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"M*A*S*H" is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 novel Category: "M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" - by Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film "M*A*S*H", and influenced by the 1961 novel "Catch-22". It is the most well-known version of the "M*A*S*H" works.

The series was a medical drama/black comedy produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS. The show followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. "M*A*S*H"s title sequence featured an instrumental version of the song "Suicide Is Painless", which also appears in the original film. The series premiered on September 17, 1972, and ended February 28, 1983, with the finale becoming the most-watched television episode in U.S. television history. The show is still broadcast in syndication on various television stations (mostly during the late night/early morning hours) and in 2007 began a run on TV Land with the "Major, Major M*A*S*H Marathon". The series spanned 251 episodes and lasted eleven seasons (covering a three-year war).

Many of the stories in the early seasons are based on real-life tales told by real MASH surgeons who were interviewed by the production team.

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Gary Burghoff was the only member of the movie cast to become a regular on the television series. But he was not the only cast member to appear in both the film and the television series. G. Wood, who played General Hammond, also appeared on the series, if only for three episodes. Timothy Brown was in both the film and the series (for a brief time) but played different roles in each: he was Cpl. Judson in the film and "Spearchucker" in the series. And Corey Fischer played Capt. Bandini in the film and played the guitar-playing dentist Cardozo in the episode of the series entitled "5 O'Clock Charlie."