MASH DVD Collection

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Special Features

M*A*S*H: Televisions Serious Sit-Com, Bloopers, My Favorite M*A*S*H, Cast InterviewsLast Day of Filming, Jocularity, PSA’s, Saxophone Promo, Just the FAQs – GameM*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion, Fan Base, Memories of M*A*S*H, Script from never made episode

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Editorial Reviews

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This M*A*S*H-tastic 36-disc collection is one for the television time capsule. It contains all 11 seasons of this multi-Emmy Award-winning series, PLUS Robert Altman’s 1970 iconoclastic anti-war classic, PLUS two discs of special features, including two reunion specials and a series retrospective episode of A&E’s Biography. As with the individual season sets, there are no new episode commentaries, a major disappointment. But M*A*S*H-ophiles will enjoy this set’s other bonus features, including emotional behind-the-scenes footage of the filming of the last half-hour episode, “As Time Goes By,” the inevitable bloopers, interviews with cast members as well as fans about their favorite episodes, a segment about the series’ “Jocularity,” a parade of PSAs (cut down on salt to avoid heart disease), and the text of an unproduced script penned by Alda for an episode titled, “Hawkeye on the Double.” All of this material (except for a commemorative booklet) is available elsewhere in different configurations, but this space-saving (albeit ungainly packaged) box set collects them all under one tent.Adapted for television by legendary comedy writer Larry Gelbart, the series has long since supplanted Altman’s film in the public’s consciousness. Life and death at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War doesn’t seem like ripe fodder for a comedy series, but M*A*S*H masterfully balanced laughter and tears (less so in its later, more preachy seasons). It often does play better without a laugh track (a viewing option for all episodes). During its run, M*A*S*Hsurvived several delicate operations, including the departure of Gelbart after season 4 and the loss of core ensemble members McLean Stevenson as Col. Henry Blake and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John (after season 3), Larry Linville as Frank Burns (after season 5) and Gary Burghoff (a veteran of the original film) as Radar (after season 8). The show thrived with the introduction of some new blood, Henry Morgan as “regular Army” Col. Potter and Mike Farrell as compassionate BJ (season 4) and David Ogden Stiers as elitist Charles Emerson Winchester III (season 6).M*A*S*H was honored with the prestigious Peabody Award “for the depth of its humor and the manner in which comedy is used to lift the spirit and, as well, to offer a profound statement on the nature of war.” This was a sitcom that did not always leave you laughing, as witness the classic season 3 episode “Abyssinia, Henry.” And throughout its run, M*A*S*Hbroke the sitcom mold with several episodes, including “The Interview” (season 4), in which Clete Roberts interviews the staff of the 4077th, “Point of View” (season 7), subjectively seen through the eyes of a wounded soldier and “Life Time” (season 8), which unfolds in re

al time. M*A*S*H boasted one of television’s greatest ensembles, fully embodied characters who each became icons, most notably Alan Alda, who served with distinction as Hawkeye, the series’ soul and conscience. But a special salute to Loretta Switt, whose Margaret Houlihan went from “Hot Lips” to nobody’s pushover. From the “Pilot” to the feature-length finale, “Goodbye, Farewell & Amen,” still the most-watched episode in history, this essential (but not so much if you bought the individual season sets) collection honors one of television’s greatest half-hours. –Donald Liebenson

Product Description

One of television’s longest-running and most beloved shows of all time is now available in one extraordinary DVD collection. Loaded with top-rank extras that every M*A*S*H fan will love, The Ultimate Collection contains all 11 heartwarming and hilarious seasons, including the record-breaking series finale (still the most-watched episode in TV history), plus the original 1970 film, two all-new bonus discs and a retrospective book created exclusively for this release. Relive all your favorite M*A*S*H memories with the doctors and nurses of the 4077th that kept us in stitches-and created a true television classic.

 

 

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One Comment

  1. Comment by Movie Master:
    Thursday, December 15th 2011 at 8:01 pm | 

    Consider buying the separate seasons, December 10, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    The show is definitely 5 stars.
    You should consider buying the separate seasons, as this collection packaging is really the worst I’ve come across so far. I find it hard to understand how they haven’t changed a thing after so many bad reviews.
    I’ve bought the season 2 separate box-set, and then saw this complete collection, which doing the math looked quite attractive. After reading some bad reviews, mainly regarding the packaging, I’ve decided to buy it altogether, and frankly I think it was a mistake.
    1. It dismantled the first time I’ve opened it.
    2. Many of the discs were stuck in the cardboard sleeves, and were badly scratched, some of them hardly playable.
    3. Many of the sleeves tore on the first attempt to release the discs out of them.
    4. The Box is totally unusable, and even if it was, it’s way too big to fit in any standard bookstand.
    Even if buying all the seasons separately is more expensive – you may consider that, because you may very well end up buying the complete collection plus one or more separate seasons in order to replace the ones not playable from that set.

    3.0 out of 5 stars MASH complete series review, November 27, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    It was nice to remember good clean fun and practical jokes. However Season’s 5, 6 and 7 quality needs to be improved. I think they charged way too much; you should be able to play the CDs way more than one or two times before experiencing problems.

    2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Where to purchase Mash, November 20, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    If you love Mash and want to buy the whole set with extras at a very good price, go to Costco! $80.00 dollars and it’s yours while supplies last. You won’t be disappointed.

    5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Gang’s All Here, November 5, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    Reviewing M*A*S*H: The Martinis & Medicine Collection is not an easy task, because this is one gigantic collection of stuff. In a large, sturdy, canvas-covered box of Army green is contained:
    * All eleven seasons of the show, a total of 245 half-hour episodes and 5 one-hour episodes, for a total of 250 episodes
    * The 2 ½ hour-long series finale, “Goodbye, Farewell & Amen”
    * The feature film, “M*A*S*H” which inspired the series
    * Two special features DVDs
    * A softcover “collector’s handbook”
    * A built-in clipboard like Radar’s, stamped “4077″
    As for reviewing the collection itself, well, how the hell do I do that? If you’re reading this, you’re probably a hardcore fan and don’t need me to tell you about it. However, if by chance you’ve never seen it, M*A*S*H was the story of the men and women of the 4077 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War (or “police action” as it was called at the time). It began as a slapstick medical comedy and gradually matured into what might be described as the first television “dramedy.” Episodes that were at first almost totally farsical, mainly involving free-loving nurses and immature, martini-sodden doctors giving the big one to Army bureacracy, gave way to storylines heavy on social commentary and bloody realities of war. The hospital staff coped with loneliness and separation from their families, with extreme heat and cold, with fleas and lice and rats, with enemy shelling, with deluges of wounded that kept them up for days at a time, with gut-wrenching moral choices, with Army bureacracy (more formiddable than the Chinese and the North Koreans combined), with agonizing boredom, and finally, with each other. M*A*S*H was a “situation comedy” in the literal sense – put these characters, men and women, doctors and nurses, drafted soldiers and Army regulars, in a flybown tent-camp in the middle of war zone, take away their freedom, terrrorize them with bombs, torment them with bad food, uncomfortable cots and shortages of everything, and see what happens.
    M*A*S*H was on the air for eleven years and had a number of cast changes, but over the course of the series the star was always Alan Alda, whose character of Hawkeye Pierce combined brilliant surgical technique with the immaturity (sexual and otherwise) of a college sophomore. The other major characters were, at various times, Trapper John (Wayne Rogers), B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), Henry Blake (MacLean Stevenson), Margaret Houlihan (Loreta Swit), Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), Radar O’Reilly, (Gary Burgoff), Frank Burns (Larry Linville), Francis Mulcahey (William Christopher), Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers). It would take another 300 words to explain these characters, but suffice to say that the chemistry that the actors achieved when the show was at its best is something that comes along maybe once every ten years. It’s just that good.
    Now, I want to close by making it very clear that these episodes are UNEDITED. I put this caps for a reason. During its network run, from 1972 – 1983, M*A*S*H episodes were aired in prime time in their full 25 minute length. When they were cycled into re-runs, the networks cut them by 4 minutes to accommodate yet more commercials, which means if you missed their broadcast premiere, you have probably never seen the missing four minutes. As a hardcore fan of this series, I can hardly express the joy I felt when I realized I was seeing the missing pieces, which often include entire-sub plots crudely slashed by ham-fisted editors.

    1.0 out of 5 stars Great Show – Awful Packaging, November 2, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    I bought this collection despite the negative reviews about packaging issues because I am a fan of the show. In hindsight, it was a waste of money and I should have heeded the warnings of others. Most of the discs have scratches right out of the box. While some of the shows can be viewed, many cannot due to the scratches. Whoever designed this nice looking packaging system did not even consider the end-user and the protection of the discs. I would suggest you not purchase this collection and wait for reruns on TV.

    5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing as amazing as MASH, October 29, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    In all the years, nothing for a sitcom was as amazing as MASH…It just hit on all the right things…the personalities, how to tie war with bad and good, how to mix humor with a bad situation….and make it work. It was the most incredible series in years…..Young and old could watch and no matter what, it just was a great TV show that everyone could find connections with. We would NEVER miss it, and it got to be family thing, to watch MASH and laugh and cry. Alan Alda was just fantastic, and his personality lit it off like firecrackers. Main character, perfect choice…and no offense to the others…..Margaret Hotlips, and BJ, and Radar…and Charles, and so many more….They just mixed so well….I watched this entire series and was sad to say, when it was over, I want to watch it all over again. This Box set will do that.

    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 8, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    I was very pleased with how quickly I recieved the item. It was extremely fast and in perfect condition. Thanks so much!

    5.0 out of 5 stars M*A*S*H for a birthday, October 5, 2011
    This review is from:M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    I puchased Martinis and Medicine for my husbands birthday. He had no idea I was buying this for him as he is a great fan of Mash the movie and the TV episodes. On most nights when there isn’t anything to watch on the boring box we enjoy Mash episodes. We never tire of watching MASH.

    I received the collection in fine condition and my husband liked the green Mash box that the discs are enclosed and the way the discs are displayed inside.
    This is a great product and a great price.

    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Regarding damage due to packaging and shipping, September 24, 2011
    This review is from: M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    This is an amazing set and the person for whom I bought it was really impressed and very happy. The packaging is gorgeous, interesting and very compact. I read the reviews of the packaging issues and decided to buy the set anyway, and I’m glad I did.

    If you buy this set please take the advice of the other reviewers: immediately take the discs out of the package and place them in a proper disc binder.

    The discs were scuffed, rubbed, and scratched in several places, like the other reviewers said, but they are not irreparable. It’s a shame that they have to be repaired at all, but we think it was worth it. Buy yourself a bottle of NOVUS PC-20 Plastic Fine Scratch Remover – 8 oz. and use a soft cloth to buff the damage off the discs. We have done this with several of them as we go, and afterwards the discs work perfectly.

    This review is four stars because of the packaging. Amazon shipped it fine and it arrived packaged as carefully as they could – it is the design of the manufacturer’s package itself that causes the issue. But don’t consider this set a stand-alone purchase. Invest a bit more for the polish and the binder and you’ll have a beautiful set, with the MASH package being a nice placeholder. Comment Comment

    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars I have to, September 6, 2011
    By Amazon “Third Smartest Man In The World” (SOUTH ORANGE, NJ, United States) – See all my reviews
    (REAL NAME) M*A*S*H – Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection (DVD)
    I know that I will never watch this whole series again. But I also know that I have to buy this. If we were going to talk about the best shows of all time – we’d be talking about MASH. The Trapper John sit-com years. The later “war-is-hell” period. The finale that actually did the series justice. Characters that started out 2 dimensional and got real-er and real-er season by season.

    Yeah – I’ll pick and choose the episodes I’ll watch again – but I think I need to own the whole thing in one package.