Ghosts of Christmas Past

A real crappy episode except for the performance by karri turner but perhaps she was a bit too busty to play phylis diller ...

When the show opens with Harm paying tribute to his father (on the latter's birthday) at the Vietnam War memorial, a mysterious-looking woman behind him with whom he enters into conversation, informs him that she is there to pay tribute to Harm's father also, whom she had met 30 years earlier as USO performer Jenny Lake (both are played by Catherine Bell, usually seen as Sarah Mackenzie).

I don't know why but for some reason I was certain the older Lake was played by a female impersonator. However, as the younger Jenny Lake, the very pretty Bell engenders no such misperception. (Also, Karri Turner, although well-meaning, is a pretty bad Phyllis Diller impersonator.)

The cast play different characters, set around Harm's meeting with Jenny Lake at Christmas 1999 (30 years to the day after Harm Senior was lost over Vietnam).

The cast (wider cast, with some occasional guests actors involved) grab the opportunities with both hands (and, in most cases, reasonable success) in reflecting the manic "live for today" attitude in the war theatre back in 1969.

Nicely played inter-cut scenes between 1999 and 1969 (review written in 2021). The final scene still has power - Harm's character paying tribute to his father (whom we know by this stage, after Season four, died in Russia).