Margaret Houlihan
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Search complete. 13 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Margaret Houlihan".
Sep 23, 2026
KevinHOST
Sally Kellerman is Diane, one of the professors.
KevinHOST
She was the original Hot Lips O'Houlihan in the MASH movie from 1970.
KevinHOST
That's why I recognize her.
KevinHOST
Hot Lips O'Houlihan.
KevinHOST
Yep.
KevinHOST
Which is a great character in the television series, for sure.
SonyaHOST
Smile all you want, I tell them, but if you try it once, you'll keep on coming back for more.
SonyaHOST
And finally, perhaps on the tail end of this popular period of needlepoint, Loretta Swit, an actor who played Major Margaret Houlihan on MASH, wrote a needlepoint book.
AliciaHOST
Today, Needlepoint is having a moment.
AliciaHOST
There has been an explosion in demand for Needlepoint canvas, painted Needlepoint canvases, and printed Needlepoint canvases.
Cynthia Bemis AbramsHOST
that they felt that this was sort of the turning point.
Cynthia Bemis AbramsHOST
Season five was the turning point where they started really shaping Margaret Houlihan to be more confident, more in control of her own career.
Cynthia Bemis AbramsHOST
She had agency, which is a phrase that didn't exist in the late 70s, in terms of her own self-determination.
Cynthia Bemis AbramsHOST
And then there are a couple episodes in season eight, which...
EricHOST
And
NeilHOST
Hot Lips Houlihan.
EricHOST
Yes, Loretta Swit is in this movie and she plays just the wife of Warren Oates, which is kind of hanging out and getting screaming, lots of screaming in the movie by the two ladies.
NeilHOST
And you know, they seem like they were going to be go-getters, man.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Here's a quick reprise of the tales, in case you've been transported to Brigadoon this last week and missed it all.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Let's visit the Outer Hebrides first to meet Claire Kellerman, daughter of none other than Hollywood star Sally Kellerman, who played Hot Lips Houlihan in the film MASH.
speaker_2NARRATOR
See, we've only started and already it's a Netflix series.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Kellerman, who emigrated from California, is in the middle of a frankly insane legal wrangle.
Scott MasonHOST
It made $81.6 million, and it racked up a ton of award nominations.
Scott MasonHOST
I mentioned before that Sally Kellerman, who played Hot Lips Houlihan, who we'll talk about, got a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Scott MasonHOST
And it was nominated for Best Picture.
Scott MasonHOST
It did not win, but it did win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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Allan RaibleGUEST
Well, in the whole conversation about not wanting to be there because you were drafted, I think that's a really...
Allan RaibleGUEST
As time goes on and the draft becomes a distant memory at this point, it really is important for people to realize... that at one point people were sent to war against their will and it really does set up context quite a bit so it does it that's that's an historically that really does set up a sort of tension between the the soldiers and and the people who are there by choice and the people who are there because they were forced to be there
Scott MasonHOST
and all these hijinks go on under the watch of henry blake who's the commanding officer but henry blake is like the keystone cops he doesn't really do anything everybody knows that they can get away with whatever they want to get away with around blake and he's not going to do anything which comes into play A little bit later when something not so nice is done to Hot Lips Houlihan.
Scott MasonHOST
And she's called Hot Lips.
Bryan FletcherHOST
Peter Pancreas.
Bryan FletcherHOST
Hot Lips Houlihan.
Bryan FletcherHOST
That's all I've got for you.
Joel CaineHOST
Colin Carpenter.
FullyHOST
Yeah, they were all the same.
FullyHOST
Hot Lips Houlihan, her, Alice, the hot one on Alice.
FullyHOST
They were all just the same.
FullyHOST
Charlie's Angels, whatever.