THAT SCENE MADE US LAUGH… BUT KLINGER AND POTTER WEREN’T LAUGHING.
It started with a question from the audience at a recent cast reunion event. It is always the same questions, asked with total, enduring affection. They always want…
A SERIOUS MEDICAL SCENE… BUT THE CLIPBOARD TOLD A DIFFERENT STORY
Mike Farrell adjusted the heavy headphones over his ears and leaned closer to the microphone. He was sitting in a soundproof studio in Los Angeles, doing a…
THAT SCENE BROKE MILLIONS OF HEARTS… BUT IT TRULY BROKE HIS.
It was supposed to be a standard retrospective interview. Just a few old friends sitting under bright studio lights, looking back at a television phenomenon. Mike Farrell…
THE SECRET DANGER OF THE MESS TENT AND THE FLYING SAUSAGE
Alan Alda was sitting in a sleek, modern podcast studio in New York. It was one of those new setups with heavy padded microphones and neon signs…
I THOUGHT I’D SEEN IT ALL BUT THEN CAME THE GOWN
So, I’m sitting across from this podcast host. Nice kid. Way too young to have watched us in real time. But he’s done his homework. He’s asking about…
TELEVISION’S KINDEST SOUL… BUT HIS REAL DEVOTION WAS AT HOME
The veteran actor, William Christopher, was known to the world as a beacon of comfort. To millions of viewers tuning in every week, his character was the…
HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST ANTAGONIST… BUT HIS REAL LIFE WAS PURE KINDNESS
The studio lights of Stage 9 were notoriously harsh, casting long, sharp shadows across the meticulously constructed dirt and canvas of the 4077th. For years, audiences tuned in…
THE ARMY’S TOUGHEST SERGEANT… BUT A HEART HIDDEN IN SMALL TOWNS
For a generation of television viewers, Harry Morgan was the epitome of no-nonsense authority. As Colonel Sherman T. Potter on MAS*H, he commandingly led a chaotic mobile army…
THE BUMBLING RADAR O’REILLY… BUT IN REAL LIFE HE COMMUNICATED WITH NATURE
In the late 1970s, television audiences knew him as the ultimate company clerk, a naive, soda-pop-chugging kid from Iowa who could hear helicopters before they appeared on the…
HE PLAYED THE COWARDLY SNIDELY VILLAIN… BUT IN SECRET HE CHERISHED EVERY SINGLE FAN LETTER
For years, television audiences tuned in to watch a man they absolutely loved to hate. He played a character defined by arrogance, bureaucratic cruelty, and a distinct lack…