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[[File:MASH.jpg|frame|Seasons 1-3 cast. Left to right: Frank "Ferret Face" Burns, Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Henry Blake, "Trapper" John McIntyre, John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, Walter "Radar" O’Reilly, and Maxwell Q. Klinger]]
One of the most commercially and critically successful series in television history, '''''M*A*S*H''''' ([[Fun with Acronyms|short for]] ''[[wikipedia:Mobile Army Surgical Hospital|Mobile Army Surgical Hospital]]'', a type of Army field hospital first activated in the last month of [[World War II]]) is, to quote its lead character Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), "Finest kind."
The show ran on [[CBS]] [[Long Runner|from 1972 to 1983]], seven years longer than [[The Korean War]] during which it takes place. At first seen as a wacky, slightly edgy sitcom based on [[M*A*S*H (film)|Robert Altman's 1970 movie]], the series moved away from strictly comedic storylines early in its run (Season 1's "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" was the first [[Tear Jerker]]), and began to incorporate dramatic plotlines in conjunction with comedic ones in the same episode.
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