Radar's Original MASH Exit Was Awful (& Gary Burghoff Insisted It)

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Gary Burghoff as Radar in MASH

Summary MASH's send-off for Walter "Radar" O'Reilly was almost terrible because Gary Burghoff insisted on including one sequence. Early on its run, MASH experienced a cast exodus that could have killed the series. Losing fan-favorites such as Henry Blake and Trapper John McIntyre posed big challenges for the show on how to move forward. Somehow, MASH was able to come out of it even better, bringing in 4077's new leader, Sherm Potter, and surgeon, BJ Hunnicutt.

4 Radar's Original MASH Farewell Episode Featured Gary Burghoff Having A Big Dramatic Moment Burgoff Eventually Realized The Error Of His Ways After it was decided that he would go home, the 4077 planned a fun send-off party for Radar in MASH season 8, episode 5, "Good-Bye Radar: Part 2." Unfortunately, before they could even begin the festivities, choppers of wounded arrive, forcing the camp to suit up and prepare for surgery.

"The next day, in dailies, I look at the screen and it's awful. I mean, it is just terrible. The director was right, I was wrong... I said, 'Please can I do this again?' And he said, 'Yes, you may.'"

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