Archie says goodbye to Edith

[Auld Phart]

Missed it the first time around

 

[Godboy]

Missed it the first time around

The old sitcoms were dangerous. Unlike todays sitcoms, people died in them fairly often. RADAR died in MASH, "Valerie" died and the show became "The Hogan family", and Jon Amos died in Good Times,

 

[1srelluc]

The old sitcoms were dangerous. Unlike todays sitcoms, people died in them fairly often. RADAR died in MASH, "Valerie" died and the show became "The Hogan family", and Jon Amos died in Good Times,

Nope, he rotated out.



You might be thinking of the first MASH commander. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake.

But an unexpected twist of one short final scene was tacked onto the end of the episode, in which a choked-up Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) intruded into a busy operating room to deliver the sad news that Col. Blake's homeward-bound plane had been shot down (with no survivors):

 

[luiza]

Warren Mitchell would have been sick watching that .Yucky and ghastly .

His Alf Garnett was a tower of monumental prejudice , bile and anger .
A true monster which he somehow made OK .

 

[Dekster]

The old sitcoms were dangerous. Unlike todays sitcoms, people died in them fairly often. RADAR died in MASH, "Valerie" died and the show became "The Hogan family", and Jon Amos died in Good Times,

Radar didn't die in Mash. Anyway, apparently a lot of people felt that Edith really had died which was why they wrote her off. Saw a clip with the actress talking about that not long ago.

 

[Godboy]

Warren Mitchell would have been sick watching that .Yucky and ghastly .

His Alf Garnett was a tower of monumental prejudice , bile and anger .
A true monster which he somehow made OK .

Yep, i misremembered it.

 

[odanny]

But an unexpected twist of one short final scene was tacked onto the end of the episode, in which a choked-up Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) intruded into a busy operating room to deliver the sad news that Col. Blake's homeward-bound plane had been shot down (with no survivors):

None of the actors in the scene were told beforehand that Henry died in a crash. I'd heard some of the actors were not too happy about it, but it worked on screen.

 

[22lcidw]

None of the actors in the scene were told beforehand that Henry died in a crash. I'd heard some of the actors were not too happy about it, but it worked on screen.

The Trapper character leaving abruptly the same year changed the program into a mid 1970's and later version of what 1950 was.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Wasn't a huge fan of the spin off.