![mash finale mash finale](https://asset-cdn.campaignbrief.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/03175534/BONDS-MASH.jpg)
Together, they engage in high jinks and exhibit what today might be called bro behavior.
#MASH FINALE SERIES#
The novel’s focus, however, and its narrative, centers on a somewhat disjointed series of sketches involving a loose assemblage of colorful personalities. The book’s sometimes technical descriptions of the kinds of “meatball surgery” his characters perform in the field give it an air of authenticity. Richard Hornberger-a Trenton, New Jersey-born surgeon who had served at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War-who wrote the book with the help of the sportswriter W. Richard Hooker was actually the nom de plume of Dr.
![mash finale mash finale](https://nextpittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-06-at-4.46.11-PM.png)
“ MASH” was mainly about decent people trying to survive an intolerable situation, making the occasion of its golden anniversary, this year, fortuitously relevant. The show was embraced by audiences and critics alike (it also spawned three of its own spinoffs), and when its finale aired, on February 28, 1983, it set a record for the most-watched television episode in broadcast history-a mark that still stands. Of these iterations, it is the last that arguably left the greatest cultural imprint, running for eleven seasons and considered by many to be the gold standard for quality programming in its day.
![mash finale mash finale](https://i.redd.it/waor0wdtd5n51.jpg)
Lost among this year’s observances of the paradigm-shifting cultural events of 1968 is the fiftieth anniversary of the book “ MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors,” a little-remembered shaggy-dog volume by Richard Hooker that engendered fourteen more novels a feature-film adaptation (directed by the then up-and-coming Robert Altman) and one of the highest-rated television series of all time. That’s one way to describe the basic plot of “ M*A*S*H,” with the added details that the protagonists are doctors and nurses in a war zone, and the setting is the Korean War.
#MASH FINALE ARCHIVE#
Photograph from CBS Photo Archive / Getty Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, and Harry Morgan were among the ensemble cast of the long-running TV series “ M*A*S*H.” The book upon which it was based celebrates its golden anniversary this year.