Lt. Colonel Henry Blake

I'll be there.

Well, sir, if you'd like a drink, compliments of Colonel Blake, scotch, gin, vodka, and for your convenience, all in the same bottle.

Thank you,

Colonel.

Whoa.

Hold the phone.

I'm Colonel Blake here.

Nobody arrests them without telling me the whys and wherefores or the

... '70s and early '80s.

You know, Colonel Blake was in charge but not knowing what was going on.

Right.

His assistant, Radar O'Reilly, was the guy who was really in charge.

Because in effect, he outranks everyone.

Even though technically he's only a captain and Frank Burns is a major, Hot Lips is a major, Colonel Blake is a colonel, but none of them can tell him what to do.

And that was true for us as well.

Even when it came to things like the military police.

There's the running for the helicopters at the start.

But that's from the TV series.

But also, and this comes up only if you're interested in American football, very occasionally someone will clip the bit where Colonel Blake is saying, I think we should have plays.

What are these arrows for? that is used with reference to a particularly poor performance of a coach in a game but it's used I assume without anyone knowing where it comes from but that's the only meme from this that I've actually seen it's not really a memeable film in that sense can I in that

And I've seen that episode so many times now.

It's the one where Colonel Henry Blake gets his papers to go home.

And, you know, everyone's happy for him and all that.

And this plane gets shot down over the sea of Japan and he doesn't make it home to his family.