2006-12-30 12:21:26 · 4 answers · asked by Chris 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Radar's (Gary Burghoff) last episode was Season 8, Episode 5 - "Goodbye Radar Part 2" Original Air date: Oct. 15, 1979
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2006-12-30 12:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the first three seasons of M*A*S*H, Gary was in every episode of the season. After season three, doing the series became a strain on Gary's family life, and had his contract changed to only doing 13 episodes per season out of the usual 24 (during these times, the character of Radar was usually on R&R). By season 7, Gary started experiencing burn-out and decided it was time to move on, despite co-star Mike Farrell trying to persuade him to stay on the grounds that his career would not recover. Because of that, the producers originally planned to end season 7 with Radar leaving, but CBS didn't want to do that. Instead they wanted Gary to come back during season 8 to do a special 2-part goodbye show. In that scenario, Radar was given a hardship discharge after his Uncle Ed died so that he could go home and help out on the farm. When the unit is in dire straits because they have no working generators, Radar decides that the 4077th needs him more than his mother does. Pierce and Potter try to convince Radar that he is making a mistake, but it takes Klinger's swindling a generator from supply to convince him that the 4077th will survive without him. As a way of saying that Radar came to Korea as a boy and went home a man, he left his teddy bear behind (as Dr. Sidney Freedman predicted he would in the episode "War of Nerves"), leaving it with Pierce. (The first cast member of M*A*S*H to be hired, Gary Burghoff was the fourth and last to leave, following the departures of McLean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers in 1975, and Larry Linville in 1977.)
In the 1984 television movie W*A*L*T*E*R, Radar moves to St. Louis, Missouri, leaving Ottumwa, Iowa, and the "Radar" nickname behind (now just being known as Walter O'Reilly), and joins the police department. Set in the mid-1950's, his mother had died recently, and he had sold the family farm. In St. Louis, his gentle manner and resourcefulness make him good at dealing with the public. However, the show was never picked up as a regular series.
2006-12-30 20:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by PEACHES 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2006-12-30 20:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one where he has to go home due to a crisis at home.
2006-12-30 20:23:23 · answer #4 · answered by woundbyte 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋