What's the Difference between MASH the Movie and M*A*S*H the TV Show?
| In the Movie |
In the TV Show |
Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce
Portrayed by: Donald Sutherland
|
Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce
Portrayed by: Alan Alda
|
Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan
Portrayed by: Sally Kellerman
|
Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Portrayed by: Loretta Swit
|
Duke Forrest
|
This Character does not appear.
|
This Character does not appear.
|
Max Klinger
|
The Painless Pole
|
This Character does not appear.
|
| In the Movie |
In the TV Show |
|
Hawkeye Pierce is a married man who enjoys fooling around with nurses. His hair is blond. |
Pierce is not married. He has brown hair. He is the Chief Surgeon with a specialty in thoracic surgery. |
|
McIntyre is the Chief Surgeon with a specialty in thoracic surgery. He is single and has brown hair. |
He has blond hair, is married and fools around with the nurses.
|
|
A hidden microphone in Hot Lips' tent is used to hear her having sex with Burns. |
They are heard making baby type love talk to each other. |
|
Ho-Jon is drafted and Hawkeye gives him stimulants so he will fail the medical. |
Hawkeye gets Ho-Jon into his old college so he can avoid fighting.
|
|
Duke Forrest from Georgia and John MacIntyre from New England are two different surgeons who are Hawkeye's friends in the Swamp. |
John MacIntyre is from the South and takes on the characteristics of Forrest as well; he is Hawkeye's only friend in the Swamp. |