LORETTA SWIT KNEW THAT MASH GOODBYE WASN’T ACTING.
It started, like so many great stories do, with a simple question during a reunion. Someone mentioned a specific scene from the final season. Not the final goodbye…
MIKE FARRELL RECALLS THE ABSURD O.R. MISTAKE THAT STOPPED PRODUCTION
I was sitting in a podcast studio recently, one of those soundproofed rooms with the fancy microphones that pick up every exhale. The host, a real aficionado of…
THE FINAL GOODBYE ON MATHE FINAL GOODBYE ON MASH THAT WAS NEVER IN THE SCRIPT.
It was a quiet afternoon, decades after the final “cut” had echoed through the Malibu hills. A casual reunion panel was unfolding on a small stage, the type…
JAMIE FARR REVEALS THE PRANK THAT LEFT HIM STRANDED IN FRUIT
I remember being on a stage in Chicago for one of those big nostalgia conventions, and the room was absolutely packed. A young fan in the front row,…
HARRY MORGAN TOLD A SECRET THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR THE CAST
Mike Farrell sat in the quiet of a dressing room in 2004, the air smelling of hairspray and television history. Next to him was David Ogden Stiers, adjusting…
THE DAY COLONEL KLINK FINALLY LOST HIS DIGNITY ON THE SET
The studio lights in the podcast booth were dimmed, creating a quiet, intimate atmosphere that felt worlds away from the frantic energy of a 1960s television set. Werner…
THE DAY COLONEL KLINK DRANK HIS OWN EYE
I remember sitting on a small, velvet-covered chair on a stage in New Jersey back in the late nineties. It was one of those nostalgia conventions where the…
SERGEANT SCHULTZ AND THE STUBBORN STUMP OF CULVER CITY
You know, people always ask if I ever got tired of wearing that heavy Luftwaffe overcoat. The truth is, that coat was like a second skin to me…
WERNER KLEMPERER AND THE CASE OF THE VANISHING MONOCLE
It was a chilly evening in North Hollywood, back in the mid-nineties, and the auditorium was packed with people who had grown up watching us every night at…
THE DAY SERGEANT SCHULTZ ACTUALLY SAW TOO MUCH
John Banner sits in a quiet, sun-drenched studio, his presence still filling the room despite the years that have passed since he last wore the grey wool of…