Tom Wolper, to Dave Sikula, in part, today (6/25): > > On the other hand it becomes difficult to describe how ambient racism or > misogyny were in that era without available references. Pulling the episode > from MeTV and leaving it in DVD box sets seems appropriate. I don't know if > MASH is available on a subscription streaming service. If so, a warning at > the beginning of the episode should be enough. >
In 2017 a pre-divest Fox announced a deal for the complete series -- among a slew of its library items -- at Hulu. https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/hulu-20th-century-fox-tv-how-i-met-your-mother-glee-bones-mash-1202500027/ (link) Haven't yet found if / how the divestiture impacted that. > > What bothered me more than General Steele in the series was the character > of Spearchucker Jones who was introduced in the book, was in the movie, and > then was in the first few episodes of the TV series. Even though the > character was a neurosurgeon in the book (I don't remember if they gave him > a specialty in the movie or TV series) I knew as far back as when I started > watching in the 70s that the name was offensive. > Wiki noted, "in the episode in which Hawkeye becomes chief surgeon, [Jones'] specialty is indicated as he struggles to do other types of surgery and when he asks Hawkeye for help, he says, 'Anything outside the skull, I'm dead'." B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/50769804-96eb-4583-a954-f85138ce933fo%40googlegroups.com.
