Watch M*A*S*H - Season 11, Episode 7 - Settling Debts: Hawkeye and the crew surprise Colonel Potter with a party to commemorate Mildred's final payment on the couple. M*A*S*H is a 1972–1983 American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH. Contact Us: To correct episode titles. With Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman. The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the.

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Introduction. After. MASH can be considered a spin- off of M*A*S*H, or a sequel, or a continuation, or all of the above.

Like M*A*S*H, it was a half- hour sitcom aired on CBS. Unlike M*A*S*H, it was never well- received by critics. And although the first season was highly rated, After. MASH was unable to draw as many viewers as M*A*S*H had.

A total of thirty- one episodes were produced but only thirty were broadcast. The final episode, which was not a proper series finale, has never been aired.

Genesis. The idea for After. MASH was born as M*A*S*H was coming to an end. In February of 1.

M*A*S*H, the first reports of a spin- off began circulating. The key facts: it would be set after the war at a stateside veteran’s hospital and would star Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr and William Christopher as Sherman Potter, Maxwell Klinger and Father Mulcahy, respectively. According to a TV Guide article from November of 1.

M*A*S*H got together to decide if they wanted to continue for an eleventh season in 1. Morgan, Farr and Christopher were the three most in favor of continuing. An abbreviated eleventh season would air from 1. February. But CBS and 2. Century- Fox, the production company behind M*A*S*H, were not keen on seeing the series — and its high ratings — come to an end. For 2. 0th Century- Fox, M*A*S*H was an increasingly valuable source of revenue in the syndicated market.

However, with Alan Alda and the majority of the cast wanting to end the show, M*A*S*H ended. Larry Gelbart, who created the television version of M*A*S*H back in 1. CBS and 2. 0th Century- Fox to create a new series. Gelbart, of course, left M*A*S*H in 1. NBC’s United States in 1.

M*A*S*H.“The challenge is all that interests me,” Gelbart told The New York Times in February of 1. He brought David Isaacs, Ken Levine and Dennis Koenig along with him, three writers/producers from M*A*S*H. Scripting began in April of 1. Michael Hirsch (who produced Making M*A*S*H) served as a researcher and came up with some 5. TV Guide. And an article in The Hartford Courant from June of 1.

After. M*A*S*H was a cool $5. By August of 1. 98. CBS initially ordered, and casting began.

Rosalind Chao, who played Klinger’s Korean wife Soon- Lee in the final episodes of M*A*S*H, was already set to return in After. MASH. Several new characters, including Colonel Potter’s oft- mentioned but never seen wife, Mildred, were also created.

Barbara Townsend was cast as Mildred Potter and John Chappell, Brandis Kemp and Jay O. Sanders were cast as hospital administrator Michael D’Angelo, his secretary Alma Cox and doctor Gene Pfeiffer, respectively. CBS Promotional Image with the First Season Cast. The series was given the Monday at 9: 0.

PM timeslot (all times Eastern) that M*A*S*H had formerly occupied. An hour- long series premiere (two episodes aired back- to- back) was scheduled for September 2. PM airtime. On the eve of the premiere, an article in The New York Time quoted Larry Gelbart as saying about his new show, “We are really dealing with men coming home from war, not dealing with men at war.”The First Season. CBS kept details of those first two episodes under strict lock and key prior to broadcast and even reviewers were unable to get their hands on any details. The secrecy, coupled with general viewer interest, translated to an impressive 3.

According to TV Guide, that was the highest- rated premiere for a new sitcom since Laverne & Shirley bowed on ABC in 1. The premiere saw Sherman Potter, Maxwell Klinger and Father Mulcahy (no longer deaf thanks to an operation) together again at General Pershing Veterans Administration Hospital (more commonly known as General- General) in River Bend, Missouri in September of 1. The following episode, aired October 3rd, slipped to a 3. By November, although the ratings had tapered somewhat, After. MASH was still performing solidly and CBS picked up the series for the remainder of the season, adding an additional nine episodes to the original order for a total of twenty- two.

For the first ten weeks of the 1. After. MASH was tied with the ABC Sunday Night Movie for the fifth spot on the ratings chart, actually doing better than M*A*S*H was during its last season, according to The Hartford Courant. On December 5th, 1.

Fallout” was aired. Perhaps the best installment the series had to offer, it was written and directed by Larry Gelbart and saw both Sherman Potter and Dr. Pfeiffer considering leaving General- General. Death Note Episode 16 Download there. When they stumble upon a connection between the leukemia seen in a patient and exposure to atomic testing, they reconsider. The plight of the “atomic veterans” was, and is, a real one: soldiers who fell ill after being exposed to radiation from atomic tests. The episode, and Larry Gelbart, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series.

A Familiar Face. In January of 1. After. MASH experienced some growing pains.

The character of Dr. Pfeiffer, played by Jay O. Sanders, was phased out “because the character just wasn’t working,” according to TV Guide. A new character, Dr. Boyer, played by David Ackroyd, was introduced in the same episode, which also had a cameo from actor Gary Burghoff as Walter “Radar” O’Reilly. Burghoff had left M*A*S*H at the start of its eighth season. Burghoff would guest star in the following week’s episode, which dealt with Radar’s upcoming marriage.

As Potter, Mulcahy and Klinger prepare to head to Iowa for the wedding, Radar shows up at Potter’s house in Missouri, pre- wedding jitters having gotten the best of him. CBS Promotional Image for “It Had To Be You” with Gary Burghoff. Rumors about Burghoff’s appearance foretelling yet another M*A*S*H spin- off were not exactly true: his guest role on After. MASH may have “tested” the waters some but it did not serve as a pilot for a potential series (that would have to wait for W*A*L*T*E*R later that year). CBS Orders Changes. After. MASH ended its first season on March 1. Klinger tries to buy a house and instead buys himself a ton of trouble.

The series was replaced for several weeks before repeats began in late April. CBS announced it was renewing After. MASH for a second season in early May; however, despite ranking 1. After. MASH and instituted several changes. First and foremost, After. MASH would be moving to Tuesdays at 8: 0. PM to serve as “counterprogramming” to NBC’s hit series The A- Team due to its audience skewing older.

Additionally, the series would have “more energy, more drama” and would become “more colorful,” according to TV Guide. Klinger would be back in women’s clothing, on the run due to an incident with a realtor at the end of the first season. The character of hospital administrator Michael D’Angelo, played by John Chappel, was replaced by Wally Wainright, played by Peter Michael Goetz. Furthermore, Mildred Potter would no longer be played by Barbara Townsend. Instead, Anne Pitoniak was brought in to make Mildred “more of a Gracie Allen type.” Potter would now have Alma Cox as his secretary — the two did not get along — and the role of Dr. Boyer would be expanded.

All of these changes were made because CBS was trying to “recapture some of the zaniness and desperation of the early years of the original M*A*S*H,” said TV Guide. Season Two. The second season premiere aired as a special presentation on Sunday, September 2. PM, prior to the 3. Annual Emmy Awards, and did quite well in the ratings. When After. MASH moved to its regular Tuesday time slot on September 2. Despite Jamie Farr being back in drag, viewers were not tuning in. The October 9th, 1.

M*A*S*H, this time Edward Winter as the paranoid Colonel Flagg. Klinger, back in jail, was trying to use insanity as a defense and Flagg was brought in to testify. All the changes CBS had instituted for the second season — and the increased competition facing The A- Team — were too much for After. MASH, which was officially cancelled on Wednesday, October 2. The series had fallen as low as 6.