TV’S STOIC CAVALRY OFFICER… BUT HIS HEART WAS MADE OF GLASS
Harry Morgan was a professional’s professional. By the time he walked onto the set to take command of the 4077th as Colonel Sherman T. Potter, he had…
WAYNE ROGERS RECALLS THE ABSOLUTE CHAOS OF THE SUCTION PUMP
We were sitting in a sterile TV studio, years after we had hung up the fatigues and finally escaped the mud of Malibu. It was a standard, late-career…
TV’S WISEST PSYCHIATRIST… BUT HIS OWN SOUL REQUIRED A LENS
We all saw him as the calm in the center of the 4077th’s chaotic storm. He was Major Sidney Freedman, the brilliant psychiatrist who seemed to possess a…
WE NEVER TOLD THE WORLD WHAT THAT FINAL GOODBYE REALLY MEANT.
Soft California sunlight filtered through the patio cover. Loretta Swit sipped her tea, her gaze drifting toward the old photo on the garden table. A moment captured in…
TV’S WISEST PSYCHIATRIST… BUT HIS OWN SOUL REQUIRED A LENS
We saw him as the calm in the center of the 4077th’s chaotic storm. He was Major Sidney Freedman, the brilliant psychiatrist who seemed to possess a boundless…
THE TAKE THAT JAMIE FARR AND MIKE FARRELL COULDN’T FINISH.
It was just a casual comment, shared backstage, that made the entire room grow still. Mike Farrell turned to Jamie Farr, the usual crinkles around his eyes seeming…
THE SUCTION PUMP Blooper that completely shattered Alan Alda
I was actually doing a guest spot on a friend’s podcast not too long ago, and the host, out of nowhere, brought up this specific fan question. Someone…
TV’S MOST ARROGANT INTELLECTUAL… BUT HIS REAL PASSION WAS SILENCE
We all saw Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. He was haughty, brilliant, and insufferable. David Ogden Stiers inhabited that role so completely that it is almost impossible to…
THEY WERE LAUGHING BETWEEN TAKES, THEN GARY BURGHOFF SAW THE ANIMALS.
It started like any other reunion, a quiet conversation that gradually filled with laughter and nostalgic echoes. Loretta Swit leaned back, watching Gary Burghoff across the small table,…
KLINGER’S SOUTHERN BELLE GRAND ENTRANCE BECAME AN AIRBORNE DISASTER
The fluorescent lights of the convention hall hummed with a quiet energy as the afternoon session began. I was sitting on a small stage, leaning back in a…