Private Danny McShane is a character who appears in the Season 3 episode ot the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H titled "Love and Marriage". The part of Pvt. McShane is played in the episode by actor/director Dennis Dugan, who would later in the series appear as Robert "Bob" Wilson, Col. Potter's son-in-law.
About Private McShane[]
In the episode Love and Marriage, Hawkeye and Trapper are conducting the premarital physicals for the G.I.s and their Korean fiancés. As Radar uses his conniving ways to get Henry to sign the 3-day pass, Private McShane, who's an orderly, and his “bride” arrive for physicals, but the doctors immediately recognize the woman as a "working girl" who often frequents Rosie's Bar. Hawkeye and Trapper take McShane aside and advise he delay marriage and wait a couple of months. McShane claims they are in love and want to marry right away, but agrees to a two-week wait.
A poker game in the Swamp with Hawkeye, Trapper, Henry, Radar and Zale soon turns into an officers vs. enlisted discussion, for Radar and Zale think the Captains should butt out and let McShane get married if he wants to.
Next day, Hawkeye and Trapper are visited by Dr. Pak (Jerry Fujikawa)a local huckster who performs phony operations and passes off hair cream as penicillin. Pak announces he is also in the "marriage brokering" business and offers the Captains $250 each if they will OK the physical of Soong Hi, the prostitute betrothed to McShane. After the wedding, Soong Hi will go stateside and “work” for some associates of Pak's.
Pak promises more money later, for he had to pay McShane $1,000 to get married.
Trapper has a meeting with McShane and tells him he's aware of his attempted scam. After some digging, Trapper gets McShane to admit he is only doing this to make some extra money. A timely x-ray is delivered to Trapper confirming the future Mrs. McShane has tuberculosis, so the wedding deal is off.