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  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1972
  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1972
M*A*S*H

Summary M*A*S*H was a true ensemble series. Whilst characters such as Kellye, Igor, Rizzo, Goldman and Ginger are listed where they appear as specific characters central to the plot, they also appeared regularly as non-speaking cast members. This is also true of many of the nurses, corpsmen, orderlies and drivers listed as guest stars. Based ...

  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1972
  • CBS
  • Sep 17, 1972
M*A*S*H
Season 1
11 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 17, 1972
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
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Summary M*A*S*H was a true ensemble series. Whilst characters such as Kellye, Igor, Rizzo, Goldman and Ginger are listed where they appear as specific characters central to the plot, they also appeared regularly as non-speaking cast members. This is also true of many of the nurses, corpsmen, orderlies and drivers listed as guest stars. Based ...

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 17, 1972 • 25 m
Pilot
The Swamp's Korean houseboy, Ho-Jon, is accepted to attend school at Hawkeye's alma mater. The camp raises money to send Ho-Jon to Maine by raffling a weekend in Tokyo with a nurse, much to the chagrin of Hot Lips and Burns.
Episode 2 • Sep 24, 1972 • 25 m
To Market, to Market
After losing vital medical supplies to black marketeers, Hawkeye and Trapper attempt to make a deal to get them back. Henry gets a new antique oak desk.
Episode 3 • Oct 1, 1972 • 25 m
Requiem for a Lightweight
Trapper enters the inter-camp boxing tournament.
Episode 4 • Oct 8, 1972 • 25 m
Chief Surgeon Who?
When Hawkeye is appointed Chief Surgeon over Frank Burns, Burns and Houlihan go over Col. Blake's head to a general to protest the decision.
Episode 5 • Oct 15, 1972 • 25 m
The Moose
Hawkeye is outraged when a visiting sergeant brings his 'moose' to camp - a young Korean woman he has bought to keep as his personal servant.
Episode 6 • Oct 22, 1972 • 25 m
Yankee Doodle Doctor
The 4077th is chosen as the site for a documentary featuring 'false heroics' about MASH units in Korea. After destroying the film, Hawkeye and Trapper make their own movie as a replacement.
Episode 7 • Nov 5, 1972 • 25 m
Bananas, Crackers and Nuts
Hawkeye feigns insanity to prove he needs to take leave.
Episode 8 • Nov 12, 1972 • 25 m
Cowboy
A wounded cowboy is itching to get back to the states to keep his marriage intact, but his request is denied. Henry becomes the target of a mad bomber.
Episode 9 • Nov 19, 1972 • 25 m
Henry, Please Come Home
When Col. Henry Blake is transferred to Tokyo and Frank starts imposing military discipline on the camp, the surgeons will do anything to get Henry back.
Episode 10 • Nov 26, 1972 • 25 m
I Hate a Mystery
Hawkeye finds himself investigating a rash of petty thefts in the camp.
Episode 11 • Dec 10, 1972 • 25 m
Germ Warfare
After tapping Frank Burns for blood, Hawkeye and Trapper's patient develops complications. They believe Frank has hepatitis and try to keep him operating.
Episode 12 • Dec 17, 1972 • 25 m
Dear Dad
Hawkeye writes his dad, describing the antics of the 4077th.
Episode 13 • Dec 24, 1972 • 25 m
Edwina
The nurses refuse to date until their lonely colleague Edwina gets a date, so the men draw straws.
Episode 14 • Jan 7, 1973 • 25 m
Love Story
After Radar gets a "Dear John" letter Hawkeye and Trapper try to help him with a new nurse who's into classical literature and music.
Episode 15 • Jan 14, 1973 • 25 m
Tuttle
A little white lie about an imaginary officer balloons into an elaborate charade.
Episode 16 • Jan 21, 1973 • 25 m
The Ringbanger
Hawkeye and Trapper hit it off with a wounded Colonel, but when they discover his combat zeal is costing lives, they conspire to keep him from returning to the front line.
Episode 17 • Jan 28, 1973 • 25 m
Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
Hawkeye's childhood buddy drops by, and reveals that he is writing a book about his experiences in the infantry - experiences that may hit a little too close to home.
Episode 18 • Feb 4, 1973 • 25 m
Dear Dad, Again
Hawkeye again writes his father about the happenings at the 4077th, including Frank getting drunk, and the discovery of a fraud passing himself off as a doctor.
Episode 19 • Feb 18, 1973 • 25 m
The Longjohn Flap
A cold snap has everybody trying to get their hands on Hawkeye's thermal underwear.
Episode 20 • Feb 25, 1973 • 25 m
The Army-Navy Game
The Army-Navy game back home holds everyone's attention (and bet money) until an artillery barrage forces the camp to dispose of an unexploded shell.
Episode 21 • Mar 4, 1973 • 25 m
Sticky Wicket
Hawkeye moves out of the Swamp while brooding over a patient gone sour, while Frank rubs salt in the wound after suffering Hawkeye's insults to his surgical ability.
Episode 22 • Mar 11, 1973 • 25 m
Major Fred C. Dobbs
Frank applies for a transfer out of the 4077, and Hawkeye and Trapper can't resist broadcasting his goodbye to Margaret through the camp P.A. The prospect of gold in the region gives Frank second thoughts.
Episode 23 • Mar 18, 1973 • 25 m
Ceasefire
The camp erupts into celebration when they receive word that there's a ceasefire.
Episode 24 • Mar 25, 1973 • 25 m
Showtime
A USO troupe entertains the 4077th in between the usual chaos.
11 Seasons

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Alan Alda

Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce

Wayne Rogers

Capt. 'Trapper John' McIntyre, Man on P.A. in Kimpo

Loretta Swit

Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan

Jamie Farr

Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger, Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger, Announcer

William Christopher

Father Francis Mulcahy

Harry Morgan

Col. Sherman T. Potter, Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele

Gary Burghoff

Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly

Mike Farrell

Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt

Kellye Nakahara

Lt. Kellye Yamato, RN, Lt. Able, RN, Lt. Baker, RN

David Ogden Stiers

Maj. Charles Winchester

Larry Linville

Maj. Frank Burns

Jeff Maxwell

Pvt. Igor Straminsky, Igor Straminsky, Cpl. Igor Straminsky, Igor, Pvt. Igor Straminsky, server

McLean Stevenson

Lt. Col. Henry Blake

Roy Goldman

Roy, Corpsman, Roy Goldman, Goldman, Bartender, Enlisted Man, Orderly, Cpl. Goldman, M.A.S.H. Staff, M.P., Man in Jeep, Snapshooting Corpsman, Tray Dropper

Todd Susman

P.A. Announcer, Private Danny Baker

Sal Viscuso

P.A. Announcer, Corporal Benny Bryant, Patient John, Sergeant Raymond McGill

Dennis Troy

Corpsman, Soldier, Dennis, Driver, G.I., 2nd G.I., Ambulance Driver, Carter, Corpsman #1, M.P., M.P. Guard, Military Policeman, Orderly, Sgt General's Aide, Soldier standing next to a pole

Odessa Cleveland

Lt. Ginger Bayliss, RN, Lt. Ginger Bayless, RN

Gwen Farrell

Nurse, Nurse Wilson, Nurse Able, Nurse Gwen, Anesthetist, Lt. Baker, Nurse Butler, Running Nurse

Sheila Lauritsen

Nurse Sheila, Nurse Hardy, Nurse Watson, Running Nurse

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
9 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
9 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review

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100
Feb 13, 2023
MASH is a smash! [18 Sep 1972, p.61]
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80
Feb 13, 2023
It plays beautifully, the guys are good and believable and, most important, very funny. [18 Sep 1972, p.9]
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80
Feb 13, 2023
A rollicking spoof of the medicos, the army, the nurses, the Korean conflict. [17 Sep 1972, p.118]
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70
Feb 13, 2023
It definitely is not family entertainment, but the times they are a-changin' and M-A-S-H should do well with folks who aren't watching "The World of Disney." [18 Sep 1972, p.41]
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70
Feb 13, 2023
The same absurd attitude that prevailed in the movie is in the series, and it should have a fine run.
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60
Feb 13, 2023
If the jokes seem funnier -- which they do -- then it's a good deal because they are slicker. [04 Jun 1973, p.8]
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30
Feb 13, 2023
While I am at once outraged at this profiteering by bad taste, I am sympathetic to those who are cast in the roles of the medical staff. [24 Sep 1972, p.90]
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