Watched the pilot episode on You Tube. It was beyond awful. Poor Gary. He looked absolutely miserable in every scene. Thankfully it didn't sell.
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Yeah it was pretty much a hot mess. I think only half of the country saw it because there was a presidential debate going on or something.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. They just HAD to drag poor Clete Roberts out of the rest home to do another 'interview' show. And did you like how they just HAD to namedrop Hawkeye Pierce there? Oh, and don't forget the subplot of Radar carrying a photo of Hawkeye, Hot Lips and Henry in his wallet. I guess they figured people wouldn't know this was a M*A*S*H spin-off otherwise.
Radar as a cop had SO much pontential, but they wasted it on a boring story with boring characters. Plus, they had to make Radar an alcoholic suicidal depressant? Wow, that was nice of them.
I seriously like the idea of Radar joining the police force and think it deserves more attention.
Poor Gary. He looked absolutely miserable in every scene.
Gary was another M*A*S*H alumni who got a raw deal in the wake of the series and deserved better. I add McLean, Larry, and Wayne to that list as well.
Enlighten me please with a link as to how he got a raw deal after MASH ended (I ask kindly.) As I understood it he was able to spend time with his family, did some art and plays. I've never read where he was particularly suffering but then I might have missed it and I haven't found anything by googling.
shareEnlighten me please with a link as to how he got a raw deal after MASH ended (I ask kindly.)
I don't know if he got a raw deal as such. Like many actors, people tend to like the character they play rather than the actor themselves. Sometimes, they only like the character in a certain situation. MASH is a perfect example of that, like Radar as a clerk in the Korean War, no like Radar as a cop in peace time America.
Same goes with McLean Stevenson who thought he was going to be a star and so left MASH to discover that people loved Henry Blake, not Mclean Stevenson. Something he said himself.
That's one reason why a lot of actors go on to be directors and producers etc as they know they have to expand their horizons when their show finishes.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
Same goes with McLean Stevenson who thought he was going to be a star and so left MASH to discover that people loved Henry Blake, not Mclean Stevenson. Something he said himself.
They just HAD to drag poor Clete Roberts out of the rest home to do another 'interview' show.
They really didn't need to include Clete doing a catch-up interview show, following members of the 4077th MASH now home from war. It's all a little needless, isn't it? Following members of a specific unit? It could have easily just started off with Walter in his new life in a new town and gone from there. Why did spin-offs of M*A*S*H feel the need to have emphasize the fact that they were spin-offs of M*A*S*H so much?? The Jeffersons didn't need to keep reminded everybody that it was a spin-off of All in the Family, because it didn't need to. They could stand on their own.
Making Radar a cop was a bad move in itself. The original Radar maybe, but the soft naive juvenile he became, no way. The criminals would have eaten him alive.
I think they destroyed the possibility of expanding on the character when they infantalized him. If anything they could have had him trying to run the farm, starting up some kind of business selling his crops and produce. Less depressing too and lots of opportunities to have him move around and meet new people.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
Making a Radar a cop was a bad move in itself.
Well to be fair, this show had Radar doing very little police work. The whole thing was just him trying to find the wallet he lost.
I thought the pilot had a certain charm to it.
My problem with it, was that Radar was still something of a childish dumbass. Coming back from war, his character should have been somewhat in the mold of Andy Griffith.
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I don't think it was that bad. It was just a pilot. Pilot episodes usually aren't very good.
shareShould they have continued the plot from the episode "The Foresight Saga"? Radar's farm failing and the Korean farm hand that the 4077th sponsered and sent to the US to help out?
shareBeing a cop didn't fit his personality.
Why wasn't he a clerk in the police station?
I guess living/working on the farm would have been too boring.
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My guess is he thought joining the force would toughen him up.
shareHe loved animals so much he should have become an animal rehab person working in some wildlife rescue sanctuary or the like... Definitely NOT a cop!!
shareI think Radar joined the cops to toughen up. Become a man's man. I can see it working, at least having a comedy about Radar being a cop. He just needed a straight-arrow partner.
I don't know... Radar as a cop would be a bigger pushover than Enos on The Dukes of Hazzard. Then again, he was very organized and dependable, so maybe not a streetcop but a desk sergeant instead would have suited him better.
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