M*A*S*H {MASH}: LIFE TIME (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, the medical personnel of the 4077th must race the clock in order to save the life of a G. I. with a badly lacerated aorta. A ticking clock appears in the corner of the screen throughout the entire program, measuring their efforts in "real time." Hawkeye initially stems the patient's bleeding by using his hand to press the soldier's aorta against the spinal column. While the bleeding ceases, this procedure grants the medical team no more than twenty minutes to complete an arterial graft without risking permanent paralysis. Several obstacles complicate the life-saving operation: shortages of blood and ice; misplaced clamps; and the absence of a suitable aorta to graft. While Hawkeye prepares the patient for the delicate surgery, B.J. waits for a mortally wounded G.I. to die so that his aorta can be used to save the other soldier. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Alan Alda.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 26, 1979 Monday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:23:11
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:28617
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; 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 … Producer
- Jim Mulligan … Producer
- Stanford Tischler … Associate Producer
- Alan Alda … Director, Writer
- Larry Gelbart … Developed by
- Walter D. Dishell … Writer
- 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 … Cast, Cpl. Max Klinger
- William Christopher … Cast, Father Francis Mulcahy
- Kevin Brophy … Cast, Roberts
- Kellye Nakahara … Cast, Nurse Kellye
- J.J. Johnston … Cast, the Helicopter Pilot
- Jeff Maxwell … Cast, Igor
- Joann Thompson … Cast, Jo Ann
- Roy Goldman … Cast, the Corpsman