RIP Major Winchester
 

Actor David Ogden Stiers, cancer, 75. "I'm a Winchester!"

http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/03/03/m...rs-dead-at-75/

Damn. Very underrated

I was watching MASH reruns today. Then saw that on Twitter. Great actor.

Is there a place online with a lot of them.

I watched a few for a while in college, but missed it nearly completely when it first aired and never really got into it [though I always suspected I should].

Not a lot of late 70s/early 80s TV I regret missing [Hill Street Blues], but M*A*S*H seems a quality show.

Netflix had them but I dont think they do anymore...TVLand runs reruns as does WGN on a somewhat regular basis. Years ago I bought the DVD series which is nice to have. I always thought that Burns was a better character/foil for Hawkeye and Trapper/Honeycutt, but I did appreciate Winchester.

As a kid, I remember my parents watching the show religiously and enjoyed the show.

As far as I know, that makes four from the show, Linville, Morgan, William Christopher and Stiers as no longer with us...the rest of the cast is still alive, although I could be mistaken.

Really only have to watch to the point where Trapper John dogged out and BJ Honeycutt popped on the scene. Show goes to political and downhill after that.

RIP Mr Stiers.

His voice overs were very under rated, Mash... Played very/ ****ing great.

Ditto
TV land, WGN and AMC runs them. AMC is running them now-Sunday morning, but sometimes they are the cut version. ME TV runs the full version. I have the DVD's. I think they are still on Netflix.

The last episode still holds the record for the most households that saw it. Around 75%.

That will put stand forever because the Tv audience is so fragmented now.

So many more people watched the Big Three networks back then.

Damn. RIP, and thanks for the many years of entertainment.

RIP

MASH was already in the process of jumping the shark by the time he came aboard, but his character did shake things up nicely for the first couple of seasons.

RIP

Most people know he did Cogsworth in Disney’s animated “Beauty and the Beast”, but he also did the opening narration. And the priest in “Hunchback”. He was also good in “Creator” with Peter O’Toole.