"Yankee Doodle Doctor" is an episode from the television series M*A*S*H. It was the sixth episode broadcast and aired on October 22, 1972, and it was rerun April 8, 1973. It was written by Laurence Marks and directed by Hy Averback.

Guest cast is Ed Flanders as Lt. Bricker, Bert Kramer as Sgt. Martin, Tom Sparks as Corpsman, Marcia Strassman as Nurse Margie Cutler and Herb Voland as Brig. Gen. Crandell Clayton.

Overview Edit

Lieutenant Bricker (Ed Flanders) arrives at the 4077th to film a documentary about M*A*S*H units, on the recommendation of General Clayton (Herb Voland). However, when Trapper and Hawkeye find out it is little more than propaganda, they wreck it and make their own version. After replacing most of the film with absurd images taken from around the camp, Hawkeye appears in the recovery room, explaining that no war is glamorous. The general orders all copies of the film burned, except one. He says that they need something to laugh at when the war ends.

Themes and receptionEdit

This is one of the first episodes of M*A*S*H to deal strongly with anti-war themes.^[1] In April 1973, this episode was cited by Newsweek as an example of "irony at its most abrasive".^[2]

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Wittebols, p. 34
2. ↑ Wittebols, p. 37

External linksEdit

• "Yankee Doodle Doctor" at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)