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I agreed with her, and even found some that she didn't, but also said that it must be hard to create a perfect book about the perfect TV show. You're right though, the best part is the pictures, and also the interviews. Abyssinia, Barrie "All I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die.

And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one. Henry Blake. I don't want to argue about the quality of book But I guess the interviews are correct, and the fact of not renegotiating his contract and not returning for a farewell episode comes from the interview by Larry Linville himself, so I guess this should be correct. Neil J. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

Does anyone know the story behind this? It seems that this character was one day, and not there the next. Andreas Helm. On 18 Feb GMT, esolo He also played Dr. Sadly, Larry died fairly young. In , it was discovered that he had a deadly tumor under his sternum and had surgery to remove a part of his cancerous lung. Unfortunately, he developed complications two years later and died of pneumonia in He was only 60 years old.

Frank married his wife Louise some time before he came into the Army; in There is Nothing Like a Nurse , the other surgeons watch a home movie of Frank's wedding. They cannot help but notice that Louise is scowling through the entire film. Very few people attended the wedding, and most of the ones that did were also scowling or frowning.

In the home movie Frank is depicted as being henpecked by his wife; as they leave for their honeymoon Louise gets behind the wheel and orders Frank to get in the passenger seat, which he sheepishly does. When the nurses return, a similar situation happens with Frank and Margaret causing Hawkeye and Trapper to laugh again. In the film, when Major Margaret Houlihan arrives at the th as the new head nurse, she and Frank almost immediately hit it off sharing a common tendency for strict military discipline as well as a mutual disdain of all the hijinks that have flared up since Hawkeye, Duke and Trapper John arrived in camp.

They decide to join forces and write a letter of complaint to General Hammond , and as they finish, they begin a romance that does not last long. Later the same night when Frank visits Margaret's tent to check up on her, the two soon begin having sex, oblivious to Radar secretly placing the PA microphone underneath her cot so he, Trapper, Duke and the others could listen to them in the orderly room.

When Trapper decides that the rest of the camp needs to hear the two going at it, they broadcast their rendezvous over the loudspeakers until Margaret hears her own voice feeding back over the speakers, at which point she quickly stops and gives Frank the bum's rush. The next day in the Mess Tent, when Hawkeye quietly taunts Frank about what Margaret is like in bed, Frank leaps over the table and physically assaults him before he is restrained.

He is last seen in the film being shipped out wearing a straitjacket. Throughout the first four seasons of the TV series Frank and Margaret had an ongoing affair, which was a poorly-kept secret throughout the Army, though the two repeatedly convinced themselves that nobody else was aware.

Frank went to great lengths to prevent word about his affair with Margaret getting to the wrong people; to this end, he destroyed every love note that Margaret ever wrote to him.

When Margaret tells Frank that she saved everything he ever wrote to her, he panics inwardly; one night while she is on duty in Post-Op, he sneaks into her quarters to find his notes and destroy them, but in the futile process he winds up completely trashing her tent.

This was a continuity error; in Hot Lips and Empty Arms , Margaret returned all of his love notes to him. But Frank's attempts to keep his ongoing tryst secret ultimately fail when his wife Louise, after finding out about Frank's affair from another soldier, writes him demanding a divorce.

Frank is able to call home from Potter's office and successfully begs Louise to call off the divorce claiming that Margaret was just a "war horse" and an "army mule" who meant nothing to him.

Frank is satisfied with himself until he gets a chair thrown at him by Margaret, who heard the whole conversation on the phone in Radar's office. Margaret was not Frank's first affair. In Soldier Of The Month , he admitted under delirium to hooking up with his housekeeper.

In The Novocaine Mutiny , Hawkeye brings up the fact that Frank had an ongoing affair with his receptionist twice a week at a hotel. Besides Margaret, Frank tries to hit on two other nurses in camp: once when he was drunk, he danced with and tried to romance Nurse Kellye Der Tag , and then after Margaret got engaged, he claimed to have his eye on a little red-haired nurse, whom he pointed out was younger than Margaret Margaret's Engagement.

Despite his affairs, Frank's paranoia led to hypocritical measures; he hired a private detective to spy on his wife to see if she was cheating, and then hired a second private detective to watch the first one to make sure he wasn't cheating with her Post Op. In one episode, he claims he wants her to be the same woman he married, yet he becomes almost hysterical when he finds out that she is a volunteer worker for the Republican party, is beginning to wear "slacks," and actually went on a day trip to Indianapolis with her friends Dear Sigmund.

In every incarnation of the character, Frank Burns fancied himself a superior surgeon, but his surgical actions did little more than amplify his ineptitude; on many occasions, a patient of his has been spared death only because of a second glance or follow-up action by one of the other surgeons. But even with this, Frank was still prone to making bad calls that did not sit well with the rest of the doctors. For example:. Frank once admitted that he flunked out of medical school twice before finally graduating after paying money for the answers to the exam.

In one episode, he claims to have studied 7 years before graduating th in his medical class of He also admitted that he failed at being a practical nurse when he couldn't fold hospital bed sheets.

Frank claims he was in practice for 12 years and that the local funeral director sent him thank-you cards every Christmas. In There Is Nothing Like a Nurse , as the surgeons watch Frank's home movie of his wedding and reception, they can't help but laugh at Frank's inability to hold a knife correctly even to cut his own wedding cake; Hawkeye quips "Watch the cake die of malpractice! Frank and Margaret frequently conspired to have Colonel Blake removed from command of the th so that Frank himself could take over, going to extensive and underhanded sometimes unethical, and even illegal measures to achieve this end, mostly through phone calls and letters of complaint about Henry to Army brass, but all of their attempts failed.

The most prominent example was in The Trial of Henry Blake , in which Frank and Margaret brought formal albeit trumped up charges of treason against Henry for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Hawkeye and Trapper knew the truth and were ready to testify in Henry's defense, but Frank unlawfully had them placed under house arrest until Radar and Klinger helped them to escape. The truth was that Blake had donated medical supplies to a North Korean clinic run by American nurse Meg Cratty, who also testified in Henry's defense at the hearing.

The presiding officer was ready to dismiss the case, but Frank refused to drop the charges until Hawkeye and Trapper threatened to tell his wife about Margaret, at which point Frank abruptly changed his mind. After Henry's discharge , Frank took over as commander of the th.

During his brief time in charge, Frank micromanaged camp operations, often barking out orders in contradiction to other people's actions just for the sake of asserting his command; in Welcome To Korea , when Frank asks Radar if he brushes his teeth; when Radar replies he always does right after breakfast, Frank replies, "I want it done before! Frank's primary concern was lording his command over the camp while maintaining a strict military bearing. He often abused his authority, as evidenced by the fact that most of his orders, asinine as they were, came very close to being unreasonable and even unlawful.