M*A*S*H

Season 3 Episode 5

O.R.

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The OR is filled with more wounded than the unit can handle. Hawkeye does heart massage on a soldier, which saves his life, but he dies four hours later. Sidney Freedman drops in during the deluge, and is dragged into the fray by Hawkeye.
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    Alan Alda

    Alan Alda

    Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

    Gary Burghoff

    Gary Burghoff

    Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (Season 1-8)

    Larry Linville

    Larry Linville

    Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns (Season 1-5)

    Loretta Swit

    Loretta Swit

    Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan

    McLean Stevenson

    McLean Stevenson

    Lt. Colonel Henry Braymore Blake (Season 1-3)

    Wayne Rogers

    Wayne Rogers

    Captain John Francis Xavier "Trapper" McIntyre (Season 1-3)

    Bobby Herbeck

    Bobby Herbeck

    Patient

    Guest Star

    Orlando Dole

    Orlando Dole

    Ethiopean Soldier

    Guest Star

    Jeanne Schuller

    Jeanne Schuller

    Anaesthetist

    Guest Star

    Bobbie Mitchell

    Bobbie Mitchell

    Nurse Able

    Recurring Role

    Leland Sun

    Leland Sun

    Mr. Kwang

    Recurring Role

    Allan Arbus

    Allan Arbus

    Sidney Freedman

    Recurring Role

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    • TRIVIA (3)

      • The date for this episode can be determined because over the camp P.A. there is an announcement about Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ticker tape parade in New York City, which occurred on Apr 20, 1951.

      • When the wire in OR catches fire, Trapper in a gallant effort douses the flame with a syringe. He is reminded that he could have blown them up if there had been alcohol in the syringe. Doesn't any one realize that you never, never put water on an electrical fire? (Water is a conductor of electricity!)

      • When talking about arthritis, Hawkeye says to Col. Blake, "Yeah, you remember, from medical school? 'Arthritis.' Came after 'acne.' Right before 'arrangements for time payments.'" When "arrangements for time payments" would come before "arthritis", alphabetically.

    • QUOTES (14)

      • Hawkeye: (to Col. Blake) Wars don't last forever, Henry. Only war does.

      • (Henry shows Hawkeye a patient that is very bad)
        Henry: Look at this.
        Hawkeye: Oh, God.
        Henry: It's at least eight hours work.
        Hawkeye: His liver's gone.
        Henry: There's a dozen kids outside that can be saved. He'll take two surgeons and who knows how many units of blood. And what's worse, he'll never make it.
        Hawkeye: And meanwhile, we may lose some of the others.
        Henry: Pierce, I have a lot of trouble with this kind of decision.
        Hawkeye: Henry, he should never have been brought in here in the first place.

      • Hawkeye: Sidney, where are you running?
        Trapper: Scrub up.
        Sidney: Are you kidding? I haven't washed my hands since I became a psychiatrist!
        Hawkeye: Only his mind gets dirty.

      • Sidney: Klinger, there's seventeen other guys wearing dresses ahead of you. And some smart stuff.

      • Klinger: Remember me, sir? Corporal Klinger?
        Sidney: Remember you? I had to buy an extra cabinet for your file.

      • PA Announcement: Armed Forces Radio reports that General Mark W. Clark has just been appointed Commander of the UN forces in Korea. General Clark succeeds General Ridgeway, who succeeded General MacArthur. And that's the news, generally speaking. No one's succeeding us, at all.

      • Sidney: as he prepares to leave the OR Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

      • Hawkeye: You didn't get home last night, where were you?
        Trapper: There's ten bucks for anyone who can tell me.
        Nurse: You certainly were feeling no pain at the Club.
        Hawkeye: Why do you say that, just because he tried to eat the cherries out of a slot machine?

      • Radar: We're running out of gowns, towels and three-oh silk. The only thing we've got plenty of is wounded.

      • Sidney: Some patients insist on dying, Hawk. You knew that going in. But you had to be a doctor.
        Hawkeye: I never had any choice, it's all ever I cared about, all I ever wanted to do. Sometimes I think I'd be more useful as a cocktail waitress.
        Sidney: You haven't got the legs for it.

      • Radar: (seeing one of Henry's patients) Whoa.
        Henry: See what happens when you play with guns?

      • Radar: Klinger, get over to the mess tent, all the guys are giving blood.
        Klinger: (imitating Bela Lugosi) Blood! I must give blood...or die!

      • Henry: Klinger, take that dress off at once!
        Hawkeye: Not in front of Trapper, he's a married man.

      • (After Trapper puts the fire out)
        Frank: You could have blown us all up!
        Margaret: How did you know there wasn't alcohol in that basin?
        Trapper: Hey, look, I'm sorry! Maybe you'd like the fire back!

    • NOTES (4)

      • Dr. Freedman would recite this poem:

        Ladies and gentlemen,
        Take my advice...
        Just drop your pants
        And slide on the ice.

        He would recite it again on the series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen."

      • Gene Reynolds won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series.

      • The entire episode takes place in and near the Operating Room. The producers banned the laugh track from OR scenes because they thought it would be awkward and insensitive.

      • This is the first time the laugh track is not heard throughout the entire length of a M*A*S*H episode. Several episodes which would air in Seasons 9-11 would also leave out canned laughter.

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