Post by brenth on Mar 16, 2016 11:09:33 GMT -5
A WAR FOR ALL SEASONS
Production: Z-409 (203)
Aired: December 29, 1980 (200)
Writers: Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Guest Stars
Laurie Bates - nurse
Carl Freed - patient
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
"Here's to the new year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one, and may we all be home before she's over."
The personnel are celebrating the New Year, 1951. At Valentine's Day, a Sears catalog is passed around and fought over among the personnel. Margaret orders materials to knit a potholder. Klinger orders a baseball glove. In the spring, Klinger and Colonel Potter discuss the Brooklyn Dodgers' lead in baseball and make a bet on who will be ahead on the fourth of July. Father Mulcahy has started to grow a garden. He hopes to eat corn on the cob later in the year. Margaret's potholder has turned into a scarf. Hawkeye and BJ encounter a soldier with a kidney problem. Now it is summer and Winchester sees Colonel Potter pay off Klinger. Klinger wants to continue the bet, but when the stakes get too high to cover, Winchester steps in to cover the bets. Father Mulcahy is infuriated when Igor creams the corn that he grew. Margaret's scarf turns into a sweater. Later in summer the personnel learn the Dodgers are ahead by thirteen and one half games so Winchester raises his payback ratio on the bets to six to one believing their winning to be a sure thing now. Another patient comes through the hospital with a kidney problem. Hawkeye and BJ decide to make their own kidney machine with parts ordered from the Sears catalog. In autumn Margaret's sweater is turning into a blanket. The staff is listening to the final baseball game of the season, a tie breaker between the Dodgers and the New York Giants. Hawkeye and BJ are testing out their home made kidney machine on a patient as the Dodgers lose the game and "the Giants win the pennant!" The personnel are celebrating the New Year, 1952, with a clip of that Dodger-Giants game.
Trivia: What item did the Sears catalog not have?
Bonus: What two things did Hakweye and BJ get from the Sears Catalog (not related to the kidney machine)?
The story of the Giants coming back 13 games to win the pennant was a real occurrence - and the reason they were forced to use 1951 as the year of this episode. According to the date given in "Welcome to Korea" (S4), Colonel Potter and Winchester, and most likely BJ, were not at the 4077th the entire year of 1951. Packo's cafe is mentioned again. It would seem that the type of fireworks seen would give the 4077th's position away to the enemy. Winchester drops his cap upon hearing the results of the baseball game. Then it is back in his hand on his chest after he faints. Finally, BJ mentions the machine looked like it was "put together by Mr. Wizard". "Mr. Wizard" was a TV series that started in 1951. BJ would not know what Mr. Wizard was seeing that he, according to this episode, was in Korea that entire year.
An OK episode.
Production: Z-409 (203)
Aired: December 29, 1980 (200)
Writers: Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Guest Stars
Laurie Bates - nurse
Carl Freed - patient
Jeff Maxwell - Igor
"Here's to the new year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one, and may we all be home before she's over."
The personnel are celebrating the New Year, 1951. At Valentine's Day, a Sears catalog is passed around and fought over among the personnel. Margaret orders materials to knit a potholder. Klinger orders a baseball glove. In the spring, Klinger and Colonel Potter discuss the Brooklyn Dodgers' lead in baseball and make a bet on who will be ahead on the fourth of July. Father Mulcahy has started to grow a garden. He hopes to eat corn on the cob later in the year. Margaret's potholder has turned into a scarf. Hawkeye and BJ encounter a soldier with a kidney problem. Now it is summer and Winchester sees Colonel Potter pay off Klinger. Klinger wants to continue the bet, but when the stakes get too high to cover, Winchester steps in to cover the bets. Father Mulcahy is infuriated when Igor creams the corn that he grew. Margaret's scarf turns into a sweater. Later in summer the personnel learn the Dodgers are ahead by thirteen and one half games so Winchester raises his payback ratio on the bets to six to one believing their winning to be a sure thing now. Another patient comes through the hospital with a kidney problem. Hawkeye and BJ decide to make their own kidney machine with parts ordered from the Sears catalog. In autumn Margaret's sweater is turning into a blanket. The staff is listening to the final baseball game of the season, a tie breaker between the Dodgers and the New York Giants. Hawkeye and BJ are testing out their home made kidney machine on a patient as the Dodgers lose the game and "the Giants win the pennant!" The personnel are celebrating the New Year, 1952, with a clip of that Dodger-Giants game.
Trivia: What item did the Sears catalog not have?
Bonus: What two things did Hakweye and BJ get from the Sears Catalog (not related to the kidney machine)?
The story of the Giants coming back 13 games to win the pennant was a real occurrence - and the reason they were forced to use 1951 as the year of this episode. According to the date given in "Welcome to Korea" (S4), Colonel Potter and Winchester, and most likely BJ, were not at the 4077th the entire year of 1951. Packo's cafe is mentioned again. It would seem that the type of fireworks seen would give the 4077th's position away to the enemy. Winchester drops his cap upon hearing the results of the baseball game. Then it is back in his hand on his chest after he faints. Finally, BJ mentions the machine looked like it was "put together by Mr. Wizard". "Mr. Wizard" was a TV series that started in 1951. BJ would not know what Mr. Wizard was seeing that he, according to this episode, was in Korea that entire year.
An OK episode.