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Kate & Allie

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I was channel surfing last night and came across an old episode of Kate & Allie. Kate & Allie was on the air for five years, 1984 to 1989. I started wondering whatever happened to the characters on this show.

Kate - Susan Saint James. Susan hasn’t been acting much since the cancellation […]

Kid Nation

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I don’t know if any of you have had the chance to watch Kid Nation on CBS, but I did watch a couple episodes and it was quite annoying. Besides the fact that it seemed incredibly staged and that I don’t know a lot of 10 year olds with the vast vocab that some […]

John J. York

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One of my readers wants to know whatever happened to John J. York? She had seen him in a short lived television series about werewolfs back in the late 80s.

John J. York was born December 10, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois. He started acting in 5th grade. He made his way to California […]

Larry Linville

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Larry Linville played the obnoxious Frank Burns in the television series M*A*S*H. Larry was born in Ojai, California on September 29, 1939. As a child he started designing and flying gliders and this became a lifelong hobby. He attended the University of Colorado where he majored in engineering and also performed in […]

Loretta Swit

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Loretta Swit was born November 4, 1937 in Passaic, New Jersey. In 1967, she started touring with Any Wednesday and has been involved with theater throughout her life.

Swit arrived in Hollywood in 1970 and appeared in various television programs including Gunsmoke and Mannix. In 1972, she was offered the role of Major Margaret […]

Harry Morgan

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Harry Morgan took over command of the M*A*S*H unit after McLean Stevenson left playing Colonel Sherman T. Potter. Morgan was born April 10, 1915 in Detroit Michigan as Harry Bratsburg. He was a statewide debating champion in high school. In 1937, he started acting on Broadway using his original name - Harry […]

McLean Stevenson

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McLean Stevenson was most know for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television show M*A*S*H. He was born Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. on November 14, 1927 in Normal, Illinois. He served in the Navy and then attended Northwestern University where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts. […]

Jamie Farr

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Jamie Farr, the dress wearing Corporal Maxwell Klinger, was born Jameel Joseph Farah on July 1, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio to Lebanese-American parents. He started acting at age 11 and continued through high school. After graduating high school he attended the Pasadena Playhouse where is was discovered and cast as the mentally […]

Gary Burghoff

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Gary Burghoff Was born May 24, 1943 in Bristol, Conneticut. Gary started acting (and drumming) in high school in Wisconsin. He would later star in the off-Broadway production of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.

In 1970 is was cast in the movie M*A*S*H as Radar O’Reilly and later played the same role in […]

M*A*S*H

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When I was in college, M*A*S*H was the most watched sitcom. I don’t think anyone was studying when they played the last episode.
M*A*S*H was based on the the 1970 movie of the same name which was based on the novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (pen name […]