That was a terrible idea, most likely by some network suits who still wanted to milk MASH's popularity. What an abortion of a show!

BTW, before I saw HM in good stuff I knew him from Dragnet and always thought of him as a no range cardboard actor.

Is that when he came into camp and was crazy as a rat in tin sh1thouse? Drove Hawkeye crazy the whole time?

Crazy and racist.

The first three seasons of MASH were great (although far too liberal for somebody like Donger to appreciate them). After Henry and Trapper left the show started to slide, and when they broke up Frank and Hot Lips and made the show basically Frank v. the World, that was the end. In later seasons it was basically unwatchable. I never saw an episode of After MASH (came out when I was first in the Navy), and I never even heard of it until IMDb.

As such, Potter didn't do much for me, although the character had his moments. MASH reruns still air up here, but I won't watch any of them past season 4.

But anyway, RIP.

Yep, they also tried another show with Radar as the main character. I think it was called W*A*L*T*E*R. It was supposed to be a sitcom but they just ended up showing the pilot as a one-time special.
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Loved the show. Loved Col. Potter. Sad news. Glad he had a good long life.

...and can be seen on Fox News almost every Sat. morning @ 10:30.

In an ironic twist did you know the actors the played Col. Blake died on consective days?

MClean Stevenson (2/15/96)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_Stevenson

Roger Bowen (2/16/96)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bowen

Good trivia.

Here's another irony:

Harry Potter ended in 2011. Harry Morgan aka Colonel Potter expired in 2011.

DEEP, no?!

Scary!

This is still existentially freaking me out.

wow.....ashamed to admit I thought he died several years ago.

In an episode of Happy Days Mr. & Mrs. Cunningham had returned from the movies having watched "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." She was marveling at how Richie looked like the kid in that movie when he was little. I thought that was funny.

I love that kind of stuff.

Back in the 1970s, Barney Miller and Taxi were back to back in the lineup. Near the end of one of the episodes of Barney Miller, a group was watching TV when someone else arrived. Dietrich said, "Sit down and watch. Taxi's on in five minutes." I found that exceedingly clever and mind-bending.

Laverne AND Shirley were on Happy Days. They played dates for Ritchie and Fonzie.