M*A*S*H the Pilot

M*A*S*H, The eponymous pilot episode of the M*A*S*H television series, was originally shown on September 17, 1972 and repeated twice, on April 1 and August 5, 1973. It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Gene Reynolds. Gene Reynolds won a Directors Guild of America Award for the episode. The episode was also nominated for Emmys in Directing and Writing. The pilot was filmed and completed in December 1971. Guest cast is Karen Philipp as L... more

M*A*S*H, The eponymous pilot episode of the M*A*S*H television series, was originally shown on September 17, 1972 and repeated twice, on April 1 and August 5, 1973. It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Gene Reynolds. Gene Reynolds won a Directors Guild of America Award for the episode. The episode was also nominated for Emmys in Directing and Writing. The pilot was filmed and completed in December 1971. Guest cast is Karen Philipp as Lieutenant Dish, Patrick Adiarte as Ho-Jon, G. Wood as General Hammond, Timothy Brown as Spearchucker Jones, Linda Meiklejohn as Lt. Leslie Scorch, Laura Miller as Capt. 'Knocko' McCarthy, George Morgan as Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, Odessa Cleveland as Lt. Ginger Bayliss, John Orchard as Capt. 'Ugly John' Black and Bruno Kirby as Pvt. Lorenzo Boone. The Swamp's Korean houseboy, Ho-Jon, is accepted to attend school at Hawkeye's alma mater. The camp raises money to send Ho-Jon to Maine by raffling a weekend in Tokyo with a nurse, much... less