M*A*S*H's Colonel Potter has died

[Guest]

Harry Morgan who played the wily and highly adorable Colonel Potter in the Vietnam TV series M*A*S*H has died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16082078

Now there's series worth a re-run

[handsomefortune]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Morgan:peacedove:

worth a re-run

m*a*s*h'll always be worth a re-run.

[amateur51]

A kindly soul has pointed out to me that M*A*S*H's theatre of operation was the Korean War, not the Vietnam War

Thanks roehre

[handsomefortune]

perhaps an understandable mistake in the circumstances amatuer51, and 'the 6-2-5 upheaval' known as 'yug-i-o dongnan' is news to me too!

Colloquially, it has been referred to in the United States as The Forgotten War or The Unknown War. The issues concerned were much less clear than in previous and subsequent conflicts, such as World War II and the Vietnam War.[ To a significant degree, the war has been "historically overshadowed by World War II and Vietnam"

In South Korea the war is usually referred to as "625" or the 6–2–5 Upheaval (yug-i-o dongnan), reflecting the date of its commencement on 25 June. In North Korea the war is officially referred to as the Fatherland Liberation War (Choguk haebang chǒnjaeng).

vietnam is about as close as guesswork might take viewers typically busy laughing at the brilliant humour provided by the central characters! probably the same characters in a series/film about vietnam would have been more politically sensitive than a 'forgotten' war ...? (not that wars really can be).

[Norfolk Born]

A kindly soul has pointed out to me that M*A*S*H's theatre of operation was the Korean War, not the Vietnam War

Thanks roehre

It may have been set in Korea, but I think it was really about the Vietnam war. I did see a couple of episodes a year or so ago, and have to confess that I found them a bit too sugary and uplifting. Good as it was in its time, I think TV humour has moved on. Rightly or wrongly, quite a lot of it is harder-edged these days. There's very rarely a soft happy ending in 'Rev' or 'Outnumbered', for example.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

always a complete fan of the original movie i never warmed to the tv series which went on forever ...... nonetheless the tv theme tune was favourite of Bill Evans