Dear Dad mostly through letters. 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
Rebecca Pike Rebecca Pike Rebecca Pike is a British journalist currently Head of Digital Media at Liberty Global. Previously she worked as Radio and TV business presenter for the BBC. Pike attended Bedales School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Pike started her career at the "Express and Star" in Wolverhampton before moving to the "Daily Telegraph". She joined the BBC as a News Trainee. She then became a business and economics reporter for the BBC. She has worked as a reporter on a number of radio and TV news programmes, including the "Today" programme, Radio 4's