They Cancelled M*A*S*H!
For the last few months, ION television has been showing two episodes of M*A*S*H daily. Effective yesterday, they cancelled it. I was sad to see it; I use an antenna so unlike in a cable world, I probably won't have M*A*S*H on TV for some time.
But the cancellation also got me thinking: do you remember watching the final episode, "Goodbye & Farewell?" I re-watched it five years ago; I didn't remember the content episode at all, but somehow I remembered sitting with my family to see it (I was six!), and how sad my older sister was about it all.
(Worse yet, I'd invested some effort writing a script to archive the M*A*S*H episodes; now that's wasted! The broadcaster was sending a half hour episode of M*A*S*H as about 3.5 gigabytes of data, I found quality didn't suffer significantly if I transcoded & interlaced it down to about 200 megabytes)
But the cancellation also got me thinking: do you remember watching the final episode, "Goodbye & Farewell?" I re-watched it five years ago; I didn't remember the content episode at all, but somehow I remembered sitting with my family to see it (I was six!), and how sad my older sister was about it all.
(Worse yet, I'd invested some effort writing a script to archive the M*A*S*H episodes; now that's wasted! The broadcaster was sending a half hour episode of M*A*S*H as about 3.5 gigabytes of data, I found quality didn't suffer significantly if I transcoded & interlaced it down to about 200 megabytes)