M.A.S.H. - Series 1-11 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

This is the popular TV Series that started in 1972 and finished in 1983, 34 discs and lot's and lot's of laughs along the way.
One of the most successful TV sitcoms produced, covering the worst of America's Wars (sorry, Police action). The Korean war in the 1950's.

The Story.....

The war is raging 3 miles from the M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), and all sorts of problems and catastrophes are going on ...
...run by Colonel (Dr) Henry Blake (series 1 - 3) and then Colonel Sherman T Potter (series 4 -11), both commanders are vastly different, but the comic events that each of the characters portray, are about equal - both trying to run a unit under extreme conditions, whilst keeping the men and women happy, care free and most of all sane......

The two Doctors of the hour, Dr’s Benjamin Franklyn Pearce ‘Hawkeye’ and Dr John Trapper (series ... more

This is the popular TV Series that started in 1972 and finished in 1983, 34 discs and lot's and lot's of laughs along the way.
One of the most successful TV sitcoms produced, covering the worst of America's Wars (sorry, Police action). The Korean war in the 1950's.

The war is raging 3 miles from the M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), and all sorts of problems and catastrophes are going on at the good old 4077th.
The unit is run by Colonel (Dr) Henry Blake (series 1 - 3) and then Colonel Sherman T Potter (series 4 -11), both commanders are vastly different, but the comic events that each of the characters portray, are about equal - both trying to run a unit under extreme conditions, whilst keeping the men and women happy, care free and most of all sane......

The series is full of laughs and jokes and on the early seasons the audience laughter is included with the sound track, but whilst at the same time showing you the strains and stresses of a normal Army mobile hospital, and how each character deals with it. Hawkeye being the example. He goes through bad patches throughout the seasons, which eventually gives him a mental breakdown and being placed in a psychiatric unit at the start of the last episode. (see below)
Corporal Klinger the units only screwball soldier, tries dressing up in women's clothing to get a section 8 (discharge through mental health reasons), but to everyone's surprise in the last series, he stays in Korea, after trying for so many years to get out of the Army and go home.

The final episode ' Goodbye, Farewell And Amen' is about 2 hours long and shows that the most sturdy of them 'Hawkeye' can crack under the strain of the war. The program starts with Hawkeye being in an Army hospital away from the war after an apparent Mental Breakdown, and finishes with gang finally going home after the ceasefire is called. This episode was enjoyed by thousands on the night it was aired and was said to be the most enjoyable episode the cast made.
Throughout the episode you see the changes in the last days of the war, from war hardened, trained medical staff to emotional, caring human beings just wanting to go home and ‘sleep’.

Although the price is high, the series is excellent and a laugh a minute. Hours and hours of good clean comedy and excellent stories set this TV sitcom above the rest.
The box set is original in design and in keeping with the program including an episode guide and bonus discs and of cause the usual sort of extras that usually comes with a box set (deleted scenes, cast interviews etc). 

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