'50 Percent Normal'

I really wish that they would make "TOMA" available on DVD, or at least show
it on hulu.

I waited a full generation (35 years) to see one of my favorite actors -
Steven Keats - in another show, and I don't want to have to wait
another 35 (until I'm 95!) to see him in this episode.

In "50 Percent Normal," Steven Keats played, very convincingly, a shell-shocked
Vietnam veteran who had become a street person. Toma was trying to help him
(and as I recall, meeting with some resistance.) When Toma finally was able to
get a promise of help for him, he learned - to his dismay - that the veteran
had just killed himself.

How sadly prophetic that was. Steven Keats had served in Vietnam in
the early days, with the Air Force,and was a spotter from a plane. The work
was so harrowing that many of the men with whom he had served
had committed suicide,and he himself was still seeing a psychiatrist
about a decade-and-a-half later.Finally, on May 8, 1994, Steven Keats -
a highly-talented, charismatic actor - joined his company in death.

I sincerely hope that they will package this series soon for the public.
I always watched "TOMA" when it was on, and I'd especially like to rekindle
the memory of the first time I watched "50 Percent Normal" - a powerful,
timely episode with one of the best actors of the 1970s - Steven Keats.