Saturday, 31 May 2025

Goodbye, Farewell And Amen Hotlips

As MASH ended 42 years ago in 1983, the stars of the show are all way into old age by now and it is sad that it has been announced that Loretta Swift who played Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan has died aged 87.
Every now and then we do hear of the death of another of the stars fro the show which is still shown on TV now and i do still catch the occasional episode and wonder just how many of the actors are still alive and found five from the show and to use their more familiar show names, the cook Igor (78), Hawkeye Pierce (89), Radar O'Reilly (82), BJ Hunnicut (86) and Maxwell Kilinger (90).
Bugged out are Lt. Colonel Henry Blake who died in 1996,  Frank Burns who died in 2000, Capt Flagg died in 2001, Col. Sherman T. Potter    died 2011, Mayor Sidney Freedman died 2013, 'Trapper' John McIntyre died 2015, Father Francis Mulcahy died 2016,  Major Charles Emerson Winchester III died 2018, Nurse Kellye died 2020 and now joined by Margaret Houlihan died 2025.    
I always thought that it was strange how i didn't see hardly any of them in anything other than MASH but maybe they were in American shows and i just didn't catch them over here.