tom reeder – The Mind Reels

MAS*H (1979) – Preventative Medicine, A Night at Rosie’s, and Ain’t Love Grand

Does Hawkeye (Alan Alda) go too far in this episode? It’s a relevant question, and a big one for the show. Preventative Medicine was written by Tom Reeder and first aired on 19 February, 1979. While Klinger (Jamie Farr) delves into ‘voodoo’ as a new way to get his Section 8, talk goes around the…

MAS*H (1978) – Point of View, Dear Comrade, and Out of Gas

Ken Levine and David Isaacs delivered Point of View, which was first broadcast on 20 November, 1978. The episode gives us a unique perspective on the show, it’s all told from the narrative point of a patient who arrives in the 4077th. Private Rich (David Hunt Stafford) takes some shrapnel to his throat during an…