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“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room: Hawkeye as Superman, Klinger in a zoot suit, and a Marine with a pool ball stuck in his mouth

“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room: Hawkeye as Superman, Klinger in a zoot suit, and a Marine with a pool ball stuck in his mouth — historic image
“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room: Hawkeye as Superman, Klinger in a zoot suit, and a Marine with a pool ball stuck in his mouth. Historic image from the Chapter 4 — Halloween Comes to Television collection.

“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room: Hawkeye as Superman, Klinger in a zoot suit, and a Marine with a pool ball stuck in his mouth

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Notes“Trick or Treatment” — M*A*S*H set its one Halloween episode in the operating room: Hawkeye as Superman, Klinger in a zoot suit, and a Marine with a pool ball stuck in his mouth. Source: Still from M*A*S*H, “Trick or Treatment” (episode 242), CBS, first aired 1 November 1982. 20th Century-Fox Television. Reproduced under fair use for scholarly commentary.
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