Radar Reilly facts
While investigating facts about Radar Reilly, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series' run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes
The prop used as Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear in M*A*S*H was a 1950s-vintage Cubbi Gund Cuddle Bear. Considering the television show was set during the Korean War, the prop master chose a Teddy bear that would have been appropriate for the time period.
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Big Bird's teddy bear on Sesame Street is named "Radar" after Walter "Radar" O'Reilly from M*A*S*H
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Gary Burghoff who played Radar O’Reilly on MASH was the drummer in a band with the original Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) as lead singer.
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There was a short lived spinoff of "M*A*S*H" entitled "W*A*L*T*E*R" that followed the daily life of Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly after the war
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The grape Nehi frink that Radar O'Reilly always ordered in MASH is an actual drink that later was known as RC Cola
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Radar O'Reilly had a deformed hand that directors hid in almost every scene.
