A Televisual Feast

Slow to get moving–and generally slow throughout–but ends wonderfully. It’s sort of a concept episode–during the Army-Navy football game, the 4077th gets shelled and an unexploded bomb ruins everyone’s game day. The episode moves from person to person as they cope with the possibility of the bomb going off. The best part besides Hawkeye and Trapper is Radar, who discovers the threat means he’s a lot more attractive to the nurses.

The episode improves dramatically throughout, so I’m not quite what to say. McLean Stevenson has story credit, but Henry’s scenes are reserved, concentrating mostly on the camp (but giving Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers a wonderful comedic scene at the end).

Though it’s not perfectly sure of itself, another episode showing “M*A*S*H” has definitely learned how to walk.

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