In keeping with Wittebols, the pilot for “M*A*S*H” would have depicted Hawkeye as a married man, and he would have had a girlfriend on the 4077th — a married nurse named Lieutenant Dish. Whereas Hawkeye is a complete cad who hits on each lady that passes him by (and sometimes the lads too), he is not married and technically is not doing something unsuitable so long as he is trustworthy with the ladies. In fact he is not, and at one level even begins telling numerous nurses that he is having affairs with that he is married with a purpose to cease them from wanting extra of a relationship, however he is not an adulterer. Largely.
In a single particularly terrific episode, Hawkeye reunites together with his misplaced love, a lady named Carlyle (Blythe Danner), and the 2 have an affair although Carlye is married. It is one thing that messes with Hawkeye and causes different characters to name him out, so it is wild to think about the character doing one thing like that recurrently. For the community, nonetheless, it was only a matter of not having an excessive amount of adultery; semi-villains Frank Burns (Larry Linville) and Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) had an ongoing affair regardless of Frank being very married. One adulterous couple was loads for CBS, though plenty of different characters would behave badly when it got here to their marriage ceremony vows.