M*A*S*H (1972)

Overview
In the midst of the horror and fighting of the Korean War, another war is being fought just a few short miles from the front lines. It is waged by the doctors and staff of the 4077th M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) who struggle to save the lives of the countless wounded who are rushed in and out of their semi-permanent camp. With precious little time, supplies, or support; they grimly continue on their task of saving as many as they can ... or letting them pass in quiet dignity even as the bullets and bombs rattle the operating rooms.

It's a difficult and soul crushing toil as they fight to maintain their own sanity and spirits on this battlefield. But the doctors, nurses, and staff soldier on and use laughter as the best medicine as the war grinds on...

A hugely popular and long lasting television series adapted from the 1970 film ''MASH. The film itself based upon a novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Doctors"'' that drew inspiration from a physician's real life experiences working at a MASH unit.  M*A*S*H also had two sequel spin-offs series; After M*A*S*H and Trapper John, M.D. There was a third attempt at a spin-off W*A*L*T*E*R with a single pilot episode produced which focuses on former Corporal Walter "Radar" O"Reilly. W*A*L*T*E*R failed to be picked up for syndication and was instead shown as a single "Special CBS Presentation".

Notable Characters

 * Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
 * Captain John "Trapper" MacIntyre
 * Major Frank Burns
 * Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
 * Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly
 * Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
 * Father Francis Mulcahy
 * Colonel Henry Blake
 * Captain B.J. Hunnicutt
 * Colonel Sherman Potter
 * Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
 * Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo
 * Dr. Sydney Freedman
 * Colonel Sam Flagg

Season 1
During the Korean War, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital has been established less than three miles from the front lines. Composed of a stable of eccentric characters, the majority of the medical teams are not Army-trained soldiers but drafted recruits who are extremely non-military in their behavior and thinking such as their commanding officer, Colonel Henry Blake; a rather laid-back reservist who turns a blind eye to most of his command's outrageous behaviors.

Most of which revolves around the comedic antics of Hawkeye Pierce and his best friend and partner-in-crime, Trapper John who are the two best surgeons around and were unwillingly drafted by the U.S. Army. With little else to do other than helping the wounded, the pair spent their free time drinking, carousing, womanizing, playing practical jokes on unsuspecting bystanders, and drinking. Their main nemesis is Major Frank Burns, who is their superior only in rank due to his slavish devotion to the rules and regulations of the Army. Burns is rather inept as a surgeon and although he is married; is having an illicit affair with Major Margaret Houlihan, a fellow worshiper of Army regs and one of the few career soldiers. Both Burns and Houlihan go through great lengths to carry on their secret affair, unaware that the entire camp knows about it.

Among the more unusual members of the 4077th include Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, the company clerk and the real person who really runs the camp. Gifted with the prenaturally acute ability to 'know' things before they happen, he has a heroic worship of both Hawkeye and Trapper. And Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger, perhaps the sanest man in the outfit who desperately wants to get out of Korea by wearing women's outfits in the vain hopes of convincing his commanding officers to give him a psychiatric discharge.

In this backdrop of brief spurts of chaos and blood, the 4077th struggles to save as many soldiers as they can while struggling to hold onto their sanity with laughter.

Season 2
M*A*S*H outfits might be medical units but to the Koreans, that just means that they have less guns to shoot back at them. Over the course of the year, the wacky oddballs of the 4077th M*A*S*H will have to fend off an inept bomber pilot who makes a daily bombing run that the camp is taking bets on how badly he'll miss and then they'll have to spend some time undercover when a sniper decides to take a few shots at them. Those won't be the only hardships when a flu epidemic hits the entire camp and leaves only Hawkeye and Houlihan up and caring for all of the causalities.

Then Major Burns has finally had enough of Hawkeye and Trapper's shenanigans and demands a transfer; his lover Major Houlihan decides to go with him and leaves the 4077th up the short creek without a paddle with a dire lack of suitable replacements! For the good of the outfit, Hawkeye and Trapper will have to figure a way to convince Frank Burns to stick around. And since there's no way that they can appeal to Burns' humanity (he doesn't have any), they'll just have to appeal to good old fashioned greed and trick him into staying!

And finally its a case of spy vs. spy when the unbelievably paranoid Colonel Flagg (if that really is his name as he seems to have an excess of aliases) has infiltrated the 4077th M*A*S*H looking for communist sympathizers but finds a pair of practical jokers a.k.a. Hawkeye and Trapper who decide to doctor evidence to humiliate him instead.

Season 3
The Korean War is getter stranger and stranger for the good ol' folks at 4077th M*A*S*H. Such as trying to arrange a prisoner swap between the Americans and the Koreans that gets fouled up thanks to Frank Burns or when Major Margaret Houlihan is too much woman for a hard charging General who keels over in her bed, his subordinates decide that his "death" is far too ignoble for the General and seek to arrange a suitable killed in action situation for him. Things have a tendency to take an unusual twist at the 4077th and if that's not enough, the incompetent and unbearable paranoiac Colonel Flagg is bound and determined to find some sort of wrongdoing at the 4077th and is not so secretly lurking about; determined to find some evidence that proves Hawkeye Pierce of being a Communist sympathizer. And finally a shocking twist when Colonel Henry Blake is discharged and is in the midst of returning home only to have his plane shot down, killing him in the crash and leaving the entire 4077th distraught.

Season 4
It started out as a good year for Major Frank Burns. He's been placed temporarily in command of the 4077th M*A*S*H and is determined to whip it into shape! Once he does so, Burns is convinced that the brass to leave him in charge. His glee is increased when Trapper John is discharged and returns home. However, he quickly is dismayed to learn that Trapper's replacement, the freshly drafted B.J. Hunnicutt is cut more in the mold of Hawkeye than himself. Burns also is soon replaced by Colonel Sherman Potter, an old school Army vet who has served in every single major conflict from World War I onward and is on the verge of retirement. Although possessing a similar laid-back command style to Henry Blake, Potter is far more professional and unwilling to tolerate shenanigans and pranks if they threaten discipline and in the operating room.

But sometimes its harder to know who the real enemy is in this war. Such as when Hawkeye Pierce has been declared legally deceased thanks to a paperwork snafu and is having a lot of trouble trying to convince the Powers That Be that he's still alive and kicking. Particularly when he's got a morgue attendant whose overly eager to bring back a corpse. Any corpse. Surely they got a spare one laying around?

Then Radar gets into some real hot water when a wounded Colonel checks in and his fancy pistol checks out without him! The enraged Colonel quickly blames Radar and the hapless company clerk is accused of theft. And then during an extended period in the O.R., the tyrannical Major Burns accuses Hawkeye of mutiny and demands a court martial!

Season 5
The Koreans are on the offensive! And the 4077th M*A*S*H is right in the midst of their path, forcing the medical camp to hastily demonstrate the "Mobile" part of their acronym and decamp before they arrive. But it's not the only uprooting that the staff will face.

While on leave in Tokyo, Major Margaret Houlihan has a whirlwind romance with a dashing Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot. Sweeping her off her feet, Penobscot proposes and the happy couple becomes engaged! This shocking blow causes her long time paramour, Major Frank Burns to have a major meltdown. Particularly when he discovers that since Frank is busy cheating on his wife, he naturally expects Margaret to be willing to cheat on her impending beau. And when she is determined to remain faithful to her fiancee, it results in a major feud between the formerly close pair. How will everybody's least favorite couple survive? And will everybody else survive the new Cold War between Burns and Houlihan?

Season 6
The newly wedded Major Magaret Houlihan is off on her honeymoon with her newlywed husband, Lt. Colonel Penobscot but her martial bliss has caused Major Frank Burns to finally crack up, forcing the 4077th to bring in a new surgeon, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, a blue blooded snob. Winchester is outraged at the primitive working conditions and constantly tries to get himself transferred back to "civilization", or at least Tokyo which the closest thing to it and is rather contemptuous of his fellow surgeons and medical personnel. Despite his arrogance, Winchester is tolerated by the others due to his superior surgical skills as he tries to fit into the zaniness of the 4077th.

Shortly afterwards Margaret Houlihan receives a rude shock when she receives a letter from her husband. Expecting a loving letter, she discovers that Penobscot put the wrong letter in the envelope and that she has received the one meant for his mistress! But she isn't the only one whose romance is suffering. Corporal Klinger goes on a rampage when he receives a letter from his wife proclaiming that she's found someone else and now wants a divorce, leaving him distraught and contemplating desertion. As they cope with their heartbreaks, the arrogant Winchester finds himself suffering a bitter comeuppance in trying to cope with the workload and conditions of the 4077th. Desperate to keep up his flagging strength, Winchester begins taking amphetamines and quickly becomes addicted, forcing Hawkeye and B.J. to confront him and get him to clean up.

Season 7
The 4077th M*A*S*H is going to have to learn how to cope with the wild Korean weather. There's a scorching heat wave that sends the entire camp into a tizzy. But while the rest of the camp is trying to cool down, Klinger has a brainstorm and is wearing a fur coat and thermal underwear to prove that he's nuts. Then a massive windstorm shuts down the camp but leaves Winchester enraged as he was due to some nice R&R and since he can't fly out, that leaves driving. But a massive coldsnap leaves the 4077th rushing to cope with several soldiers suffering from extreme hypothermia.

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