Dear Dad...Again Dear Dad...Again "Dear Dad...Again" was episode No.18 of the first season of the TV series "M*A*S*H". It originally aired on February 4, 1973. Hawkeye writes to his father again about several crazy events that take place at the 4077th, including his bet with Trapper John that he could walk into the mess tent naked and nobody would notice (he loses), the arrival of Captain Adam Casey (portrayed by Alex Henteloff), a Demara-esque fraud masquerading as a doctor, Frank becoming drunk, and Margaret's attempt to sing "My Blue Heaven" at the camp "No-Talent Show". Hawkeye's line, "I have always relied upon
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