Colonel Potter
Playing the role of Colonel Potter on the show, Harry Morgan loved his character so much that he brought a photo from home to have on Potter’s desk. The photo was of him and his real wife, Eileen, who in the show was depicted as Potter’s wife, Mildred. Morgan was already in the acting business before joining M*A*S*H, having starred in movies like High Noon and Thunder Bay. After a while he turned to television and radio instead of film, joining the show in its third season, replacing McLean Stevenson.
Colonel Potter
A Quick Pilot
Written in just two days by Larry Gelbart, the pilot earned Gilbert $25,000 to write it. But the author of the novel as well as the movie filmmaker were not such fans of the show written up. According to Robert Altman, the show “softened the anti-war and anti-authoritarian spirit of the movie.”
A Quick Pilot