I didn't realize until today, that Jackie Cooper the director was THE Jackie Cooper, child actor. Always learning something.

Jackie Cooper was right, as Alda got more power, he destroyed the show with his preachy anvil on the head, episodes.

@danielueblacker9118

20 күн бұрын

was this Jackie Cooper the child actor or a relative?

@frankbolger3969

20 күн бұрын

@@danielueblacker9118it was.

@JWade-bt1rd

17 күн бұрын

The show was worthless after Trapper John left.

@SandyCheeks63564

15 күн бұрын

@@danielueblacker9118 No, not the actor. A quick check on wikipedia all about Jackie Cooper the actor makes no mention at all of Mash

@brucecoleman7412

Күн бұрын

@@SandyCheeks63564You are incorrect. Do a little more research and you’ll find that it WAS the actor who directed 13 episodes in 1973-1974.

IMO, the REAL funny men in the first few seasons were McLean Stephenson and Wayne Rogers.

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

And Larry Linville.

@sandygrungerson1177

20 күн бұрын

@@trhansen3244 yeah linville was a les nessman / richard sanders level of talent

@TheBroccoliFiles

20 күн бұрын

It went downhill from there, especially after Trapper John left. Then it got really smarmy when Hawkeye and Hot Lips were on the same side. It was hilarious when Hot Lips and Burns were always getting punked. 😂

@JWade-bt1rd

17 күн бұрын

The show suffered after they left the show. It got so preachy and self righteous.

@LyleFrancisDelp

17 күн бұрын

@@JWade-bt1rd It became nothing more than Alda's personal politics. UGH.

Best guest star = Edward Winter Col. Flagg.

@johnq.public864

20 күн бұрын

Wholeheartedly agree.

@TerryFlynn-sd1ho

20 күн бұрын

Yea,HE was a Hoot!😅

@ardiffley-zipkin9539

19 күн бұрын

I loved his character as a Secret Agent operative “ When I leave, I am the wind” Then, he breaks his leg jumping out a window or some silly exit.

@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk

16 күн бұрын

Loved Flagg

@reserva120

14 күн бұрын

If it wasn’t for War - you wouldn’t know what peace is ! Col Flagg

I loved Mash until Henry and trapper left.. it seemed to become more serious

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

MASH went from being a comedy with a few serious moments, the contrast usually worked wonderfully, to a serious show with a few moments of bad humor and it worked horribly. I am honestly amazed this show lasted as long as it did.

@seanohare5488

11 күн бұрын

Like all in the family show

Hawkeye was my least favorite character on MASH. McLean Stevenson (Blake) was my favorite.

@Kinann

2 күн бұрын

His Groucho schtick got old after a while.

I read Jackie Cooper's autobiography. I trust his judgement of Alan Alda. Alda saw himself as the lone star & wanted to control the whole vibe on the set. Alda's massive ego for all to see. After seeing the 1970 MASH movie, the TV show pales in comparison.

No mention of Winchester. Loved his character.

Actually the funniest were wayne rogers , mclean Stevenson and larry linville, alan alda talked to much.

Jackie Cooper was always my favorite little rascal, he was sweet on miss Crabtree and I gotta say, I agreed with him on that one.

@effdonahue6595

19 күн бұрын

Ya wittle wascal ya!! 🤓

Love MASH, have all dvd of original movie, all 11 seasons, and finale. Klinger was a pisser but Frank Burns and Charles Winchester were brilliant as straight men. Interracial marriage, homosexuality in the military, MASH were pioneers.

Alda didn't like someone,well there are a lot of people who don't like him either.

The show was on for 11 seasons, about six seasons too long.

Very familiar with this show. Watched every episodes as they came out when I was a kid. Now I have the whole series on DVD. It's still an awesome show.

I stopped watching it when it became the Alan Alda show.

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

I think around season 5 is when I jumped ship. The last funny person left. Larry Linville.

I would have liked to have seen what Jackie Cooper's version of MASH would have been without Alda's input. It might have been better. We'll never know. 🤷😕

I’ve never understood why actors feel their personal politics and opinions “enhance” a story. The job is necessarily the faithful portrayal of a character. Great actors know this, and can make the character tell the story seamlessly. Alda was awful in this regard.

" he stifled the creativity of the actors ".?!?! Just read the lines and don't bump into the furniture.!! ( Hitchcock's advice to actors ! )

I worked on a talk show with Alan Alda when I was first starting. He was a talented, delightful person

I never liked Alan alda much too full of himself.

In some shows you would think the Americans were the bad guys.

The politically correct Alan, once he got more control, couldn't leave in the drinking and womanizing aspects of Hawkeye, which were part of what made him funny.

The longer M.A.S.H. ran the less I liked it. Alda's character became more and more sanctimonious. Uck! 👎

@seanohare5488

11 күн бұрын

True alda never became a movie star unlike Steve McQueen James Garner Clint Eastwood who started their careers in television shows

Alda and Farrel both became insufferable Soap Boxers..... ruined the show.

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

I could not stand Farrel as BJ. And he got even worse as the show went on. I did like Alda in the early seasons, though.

@TheBroccoliFiles

20 күн бұрын

​@@trhansen3244Farrell was a terrible replacement for Rogers. The show just went in a really ridiculous direction with its preachiness.

my mum and dad loved MASH we watched as a family on the repeats on BBC2, i have fond memories. The series finale is the most-watched series finale and single episode of any television series in U.S. history, and for twenty-seven years was the most-watched single broadcast in television history. The Manic Street Preachers did a brilliant cover of the theme song.

I liked the original Movie. I never cared much for the series.

Reaad the book MASH and you will see that Alan Alda was no Hawkeye Pierce.

I still watch that show every night full episodes I love it❤❤

@cindyabbott3599

Күн бұрын

Me too!

MASH didn’t age well on rewatching as an adult. It’s over the top self-righteous.

I’ve never really liked Alda….especially as the show got past the first few seasons. He strikes me as the person who always thinks he’s the smartest and most talented in the room…..arrogant and privileged.

@frankbolger3969

20 күн бұрын

Preferred Mis McGillicuddy, Rosina Lawrence.

@seanohare5488

11 күн бұрын

A bore predictable

Actors are hired to act. Directors are hired to direct. Actors sometimes have exaggerated views of themselves and think they are expert in both departments. They usually aren't.

I really lost interest in MASH when Alda started writing. The show just got way too serious.

@nancydeforest1533

6 күн бұрын

It had a message. You must have missed it

best American series

Alda was a narcissistic person. The show was funny and serious, but Alda wanted to be top banana. As far as I was concerned he and Farrel ruined the show with their “political views”

@frankgerace5997

19 күн бұрын

I agree, 100 percent.

@GodzillasaurusJr

18 күн бұрын

I think all the episodes are still quite watchable, but that certainly made it worse - I'll agree on that.

Being hated by a pompous narcissist like Alda means you are doing something right. Alda killed the show.

Alan Alda, "It's all about me, me, me. Please look at me! I am so pretty! Love me! Want me!"

11:39 in and no mention of the MASSIVE HIT the feature film had been. If not for that the first episode of MASH wouldn't have had near the viewership it had.

I think Alan Alda is highly over rated

@alancrisp1582

21 күн бұрын

🤔🥱 I bet many people say the same thing about you !..

@tonyscott1658

21 күн бұрын

He had his heyday and his heyday was in the transient 1970s but I doubt he has a durable legacy.

@tonyscott1658

21 күн бұрын

@@alancrisp1582 If him, then certainly you as well.

@Duckman558

21 күн бұрын

Not in his mind

@scottrogers2831

20 күн бұрын

Seemed like he thought well of himself.

LOL they should have just re-named the show the Alan Alda Show - I'm not fond of the direction the Hawkeye character traveled (ALAN = ME ME ME)

IMO After season 3 the show went downhill and I have no idea how it stayed so popular after that.

Gary Burghoff as Walter (Radar) O'Reilly was the only actor to be in both the successful Robert Altman MASH movie and the MASH tv series. In the movie, O'Reilly is the most competent and brilliant member of the MASH unit, anticipating when a helicopter with wounded arrives with his psychic sense (that's why he is called Radar O'Reilly!) and does all the work the commanding officer Lt Col. Blake should be doing. As Alda took over the series, O'Reilly gradually became an inept nerd lacking confidence. The 1st year of the MASH tv series with Trapper John was the best as it was the closest to the original movie but when Alan Alda dominated the show with his left wing liberal agenda, the show degraded and became less realistic: the themes of MASH then belonged to the 1970s, not the the 1950s when the Korean war actually happened.

@seanohare5488

11 күн бұрын

Alda played up to the increasing lefty scene in Hollywood in the 1970 s 80 s

@robertsullivan4773

2 күн бұрын

Absolutely the longer it went it mophed into Vietnam. Which because of the long show run it almost had too.

Really odd that this whole video almost never shows pictures of the character/actor it currently discusses! Very peculiar.

It was no good when it became serious.

I think it’s funny. Most of the comment section never watched Mash during its initial run. It was a very popular show only ranking out of the top 10 in the Nielsen ratings in its first season when it ranked 11th. The final episode was an event much like Seinfeld. People organized parties around it many with appropriate costumes. It was, like the movie, an anti war response to Vietnam that most of the population viewed as a colossal mistake by the mid to late 70’s. This critique isn’t about Mash, however, it’s about Alan Alda, who, like his character, had strong political views that are the underlying reason for most of the negative comments here.

@carlosa9422

13 күн бұрын

I couldn't have said it better...Thank You!

@Tawroset

5 күн бұрын

Agreed. I suspect a lot of the "critics" here hated the show MASH and are ardent Trump supporters.

6 months of military service, give me a break, nothing more dangerous the a 2lt with a map and a compass

I didn't realize Alan Alda was actually old enough to have an adult perspective on Korea of his own.

MASH stopped being the least bit funny when it became really preachy-it was always kind of preachy, but they really overdid it when McLean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers left.

Old as I am, there have been two actors that made me sick to my stomach to either look at or to hear speak. Henry Fonda and Alan Alda.

@randilevson9547

20 күн бұрын

Why, please?

@philpacella7849

20 күн бұрын

Alda is a good actor. I don’t know how much trouble he caused on Mash. Maybe a lot. I loved the movie but did not like the tv show. Fonda was a great actor. It has come out what a total AH Fonda was as a husband and father. He was not good at the two most important things in life. However, he could play kindhearted principled characters or horrible villains. In real life Fonda was neither principled nor kindhearted.

The comic books Radar always read were usually Marvel titles that hadn't been created yet until the early 1960s.Just try to find a copy of X-Men in 1951.

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

Are you suggesting Radar was a time traveler?

@scottmcneely1927

20 күн бұрын

@@trhansen3244 Maybe the writers were. LOL

The set ran out of stories to tell. The writers were finished .

@robertsullivan4773

2 күн бұрын

Maybe because in reality the conflict only lasted 2 and a half years. Many of the actors had to age over ten to cover the run of the show. It almost had to run out of ideas.

I’ll believe Jackie Cooper over Alan Alda any day.

It was a spinoff the movie “Catch 22”. I watched MASH but I never really liked it the movie was a classic well worth revisiting.

@jimgutt749

14 күн бұрын

No, it was a spin-off of the movie M*A*S*H... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_(film)

Say what you want about Alda, but his character "Hawkeye" was one of the most iconic in all of American TV history... the writing was nothing less than incredible. I have the same level of admiration for the unique character of Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory. Both well-written and well-delivered.

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

The writing? I would agree the first three seasons featured some wonderful writing. But not much after that. Because the more popular Alda became the more he dominated the show and the more he dominated the show it may as well have been called The Alan Alda Show.

@cliffordbowman6777

20 күн бұрын

Yea and freaks also

never understood the ego of actors. they get paid to act like someone else not themselves.when they start putting their input in they are no longer actors.if your gong to direct go in to directing,if you act follow the directors.

Alan All da.

Didn't they ALL hate radar?

@svaught1

21 күн бұрын

I read once that they all hated the guy who played Radar.

Like many people in Hollywood Alda reach his position through his famous actor father In other words ,nepatism . Why would we be surprised that someone born into hollywood privilege Was acting entitled.

Alan Alda was great as hawkeye infact everyone was so well cast , and harry Morgan was brilliant.

Why all the hate? It's a great show.Alan Alda was one of my favorite actors.

@cadaverdog1424

Күн бұрын

I hate Alda. My mother couldn’t stand him. My four brothers consider him trash, and our cleaning lady calls him the ‘weak link’ in the show. In fact, I don’t know one single person who likes him.

Something that always struck me was the length of the men's hair.

11 seasons on top. Who does that? And who does that without a LOT of story and character development. Not surprising it lost a few viewers along the way. I never got lost. And each character was fun and interesting. Just my opinion

What did Alda do before Mash?

I always thought Alda was a bit strange, and way before the show ended I had to stop watching. I do not like his movie roles. Just an unlikable aura.

I love Alan Alda, but this whole presentation shows only him. You talk about Jackie Cooper, but show only Alda. That being said, I don’t think anyone else could have played Hawkeye.

@marcbahn5487

20 күн бұрын

How about Donald Sutherland?

@trhansen3244

20 күн бұрын

I would have liked to have seen Bob Newhart play Hawkeye.

@nancydeforest1533

20 күн бұрын

@@marcbahn5487 I think Alda is much better than Sutherland

@cherrylsagan63

20 күн бұрын

Except Donald Sutherland.

Like many shows it evolved and matured. Some people make TV for money, some people make it for quality. MASH developed from entertainment to tool against war. It was realistic. When Hooker wrote the books he infused the books with the drama of war but the TV series started off as entertainment but Alda took it to beyond entertainment and that’s what has made it the greatest TV series of all time.

At 88, Alan Alda Finally Admits How Much He Truly Hated Him 1234pm 28.5.24 i used to watch this show, m*a*s*h, avidly... one of the mainstays of my childhood, televisuaklly speaking.... along with the waltons and the fonz..... safe to say, it did get a bit preachy and one was left beliveing alda had fought and won the war singlehandedly as he bemoand the lack of sympathy assigned the red menace up north.

R.I.P. Alan Alda❤

I always found MASH to be depressing with humor from the borscht belt.

I loved the show for a while,but the more and more I watch the reruns,the more I disliked liked Alda,he became my least favorite actor in the show.The others were way better actors I thought.

Alan Alda was WAY over rated.

The narrator can't even pronounce his name correctly.

@Mudly71

9 күн бұрын

Probably a teleprompter. It happens alot more lately like names where a letter is silent the prompter will say it.

The Show went downhill when Col. Potter replaced Henry Blake and Allan Alda used it to promote his personal politics.

If he really cared about the show he would have never had his dad on.

Alan Alda hated himself,interesting..

Stupid video. They talk about Jamie Farr's military service while showing shots of Alan Alda. Guess it really was The Alan Alda Show.

He' one of those actors that are much better playing villains. , like John Travolta. As good guys they are boring and even cringy, but not likable or relatable , but as villains they are entertaining and characters you love to hate.

@blueskysailing

20 күн бұрын

That's an interesting point.

I agree

Everyone has had a person like Alda to deal with in their lives, a one-way, all my-way player, never on a team, all about me type. Sorry he was cast on that show. The movie was better.

I thought him and Radar didn't get along

Who is Jackie

@cadaverdog1424

Күн бұрын

Jackie Aprile.

I didn't watch MASH because Alan alda was the lead in the show

The best show ever.

Couldn’t stand the guy. He tried channeling Bugs Bunny too much.

I've always found Alda, highly self-regarding and he absolutely never shut up!! A terrible bore.

Hazards of the occupation Acting a part in a drama Or comedy isnt real life Situations! Try living normally!

❤

When I run across a rerun of MASH, if it has Henry and Trapper, I very well may watch it. If it doesn't, I tune out. If it is late enough that Radar has been replaced by Klinger then I kick in the screen and leave the house. The writing for Burns was incredibly awful - I felt sorry for Larry Linville. The series just limped along, getting more and more preachy. God knows why it remained popular.

I have heard that Alan was not a nice person...

The entire show but ESPECIALLY ALDA was WAY overrated. It was never a funny show but rather a caustically SARCASTIC show. Very meanspirited. 👎🙄

I never liked MASH. The program was highly over rated.

Alan Alda , one reason I didn't like or watch the show .

Alda❤

M*A*S*H was the best show with the greatest cast,writers, and directors ever on t.v. that show had it all; humor, drama,historic value,medical educational value, M*A*S*H could make you laugh, make you cry, make you feel, make you numb, make you think. I can't imagine any other show ever topping it; I loved it so much that I bought the entire series on dvd when 20th Century Fox finally decided to put it out and I will never get tired of watching it...I wish it had never ended!

@linjicakonikon7666

5 күн бұрын

I'd agree with you but then we'd BOTH be morons 🤪

Who cares about Alan Alda anyhow?

@randilevson9547

20 күн бұрын

Anyone who appreciates great writing and great acting, and humanitarian efforts, intelligence, and witty humour. I have loved Alan Alda since the debut of MASH in 1972.

Mike Farrell was horrible

Alan was terrific as Hawkeye he brought the part alive the best actor on the show such a handsome guy ❤❤

To be honest I never cared for Alan Alda. Alda reminded me of a school yard bully. Alda's my way or high way is what ruined the show. I saw the movie M.A.S.H. and read the book and the first two seasons were pretty close to he original story witch was commendable but when Alda got involved with the writing it just was a different story line altogether, to woke to left wing for the time period of the Korean War.

Alda is one of my all-time favorites.

@cadaverdog1424

Күн бұрын

Terrible actor.

This is a blatant hit job. Pass.

terriffic actors..their private life is their business..i have no interest in gossip.