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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MASH
EAN: 0024543079682
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 09, 2003
Running Time: 637 minutes
Sales Rank: 7695
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 1972
Editorial Review:
Description:
As the fifth season opens, the Chinese are getting too close for comfort and the 4077 has been ordered to bug-out. Unfortunately, Hawkeye, B.J. and Margaret are in the middle of critical surgery and have to keep going even as the bombing starts. The rest of the 4077 find themselves in an equally dangerous situation upon discovering that the new location that HQ has chosen for them is actually in occupied territory. Luckily the Chinese are driven back and the 4077 get to bug back to their old location.
But the real bomb, as far as Frank Burns is concerned, is when Margaret returns from a medical conference in Tokyo engaged to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. 'How’d Burns take it?' a concerned Colonel Potter asked. 'Hard,' Hawkeye replied. 'He was clucking like a chicken last night. For nine straight hours.' Potter shook his head. 'He’s heading for a Section Eight.' As expected, Klinger was green with envy.
Amazon.com:
M*A*S*H's fifth tour of duty finds the 4077th operating at peak efficiency. Harry Morgan, as Colonel Sherman Potter, and Mike Farrell as BJ Hunnicutt, pumped new blood into series, and in this, their sophomore year, became integral parts of the ensemble. Gary Burghoff joined the Emmy elite for his role as company clerk Radar O'Reilly. William Christopher was also promoted, finally earning his opening-credit stripes for his role as Father Mulcahy. This season was also pivotal for Loretta Switt's Major Margaret Houlihan. 'The Nurses,' one of Switt's finest half-hours, humanized her rigid, by-the-book character. Margaret's engagement provided the season with its dramatic arc, and set the stage for the departure of Larry Linville's Major Burns, who by this time had wrung all the music he could from his one-note character. In addition to 'The Nurses,' another episode that looms large in the show's legend is the Emmy-winning 'Dear Sigmund,' in which weary and depressed psychiatrist Sidney Friedman sought refuge at the 4077th. This episode further fleshed out BJ, and established him as the camp's practical joker. The episode 'Hanky Panky,' in which a compassionate BJ consoles a nurse whose marriage has fallen apart, ranks as one of his best.
Alan Alda's Hawkeye suffers physical and psychological crises in two of his most effective episodes, 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind,' in which he is temporarily blinded, and 'Hawk's Nightmare,' in which the war haunts his dreams. We also see the first warning signs of sanctimony that would infect the show in later seasons. Tell us, Hawkeye--and he does, in 'The General's Practitioner'--why war is worse than hell. Whereas Hawkeye and Trapper in earlier seasons were partners in crime, Hawkeye and BJ become tireless (and sometimes tiresome) crusaders to right all wrongs in their 'little corner' of the world, as witness their shutdown of a heartless junk dealer in 'Souvenirs.' One cure is 'Movie Tonight,' an ensemble episode in which camp members bond during a much-interrupted screening of My Darling Clementine. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Season 5
I thought was good enough, though not up to the quality of season three, I enjoyed it.
Rating:  - The best season of all
In every season of MASH there are some great unforgettable episodes, but mixed in every now and then you'll find a forgetable one or two. BUT not in season 5. In my opinion this is with out a doubt the best season in the series.
The acting ensemble is as good as it will ever be in the series. Klinger comes up with the best ideas to get out of the army, that almost work, but never seem to. Frank is CRAZY, and you really see it here, Larry Linville is a stinking genius. The duo of ... Read More
Rating: - Perfect Gift
I gave this to my son for graduation and he was thrilled. MASH is his favorite re-run and he loves to see it without the commercials!
Rating: - Season 5
Season 5 was a turning point for MASH when it started to become more of a mixture of comedy and drama otherwise known as " dramaedy ". Making William Christopher a full cast member was a good movie but clearly the biggest move was Loretta Swit's character Margaret marrying someone other than Frank. I really did not the fifth season because I felt sorry for the actor Larry Linville playing Frank and later finding out that it was a nightmare for him as well for they had trailers where the actors would ... Read More
Rating: - Great old tv series
I been watching mash since I was very young. I am glad to have purchased mash for one of my best friends. She loves it very much. Quality is great, delivery was a little long but its ok, I still received it in very good conditions package sense. Overall, service is great.
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