In the fifth season of MASH, an episode arrived that would forever change the way fans viewed Major Margaret Houlihan. The MASH episode ‘The Nurses’ (S5, E6) is an important and rare departure for a series that typically relegated its nursing staff to the background. While the show was often criticized for its generic treatment … Read more
The famous and iconic MASH running nurses: You’ve seen them hundreds of times—a group of nurses running to the helicopter pad during the opening credits of MASH. One of the most popular questions about MASH is who these running women are in this iconic shot. With the revolving door nature of the nurse characters on … Read more
It was quite common for one actor to play multiple roles on MASH. This happened most often with various Asian-American actors, like Richard Lee-Sung and Mako. Actor Stuart Margolin appeared twice, once as a visiting psychiatrist who examined Hawkeye, and again as a plastic surgeon who was a friend of Hawkeye and Trapper. Most famously, … Read more
Chances are, the only Nurse you remember well from MASH, besides Major Margaret Houlihan, the head nurse, is Nurse Kellye. You may remember some names, like Lt. Dish (aka Lt. Maria “Dish” Schneider), Hawkeye’s love interest in the first episode who only appeared once more before being cut. And, you may remember some names, like … Read more