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It’s amazing, really, the sustained interest Extensive that this show still commands, decades later.

They had all gathered in one of those vast hotel ballrooms, the kind with the patterned carpets that seemed designed to mask spills.

I was up on stage with several of the other recurring players, the people who were always there, in the background, making the 4077th feel lived-in.

The main cast, like Alan Alda and Loretta Swit, got the big Extensive panels, but the fans who came to our Q&A, they were the die-hards.

A young man in the third row, wearing a perfect Radar O’Reilly cap, raised his hand and asked us a great question.

“Which scene do you remember as being the most difficult to film, not emotionally, but technically, where everything seemed to go wrong?”

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It was Season 8 or 9, late afternoon, and the California sun was hitting the dry hills, baking the set.

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Gene Reynolds was directing, and Alan was up near the cameras, supervising the master shot.

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For this specific shot, I was positioned as an Army driver, tasked with bringing a loaded Jeep into the main compound, stopping sharply, and then hopping out to help unload tents.

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I started the engine, the familiar rattle of the 1942 Willys Jeep filling my headset.

I took a deep breath, focusing on the timing and the exact stopping point.

The director yelled, “Action!” and the Entire 4077th came to life around me.

I accelerated, managing the tricky gearbox, heading toward the main tents as the Extensive list of MAS*H actors moved on their cues.

I was about twenty feet from my stopping point, ready to slam on the brakes.

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As I pushed the brake pedal down with everything I had, I felt a sickening, sharp crack reverberate through the floorboards.

The entire Jeep shuddered, and the left rear wheel didn’t just stop; it completely sheared off, nuts and all.

In the fraction of a second before my brain understood what was happening, the natural inertia took over.

I didn’t stop. I continued forward on three wheels and a jagged brake drum, the left rear side of the vehicle slamming onto the hard-packed dirt, gouging a foot-deep trench into the set.

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The Jeep, dragging its rear drum, skewed sideways, heading directly toward the corner of the O.R. tent where Alan was standing, looking at the main action.

In another split-second decision, instead of abandoning ship, I realized I needed to complete standard Army procedure, or at least my character did.

I fought the steering, managed to bring the lopsided Jeep to a stop, only a few feet from its target, and then—I don’t know why—I completed standard Army procedure: I stood up in the seat and saluted.

I am standing in a Jeep, dragging the ground, on three wheels, with one wheel still wobbling off into the distance, saluting toward Alan.

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Mike Farrell was near him, and he just bent over, pounding his knee, completely losing it.

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