Last night, I saw, in my opinion, one of the worst episodes of MASH, which I call "The Concussion Episode." It was when Hawkeye gets into an jeep accident avoiding children in the road and comes inside a Korean family's house to recooperate and have someone call for help. Basically Hawkeye just talks to himself for the next 17 minutes or so.
That episode was strange in that no other cast member was in that episode. Any reason why? Did Alda want to be in an episode by himself? Did the other actors have a week off? But then Alan Alda would have to do probably twice the dialogue that he would do on any other episode. Also, this is one of the few ones where there was no Operating Room scenes.
I think this episode has been one of the most panned. MASH was an ensamble show, and one week of one character just doesn't work well.
The Concussion episode.
