She was sent to Mandyville. IIRC, she wasn't the only one over the years either.
The "Chuck Cunningham" Syndrome
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She was sent to Mandyville. IIRC, she wasn't the only one over the years either.
Chip was always there. Ernie was the friend of Chip, who was adopted after Mike left.
Err....what episode are you referring to? I've seen every episode of the first three season a billion times, and I can assure you there is no Mrs. Hawkeye Pierce mentioned (except when he lies during Ceasefire to get out of post-war commitment)
Trapper gets a letter, specifically from his wife, in the pilot of the show. "Bad news....my wife still loves me."
Methinks you are remembering things wrong here.
From the movie to the show? Sure. But, not within the confines of the show itself.
Yes, see the above posts concerning Painless, Ugly John, Duke, and Spearchucker...
There are a couple of british ones:
Allo Allo - set in occupied France, ran for ten years.
Dad's Army - Home Guard unit in WW2, ran for nine years.
It ain't half hot mum - WW2 again, ran for seven years.
(all of those were by the same writer).
In addition
Heartbeat - A police drama set in the 1960s. This one is a bit odd, when it started, the year was suppose to be 1964 and as every series was broadcast it broadly moved on a year, then when it got to 1969, it stopped there forever! The show has been running for 17 years.
It's in a "Dear Dad" episode, I think. And I don't know if it's the same "Dear Dad" or a different one, but Hawkeye also tells his father to "say hi to Mom," who is later established to have been dead since Hawkeye's very early childhood.
As chardman says, though, M*A*S*H has a lot of those. Henry Blake's wife Lorraine is called "Mildred" in one episode (Mildred, of course, was later the name of Colonel Potter's wife).
Hogan's Heroes is another one: it was on the air for seven years (six seasons), although American involvement in WWII actually lasted less than four years.
You have to remember on early TV that "a year of real time" matching "a season" didn't exist until the late's 70's. So equating that way doesn't follow. Hogan's Heroes just took place during the war. It was never meant to be a "one season=one year" kind of thing.
That was virtually unheard of back then and never really developed as a regular thing until the 1980's and 90's. Even now it's the minority approach in serial television.
As for M*A*S*H, Spearchucker and Ugly John were dropped because there were just too many characters to follow, and it diluted story and character focus. The formula that worked in the Robert Altman "overlap style" of the film didn't transfer to weekly television.
Gelbart and Reynolds just kept developing the show in its first season. They saw what worked and what didn't, and made the changes accordingly until they found a format and cast list they felt worked.
--Ted
That was virtually unheard of back then and never really developed as a regular thing until the 1980's and 90's. Even now it's the minority approach in serial television.
As for M*A*S*H, Spearchucker and Ugly John were dropped because there were just too many characters to follow, and it diluted story and character focus. The formula that worked in the Robert Altman "overlap style" of the film didn't transfer to weekly television.
Gelbart and Reynolds just kept developing the show in its first season. They saw what worked and what didn't, and made the changes accordingly until they found a format and cast list they felt worked.
--Ted
IIRC virtually all those initial episodes originally ended with Hawkeye's letter to Big Benji Pierce (his Dad), which I gather was originally intended as a regular per episode epilogue, (like Mork's weekly reports to Orson). This was quickly dropped as a regular episode closer. Moreover, I don't remember seeing these epilogues ever repeated in syndicated reruns. I'm going to assume that these epilogues were cut both for time and consistency prior to syndication. (Anyone else remember this, or am I having a "senior moment"?)
That said, perhaps the references to Mary Pierce that I remember were in these now deleted epilogues?
That said, perhaps the references to Mary Pierce that I remember were in these now deleted epilogues?
I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Chuck Cunningham came out as gay and it was too much for the sensibilities of his 1950's family and so he was disowned.
There were annual "Dear Dad" episodes, where Hawkeye narrates the episode in a letter to his father, but it wasn't an episodic thing. They later adapted the format for the other characters, as well.
I think you are getting different television series mixed up...
Dinner the following week? The POTSIE Roast!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm here all week!
Dinner the following week? The POTSIE Roast!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm here all week!
Dear God what have I started.
But I guess anythings better than the Fonzdue they had and the next dinner party.
One of the sons in Step by Step (IIRC, the father's) dissapeared mid-way though the show. Not sure if there was an explaination for it.
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