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AfterMASH :: September of '53 (01x01)

Episode Information

Title:

September of '53

Episode #:

01x01

Production Number:

2E01

Original Airdate:

Monday September 26th, 1983

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Episode Crew
Director:	Burt Metcalfe
Writer:	Larry Gelbart

Episode Summary

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In a letter to Klinger (Jamie Farr), Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) describes his return to Missouri and civilian life. His reunion with wife Mildred (Barbara Townsend) is dampened by his boredom with retirement; after and old friend dies while they play cards, Mildred suggests he apply at General Pershing VA Hospital ("General General") in nearby River Bend. Quickly hired as Chief of Staff by the bureaucratic MIke D"Angelo (John Chappell), Potter and Mildred move into the home for the Chief of Staff on the hospital grounds. Before they're settled in however, patient Danny Madden (Arliss Howard) convinced that Potter was sent to take him back to Korea, descends on the home and takes Mildred hostage, threatening suicide.

Meanwhile, while Klinger reads the letter - from his cell in the Toledo county jail - he is taken before the judge as he was arrested in a gambling ring. Explaining his difficulties adjusting to civilian life, as well as his promising marriage to Soon-Lee (Rosalind Chao), he hands the judge his letter, as Potter has offered him a job as his clerk in Missouri.

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