I was a kid when MASH originally aired. My parents didn’t watch it. They couldn’t stand Alan Alda. Ill watch an early episode once in a while, but I won’t give the BJ/Charles/Potter episodes the time of day. I have found that with MASH, people either love it or hate it. I...
American actors Gary Burghoff (left), as Corporal Walter Radar OReilly, and Alan Alda, as Captain Benjamin Hawekeye Pierce, appear in a scene from an episode of the television series MASH, California, 1976. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) The combat boots and dog tags that Ala...
(CBS News)Alan Alda proved on the TV series "MASH" that you don't need a medical degree to portray an Army Medic. Now, all these years later, he's proving you don't need a degree in science to help spread the word about the latest findings. Tracy Smith has our Sunday Profile: Wh...
Why did Wayne Rogers leave the show MASH? Rogers played Trapper John, usually acting opposite of Alan Alda's Hawkeye. He was a big part of the show's makeup during those early seasons. ... Rogers left the showbecause he didn't want to play second fiddle to Alda anymore. In an effor...
Alda and the producers wanted to keep the show realistic “I was worried that it would become a high jinks at the front and that the war would just sort of exist as a pretext for silly stories,” Alda told NPR in 2019, adding that some freelance scripts for unproduced episodes, which ...
Spread the Word; MASH Star Alan Alda Discovers How Communication Helped Man EvolveDaily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Alda and the producers wanted to keep the show realistic “I was worried that it would become a high jinks at the front and that the war would just sort of exist as a pretext for silly stories,” Alda told NPR in 2019, adding that some freelance scripts for unproduced episodes, which ...