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M*A*S*H is a 1972–1983 American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which, in turn, was based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker). The series, which was produced with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea during the Korean War. The show's title sequence features an instrumental-only version of "Suicide Is Painless", the theme song from the original film. The show was created after an attempt to film the original book's sequel, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine, failed. The television series is the best-known version of the M*A*S*H works and one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television history.

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  • Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce
  • Wayne Rogers as Trapper John
  • McLean Stevenson as Henry Blake
  • Loretta Swit as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
  • Larry Linville as Frank Burns
  • Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly
  • Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicutt
  • Harry Morgan as Sherman T. Potter
  • Jamie Farr as Maxwell Klinger
  • William Christopher as Father Mulcahy
  • David Ogden Stiers as Charles Winchester
  • Edward Winter as Samuel Flagg
  • Allan Arbus as Dr. Sidney Freedman
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