One of the best sitcoms not just of its time, but of all time, it also feels a little like under-selling M*A*S*H to call it merely a sitcom. Running for more than a decade and over 250 episodes, it was an adaptation of the 1970 movie of the same name, which was based on a novel from 1968, and though it started out being mostly comedic, it became more dramatic as it went along, a move that was for the best.
But elsewhere, season 1 of M*A*S*H can be kind of rough. Some actors took a little while to settle into their characters, some minor characters are introduced and vanish after season 1’s over, and the humor is a little more crass than it generally is in later seasons. M*A*S*H’s first season is somewhere between the rougher and more cynical M*A*S*H movie and the more endearing later seasons of the show, with this no man’s land making season 1 a touch shaky at times.
It's mostly decent, without too many episodes that can be considered bad, but not too much by way of all-timers. That is, except for the fifth episode, “Death Takes a Holiday,” which ranks among the top 10 M*A*S*H episodes according to IMDb, and is a memorably somber half-hour. But beyond consistency and the admirable way characters introduced in season 4 – namely, B.J. Hunnicut and Sherman T. Potter – continue to gel with prior cast members, season 5 does have a couple of highlights worth… well, highlighting. These include the introspective eighth episode of the season, "Dear Sigmund," as well as the more light-hearted 21st episode, “Movie Tonight.”
As far as particularly great episodes go, the two-parter that is "Good Bye, Radar” hits hard, "Life Time" experiments by having an episode play out in real-time and really makes it work, and "April Fools," the hilarious season finale, is also great.
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