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A War for All Seasons

A War for All Seasons

1980TV Episode⏱️ 25mTV-PG
ComedyDramaWar
8.2
IMDB Rating
632 votes

The year 1951 as seen in retrospect, from Margaret's knitting that never stops growing, to the baseball season that ends in the famous Dodgers-Giants pennant race (and Winchester's gloom). They all hope 1952 will somehow be better.

Director
Burt Metcalfe
Writers
Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Dennis Koenig
Stars
Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan
Release Date
December 29, 1980
Language
English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Alan Alda
Alan Alda
as Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Mike Farrell
Mike Farrell
as Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
as Col. Sherman T. Potter
Loretta Swit
Loretta Swit
as Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
as Maj. Charles Winchester
Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr
as Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher
William Christopher
as Father Francis Mulcahy
Jeff Maxwell
Jeff Maxwell
as Pvt. Igor Straminsky
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Carl Freed
as Patient
Laurie Bates
Laurie Bates
as Nurse

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Stage 9, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
20th Century Fox Television

🏷️ Keywords

new year's eve20th century1950syear 1950military

🎯 Categories

ComedyDramaWar

⭐ Featured Review

A Little Time Capsule
by Hitchcoc2015-04-24
8/10

"The show starts on New Year's Eve. While we need to be careful of the chronology here (since most TV shows tend to ignore time anyway) this is a fun episode with Potter overseeing the party and hoping all will be home in the coming year. We are then treated to a series of events that happen in the forthcoming year. For one, we have the Sears Roebuck catalogue, which is a lifeline to the states. B.J. and Hawkeye seem to have unlimited funds to buy lots of junk. As spring comes around, we watch as the Dodgers build a huge lead in the National League and Winchester becomes enamored, not with..."

💡 Did You Know?

The second episode in which one of the surgeons has a scheme to make money by betting on major league baseball games. In Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1976), Frank Burns listened to the live radio broadcast of games, then when the games were rebroadcast the next day he would bet other 4077th members as to the games' outcome.

📖 Synopsis

The year 1951 as seen in retrospect, from Margaret's knitting that never stops growing, to the baseball season that ends in the famous Dodgers-Giants pennant race (and Winchester's gloom). They all hope 1952 will somehow be better.