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[scarfman]

My new morning routine of a M*A*S*H and a Doctor Who has been in force for about three weeks now. I don't always get them in during the morning on workdays but I haven't missed a day. I know it's three weeks because I started M*A*S*H near the beginning of season two (Radar's Report, the first episode I taped on my cassette recorder in 1974) and I've started season three this week. Season three starts with the episode Harry Morgan guest starred as the crazy general, a year before he came on as a regular as Colonel Potter. It was spookier than I expected watching Henry onscreen with General Steele because that meant it was the beginning of Henry's last year. But Netflix only has five seasons so after Henry's gone it'll only be six weeks before I circle around back to him, which is nostalgic because it was during M*A*S*H's sixth season that CBS started airing in late night once a week first season reruns which at the time I'd seen or remembered almost none of. That was when the closeup of Wayne Rogers was cut out of the first three years' main titles, because the late night reruns' lead-in announcer only said, "M*A*S*H, starring Alan Alda." It's never been put back, and I think that's unfair and unaesthetic when the main title closeup of Mike Farrell during his seasons is still there. I wonder if Rogers' appears on the DVD sets. I doubt it.