Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Year : 1, Issue : 18
Alan Alda, as Captain Benjamin Hawkeye Pierce, Wayne Rogers, as Captain Trapper John McIntyre, and Loretta Swit, as Major Margaret Houlihan, on the television series M*A*S*H.
The TV series M*A*S*H arrived on our televisions in 1972 and more than five decades later, Fox is honoring the series with a reunion special. The anti-war sitcom about the doctors and nurses who worked the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, ran for 11 seasons.
Set in Uijeongbu, South Korea, the series was groundbreaking when it premiered on CBS’ fall lineup in 1972. M*A*S*H, which was co-created and produced by Larry Gelbart, managed to brilliantly straddle comedy and drama and show the horror, chaos and pain of war.
The recipient of 14 Emmys M*A*S*H featured a talented ensemble cast including Alan Alda, who played surgeon Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce along with Loretta Swit, William Christopher, Mike Farrell, Gary Burghoff, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Larry Linville, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers and Jamie Farr.
