jim mulligan – The Mind Reels

MAS*H (1979/1980) – Yessir, That’s Our Baby, Bottle Fatigue, and Heal Thyself

Alan Alda directs Yessir, That’s Our Baby from a script by Jim Mulligan. First airing on 31 December, 1979 the story brings to light the very real nature of Amerasian babies that American soldiers fathered with Korean women, and then left behind taking no responsibility for them. When one of them ends up in the…

MAS*H (1979) – Dear Uncle Abdul, Captain’s Outrageous, and Stars and Stripes

All Klinger(Jamie Farr) wants to do is write a letter to his Dear Uncle Abdul. Written by John Rappaport and Jim Mulligan this episode first debuted on 3 December, 1979. Each time Klinger settles in to write, he gets pulled into helping one of the officers with one of their eccentricities, Houlihan (Loretta Swit) is…

MAS*H (1979) – Period of Adjustment, Nurse Doctor, and Private Finance

Though gone, Radar casts a long shadow over the 4077th, and it has a profound effect on both B.J. (Mike Farrell) and Klinger (Jamie Farr). Period of Adjustment was written by Jim Mulligan and John Rappaport, and first aired on 22 October, 1979. While the camp comes down on Klinger constantly for not being up…