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Walter "Radar" O'Reilly
Gary Burghoff equally CPL Walter "Radar" O'Reilly
M*A*Due south*H character
Vital data
Rank:	Corporal (E-4), U.S. Army (briefly promoted to 2nd Lt. earlier existence demoted back to Corporal)
Job/Role in Unit of measurement:	Company Clerk, 4077th M*A*S*H
Pilus Color:	Burnt auburn
Eye Color:	Grey
Height:	v'4"
Weight:	135 lbs.
Family/Personal Information
Birthplace:	Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S.
Nationality/Race:	American
Spouse(due south):	Sandy (maiden proper name unknown; marriage annulled when she left him for another man while on their honeymoon)
Relatives/Children:	Mr. O'Reilly (begetter; deceased) Edna O'Reilly (mother) Edward O'Reilly (uncle) Jimmy (cousin) Unnamed younger brother (died in childhood, historic period unknown) Unnamed younger sister Unnamed older brother Unnamed older sis Assorted aunts and uncles
Appearances
First appeared in:	M*A*South*H Novels Brew (film)
Last appeared in:	Practiced-Farewell Radar: Office 2 (Goggle box series episode)
Appeared on/or in:	Grand*A*S*H Tv Series AfterMASH Westward*A*Fifty*T*Eastward*R Airplane pilot episode
Played by:	Gary Burghoff

"Radar is my informer. He's my snitch, my friend, my helper. If he could fly he'd be my falcon."

^{[~Hawkeye nearly Radar (The More I See You)]}

"Walter O'Reilly. Decent, gentle. Innocent every bit a lamb, twice as cuddly."

^{[~Colonel Potter well-nigh Radar (The Foresight Saga)]}

Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly is a fictional graphic symbol in the Thousand*A*S*H novels, film, the telly serial, the goggle box pilot Westward*A*Fifty*T*E*R and ii episodes of the series AfterM*A*S*H.

Gary Burghoff, who played Radar, was one of only 2 actors to play a office in the motion picture and then reprise their role for television; G. Wood, who portrayed General Hammond, was the other, though he was just a recurring character in season 1.

The novel establishes Radar'southward hometown every bit Ottumwa, Iowa. Radar's father, who was 63 years sometime when Radar was built-in, died when he was very immature; Radar once confided in Colonel Blake that his male parent had a stroke the offset time they played 'peek-a-boo'. He and his female parent Edna continued to live on the family farm after his begetter's expiry, with his Uncle Ed helping out and serving as a father effigy for Radar until he himself passed away (Good-Farewell, Radar: Part 1).

It is never firmly established how many siblings Radar has, if whatsoever. In The Gun Radar he mentions a younger sis, and and so a younger blood brother who died in childhood. In later episodes he likewise mentioned an older brother and sister, but the chief and prevailing implication throughout the series was that Radar was an only kid.

Radar caused his nickname because he was seemingly endowed with ESP, actualization at his CO's side before being chosen, anticipating his needs and even finishing his sentences. He also had super-human hearing, as he was able to hear incoming helicopters earlier anyone else could.

Contents

• 1 At the 4077th
  • 1.ane His animals
  • ane.2 His Acme
• ii Relationships
  • 2.one With women
  • ii.2 With Hawkeye
  • 2.3 With others
• 3 Leaving the 4077th
  • 3.i AfterMASH
  • 3.2 W*A*L*T*E*R
• 4 Radar'southward Teddy Bear
• 5 Trivia
• 6 Quotes

At the 4077th [ ]

Afterwards existence turned abroad past the Marines because he wore glasses, Radar joined the Army in hopes of getting into the Indicate Corps, but was assigned to the 4077th MASH instead. In the novel Radar volunteered for the army right later finishing high school, but in the TV series, he states that he was drafted. Equally a reflection of his youth, he had brought his teddy bear with him to the 4077th. He related well to and frequently spent fourth dimension with the Korean villagers and orphans in the surface area. In season 2, Radar states that he is 19, pregnant he was likely xviii when he was drafted.

In the 1970 film, SFC Vollmer was the army camp's Sergeant Major, but it was Radar who was visitor clerk and was invariably entrusted with everything past Colonel Blake. In the film, Radar was more of a worldly and sly private, a clerk who carried with him at all times a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise. By the time the TV series bowed, Radar'south graphic symbol became more naïve and trusting, but he was still adept at navigating clerical loopholes.

Co-ordinate to Father Mulcahy (in Period of Aligning) Radar had a very rough start when he showtime became visitor clerk at the 4077th. He didn't know what he was doing, and drove everyone else crazy with his constant questions most how to do his chore. But then later Colonel Blake took Radar under his wing, he presently improved and became an fantabulous clerk, ofttimes balancing out Blake'southward occasional silliness with his own near-magical abilities to go the unit any it needed. Throughout much of the series, he was more than or less the glue that held the 4077th together, keeping the unit running like a well-oiled machine.

Blake and Radar grew very shut, developing a father/son relationship, and it was Radar who tearfully announced Henry's decease when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. Radar was devastated by Blake'southward death and needed some time to adjust to the new commander, Colonel Potter, simply he eventually became very close, if not closer, to Potter as well.

Radar had his enterprising moments, including:

• Selling tickets to the men so they could take turns sneaking looks through a peephole in the nurses' showers.
• Dismantling a jeep and mailing it habitation piece past piece. (Beloved Dad)
• Selling Style-Rite wing-tipped shoes to anybody in camp (The Trial of Henry Blake)

He was one time bamboozled into spending over fifty dollars for an improved writing course past mail service (The Most Unforgettable Characters ), which he incorporated into his daily reports, which nearly collection Potter crazy.

Radar also had a tremendous appetite and was often seen consuming copious amounts of nutrient; he was one of the very few in camp who liked the food served in the Mess Tent. His favorite beverage is Nehi grape soda, merely he was not balky to getting boozer with the others and smoking cigars, even though they made him ill.

His animals [ ]

Radar was very addicted of animals and had a hobby of raising several during his fourth dimension at the 4077th, including hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, and at one point a large turtle. For Potter's anniversary, Radar gave him a horse that he, Hawkeye, and B.J. rescued at Radar'south request. Although Potter refers to the horse as a male person during this episode, throughout the rest of the series, the equus caballus is referred to every bit a mare, Sophie by name.

His Height [ ]

Radar's diminutive superlative was a frequent source of humor, with Eagle and the other doctors teasing him for his shortness. At one point Radar bought lift shoes and so that he could appear taller; the shoes virtually made him center level with Major Burns, simply Hawkeye dissuaded him from wearing them saying "There's acme that people never see; some people are x feet alpine, only their bodies don't know it".

Relationships [ ]

With women [ ]

One of the more heavily developed themes throughout the series was Radar'south fairly clumsy efforts to relate with the various women he meets. Radar was a virgin and very naive in romance, although he had a fiancée who broke up with him in the Season 1 episode Love Story. His naivete made him an occasional romantic target of the camp's nurses such as Nurse Gilbert (Bobbie Mitchell) in Dear Dad...Three and Nurse Bakery (Lynne Marie Stewart) in Lt. Radar O'Reilly.

In many episodes where Radar tries to conversation upwardly a nurse, they are either non interested or something usually went wrong.

• In Love Story, he must hurriedly acquire to faux cognition nearly classical books and music in order to impress Nurse Louise Anderson.
• In For Desire of a Boot, he secures a engagement with Nurse Spud but to be dumped because he no longer had a hair dryer.
• In Springtime, he becomes interested in Nurse Louise Simmons just gets more than than he bargained for.
• Late in Season 7, Radar finally succeeds in getting a date with Lieutenant Linda Nugent when he learns to exist himself.

In Part one of Expert-Bye Radar, Radar is stuck in Tokyo waiting for a aeroplane back to Kimpo in Seoul. At the airport, he meets Lt. Patty Haven, a nurse on her mode home. Every bit they chat, he learns she's from Lancaster, Missouri, which is less than 100 miles from Ottumwa. They observe they have a lot more in common, and when Radar is told it's fourth dimension to board the plane, he asks to wait until the side by side one. Simply when he is ordered to board, he reluctantly bids Patty farewell, only not earlier promising to visit her subsequently the war and kissing her.

With Hawkeye [ ]

Radar initially idolized Hawkeye and oftentimes went to him for advice virtually well-nigh everything, but in Fallen Idol, after Hawkeye convinced Radar to become to Seoul to lose his virginity he came back to military camp as a casualty. Overwhelmed with daze and guilt, Hawkeye spent a night binge drinking then had to run out of the OR during surgery the next mean solar day to throw up (which he never had to practise before). When Radar after questioned Hawkeye nearly it, Eagle lost his atmosphere, blasphemous everything most Radar earlier storming out. Afterwards, when Hawkeye came dorsum to repent, Radar refused, and even threatened to dial Eagle if he ever trash-talked Iowa once again. The ii afterwards reconciled at Potter'southward prompting, and from then on their relationship was on more than of an equal footing, with Radar outgrowing his hero worship. Later, it is Hawkeye who pins Radar's Purple Heart on him so gives him a rare salute.

In Mail Phone call Three, Radar is confused when his mother writes him that she now has a boyfriend. When he goes to Hawkeye most it, he accurately points out that Radar is jealous that he has to share his mother with someone else for the first time since he was a child; Hawkeye and so compares Radar'south situation with his ain widowed father, who came to similar one particular woman, but needed Eagle's approval then much that he broke upwardly with her and remained alone after his mother died.

With others [ ]

Radar gets along well with his fellow enlisted, specially Klinger and Igor, and likewise virtually of the officers, including both his commanders (Blake and Potter) and most of the surgeons (Hawkeye, Trapper, B.J. and Charles).

Conversely, he was often abused past Frank Burns, who chosen him derisive nicknames like "Pipsqueak" or "Runt", and at ane indicate told him to go along serenity unless there was "a call for Philip Morris", which offended Radar. On numerous occasions when Frank would enter the Swamp, which he often referred to as "officers' country", when he constitute Radar in that location talking with Hawkeye or Trapper (or B.J.) Frank would ofttimes yell at him to become out, or chase him out of the tent, which never saturday well with the other Swampmates.

To a different and somewhat bottom extent, Radar was as well abused by Margaret who, whenever she began fuming about something or violently pining to be with her so-hubby Donald, she would make Radar's office - and sometimes Radar himself - a target of convenience for her tantrums. In Margaret's defense, though, when she found out that Radar was going home she compared him to an one-time rag doll she once had as a kid, how she would kick it and corruption it, but then cried for days when she lost it. On Radar's last solar day as they were taking wounded into the OR, Margaret told him "Y'know, you're okay!" and blew a kiss good day to him.

Leaving the 4077th [ ]

In the first iii seasons of M*A*S*H, Gary Burghoff appeared in every episode. Subsequently season 5, with work putting a strain on Burghoff's family life, he renegotiated his contract, agreeing to practise 13 episodes per season instead of the usual 24 (during these times, the character of Radar was usually on R&R). Past flavour 7, Gary started experiencing burnout and decided it was fourth dimension to move on, despite co-star Mike Farrell trying to persuade him to stay on the grounds that his career would not recover. Considering of that, the producers originally planned to cease season 7 with Radar leaving, but CBS wanted instead for Gary to come back during season eight to practice a special 2-part goodbye show.

In Skillful-Goodbye Radar, news arrives that Radar'due south uncle Ed has died. Potter immediately arranges a hardship discharge for Radar and so that he can go home and assistance his mother on the subcontract. Klinger is picked to replace Radar as company clerk, but with the unit of measurement yet in dire straits without a generator, and Klinger being unable to get the hang of his new duties, Radar decides to stay on at the 4077th. Potter and Hawkeye both futilely attempt to make Radar see that he is making a fault, simply it takes Klinger's swindling a generator from I-Corps Supply to convince him that the camp will indeed soldier on without him. As a reflection of how he has matured over his time in Korea, he left his teddy deport behind on Hawkeye'south cot, equally Dr. Sidney Freedman predicted he would in War of Nerves.

Radar was referred to several times after leaving.

• In Menstruation of Adjustment (the beginning episode afterward Radar's departure), Peg Hunnicutt writes BJ and says that their daughter Erin saw Radar at the aerodrome in San Francisco and chosen him "Daddy". BJ was crushed over the fact that it was the offset time his daughter chosen someone "Daddy" and it wasn't him. He fifty-fifty confessed to being so jealous of Radar that "...I about HATE him!"
• In The Foresight Saga, Potter receives a letter from Radar telling how he is now a huge success, simply it turns out that Radar was too embarrassed to admit that things are particularly bad, and Radar had to take upwardly a second job along with working the farm just to brand ends run across. Then when a immature Korean farmer lost his family, the gang sent him to Iowa to work on Radar'south subcontract to assist out.

AfterMASH [ ]

In AfterMASH, Potter, Klinger and their families are simply heading out the door to go to Radar'southward wedding in Ottumwa when Radar shows up at their door. He tells them that he ran off when he found out during his bachelor political party that Sandy, his fiancée, cheated on him with his best friend Claude Greevy. Angered and hurt, Radar ran abroad to River Bend to see them, but Sandy follows Radar there and the two reconcile and marry (with Father Mulcahy officiating). His story continues in the 1984 Goggle box pilot:

W*A*L*T*E*R [ ]

Radar, who had gone back to using his real proper name Walter, had failed at farming and was forced to sell the subcontract due to competing government subsidies and failed crops, and and then sent his mother to live with her sister. While on their honeymoon in St. Louis, his wife Sandy abruptly dumps Walter for Claude Greevy. Having hit rock bottom emotionally, Walter is wandering the street and goes to a drug store to buy some sleeping pills to overdose; he plans to also buy some aspirin as "sleeping pills gimme a headache", but at the drug store he reconsiders after he is befriended by Victoria, the waitress.

His life takes an upturn when he moves in with his cousin Wendell Micklejohn, who helps Walter get a job working with him for the St. Louis Law Department. Walter'due south gentle manner and resourcefulness make him proficient at dealing with the public as he is able to resolve a conflict between two strippers, and to eventually counsel a teen boy who had pickpocketed his and Wendell's wallets; Walter finds out that the boy had been abased by his mother, lost his father in Korea, and lives with his grandmother, and that he had resorted to petty crime and pickpocketing just to make ends run into.

W*A*L*T*Eastward*R was never picked upwardly equally a regular serial, but the pilot was aired just in one case in July 1984 as a special on CBS in the Eastern and Central time zones, but not on the W Coast due to being pre-empted.

Radar'due south Teddy Bear [ ]

Radar's Teddy Acquit, left behind on Eagle'southward cot when he went home.

Throughout the serial, Radar was known for sleeping with a teddy bear that he brought with him from home as a comfort; in Officer of the Mean solar day he claimed that it belonged to his brother. The teddy bear became the source of many jokes throughout the series, including:

• In The Novocaine Mutiny, information technology was revealed during Hawkeye's court martial that Radar'due south teddy bear held a large amount of money from a poker game that Major Burns (who was in command at that time) had ordered banned.

• In Mail Call 3, B.J. wakes Radar in the middle of the night to place a call abode to his married woman. In his frustration, B.J. starts unknowingly slinging the teddy behave around by its cervix until Radar stops him and calmly snatches information technology out of his hands maxim, "His head isn't on too good, either!"

While a source for humor, the teddy bear also served for some very poignant moments as well:

• In Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler, just every bit Captain Chandler (who now believes he is Jesus Christ) is about to be shipped out, Radar quietly comes up to him and asks him to bless what's in his purse: his teddy deport, claiming, "even though he'due south non existent, we're very close"; Chandler blesses the bear, so Radar himself.
• In War Of Nerves, Radar, worried about his reliance on his teddy acquit, comes to talk to Dr. Sidney Freedman well-nigh it; Sidney assures him that once he's home, chances are good that he won't need it anymore.
  • Sidney's prognosis turns out to be accurate; in Good-Bye Radar Part two, when Radar finally goes habitation he leaves his teddy deport behind on Hawkeye's cot.
• In the penultimate episode, Every bit Time Goes By, Hawkeye added Radar'southward teddy conduct to Margaret's time capsule, suggesting that it should "stand for all the soldiers who came over here as boys and went home as men." (It should be pointed out, though, that the teddy bear used in this episode was not the same one Radar had; Radar's was well-worn, had a plastic snout and wore a faded ascot around its neck, while the one Hawkeye held up in this episode was in much meliorate condition, had a textile snout and no ascot.)

Radar's teddy deport had originally been found on the gear up by one of the actors, and was added past the producers to symbolize Radar'southward youth and naïveté. The teddy bear was originally idea to have no proper noun, but in a letter to Ken Kessler (who ran a radio show where the question of Radar's teddy bear's name was brought upwards), Gary Burghoff said that his teddy bear's name was Tiger.

On July 29, 2005, the teddy bear used in the series was sold at sale for $11,800.

Trivia [ ]

• Radar, like Helm Hunnicutt and Colonel Potter, is Methodist.
• Gary Burghoff'due south left mitt is slightly (only visibly) deformed, which would ironically brand him unfit for military service. This was covered up in the series past Radar belongings a prop such equally a clipboard in that hand or just putting it in his pocket.
• According to the Muppet Wiki, Sesame Street character Large Bird has a teddy bear named Radar, named past Big Bird'southward performer Carroll Spinney as a tribute to Gary Burghoff and his grapheme.
• Radar was xviii at the first of the series, merely Gary Burghoff himself was almost 30 at the time the series began. Audiences were generally fooled by his brusque stature, boyish appearance, and prepubescent voice. He also usually wore a hat to hide his increasingly receding hairline, every bit an indicator of his true age. In his last episode, Gary deliberately appeared without a lid to prove his receding hair line as a symbol of him growing upwards.
• Having played the character in the characteristic film, the television series, and 2 of its spin-offs, Gary Burghoff is the only player to portray Radar. Trapper John, M.D. is the only version or spin-off of M*A*S*H in which Burghoff does not announced.
• O'Reilly Media maintains a weblog near new technologies entitled O'Reilly Radar, which has the domain name oreilly.com/ideas.
• With Radar's departure from the Television serial, Hawkeye, Margaret, and Father Mulcahy were the only remaining characters with ties to the 1968 novel and the 1970 movie.
• Burghoff also appeared (in drag) as Mrs. O'Reilly in one episode, albeit in a home picture sent to Radar.
• Burghoff was also the get-go adult thespian to appear nude from the rear on broadcast television. In The Sniper, Burgoff's towel vicious off as well early, revealing his bare buttocks for a noticeable amount of time.

Quotes [ ]

Radar had a penchant for overusing words, especially when addressing superior officers. One such example was when he addressed Colonel Potter:

• Radar: Uhh, alibi me, Colonel, sir...
  • Potter: Radar, you tin can telephone call me 'Colonel' or 'sir'. You don't have to do both.
  • Radar: Yeah, sir, Colonel.
  • Potter: That'south improve.

• (at the conclusion of Abyssinia, Henry) "I have a message... Lieutenant Colonel... Henry Blake'southward aeroplane... was shot down... over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. At that place were no survivors."
• "Cows are people likewise!"
• "Hey, we got rain here! You besides? Wonder why the ground forces ordered that?"
• "You heard me! H-E-double toothpicks!"
• "My doctor dorsum home says I gotta' swallow lots of greens. I have a deficiency of malnutrition."
• "Permission to cover my 'nakedidity', sir."

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