The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. Search Charactour. Sign Up Log In. Recommendations Fans of him also like:. See All Recommendations. Get to Know him in See Details.
Klinger served as a medic and later a company clerk assigned to the th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit during the Korean War. Making no secret of his disdain for the Army , Klinger constantly tried to get a discharge. Outside the occasional outlandish desertion attempt he once attempted to escape by posing as a Korean woman, and trying to glide out on a hang-glider in season 1 , he was unwilling to accept a dishonorable discharge and instead tried to convince his commanding officer to grant him a medical discharge on the basis of mental instability referred to as a " Section 8 " in military jargon.
This often involved continually wearing women's clothes and bizarre behaviour like trying to literally eat a Jeep or wearing heavy clothing during a heat wave. At one time he tried to get a medical discharge by eating his way out in a program he called Food for Freedom Colonel Potter called it Suicide by Salami. In a Season 7 episode called "Major Ego," which first aired on November 6, , Klinger sports a pink beaded wool coat originally worn by Betty Grable. This show centers on a reporter from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes , who arrives to write a feature on Major Charles Winchester, who has performed one of the first successful open-heart surgeries.
But when his heart patient has complications, Winchester refuses to let the story run. Meanwhile, Klinger has been lobbying the reporter to do a photoshoot of him dressed as female stars of the silver screen. In this show, Klinger uses reverse psychology to try to get discharged when an uptight, by-the-book colonel visits the camp on April Fool's Day and threatens to court martial the entire medical staff for insubordination.
Klinger wears his male uniform and pretends to be a spit-and-polish, straight-laced soldier as he escorts the visiting colonel on his inspection. At the end of the episode, Klinger appears in full Cleopatra regalia without acknowledging that he's not in uniform to prove that he has "cracked under pressure. In Farr wore another Ginger Rogers dress, not owned by the museum, that the actress recognized from years before.
Miss Rogers was at the studio filming a Love Boat episode Season 3, Episode 10 , and they ran into each other in the 20th Century Fox canteen while breaking for lunch. According to Farr, she got quite a kick out of it, telling him, "I saw the show where you wore my outfit and, I have to tell ya, it looked a helluva lot better on you than it did on me. The museum also has loads of Toledo Mud Hens paraphernalia, including a jersey, pennant, and hat, that Klinger wore as an ardent fan of his hometown minor league baseball team in the Detroit Tigers system.
Like his character, Jamie Farr also hails from Toledo and is a proud supporter of the Buckeye state. The museum has the other one. The first sitcom to use a dark comedy format, the show addressed national concerns including disagreement over the Vietnam War, a loss of faith in government following the Watergate scandal, and the rise of the women's and minority rights movements.
The central theme of the show was to affirm the worth of the individual within a world battered by arbitrary authority, needless pain, and senseless death.
Skip to main content. Blog Home About Archive. By Lucy Harvey, December 13, The dress labels carry the handwritten names of the actresses who wore the costumes first. Pink beaded wool coat, originally worn by actress Betty Grable. Label inside a gold lame floor length gown worn by Ginger Rogers. Headdress created for actor Jamie Farr as he impersonated Cleopatra.
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