With the starters commencing at 4pm, expect a slight change to the usual schedule – a dollop of M*A*S*H to be served in the mess at 20:35, along with some of the usual accompaniments throughout.
16:00 – Pee-wee’s Playhouse S04E03 – Love That Story
16:31 – Dr Katz S01E02 – Pretzelkins
16:53 – Metalocalypse S01E09 – Snakes n’ Barrels
17:10 – Ultraman Episode 27 – The Monster Prince Part 2
17:40 – M Squad S01E16 – The Cover Up
18:03 – F Troop S01E14 – The 86 Proof Spring
18:31 – Mannix S01E16 – License to Kill…Limit Three People
19:22 – Stingray Episode 17 – The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived
20:08 – Portlandia S03E05 – Squiggleman
20:35 – M*A*S*H (1970)
M*A*S*H is a 1970 American dark war comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games…), Tom Skerritt (Poltergeist 3), and Elliott Gould (Move), with Sally Kellerman (returning in two- and four weeks’ time in Rafferty & The Gold Dust Twins and Brewster McCloud respectively), Robert Duvall (unlike THX-1138, he didn’t have to shave his head for M*A*S*H), René Auberjonois (René Auberjonois!), Gary Burghoff (um, M*A*S*H…), Roger Bowen (also in Move with Gould), Michael Murphy (Phase IV. oh, and Brewster McCloud), and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. And featuring John Schuck (Babylon 5’s (best) Draal; yes, BMcC, but look out for him uttering the word “fuck” for the first time in a major Hollywood picture here), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude, Brain Dead (not that one) and, well, guess…), G Wood (also Harold and Maude, and again, guess…), and… listen, it’s got quite a large cast, okay? And a whole load of them were in Altman’s Brewster McCloud too, which was made within months of this.
Although the Korean War is the film’s storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who saw the film in college, said M*A*S*H was “perfect for the times, the cacophony of American culture was brilliantly reproduced onscreen”. A statement that could be equally applied to Brewster McCloud (coming (again) soon!).
22:36 – SGC2C S3E10 Glen Campbell
22:54 – Jan Švankmajer – Posledni trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara (Last Trick) (1964)
23:06 – Duckman S02E06 – The Germ Turns
23:34 – Counterpart S01E06 – Act Like You’ve Been Here Before
00:34 – The Ray Bradbury Theater S03E06 – A Sound Of Thunder
00:58 – Brian & Roger S01E05 – Karaoke
With a smattering of noises throughout, tonight with a fair dose of Canadian collective Crack Cloud later in the stream.