M*A*S*H {MASH}: FOREIGN AFFAIRS (TV)

Summary

One in this series of comedy programs about the men and women of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H) stationed behind the lines during the Korean War. In this episode, Reddish, an American public relations man, attempts to convince Chong-Wha, a wounded North Korean pilot, that he should defect to the west. Reddish arrives at the 4077th believing that Chong-Wha purposely landed his plane in South Korea in order to collect the $100,000 reward and American citizenship offered by the United States Army to any defecting pilot. Unfortunately for Reddish, Chong-Wha would rather go to a P.O.W. camp than to the United States. Reddish, however, refuses to give up and tries desperately to get the pilot to change his mind. Meanwhile, Charles finds himself falling for Martine, a French Red Cross Nurse with a sordid past that would not receive a warm welcolme in Boston. Commercials deleted.

Cataloging of this program was made possible by Alan Alda.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: November 8, 1982 Monday 9:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:24:49
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:28609
• GENRE: Comedy
• SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Defectors; Drama, medical; Korean War - Comedy; United States. Army - Surgeons
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1972-1983
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Burt Metcalfe … Executive Producer
• John Rappaport … Supervising Producer
• Dan Wilcox … Producer
• Thad Mumford … Producer
• Dennis Koenig … Producer
• Stanford Tischler … Associate Producer
• Charles S. Dubin … Director
• David Pollock … Writer
• Elias Davis … Writer
• Larry Gelbart … Developed for television by
• Alan Alda … Production (Misc.), Creative Consultant
• Gene Reynolds … Production (Misc.), Creative Consultant
• Lionel Newman … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Supervisor
• Johnny Mandel … Theme Music by, Theme song "Suicide Is Painless" by
• Alan Alda … Cast, Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce
• Mike Farrell … Cast, Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
• Harry Morgan … Cast, Col. Sherman T. Potter
• Loretta Swit … Cast, Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
• David Ogden Stiers … Cast, Maj. Charles Winchester
• Jamie Farr … Castl, Cpl. Maxwell Klinger
• William Christopher … Cast, Father Francis Mulcahy
• Jeffrey Tambor … Cast, Reddish
• Melinda Mullins … Cast, Martine
• Soon-Teck Oh … Cast, Joon-Sung
• Byron Chung … Cast, Chong-Wha
• Buddy Farmer … Cast, the M.P.
• Patrick Romano … Cast, the French Soldier
• Joann Thompson … Cast, the Nurse
• Dennis Troy … Cast, the Corpsman