Nurse Bigelow could have replaced Margaret

That wouldn't have been a bad scenario.

That would have worked well.

The easy part about a show set during a war is that they had many options which they could have used;

Margaret gets married to Ponobscot and gets pregnant, goes back home.
gets transferred back home/to Germany some other base.
Family troubles at home as per Radar, goes home.
Finds a sugar daddy type General who actually takes care of her. Gets cushy post.

In the end it wouldn't matter too much, I never saw her character as essential to the show and I would have loved to have seen more of the other nurses and especially an actress who can portray strength without yelling all the time.



Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

Those are all terrific ideas.


I think Loretta Swit, or her agent, should have sold it that way in contract negotiations.

They could have written those guest appearances into her contract.

M*A*S*H writers would have had a fresh character to write about, and Swit would have had a safety net if Cagney & Lacey was cancelled.







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I guess I would've welcomed that. I liked Margret but she could be a nag.

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Don't agree. Margaret was the foil for Hawkeye and co first as Frank's partner then as the friendlier but military nurse. I don't think the show would have been as good with another Hawkeye stooge as head nurse and main character

I would have preferred Kellye to replace Margaret as head nurse.