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...took place during the Korean War, following the doctors and soldiers stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea. A thinly veiled allegory for the Vietnam War, the show pioneered the “dramedy” genre. Its producers were famously among the first to fight against the use of a laugh track. “M*A*S*H” ran on CBS for eleven years, outlasting the Korean War itself by eight years. And given the obstacles faced, it really should’ve been awful...
...spirits. Farewell to the mess tent, the only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, and to the memory...
Fitting the Stereotype: Assigned to the rowdy 4077th unit in Korea (he calls it “a fetid and festering sewer”), this well-heeled Bostonian loves wine and classical music, votes Republican, has an enormous ego and turns up his nose at all things lowbrow...
...bloody antiwar comedy was an edgy hit, while affable Alan Alda and smart writing made the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital prime time friendly...
...Mather House tower room, redecorated as "the Swamp," a group of seniors impersonated the 4077th personnel and toasted the demise with champagne, martinis, and beer flowing form a homemade still...