Dear Dad Dear Dad "Dear Dad" was the 12th episode of the first season of the TV series "M*A*S*H". It originally aired on December 17, 1972 and was repeated on May 20, 1973. This was the first episode to use an epistle as part of the narrative, a device that would be used in later episodes. Hawkeye writes home to his father during the Christmas season, relating a number of amusing and personal anecdotes including Radar's effort to mail home a jeep piece-by-piece, the monthly morality lecture, Trapper's local medical philanthropy, and the ongoing non-secret relationship between Frank and Hot Lips. Hawkeye
S. S. Minnow and the castaways ended up marooned back on the very same island they had escaped months before. The "Minnow III" is the plane built by the Professor in the made-for-TV movie "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island," the sequel to "Rescue From Gilligan's Island". It does not have the prefix "S. S.", as it is not a steamboat. The S. S. "Minnow" used in the opening of the second and third season color episodes, previously named the "Bluejacket", now resides at Schooner Cove Marina on the east side of Vancouver Island, in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia. Having put the boat through