ORIGINAL MASH TV SCRIPT - BIRTHDAY GIRLS by KAREN HALL, SEASON 10, EPISODE 11

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[MASH - THE TELEVISION SERIES]. HALL, KAREN. MASH - “The Birthday Girls” Teleplay by Karen Hall
. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1981. Original 33 page complete final shooting script, dated November 23, 1981, for an episode of the award winning television series MASH titled ‘The Birthday Girls’, which aired on January 11, 1982 (Season 10, Episode 11). Printed on yellow paper. Bradbound in printed studio covers. Tiny spot to the front cover, else a fine copy. The script belonged to crew member Richard Glassman who was a unit production manager for the show. The episode was written by Karen Hall, directed by Charles S. Durbin, and starred Alan Alda as Capt. Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce, Mike Farrell as Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt, Harry Morgan as Col. Potter, Loretta Swit as Maj. Margaret ‘Hotlips’ Houlihan, with David Ogden Stiers, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher. In this episode Margaret is trying to make it to Japan to celebrate her birthday while the rest of the group are tending to an injured cow about to give birth. The television series MASH was developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Rober Duvall, and Gary Burghoff and received 5 Oscar nominations. The series ran from 1972 - 1983 and is one of the highest rated shows in U.S. television history, winning numerous Emmys and Golden Globes. Both the film and the series were based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker.