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[[caption-width-right:300: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]] ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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."