Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

microlg2 I saw the pilot for W*A*L*T*E*R. Now I know beyond a doubt why they never made it into a series. Here's an interesting tidbit: It was directed by Bill Bixby! I wouldn't be surprised if it did NOT appear on his resume. Even having the asterisks in the title (Radar's real name of course) is dumb.O'Reilly returns to Iowa, sells the farm & livestock and sends his mother to live with his aunt. His new bride leaves him for another man right after their honeymoon. (what!?) He decides to commit suicide, and goes to a drugstore to buy sleeping pills to overdose (+ aspirin b/c sleeping pills give him headaches (broom-che!)). The drugstore clerk, Victoria Jackson!, cheers him up and they become friends. His cousin Wendell gets him a job on the police force in St. Louis. Jocularity ensues.Radar goes back home and they make a show about him AFTER he loses the farm? Blech. You may as well have a show about him after he BUYS the farm! To have a show about Radar anywhere but in Ottumwa Iowa is bogus. Miss this! I seal it: DNW: Do Not Watch!

censorshipsucks06 W*A*L*T*E*R was just plain terrible. They lamely brought back Clete Roberts to do 'follow up' interviews with MASH personal, as he had done in the WILDLY over-rated 2-part episode "The Interview" in MASH. He starts off by saying "Last week we talked with Dr. Hawkeye Pierce...this week, we look in on former Coporal, now rookie law officer, Radar O'Rielly." zzzzzzzzzzzzzzSomehow I doubt that America was really wondering how MASH personal were doing in civilian life - to the extent Clete Roberts keeps following them around asking boring questions. As the episode progresses, we keep running into TVs that have this never-ending interview with Radar continuing to play, apparently in an endless loop. The only thing more dull than the Clete Roberts interview is the rest of this pilot. According to Wikipedia, and another site called www.tvobscurities.com stated..."Since the pilot was never picked up by CBS as a series, it was shown as a "CBS Special Presentation" on July 17, 1984. It was shown once in the Eastern and Central time zones of the United States, but pre-empted on the West Coast by CBS News coverage of the Democratic National Convention. This is the only known broadcast of the pilot."The main problem with this series, as with AFTER MASH, is that the producers try to change supporting characters into lead characters. I can't imagine turning in every week to follow the story of Radar. Or for that matter, my least favorite MASH character - Klinger in AFTER MASH. Even the good Father Mulchahy isn't anywhere near strong enough to carry a show. The only one I can see doing that is Potter, and in AFTER MASH they saddled him with "the worst of MASH" characters, and terrible new characters. Some things are a product of their time, and should be left alone. That's what should have been done with MASH, and Radar. One of the many issues with W*A*L*T*E*R* is that Gary Burghoff was FORTY ONE years old when this was filmed, and he looked every bit of it. Radar should have been about 22 or so. There's only so far that can be pushed. Back in Season 8 of MASH, when they finally showed "GOODBYE RADAR", he was already way too old to be playing that character. To attempt to pick it up again in 1984 was nuts. I'm frankly shocked Burghoff even took part in this mess. Must have needed the money.

BigWhiskers Taking "Radar" out of Walter O'Reilly removes much of the character's charm. On M*A*S*H, Radar was a young man from Iowa, stuck in the middle of a war, trying to keep the 4077th running without losing his mind. Although W*A*L*T*E*R attempted to recast this fish-out-of-water concept by making Walter a rookie cop, there is little to differentiate Walter O'Reilly from any other police officer new to the job. The few remnants of his precognition seem out of place and his relationships in the pilot are generic or silly.What made the Radar character so wonderful on M*A*S*H was his interaction with the rest of the M*A*S*H cast — particularly Colonel Blake and Colonel Potter — and his mix of naivete and cunning. In W*A*L*T*E*R, the character is older and more cynical, and placed in the stale trappings of a by-the-book sitcom. Gary Burghoff did his best, but he had very little to work with.

Ci-ti-zen It's really a pity this show didn't get picked up. I really think it had some potential. I'm a big M*A*S*H fan and Radar was my favorite character in the whole show and I do realize I might be a bit subjective, but for this show really seemed to be able to get some laughs. I don't know why AfterMASH was picked for a while and this wasn't but I really wish it was the other way around. I enjoyed seeing Potter, Mulcahy and Klinger in that one, but it seemed to me they veered in a different direction from the one they ought to have gone towards, so I guess that's one of the reasons people didn't like it too much.