3x06 Springtime - M*A*S*H Episode Guide

MAS*H

- Episode 03x06

Episode: 03x06
Title: Springtime
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: B303
First Aired: Oct. 15, 1974

Season 3 » Episode #06 - Springtime

Summary: Klinger's long-time galpal back in Toledo accepts his marriage proposal so he gets Father Mulcahy to perform a marriage ceremony over short wave radio. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is hounded by a too grateful patient.

Who appeared in this episode?

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Guest Stars:

Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce	played by Alan Alda
Captain John McIntyre	played by Wayne Rogers
Lt. Colonel Henry Blake	played by McLean Stevenson
Major Margaret Houlihan	played by Loretta Swit
Major Franklin Marion Burns	played by Larry Linville
Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly	played by Gary Burghoff
Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson	played by Alex Karras
Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger	played by Jamie Farr
Father Francis Mulcahy	played by William Christopher

	Season 3 / Episode 6: - Springtime Lt. Col. Henry Blake: I'm a doctor trying to marry a soldier in the middle of a war. Operator: That's sick.
	Season 3 / Episode 6: - Springtime Cpl./Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger: My girl Laverne, she said yes! She agreed to marry me! Lt. Col. Henry Blake: Klinger, has she ever seen you? Cpl./Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger: We've been dating since high school. Of course she's seen me. Lt. Col. Henry Blake: I mean recently.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

DATE: When Radar mentions the movie that is playing in camp that week, he mentions that it is a Godzilla movie. However, since this supposedly takes place in 1952 it couldn't be due to the fact that Godzilla did not debut until two years later in 1954.

TRIVIA

It was in this episode where Klinger married his girlfriend Laverne via a shortwave radio.
The movie showing in camp in this episode was "First Born of Godzilla", an apparently fictional production.
Radar is reading "A Channel Passage" by Rupert Brooke to Lt Louise Simmons when she attacks him. The line just before the attack is "...Retchings twist and tie me, Old meat, good meals, brown gobbets, up I throw."
Alex Karras guest stars in this episode as Marine Lyle Wesson, who shows his appreciation for Hawkeye's saving his life by doing various over-the-top favors, one of which was picking up Major Burns and swinging him around Col. Blake's office after Burns mouthed off to Hawkeye one too many times. After this incident, Hawkeye chastises Wesson, to which Wesson replies, "Lyle bad. Do bad things." This references the part he played in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974), which opened in theaters the same year this episode aired.
Both the women on the short wave radio (Laverne and the "cornbread lady") were played by Mary Kay Place.