders or tries to defect. The first is "The Bus" (S4) and the second is "The Korean Surgeon" (S5). BJ mentions that he saw some MP's rock a jeep upright. It is possible he meant the ambulance in "The M*A*S*H Olympics" (S6). Father Mulcahy, who has complained before about not being needed relishes his role in this episode. This episode won the third and second Editors Award for Stanford Tischler and Larry L. Mills, respectively, in 1980. All the guest stars are back for repeat performances. Gary Burghoff is credited, though he doesn't appear.
This is by far the best episode of Season 8 and also among my all-time favorite episodes. It is very funny and well thought out. It is not too contrived and not at all preachy or political as some of the episodes are becoming.
Production: S-607 (176)
Aired: November 19, 1979 (179)
Writer: Mike Farrell
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Guest Stars
Gary Burghoff - Radar
G. W. Bailey - Rizzo
Byron Chung - North Korean Patrol Leader
Roy Goldman - corpsman
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Kellye Nakahara - Nurse Kellye
Soon-Teck Oh - "Ralph"
Bob Okazaki - farmer
"There's just nothing quite like the feeling of being needed, is there?"
All of the camp is coming into post-op with salmonella and Colonel Potter deduces that it was the turkey they had for dinner. Father Mulcahy is the only one in camp who doesn't have the illness since he had been with the orphans that night. Winchester and Margaret return from a seminar in Seoul and find much work to be done. Winchester thinks he is above doing nursing duties because he is "a doctor, not a woman" but, after Margaret threatens him, he consents to wash the sheets. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and BJ are returning from R and R with the antibiotics that the camp needs. BJ is driving too fast and rolls the jeep. While the two doctors are walking, they meet up with a North Korean soldier who surrenders to them and is given the name, Ralph. Ralph saves their lives when four more North Korean soldiers find them. Continuing home, they run into an old farmer whom they name Fred who can't walk by himself. They carry him home and, in thanks, the peasants let them borrow a motorcycle. Hawkeye and BJ finally make it home as Winchester is hanging up his clean sheets to dry. "Spokes" Honeycutt drives the motorcycle right through them.
Trivia: What is the name of the man who sold Klinger the turkey?
Soon-Teck Oh plays the third of his three roles as a North Korean that either surrenders or tries to defect. The first is "The Bus" (S4) and the second is "The Korean Surgeon" (S5). BJ mentions that he saw some MP's rock a jeep upright. It is possible he meant the ambulance in "The M*A*S*H Olympics" (S6). Father Mulcahy, who has complained before about not being needed relishes his role in this episode. This episode won the third and second Editors Award for Stanford Tischler and Larry L. Mills, respectively, in 1980. All the guest stars are back for repeat performances. Gary Burghoff is credited, though he doesn't appear.
This is by far the best episode of Season 8 and also among my all-time favorite episodes. It is very funny and well thought out. It is not too contrived and not at all preachy or political as some of the episodes are becoming.