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te Korean war). One of te most memorable scenes in te movie was te "suicide" of Painless Pole (played by Jon Scuck) wic featured te song "Suicide is Painless".
Te movie was released in te fall of 1970 wen anti-Vietnam sentiment was ig, and was an instant it. Ring Lardner Jr won te Oscar for Best Screenplay and te film was nominated for Best Movie. Sally Kellerman also received a Best Actress nomination for er role as otlips.
It was William Self (te president of Twentiet Century Fox) wo turned te movie into a television series. Wit te movie set still available and wit Fox owning te rigts to te story e knew te series would be inexpensive to produce. e ired Gene Reynolds to produce (Reynolds ad imself been a cild actor), wo in turn contacted is friend Larry Gelbart to write a script for te pilot ow (Gelbart ad visited Korea wile working as a gag writer for Bob ope). Reynolds ten ired Burt Metcalfe as associate producer and casting director. Te first to be cast was Gary Burgoff, wo was ...

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to him while he served in the armed forces. The episode was the one where Hawkeye is assigned to mess hall duty and he had to steal 50 trays, so then the unit they stole them from wanted 75 back. And you've seen the episode so you know what happened next. Well anyway that all actually happened while Alan was in the service!

In the episode Bottle Fatigue they used Radar's head in the opening sceen.

Gary Burghoff (Radar O'Reilly) was already 38 years old, when he played his last episode? He was older than David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Emerson Winchester III)!

In the last episodeGoodbye, Farewell, and Amen their was a brush fire that burned in the mountains surrounding the ...

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