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GOODBYE, FAREWELL, AND AMEN
Production: 9-B04 (245)
Aired: February 28, 1983 (Series Finale) (251)
Writers: Alan Alda, Burt Metcalfe, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall
Director: Alan Alda
Guest Stars
Allan Arbus - Major Freedman
G. W. Bailey - Rizzo
Natasha Bauman - nurse
Mark Cassella - jeep driver
Brigitte Chandler - nurse
Jen-Chia Chang - Chinese musician
Rosalind Chao - Soon Lee
Blake Clark - 2nd M. P.
Jennifer Davis - nurse
Gwen Farrell - nurse
Judy Farrell - Nurse Able
Dennis Flood - corpsman
Roy Goldman - corpsman
Byron Jeong - Chinese musician
Jan Jordan - Nurse Baker
Enid Kent - Nurse Bigelow
June Kim - woman with shawl
Jim Lau - Chinese musician
Scott Lincoln - G. I.
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Herb L. Mitchell - 1st M. P.
Kellye Nakahara - Nurse Kellye
David Orr - soldier
John Otrin - 2nd jeep driver
Franz Zi-Li Peng - Chinese musician
Shari Saba - nurse
Kevin Scannell - "MacArthur"
John Shearun - chopper pilot
Bill Snider - corpsman
Arthur Song - Korean man
Lawrence Soong - Chinese musician
Jo Ann Thompson - nurse
Dennis Troy - corpsman
John Van Ness - "Truman"
Lang Yun - woman on bus
"There it is, that's the sound of peace."
Major Freedman is questioning Hawkeye about the Fourth of July party on the beach and the ride back to the 4077th on the bus. Hawkeye has been institutionalized. He gets a phone call from the staff trying to cheer him up, but it doesn't work. Hawkeye just wants to go home -- he doesn't know why he is in the institution. At the 4077th word is out that the war might be ending. Refugees are pouring into camp but some have a disease. Soon Lee, who is still searching for and worrying more about her parents, helps to interpret for them. Margaret is excited because her father is working on getting her a post-war job in Tokyo. Winchester, on the other hand, is furious because his chances of being chief of thoracic surgery are gone and "there is no other hospital." He doesn't want to talk to Margaret; he just wants to go to the latrine.
At that moment a tank rumbles into camp and destroys the latrine before it finally stops. The driver has been severely wounded. On his way back from the "ravine latrine", the major is nearly run down by a motorcycle with five North Koreans in it. When the Koreans find out Winchester is an American, they each pull out a musical instrument and start playing "O Susannah". The major, quite annoyed, tries to escape from them, but they follow him into camp. There the major gives the prisoners to Colonel Potter and BJ confiscates the motorcycle.
Back at the institution Sidney is annoying Hawkeye with his questions. When Sidney asks why he drove a jeep through the Officers' Club wall to order a double bourbon, Hawkeye admits that he must be insane because he normally drinks martinis. Then Sidney asks about the bus trip back to the 4077th. We learn that the "bottle" that was being passed around was a plasma bottle for a wounded man that Hawkeye was taking care of in the back of the bus.
At the 4077th, again, Klinger is trying to file a missing persons report for Soon Lee's parents when Margaret walks in and demands he send a telegram for her. Her telegram is to Robert "Uncle Bob" Harwell, a friend of the family, and director of Boston Mercy Hospital. At the same time, Colonel Potter enters and wants Klinger to call officials to get rid of the POW's and the tank, which has started to draw enemy gunfire. BJ is painting his motorcycle and annoying Major Winchester. But, even more annoying to the major is the "concert" that his POW's are playing. He mentions that he like Mozart and they surprise him by playing a song by Mozart. Winchester realizes there is some hope here. All of this is interrupted by wounded.
Hawkeye is talking more about his bus trip home. He says they stopped to pick up some refugees and wounded GI's, but they had to continue down the road with no lights and no sounds because an enemy patrol was coming up the road. As "General MacArthur" and "Harry Truman" are fighting, Hawkeye states that he was annoyed by a noisy chicken that was endangering everyone's life.
Back in camp, BJ's discharge orders come in the mail. Colonel Potter wants to check it out, but BJ is too excited about getting home in time for his daughter's second birthday. He asks the camp if it is OK for him to go home and they all cheer him and wish him well, so the colonel lets him go. But this celebration is cut short by enemy artillery drawn by the tank. Father Mulcahy runs out in the open to rescue the POW's and a bomb nearly kills him. BJ checks him out and find out that he has a permanent hearing loss. Father Mulcahy makes BJ promise not to tell anyone about his situation.
BJ wants to tell Hawkeye about his discharge so he goes to visit him with some "still water". Hawkeye only rants about a Charles Boyer movie and that he is locked up and BJ can never bring himself to break the news to Hawkeye. BJ leaves without saying goodbye. Then Sidney talks to Hawkeye once more. Hawkeye reveals that everyone was scared and the chicken was only getting louder. He ordered its owner, a young woman, to keep it quiet and the woman obeyed by smothering it. Then Hawkeye reveals that the chicken was actually a baby that was crying and he curses Sidney for making him remember it. After that, Hawkeye thinks he will be discharged, but Sidney tells him he has to return to the 4077th.
BJ returns to camp to find that Klinger has temporarily solved the tank problem by covering with a tent. Klinger is trying to set up BJ's travel arrangements as the mailman comes. BJ has to catch a flight in Kimpo in forty minutes and the mailman is going to Kimpo next so the doctor hitches a ride. Then Klinger delivers the mail starting with Colonel Potter. One of the letters rescinds BJ's travel orders, but the colonel ignores it. Another letter is a letter for Winchester, who is now trying to conduct his little orchestra, offering him a job as chief of thoracic surgery at Boston Mercy Hospital. The major rejoices until Klinger tells him that the letter was a result of Margaret's telegram. Suddenly the major is furious. Margaret tries to congratulate him, but he chews her out. They mention incidents from several earlier episodes in their argument. Winchester confiscates his poetry book that he loaned to her. Soon Lee asks Klinger to take her to Chor Wan to follow a lead on her parent's whereabouts, but Klinger refuses because that is where the war is. Soon Lee goes anyway and a worried Klinger goes after her.
Hawkeye finally returns to the 4077th to learn of BJ's departure. Hawkeye is depressed that it is Trapper all over again and Colonel Potter is still worried that the replacement surgeon hasn't arrived yet. When artillery starts hitting the camp again, Hawkeye repeats a famous quote from an earlier episode and decides to take matters into his own hands. He gets in the tank and drives it through the newly constructed latrine and into the garbage dump. That evening, Klinger points out the beautiful sunset to the colonel, but the "sunset" is in the east. When the camp realizes it is a forest fire headed straight for the 4077th, they bug out. Finally, a chopper comes in with the new surgeon. It is BJ, who had gotten all the way to Guam before the error was noticed and he was sent back. Klinger finds Soon Lee, who has struck out on her lead to find her family in Chor Wan. He brings her back to the 4077th, then presents her with his wedding dress and asks her to marry him. She accepts, but insists on locating her family first.
The camp, in their new location, has a party with the orphans in the area. The staff brings one of the children to BJ, who is depressed because he missed his daughter's birthday. They celebrate this child's birthday with him. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is feeling uncomfortable around the children and Sidney comes to help him out. The 4077th's POW's, including Winchester's musicians, are being traded for American POW's. Then they learn that a peace treaty has been signed and the war will end in twelve hours. The camp is also sent back to their original location which has been burned to the ground.
In one final session of O. R., the staff talks about what they want first when they get home, Margaret and Winchester continue their argument, and Hawkeye is depressed that BJ didn't and still won't say goodbye to him. There are three hours to the truce and Major Winchester recognizes that one of the wounded is one of his musicians. He was the only one of the POW's that made it back to the 4077th. Winchester destroys his Mozart records. A nurse saves Father Mulcahy's life when his deafness gets him in trouble. A child is brought to Hawkeye's table and Hawkeye thanks Sidney. Then Sidney leaves with a repeat of his quote: "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, take of your pants and slide on the ice." There is artillery fire right up to the last minute and, finally, there is peace, but the medical staff is still in O. R.
Next, there is a celebration in the mess tent where everyone tells their post-war plans. Colonel Potter will retire from the army to be a family doctor. Kellye is assigned to a hospital in Honolulu. Rizzo will breed frogs for a French restaurant. Hawkeye will return to Crabapple Cove where he will serve no anonymous patients. BJ says he'll run off with a nurse in Guam. Igor will farm pigs. Father Mulcahy will be working with the deaf. Winchester announces he has accepted the position as head of thoracic surgery at Boston Mercy Hospital. His music that was once a refuge has become only a reminder of the war. Margaret has been assigned to consolidate the M*A*S*H units and then she plans to retire from the Army. Klinger announces to everyone his marriage to Soon Lee the next day and then he will stay in Korea to help look for her parents.
The next day Father Mulcahy marries Klinger and Soon Lee in a Christian wedding. They leave camp in their "limo", a hay cart. BJ asks for his autograph on a photo of him in a dress. Margaret catches the bouquet. Then the tents come down and everyone takes their sign from the signpost. The nurses leave next for the 8063rd followed by Father Mulcahy in an ambulance for the same place. Margaret and Winchester are supposed to leave together, but she has already filled the jeep so Winchester asks Rizzo for another "mode". He does, however, return the poetry book to her. Rizzo returns with his other mode, a garbage truck. The Colonel plans to ride Sophie to the orphanage where he will leave her and pick up his ride home. He says good-bye and leaves Hawkeye and BJ alone at the camp. BJ takes Hawkeye up to the chopper pad on his motorcycle and tells him that he will see him in the states. But just in case, he left him a note. Then BJ leaves on his motorcycle as the chopper takes off. As Hawkeye looks down over the dismantled camp, he sees BJ's message below -- "GOODBYE" spelled out in stones.
Trivia: What is the name of the surgeon that was supposed to have replaced BJ?
THE KOREAN "POLICE ACTION"
JUNE 25, 1950 to JULY 27, 1953
U. S. troops killed: 71,500* (33,629)
Wounded: 250,000* (103,284)
Captured or missing: 83,263* (5,178)
Total cost to U. S.: $22 billion
Communist dead or wounded: 1,347,000
Korean civilians killed: 400,000
Korean orphans: 100,000
Korean homeless: 3,000,000
* These figures were given in the episode. Official figures are given in parenthesis. See www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/asia/korean-war-fast-facts/
This episode is two and one half hours long with commercials included and is still, to date, the most watched show from a TV series of all time receiving a 77% share. In fact, it was only eclipsed as the most watched TV show ever by some of the more recent Super Bowls. The forest fire was a real unscripted event that destroyed the M*A*S*H set. The writers just built the story into the episode. Since they didn't have time to script the bug out, they used scenes from "Bug Out" (S5). If you listen, in the confusion, you can hear Gary Burghoff's voice barking out orders and see him helping to move a trunk out of a building.
The road signs you can see as Hawkeye comes back into camp with Burma Shave at the end is typical of how that product advertised in the 30's and 40's. The poetry book given back to Margaret was given to her in "Give and Take" (S11). Margaret says her father "knows somebody who can get me assigned to NATO Headquarters in Belgium". NATO Headquarters was in Rocquencourt, France near Paris during the Korean War. It moved to Belgium after the French withdrew from NATO in 1959.
John Shearun had played Sheriff Dowd on the TV show "Bret Maverick". Herb Mitchell played Judge White on "The Practice". Blake Clark played Fred in several episodes of "Remington Steele", Jules Lambermont on "The Drew Carey Show", and Harry on "Home Improvement". He also replaced Jim Varney as the voice of Slinky the Dog the "Toy Story" movie sequels. David Orr, John Otrin and Arthur Song are back for their second appearances on M*A*S*H. For Laurence Soong, Byron Jeong and Jen-Chia Chang, this is their first and only acting credits.
This was a very good ending to a very good series.
Production: 9-B04 (245)
Aired: February 28, 1983 (Series Finale) (251)
Writers: Alan Alda, Burt Metcalfe, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall
Director: Alan Alda
Guest Stars
Allan Arbus - Major Freedman
G. W. Bailey - Rizzo
Natasha Bauman - nurse
Mark Cassella - jeep driver
Brigitte Chandler - nurse
Jen-Chia Chang - Chinese musician
Rosalind Chao - Soon Lee
Blake Clark - 2nd M. P.
Jennifer Davis - nurse
Gwen Farrell - nurse
Judy Farrell - Nurse Able
Dennis Flood - corpsman
Roy Goldman - corpsman
Byron Jeong - Chinese musician
Jan Jordan - Nurse Baker
Enid Kent - Nurse Bigelow
June Kim - woman with shawl
Jim Lau - Chinese musician
Scott Lincoln - G. I.
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
Herb L. Mitchell - 1st M. P.
Kellye Nakahara - Nurse Kellye
David Orr - soldier
John Otrin - 2nd jeep driver
Franz Zi-Li Peng - Chinese musician
Shari Saba - nurse
Kevin Scannell - "MacArthur"
John Shearun - chopper pilot
Bill Snider - corpsman
Arthur Song - Korean man
Lawrence Soong - Chinese musician
Jo Ann Thompson - nurse
Dennis Troy - corpsman
John Van Ness - "Truman"
Lang Yun - woman on bus
"There it is, that's the sound of peace."
Major Freedman is questioning Hawkeye about the Fourth of July party on the beach and the ride back to the 4077th on the bus. Hawkeye has been institutionalized. He gets a phone call from the staff trying to cheer him up, but it doesn't work. Hawkeye just wants to go home -- he doesn't know why he is in the institution. At the 4077th word is out that the war might be ending. Refugees are pouring into camp but some have a disease. Soon Lee, who is still searching for and worrying more about her parents, helps to interpret for them. Margaret is excited because her father is working on getting her a post-war job in Tokyo. Winchester, on the other hand, is furious because his chances of being chief of thoracic surgery are gone and "there is no other hospital." He doesn't want to talk to Margaret; he just wants to go to the latrine.
At that moment a tank rumbles into camp and destroys the latrine before it finally stops. The driver has been severely wounded. On his way back from the "ravine latrine", the major is nearly run down by a motorcycle with five North Koreans in it. When the Koreans find out Winchester is an American, they each pull out a musical instrument and start playing "O Susannah". The major, quite annoyed, tries to escape from them, but they follow him into camp. There the major gives the prisoners to Colonel Potter and BJ confiscates the motorcycle.
Back at the institution Sidney is annoying Hawkeye with his questions. When Sidney asks why he drove a jeep through the Officers' Club wall to order a double bourbon, Hawkeye admits that he must be insane because he normally drinks martinis. Then Sidney asks about the bus trip back to the 4077th. We learn that the "bottle" that was being passed around was a plasma bottle for a wounded man that Hawkeye was taking care of in the back of the bus.
At the 4077th, again, Klinger is trying to file a missing persons report for Soon Lee's parents when Margaret walks in and demands he send a telegram for her. Her telegram is to Robert "Uncle Bob" Harwell, a friend of the family, and director of Boston Mercy Hospital. At the same time, Colonel Potter enters and wants Klinger to call officials to get rid of the POW's and the tank, which has started to draw enemy gunfire. BJ is painting his motorcycle and annoying Major Winchester. But, even more annoying to the major is the "concert" that his POW's are playing. He mentions that he like Mozart and they surprise him by playing a song by Mozart. Winchester realizes there is some hope here. All of this is interrupted by wounded.
Hawkeye is talking more about his bus trip home. He says they stopped to pick up some refugees and wounded GI's, but they had to continue down the road with no lights and no sounds because an enemy patrol was coming up the road. As "General MacArthur" and "Harry Truman" are fighting, Hawkeye states that he was annoyed by a noisy chicken that was endangering everyone's life.
Back in camp, BJ's discharge orders come in the mail. Colonel Potter wants to check it out, but BJ is too excited about getting home in time for his daughter's second birthday. He asks the camp if it is OK for him to go home and they all cheer him and wish him well, so the colonel lets him go. But this celebration is cut short by enemy artillery drawn by the tank. Father Mulcahy runs out in the open to rescue the POW's and a bomb nearly kills him. BJ checks him out and find out that he has a permanent hearing loss. Father Mulcahy makes BJ promise not to tell anyone about his situation.
BJ wants to tell Hawkeye about his discharge so he goes to visit him with some "still water". Hawkeye only rants about a Charles Boyer movie and that he is locked up and BJ can never bring himself to break the news to Hawkeye. BJ leaves without saying goodbye. Then Sidney talks to Hawkeye once more. Hawkeye reveals that everyone was scared and the chicken was only getting louder. He ordered its owner, a young woman, to keep it quiet and the woman obeyed by smothering it. Then Hawkeye reveals that the chicken was actually a baby that was crying and he curses Sidney for making him remember it. After that, Hawkeye thinks he will be discharged, but Sidney tells him he has to return to the 4077th.
BJ returns to camp to find that Klinger has temporarily solved the tank problem by covering with a tent. Klinger is trying to set up BJ's travel arrangements as the mailman comes. BJ has to catch a flight in Kimpo in forty minutes and the mailman is going to Kimpo next so the doctor hitches a ride. Then Klinger delivers the mail starting with Colonel Potter. One of the letters rescinds BJ's travel orders, but the colonel ignores it. Another letter is a letter for Winchester, who is now trying to conduct his little orchestra, offering him a job as chief of thoracic surgery at Boston Mercy Hospital. The major rejoices until Klinger tells him that the letter was a result of Margaret's telegram. Suddenly the major is furious. Margaret tries to congratulate him, but he chews her out. They mention incidents from several earlier episodes in their argument. Winchester confiscates his poetry book that he loaned to her. Soon Lee asks Klinger to take her to Chor Wan to follow a lead on her parent's whereabouts, but Klinger refuses because that is where the war is. Soon Lee goes anyway and a worried Klinger goes after her.
Hawkeye finally returns to the 4077th to learn of BJ's departure. Hawkeye is depressed that it is Trapper all over again and Colonel Potter is still worried that the replacement surgeon hasn't arrived yet. When artillery starts hitting the camp again, Hawkeye repeats a famous quote from an earlier episode and decides to take matters into his own hands. He gets in the tank and drives it through the newly constructed latrine and into the garbage dump. That evening, Klinger points out the beautiful sunset to the colonel, but the "sunset" is in the east. When the camp realizes it is a forest fire headed straight for the 4077th, they bug out. Finally, a chopper comes in with the new surgeon. It is BJ, who had gotten all the way to Guam before the error was noticed and he was sent back. Klinger finds Soon Lee, who has struck out on her lead to find her family in Chor Wan. He brings her back to the 4077th, then presents her with his wedding dress and asks her to marry him. She accepts, but insists on locating her family first.
The camp, in their new location, has a party with the orphans in the area. The staff brings one of the children to BJ, who is depressed because he missed his daughter's birthday. They celebrate this child's birthday with him. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is feeling uncomfortable around the children and Sidney comes to help him out. The 4077th's POW's, including Winchester's musicians, are being traded for American POW's. Then they learn that a peace treaty has been signed and the war will end in twelve hours. The camp is also sent back to their original location which has been burned to the ground.
In one final session of O. R., the staff talks about what they want first when they get home, Margaret and Winchester continue their argument, and Hawkeye is depressed that BJ didn't and still won't say goodbye to him. There are three hours to the truce and Major Winchester recognizes that one of the wounded is one of his musicians. He was the only one of the POW's that made it back to the 4077th. Winchester destroys his Mozart records. A nurse saves Father Mulcahy's life when his deafness gets him in trouble. A child is brought to Hawkeye's table and Hawkeye thanks Sidney. Then Sidney leaves with a repeat of his quote: "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, take of your pants and slide on the ice." There is artillery fire right up to the last minute and, finally, there is peace, but the medical staff is still in O. R.
Next, there is a celebration in the mess tent where everyone tells their post-war plans. Colonel Potter will retire from the army to be a family doctor. Kellye is assigned to a hospital in Honolulu. Rizzo will breed frogs for a French restaurant. Hawkeye will return to Crabapple Cove where he will serve no anonymous patients. BJ says he'll run off with a nurse in Guam. Igor will farm pigs. Father Mulcahy will be working with the deaf. Winchester announces he has accepted the position as head of thoracic surgery at Boston Mercy Hospital. His music that was once a refuge has become only a reminder of the war. Margaret has been assigned to consolidate the M*A*S*H units and then she plans to retire from the Army. Klinger announces to everyone his marriage to Soon Lee the next day and then he will stay in Korea to help look for her parents.
The next day Father Mulcahy marries Klinger and Soon Lee in a Christian wedding. They leave camp in their "limo", a hay cart. BJ asks for his autograph on a photo of him in a dress. Margaret catches the bouquet. Then the tents come down and everyone takes their sign from the signpost. The nurses leave next for the 8063rd followed by Father Mulcahy in an ambulance for the same place. Margaret and Winchester are supposed to leave together, but she has already filled the jeep so Winchester asks Rizzo for another "mode". He does, however, return the poetry book to her. Rizzo returns with his other mode, a garbage truck. The Colonel plans to ride Sophie to the orphanage where he will leave her and pick up his ride home. He says good-bye and leaves Hawkeye and BJ alone at the camp. BJ takes Hawkeye up to the chopper pad on his motorcycle and tells him that he will see him in the states. But just in case, he left him a note. Then BJ leaves on his motorcycle as the chopper takes off. As Hawkeye looks down over the dismantled camp, he sees BJ's message below -- "GOODBYE" spelled out in stones.
Trivia: What is the name of the surgeon that was supposed to have replaced BJ?
THE KOREAN "POLICE ACTION"
JUNE 25, 1950 to JULY 27, 1953
U. S. troops killed: 71,500* (33,629)
Wounded: 250,000* (103,284)
Captured or missing: 83,263* (5,178)
Total cost to U. S.: $22 billion
Communist dead or wounded: 1,347,000
Korean civilians killed: 400,000
Korean orphans: 100,000
Korean homeless: 3,000,000
* These figures were given in the episode. Official figures are given in parenthesis. See www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/asia/korean-war-fast-facts/
This episode is two and one half hours long with commercials included and is still, to date, the most watched show from a TV series of all time receiving a 77% share. In fact, it was only eclipsed as the most watched TV show ever by some of the more recent Super Bowls. The forest fire was a real unscripted event that destroyed the M*A*S*H set. The writers just built the story into the episode. Since they didn't have time to script the bug out, they used scenes from "Bug Out" (S5). If you listen, in the confusion, you can hear Gary Burghoff's voice barking out orders and see him helping to move a trunk out of a building.
The road signs you can see as Hawkeye comes back into camp with Burma Shave at the end is typical of how that product advertised in the 30's and 40's. The poetry book given back to Margaret was given to her in "Give and Take" (S11). Margaret says her father "knows somebody who can get me assigned to NATO Headquarters in Belgium". NATO Headquarters was in Rocquencourt, France near Paris during the Korean War. It moved to Belgium after the French withdrew from NATO in 1959.
John Shearun had played Sheriff Dowd on the TV show "Bret Maverick". Herb Mitchell played Judge White on "The Practice". Blake Clark played Fred in several episodes of "Remington Steele", Jules Lambermont on "The Drew Carey Show", and Harry on "Home Improvement". He also replaced Jim Varney as the voice of Slinky the Dog the "Toy Story" movie sequels. David Orr, John Otrin and Arthur Song are back for their second appearances on M*A*S*H. For Laurence Soong, Byron Jeong and Jen-Chia Chang, this is their first and only acting credits.
This was a very good ending to a very good series.