• TV Worth Watching, Friday, December 9, 2011 2:16 PM

In an end-of-the-week burst of sentimentality, we're directing you to this tribute to an iconic TV star who died earlier this week, Harry Morgan.

Or as David Bianculli writes: "Harry Morgan, whose crusty yet friendly Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H was the pinnacle of a show-biz career that stretched to the early days of television and encompassed film and theater as well, died yesterday at age 96. What a character. What an actor. What a character actor."

In this most-appropriately titled "'M*A*S*H' Note to Harry Morgan," Bianculli dissects the actor's long TV career, which included a stint on "Dragnet," and highlights a video where Morgan himself talks about the character of Colonel Potter.

"If it seems odd to hear Morgan speak out of character, that's because he almost never did it," writes Bianculli. "Except for speaking a few words of thanks when winning a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for M*A*S*H in 1980, Morgan didn't appear on TV as himself, on talk shows, ever. Not once, in a career that actually predated television."

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