Major Ted Spector was an Army Judge Advocate General representative who gives Hawkeye and B.J. nothing but red tape and the runaround when they try to find a way to find an adoptive home for an Amerasian baby who was left at the 4077th, appears in the Season 8 episode of M*A*S*H titled "Yessir, That's Our Baby". The part of Major Spector is played by Howard Platt, who is best know to TV sitcom viewers for his role as Officer "Hoppy" Hopkins in the hit NBC-TV sitcom series Sanford and Son from 1973-1977.