M*A*S*H - Season Nine (DVD, 3-Disc Collector's Edition) NEW

Product Description The perfect comic relief, the perfect holiday gift! Amazon.com In M*A*S*H's ninth season, tears flow almost as freely as the blood and laughter, affording the decorated ensemble (Alan Alda, Harry Morgan. Loretta Swit, and David Ogden Stiers were all nominated for Emmys) ample dramatic license. Margaret (Swit) cries while reflecting on a patient to whom she became emotionally attached in "Letters." B.J. (Mike Farrell) tears up when Hawkeye (Alda) and company surprise him with a wedding-anniversary home movie of his wife in "Oh, How We Danced." And Winchester (Stiers) reveals that he's "human like the rest of us" in three of his finest half-hours (each was nominated for an Emmy). In "The Life You Save," he becomes obsessed with death after discovering a sniper's bullet grazed his head. In the moving Christmas episode, "Death Takes a Holiday," he struggles to uphold a family tradition of making an anonymous charitable gesture. In "No Laughing Matter," he is reunited with the colonel who exiled him to the 4077th, but will groveling and brass-kissing get him reassigned to Tokyo? In its early years, M*A*S*H primarily prescribed laughter, with measured doses of sensitivity and compassion, to combat the tragedies and absurdities of war. By the ninth season, the good doctors of the 4077th were no longer content to be cut-ups, and this television institution began to overdose on self-righteousness. In the episode "Depressing News," Hawkeye builds a "monument" out of 500,000 tongue depressors mistakenly delivered to the camp. "We wouldn't have this supply if they didn't think there'd be a demand," he laments. "My God, hasn't this elimination tournament gone on long enough?" When, after much fanfare, he destroys his creation for the benefit of a confused Stars and Stripes reporter, he spells it out: "Senseless destruction; get the picture?" While there are no groundbreaking episodes on the order of "Point of View" (from season 7), season 9 finds cast and crew working at peak efficiency. --Donald Liebenson

Relive your favorite "M*A*S*H" moments with this three disc DVD Collector's Edition containing all 20 classic Season Nine episodes! Korea, 1950, They were the 4077 "MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. After months of living a stone's throw away from the daily bombings and dealing with the resulting nonstop casualties, the dos and nurses still managed to live up to their motto of delivering the "Best Care Anywhere." The only things that kept the continued stress of war from turning these docs into casualties themselves, were their own surgically sharp wits, love of laughter, and the knowledge that they were often the only hope for the incoming wounded. Episodes include: Disc 1: "The Best Of Enemies," "Letters," "Cementing Relationships," "Father's Day," "Death Takes A Holiday," "A War For All Seasons" and "Your Retention, Please" Disc 2: "Tell It To The Marines," "Taking The Fifth," "Operation Friendship," "No Sweat," "Depressing News" "Now Laughing Matter," "Oh, How We Danced" Disc 3: "The Red/White Blues," "Bless You Hawkeye," "Blood Brothers," "The Foresight Saga" and "The Life You Save". Includes Fan Favorites: "Death Takes A Holiday" and "The Life You Save.", Featurette, Dual Layer, NTSC.