colonel blake thought he was running. klinger, the one thing that general macarthur may not understand is a flower girl with a five o clock shadow. there was also this constant debate about morality. why are we here, how are we treating these people, how are we treating each other? i hope this guy doesn t mind ignoring orders by living. and then at the end of the third season radar, put a mask on! gary berghof walks in and says henry blake s plane was shot down over the sea of japan. it spun, and there were no survivors. that moment is pure honesty. i have trouble telling that story 40 years later. i just never even think of it as a sitcom. you know, it just was m-a-s-h. m-a-s-h really blew up what a workplace sitcom could be.
wife and a mother. tony, you are the housekeeper, and this is part of the house now, the private chamber may be mine, but the dust is yours. who s the boss? was a huge hit. it was a groundbreaking show in that the woman is the one who is really wearing the pants. good morning, wallace and mcquade. listen to the way she does that sam. that s why they made her the president. so angela is an advertising executive on who s the boss? elyse keaton on family ties is an architect. they have these really professional upscale careers rather than just jobs. those are really powerful fantasies for women in the 80s. as a travel agent, i like to think that i m a little cog in a big machine. a very little cog. in 1986, linda bloodworth thomason went to cbs and she said, i just want to say what all women are really about, opinionated and successful, when given opportunities. linda bloodworth thomason wrote for m-a-s-h, rhoda, and then created an all-female version of the
there was death, there was sorrow. there was really a mixing of genre that was groundbreaking. it was the first dramedy in primetime television. that s gunfire. it s 2:30 in the morning. maybe there s an after hours war around here. m-a-s-h lasted 11 seasons. if we didn t have such a terrific union here, i d put in my two week notice. but i m too weak. february 28, 1983. the war is over, and the show is over. it s the most organically perfect finale. you boys always managed to give me a good laugh right when i needed it most. i was laughing to beat all [bleep]
they re evil. they re the victim. those little brats were terrible to her. that s the way you have to play it. right. yeah, that, you know, i m a good person. it s the world that s against me. i want to ask you a couple of big questions about the sweep of your career. back in the 70s, when you were doing the carol burnett show , and preceded by m a s h and mary tyler moore , and bob newhart. 30 million people used to watch. and now you don t get 30 million people for the oscars or the world series. what do you think has happened to television and the way that we get