Fight boots and canine tags worn by Alan Alda as he portrayed the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved tv collection “M-A-S-H” are displayed at Heritage Auctions in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. The gadgets are up public sale on July 28. (AP Picture/LM Otero) AP
By JAMIE STENGLE, Related Press
DALLAS (AP) — The fight boots and canine tags Alan Alda wore whereas enjoying the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved tv collection “M-A-S-H” offered at public sale Friday for $125,000.
Alda held onto the boots and canine tags for greater than 40 years after the present ended however determined to promote them by Heritage Auctions in Dallas to boost cash for his heart devoted to serving to scientists and medical doctors talk higher.
The customer’s identify wasn’t launched.
Alda, 87, mentioned he wore the boots and canine tags for the 11-season run of the present a couple of Korean Warfare medical unit. His character, Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, was a proficient surgeon who helped ease the stress of working in a battle zone with quips and sensible jokes. The present’s ultimate episode, which aired in 1983 and was written and directed by Alda, was the most-watched TV present in U.S. historical past.
The boots and canine tags, given to him by the costume division, “made an impression on me each day that we shot the present,” mentioned Alda, who gained 5 Emmys for his work on the sitcom.
Alda mentioned auctioning off the canine tags and boots now made sense. “I noticed this as an opportunity to place them to work once more,” he mentioned.
The cash raised from the public sale will go to the Alan Alda Heart for Speaking Science at Stony Brook College in New York, which goals to assist scientists and medical doctors talk higher by using improvisational workouts and different methods.
Related Press author Ken Miller in Oklahoma Metropolis contributed to this report.
