who here has seen this pilot for another MASH spin-off? I just watched it on YOU TUBE and I can DEFINETALY see why it failed and CBS didn't pick it up, it wasn't very good.

I've seen it and I didn't think much of it. But I never liked M*A*S*H either.

I've seen it and I didn't think much of it. But I never liked M*A*S*H either.
I'll watch it. You never like the movie or the series?

I'll watch it. You never like the movie or the series?

Never liked the series, never saw the movie.

i saw it on youtube it was not very good and not only that but gary burghoff looked bored

I viewed it some time ago and found it B*O*R*I*N*G.

i saw it on youtube it was not very good and not only that but gary burghoff looked bored

My guess is that Burghoff did the show out of desperation -- it was a few years after leaving the show and he hadn't done very much.

If you take notice, Burghoff only appeared in about half the episodes in his last two seasons, as he would later admit, he was starting to burn out on the character.

In his final episodes at the beginning of season eight, he sounds and looks annoyed in most of his scenes, like he can't wait for his ordeal of playing Radar to be over.

My guess is that Burghoff did the show out of desperation -- it was a few years after leaving the show and he hadn't done very much.

If you take notice, Burghoff only appeared in about half the episodes in his last two seasons, as he would later admit, he was starting to burn out on the character.

In his final episodes at the beginning of season eight, he sounds and looks annoyed in most of his scenes, like he can't wait for his ordeal of playing Radar to be over.
yea, I've noticed that. In the final two-parter "Goodbye Radar" he looks and sounds like he can't wait for the show to be over.

yea, I've noticed that. In the final two-parter "Goodbye Radar" he looks and sounds like he can't wait for the show to be over.

Not only that, but his hair had grown out and he had a mini-fro going there. I guess by the end of his tenure, Burghoff became hard to deal with. I remember reading an article around the time of the final episode airing that alluded to all not being well with Burghoff when he left. I think Burghoff even addressed this at a press conference in early 1983, but I don't remember what he said.

I saw an interview with Larry Linville where he said Burghoff had become difficult to work with.

The P*I*L*O*T* for W*A*L*T*E*R* has a checkered history. Up until the time the pilot was posted on YouTube, the existence of the pilot was a myth, as it never aired on the west coast, having been preempted for a news report about the Bombing of Baghdad and the start of the Gulf War. The pilot only aired on the east coast.

who here has seen this pilot for another MASH spin-off? I just watched it on YOU TUBE and I can DEFINETALY see why it failed and CBS didn't pick it up, it wasn't very good.

Watched five minutes and was already bored.

My guess is that Burghoff did the show out of desperation -- it was a few years after leaving the show and he hadn't done very much.

If you take notice, Burghoff only appeared in about half the episodes in his last two seasons, as he would later admit, he was starting to burn out on the character.

In his final episodes at the beginning of season eight, he sounds and looks annoyed in most of his scenes, like he can't wait for his ordeal of playing Radar to be over.

Radar from started out as a more worldly character, then turned into a more naïve farm boy. There were instances in the first season where he's shown drinking alcohol and smoking cigars, then later on he doesn't touch them.

I saw an interview with Larry Linville where he said Burghoff had become difficult to work with.

Word on the street was that Gary Burghoff likely had a serious personality disorder, which meant his personality could quite frankly, be more than often very crappy. He therefore, treated others like crap and argued with others (especially Alan Alda) constantly. Plus, any time one of his castmates (such as Mike Farrell, who told him point blank that he could dish it out but he couldn't take it) threw it back at him he'd have a tantrum. He also felt like everyone was conspiring against him. Even so, Farrell apparently, tried to persuade Burghoff not to quit the series after the seventh season, to no avail.

Radar from started out as a more worldly character, then turned into a more naïve farm boy. There were instances in the first season where he's shown drinking alcohol and smoking cigars, then later on he doesn't touch them.
that's because after the first season Gary suggested that Radar would be funnier if they did all that.

The P*I*L*O*T* for W*A*L*T*E*R* has a checkered history. Up until the time the pilot was posted on YouTube, the existence of the pilot was a myth, as it never aired on the west coast, having been preempted for a news report about the Bombing of Baghdad and the start of the Gulf War. The pilot only aired on the east coast.

You got it wrong. W*A*L*T*E*R aired in 1984, and Desert Storm happened in 1991.

that's because after the first season Gary suggested that Radar would be funnier if they did all that.

And really, he was right. The cast really didn't need another boozehound and womanizer; they had plenty of those. Radar became the innocent kid that everybody knew, the one you wanted to be protective of.

Burghoff's instincts were right on the money, at least in this case.

You got it wrong. W*A*L*T*E*R aired in 1984, and Desert Storm happened in 1991.
but he's right about it being pre-empted on the west coast.

but he's right about it being pre-empted on the west coast.

I Lived on the East coast and saw it when it aired.

It Was a Thing on TV: Episode 617--W*A*L*T*E*R (https://www.itwasathingontv.com/e/episode-617-walter/)

It's the beginning of an annual tradition on this podcast--Pilot Month. We are giving you 12 pilots over the next 6 weeks. We begin Pilot Month 2026 with yet another spinoff of M*A*S*H, but this one didn't make it. Was it due to going to the well once too often, or was it possibly due to a good percentage of the country not seeing it due to political convention coverage? Maybe it's because the main character left the parent show 5 years earlier.