The American wartime medical saga has been a popular part of television since 1972.
One of the most beloved and iconic shows in TV history, M*A*S*H, celebrates its 50th birthday this September and fans of the show can catch unmissable golden episodes every weekday from 7pm on GREAT! tv.
Rejoin the riotous medical army recruits Hawkeye, Trapper, Hot Lips, Radar, Klinger, Colonel Sherman T. Potter and the rest of the extraordinary ensemble cast as they live through a host of laugh-out-loud exploits.
The ground-breaking comedy drama show centres around the lives, loves and work of a team of doctors stationed in Korea during the Korean War in the early ’50s.
The insanely funny show made stars of the M*A*S*H (“Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”) cast including Alan Alda (“Hawkeye” Pierce), Wayne Rogers (Trapper John McIntyre), McLean Stevenson (Henry Blake), Larry Linville (Frank Burns), Gary Burghoff (“Radar” O’Reilly), Loretta Swit (Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan) and Jamie Farr (Maxwell Q. Klinger).
It’s time to relive your favourite M*A*S*H TV show moments on GREAT! tv from Thursday 1st September 2022. Fall in for some of these favourite episodes during the first week of airings:
While dealing with a long stretch of surgery duty, Winchester becomes addicted to amphetamines in Dr Winchester and Mr Hyde. Meanwhile, Radar sets up a mouse race competition between the 4077th and a group of cocky Marine patients.
In Commander Pierce, Pierce is temporarily put in charge of the 4077th, but the weight of his new responsibility starts to take its toll. Pierce’s temperament begins to change, and he soon becomes uptight and authoritarian, much to the surprise of the rest of the unit.
In Lil, Radar gets bent out of shape when he thinks Colonel Potter is spending too much time with a new visiting female colonel, Lil Raybron, and works to earn back his attention. Meanwhile, Hawkeye tries to figure out what B.J.’s initials stand for.
In Billfold Syndrome, Charles becomes irate when he is turned down for a medical position he wanted after the war, so goes on a ‘speaking strike’, refusing to talk to anyone in the unit. Hawkeye and B.J. hatch a plan to get Charles talking by sending him a false telegram from home. Meanwhile, a young medic can’t remember his own identity, so Sidney Freedman is called for help.
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