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SYNOPSIS

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FORMAT

  • A---S---H_(TV_series)" class="copylinks">M---A---S---H '' whenever possible. Sometimes this took the form of plot devices, such as the episode in which Klinger arranged Col. Potter's civilian office to look exactly as it had in Korea . More generally, however, ''AfterMASH'' attempted to parallel the dramatic structure of its parent series. Because it took place in a veterans hospital, most of the episodes featured a storyline that highlighted the horrors and suffering of war, just as most episodes of ''M---A---S---H'' had done in the final seasons (however, while on ''M---A---S---H'' the characters were in the middle of the war and saw its horrors up close on a daily basis, ''AfterM---A---S---H'' could deal with such matters only secondhand, reducing their emotional impact). Furthermore, many of the characters in ''M---A---S---H'' had counterparts in ''AfterMASH.'' Like ''M---A---S---H'' with its Hawkeye , the show had a trouble-making but idealistic and talented young surgeon, Gene Pfeiffer ( Jay O. Sanders , who was replaced in the second season). The Frank Burns / Major Houlihan role of narrow-minded, bureaucratic authority figures was filled by hospital administrator Mike D'Angelo ( John Chappell ) and his assistant, Alma Cox ( Brandis Kemp ). However, the series did not succeed in recapturing the feeling of the original, and was cancelled after thirty episodes were completed. The series finale was never aired.



OTHER FACTS

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''AfterMASH'' premiered in the fall of 1983 in the same time Monday night 9:00P.M. EST. time slot as its predecessor M.A.S.H. It finished a very respectable number 15 out of all network shows for the 1983-1984 season, according to Nielsen Media Research television ratings. For its second season CBS moved the show opposite NBC 's top ten hit the '' A-Team ''. The marketing campaign for ''AfterMASH'' featured pictures of Max Klinger (portrayed by Jamie Farr ) in a nurse's uniform, shaving Mr. T 's signature mohawk off. The none-too-subtle implication was that ''AfterMASH'' would trounce the ''A-Team'' in the ratings. But history was to have the final judgment — the ''A-Team'' continued until 1987, long after ''AfterMASH'' had become a distant memory.


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