Frank Burns
I bet if Frank Burns had made an appearance on the show it would have helped the ratings. Does anyone else agree?
The fans wanted Hawkeye most of all. I'll bet they would have begged the ENTIRE cast to appear if they really wanted to save this show. They probably would have even founda way to get McLean in there too. Claim him to be Henry Blake's twin brother, Herman Blake.
Adding new characters and developing them accordingly might have helped. Like in MASH's last two seasons, they really needed to add some new characters to help the sagging storylines.
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"I'm sure you can think of a better name than Herman. It sounds too similar to Henry."
Well that was the idea, but you're right. I could think of a better one.
Randy?
Andy?
Joseph?
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I think under the trivia it said that they were negotiating for some of the cast members to make an appearance, but the show was canceled before anything could be finalized.
And I agree with you about M*A*S*H, or at least the on the last season. Only about half of the episodes, if even that many were good. The rest of them were terrible with Foreign Exchange (?) being the worst.
Enrique Blake. Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it.
shareI think what really would've boosted the ratings would have been a previous cast member, one who left the show. Trapper or Frank were the two that were still alive.
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I don't think Burns would have worked as a character. Burns was a very predictable and contrived character who had already outlived his amusement value when Larry Linville quite reasonably pulled the plug on him by leaving the cast. The only way you could make the guy interesting would be to do some major character development, perhaps give him some actual personality, but then the fanboys would complain it wasn't the Burns they knew.
Winchester was far more interesting than Burns, you actually had a sense this was a real person, with a few redeeming qualities underneath his pompous veneer.
Forget the Wincehester bit. (And don't forget that Kim Il Sung of North Korea killed 700,000 North Koreans). Winchester was a predictable rich guy the likes of whom was seen on many eps of lots of other shows. He did not have that many redeeming scripted qualities either. He was written to do most of what good he did for his family. DOS who played him is you-know-what in real life. Linville was a way more talented actor than DOS but the only way to bring him back to the Mash universe for After Mash was to give some respect to his character because Linville was sick of the Burns-insults to his character and they already had Potter knock Burns (far behind Burns's back in one AM ep) so it was doubtful Linville would have agreed to appear.
shareEnrique is Spanish for Henry.
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