Editing Gary Burghoff (section)

===Later career===
Burghoff appeared regularly on TV, making appearances on such game shows as ''[[Match Game]]'', ''[[Tattletales]]'', ''[[Liar's Club]]'', ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'', and ''[[Showoffs]]''. He also appeared in the film ''[[B.S. I Love You]]'', as well as one episode each of ''[[The Love Boat]]'' and ''[[Ellery Queen (TV series)|Ellery Queen]]''. His ''M*A*S*H'' character, Radar O'Reilly, appeared on two episodes in the first season of ''[[AfterMASH]]''.  It was then spun off into ''[[W*A*L*T*E*R]],'' which aired only once in the Eastern and Central time zones.

In the 1980s, Burghoff was the TV spokesman for [[BP]] gasoline and [[IBM]] computers. In 2000, Burghoff was a spokesman for [[Dot-com boom|dot-com era]] auction aggregation site PriceRadar.com.<ref>{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000407104400/http://priceradar.com/ | url = http://priceradar.com/ | website = PriceRadar.com | title = Home Page | archive-date = April 7, 2000 | access-date = January 1, 2013 }}</ref>

Burghoff is a self-taught amateur wildlife painter who also is qualified to handle injured wildlife in California.<ref name = NYT2>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/nyregion/a-second-act-paintbrush-in-hand-for-gary-burghoff.html | title = A Second Act, Paintbrush in Hand, for Gary Burghoff | last = Moore | first = AS | date = August 29, 2004 | access-date = January 1, 2013 | work = The [[New York Times]] }}</ref>

He worked as a professional [[jazz drummer]], heading the trio The We Three. In the ''M*A*S*H'' episode "[[Showtime (M*A*S*H)|Showtime]]", Radar is seen playing a solo on the drums; he was actually performing, and the music was not [[overdub]]bed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/mash/showtime/episode/43223/summary.html |title=M*A*S*H: Showtime |website=TV.com |date=December 12, 2007 |access-date=May 17, 2011 |archive-date=May 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522132305/http://www.tv.com/mash/showtime/episode/43223/summary.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He can also be seen playing drums in the ''M*A*S*H'' episode "Bulletin Board" in the picnic scene and the episode "[[Dear Dad...Again]]" in the no-talent show scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mash4077tv.com/2017/05/episode-spotlight-bulletin-board/ |title=Episode Spotlight: Bulletin Board | website= mash4077tv.com |date=May 1, 2017 |access-date=February 8, 2020}}</ref>

Burghoff is the inventor ({{US Patent|5117577}}, {{US Patent|5235774}}) of "Chum Magic", a [[fishing tackle]] invention that attracts fish toward the user's boat.<ref>{{cite news | first=Tim | last=Ryan | url=http://starbulletin.com/97/04/17/features/story3.html | title=The reality of "Radar" | work=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] | access-date=March 26, 2008 | archive-date=December 25, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041225220628/http://starbulletin.com/97/04/17/features/story3.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite patent |country= US |number= 5235774 |status= patent |title= Enhanced fish attractor device |gdate= August 17, 1993|inventor= Gary Burghoff }}</ref> Other Burghoff inventions include a toilet seat lifting handle ({{US Patent|D314322}}) and a new type of fishing pole.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harrington |first=Amy and Nancy |url=https://www.yahoo.com/tv/ss/m-a-s-h-where-are-they-now-slideshow/photo-gary-burghoff-photo-1347582636.html |title=MASH: Where are they now? |publisher= Yahoo |date=September 16, 2012 |access-date=December 31, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223104339/https://www.yahoo.com/tv/ss/m-a-s-h-where-are-they-now-slideshow/photo-gary-burghoff-photo-1347582636.html |archive-date=December 23, 2015 }}</ref>

Burghoff is a [[Philately|philatelist]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0WYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 | page = 63 | first= Jeff| last= Csatari| title = Stamps & Coins | magazine = [[Boys' Life]] |date=May 1989 | via= Google Books }}</ref> He was asked in 1993 to help select a postal stamp for United States hunters.<ref name = NYT2/>

Burghoff came out of retirement in 2010 to star in the film ''Daniel's Lot''.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=1675291 | title = Daniel's Lot}}</ref>