Lieutenant Dish

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M*A*S*H character
Lt. Dish
Rank	Lieutenant
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Blue
Home city	Atlanta, Georgia
Film portrayer	Jo Ann Pflug
Television portrayer	Karen Philipp
First appearance	M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Last appearance	"Germ Warfare"

Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider was a fictional character played by Jo Ann Pflug in the film MASH and by Karen Philipp in the first season on the spin-off TV series M*A*S*H. She was a nurse at the 4077th MASH during the Korean War.

Dish's role in the finished film was limited, as a large portion of her role didn't make the final cut. Ironically, the same thing happened to the character in the television series. After being prominently featured as Hawkeye's love interest in "M*A*S*H the Pilot," she was all but dropped from the show for the rest of the first season, before leaving the show entirely in its second.

M*A*S*H

Film: MASH TV series: M*A*S*H | Trapper John, M.D. | AfterMASH | W*A*L*T*E*R Characters: Hawkeye Pierce | Trapper John McIntyre | Duke Forrest | B.J. Hunnicutt | Henry Blake | Sherman T. Potter | Frank Burns | Margaret Houlihan | Charles Winchester | Radar O'Reilly | Father Mulcahy | Maxwell Klinger | Igor Straminsky | Sidney Freedman | Col. Flagg | Spearchucker Jones | Ugly John | Walter Koskiusko Waldowski | Ho-Jon | Lieutenant Dish | Donald Penobscot Episodes: Season 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 Books: M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors | M*A*S*H Goes to Maine Related material: Continuity errors and anachronisms | Guest stars | Differences between book, film and TV versions of M*A*S*H | Suicide Is Painless