11x16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - M*A*S*H Episode Guide

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- Episode 11x16

Episode: 11x16
Title: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 9B11
First Aired: Feb. 28, 1983

Season 11 » Episode #16 - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

M*A*S*H - 11x16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

Summary: The final days have finally arrived for the 4077th. In the passing days we find Charles as a conductor for a musical group of Chinese prisoners, B.J. wishing to make it home in time for Erin's birthday and Margaret trying to find a glamorous Army post. But tragedy also befalls some of the group as Hawkeye battles his war memories after an incident aboard a bus, Father Mulcahy loses his hearing from an explosion and Klinger's fiancee can't find her family members. As the camp closes its doors forever, each member tells their plans for the future and say their final goodbyes.

Who appeared in this episode?

Maj. Sidney&hellip

Guest Stars:

Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce	played by Alan Alda
Captain B.J. Hunnicut	played by Mike Farrell
Colonel Sherman T. Potter	played by Harry Morgan
Major Margaret Houlihan	played by Loretta Swit
Major Charles Winchester	played by David Ogden Stiers
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger	played by Jamie Farr
Father Francis Mulcahy	played by William Christopher
Sergeant Luther Rizzo	played by G.W. Bailey
Soon-Lee Klinger	played by Rosalind Chao

Season 11 / Episode 16: - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: I thought when the war was over it'd be the happiest day of my life. But everything's all messed up. Now I'm in love, and I got nothing but trouble.
Col. Potter: Listen, when you're in love, you're always in trouble. There's only two things you can do about it - either stop loving them, or love them a whole lot more.
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: But if you love them a whole lot more, won't that just get you a lot more trouble?
Col. Potter: Yep - then you love them even more.
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: Boy, that sounds tough.
Col. Potter: It's murder.

Season 11 / Episode 16: - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: Colonel - look at that sunset. What a beautiful ending for a beautiful day.
Col. Potter: Yeah, it'd be a nice sunset if it was setting over there.
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: What do you mean?
Col. Potter: Ever since I've been around, the sun's always set in the west.
Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger: Then, what's that?
Col. Potter: I once saw that same kind of glow in the Ardenne forest. The next day, there wasn't any forest left. You'd better get on the phone to ICORPS. If that fire's headed this way, we're headed out.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

MISC: Colonel Potter's horse, Sophie is supposed to be a mare. In the shot of Potter riding "her" away from camp, "she" is definitely a stallion.
CONT: The tank that is erratically driven into camp by the wounded soldier is an M-24 Chaffee light tank, but when Hawkeye drives it back out of camp, it is a Sherman tank.

TRIVIA

At one minute past the end if the airing the final episode, the New York City Sanitation/Public Works Department recorded the single larges use of water simultaneously around the city as several citizens commemorated the end of the series by flushing their toilets.
With 106 million viewers, this overtook "Who Done It?" (AKA "Who Shot JR?") from "Dallas" (1978) to become the highest rated episode of television in American history.
This was not the series' last filmed episode, in fact the episode that preceded it, "As Time Goes By", which aired the previous week, was the last filmed episode.
Footage from the 1976-1977 season premiere episode "Bug Out" is reused in this episode in the scenes in which the 4077th is forced to bug out to another location due to the incendiary bomb fires. Such scenes were not in the original script, but written in after the area where the series' exterior scenes were shot was affected by a Forest Fire during filming.
Alan Alda and Loretta Swit are the only actors to appear in the first episode of MASH, and this episode.

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