Join the men and women who made M*A*S*H as they celebrate one of the most beloved, enduringly popular, often quoted and influential comedies ever created.
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Join the men and women who made M*A*S*H as they celebrate one of the most beloved, enduringly popular, often quoted and influential comedies ever created.
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No, l watched for it for years . I loved the characters. But by ,l don't know,the time they made it the "Hawkeye" Pierce soliloquy l was done!!! Along with "Quincy"M.D.. simply a Public Address System!
I cant stand mash. Only the 1st 3 years were good. The movie was even worse.
We've lost a lot, in general. Not just MASH. Especially over the last 30 years or so. I was an early teen when MASH went off the air. I didn't realize how good we had it back then…overall. sigh
Memories. Nostalgia. Poignancy.
I never understood why Alan Arbus and, Edward Winter (Dr Freedman and Colonel Flagg), weren't mentioned! They were both amazing and loved!🎉
You should have started off by saying you know why I love M A S H so much? because it's the only show where I was really f**** the star of anything
Been watching MASH for 54 years! I am 63! Graduated High School and joined the Army in 81 with them, and did a 20 yr career!
That theme song… I remember being a kid and laying in bed. I could see my dad sitting in his chair laughing. I’m an old lady now but if I could I would tell all the cast what they meant to a whole generation of adults and children. 🇺🇸❤️👍
I cried on and off throughout this whole documentary. I was young (high school) and didn't realize what I was watching. I just knew when I caught the show on, I liked it. Decades later, I feel this unusual sense of privilege having been around and being, I guess one can say, the generation (X) that caught the last of so many great things. This show was one of them. I really did grow to love the characters. And though I wasn't involved with politics or aware of much wartime anything, I knew I had a small insight to what things were really like. Forever grateful. And, rest in peace to all those characters (actors) no longer with us on this 8th day of August, 2026.
As Col. Potter said in the episode, Old Soldiers, I loved you fellas (and lady), one and all.✌🏾
The best show ever on television. Even Cheers, Friends and Frazier couldn’t beat it!
Only p people who really enjoyed the show were WOKE, liberal, progressives….need I say.more?
As Vietnsm Veteran. I found the pathetic show. The most insulting attempt at humor i h a very dver seen. It also took great pains to insult the real Military field hospitals and I insult ALL veterans….
"Where were you when you watched the finale of MASH?" Its almost the same as "Where were you when we landed on the moon?" A unifying cultural phenomenon to see the men and women trying to stay (or become) sane in the theater of war they didn’t choose.
My husband watched MASH with his grandfather and introduced it to me shortly after we were married 20 years ago. Most recently we "forced" our 16 year old son to watch the show. After the first episode, he was hooked. Watched the whole series and loved it. SUCH a great series!
Gelbart and his far left propaganda. America on CBS every week – America is so gullible. Lots of people figured it out the liberal BS the show was shoving down the throat of the audience.
Excellent show from beginning to end – the memories are beyond anything. Thank you.
I was a teenager when MASH was on the air. I loved it. I was 12 when we left Vietnam, so too young to truly comprehend war, other than looking around and knowing that young adults everywhere were protesting it, while the older generations seemed to be angry about that and that they had experienced WWII much differently for very valiant reasons. Watching this, I realize how much it shaped my belief systems regarding war. It was my only perspective of any magnitude, other than old, WWII era movies that tried to glorify it. This, with its comedy helped soften it enough for a 'tween girl to be able to tolerate the tragedy and futility. It's message was no more war and since MASH ended we've gone on to war after war in the Middle East, and now, Iran again when it didn't have to be so, and all for profit and greed. I'd say that we need MASH again, but there can never be another MASH. Perhaps, instead, it should be required watching for every young person in America. Perhaps, too, for every hawkish member of government.
The 2 tv shows that ever made me cry were Game of thrones and MASH. But, only MASH makes me cry today. Just remembering how much I loved that show, as a little boy sitting on the edge of my bed watching a tube rabbit ear tv makes me tear up today.
I have the exact same Teddy bear that Radar has!!!
This show is so amazing. It can still be shown today & be applicable. There has never been another show that could touch MASH. Once in a life time show.
I loved MASH. I was a housewife whose husband devalued me verbally. These special programs helped me cope. I had been a Dept of the Army Civilian (DAC) at Ft. Leavenworth & very appreciated. My grandfather was an Army sergeant. I needed connection with military stories until I returned when my marriage ended.
The only shitty thing was the laugh track.
Before streaming apps…for a couple of years I would get up at 3:50 am to watch MASH. It was on for an hour from 4:00 am-5:00 am. M-F.
My son asked why I didn't record it and I never had an answer for him. He thought it was silly to get up that early to watch an old TV show.
I’m tearing up all over again 😭
Great movie: Citizen Vigilante. What a hero.
If he goes to memorial service, he'll stand out.
Remember grade school yearbook pictures of our head shot?
Mandani knows not to be a tar*et at memorial service.
When he is at home during memorial, no witnesses around. Have U seen great movie called CITIZEN VIGILANTE. What a hero.
My great-uncle was a thoracic surgeon, first on the beach at Normandy then the Battle of the Bulge. He was in Korea, then Vietnam. He was one the first MASH surgeons
He was buried at Arlington.
Great Documentary…..I think it helped stop the east wars. It brought war to life…thanks !
I used to watch reruns with my son, tears would come to my eyes when I heard the theme song.
This was one of the memories of my teen years. By the end of the 1970s I was a grown man romancing the most celebrated stripper on in New Orleans. I was The Prince of Bourbon Street living a life they write about. Didn't watch much TV except what my girlfriends watched.
Alan Alda kind of ruined the show. He just took over and I got sick of it.
I can't believe how much I cried. Those were truly wonderful times!
I was on active duty in the Army in the late 1970s and retired from the Army National Guard in 2004. Col. Potter reminds me so much, personality-wise, of a 1SG I had at Ft. Benning.
Golden age of television 😊
Great Show
Thank you….a lot of memories. I loved you all. 🥰🥰😘😘 Born 06/25/1950.
I STILL WATCH MASH
THEY SHOULD HAVE PROBABLY GONE THROUGH THERAPY THAT VETERANS GO THROUGH
With all the remakes and reimagining going on of classic franchises, there is little left of pop culture that hasn't been destroyed. As l write this in 2026, no remake or relaunch of MASH has been announced, but l fully expect some greedy executive to greenlight such a pointless effort. Any television series concept that is good will be run into the ground. Great television is rare, and is either cancelled before it's developed or also run into the ground. Looking back on MASH reminds you that few series had the luxury of maturing and developing to the point where it consistently created such iconic moments. Most likely, based on the way the medium works today, it will never happen again.
Should MASH have been allowed to run 11 seasons? Hard to say. It seemed to hit a creative and visual peak – where there were consecutive, back-to-back amazing episodes – by season 6. Every show runs out of steam. There are people who insist that the best of the series was Seasons 1-3, but if you watch those shows, the series was already changing and growing even with the original cast intact. No doubt it would have continued this had Stevenson, Rogers and Linville remained. Did it 'become the Alan Alda' show? It was ALWAYS the Alda show, as he was the major talent sign that managed to get the series greenlit for an ongoing series in the first place.
But MASH did evolve. Sure it became more serious, but l would rather watch a show the matures and takes risks than one that sets back and offers the easy route. MASH never promised a happy ending, just a thoughtful, sometimes messy one.
l look back now on those later shows and see a series that defied the label of 'sit-com' and tried to offer something more. Although some of the themes seemed to return toward the end, l did find that many of my favorite episodes involved the Winchester character, who provided such a contrast to the other surgeons. The politics of the show by his arrival shifted, and in turn provided a richer pallet of stories to be told. The surgeons were just as likely to be wrong on any given issue, but the producers trusted the viewers enough to make their own decisions.
Robert Altman never cared for the series. While he admitted that it was well-crafted, he never liked what he called the 'homilies' of the story structure. He thought the show was too interested in message-making. Maybe so, but l think it gave the series a level of richness that made it unique. It would have been great if Fox had been smart enough to pull Altman into the series on some level. I suspect they were too cheap to even send him a check to say 'thanks' for establishing the franchise. Well, l thank you, Mr. Altman, and everyone involved down the line right to the end. MASH still matters. A lot. And l am always happy to check back into the 4077.
Still my favorite after all these years
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