After MASH

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1. #001

   Colonel Flagg and Radar O'Reilly were the only characters from the film M*A*S*H (1972) to appear as guest roles in the series. Plans were made in the second season for Alan Alda and other actors from the original series to appear, but the plans were cancelled before they were finalized.

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2. #002

   After MASH was created specifically for Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr and William Christopher, all of whom had expressed a desire for the series to continue when M*A*S*H (1972) was cancelled.

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3. #003

   The voice on the hospital's PA system is Kellye Nakahara, who played Lieutenant Kellye on M*A*S*H.

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4. #004

   A series starring Gary Burghoff as Radar was proposed as a spin-off. Its pilot, W*A*L*T*E*R (1984), aired only once, on 17 July 1984.

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5. #005

   After MASH drew its highest ratings in its first season, but it was cancelled after ratings fell sharply in the middle of its second season.

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6. #006

   For its second season, CBS moved the series to Tuesday nights at 8:00 EST, opposite NBC's top-ten hit The A-Team (1983), and launched a marketing campaign featuring Sanford Kossin drawings of Max Klinger in a nurse's uniform, shaving off Mr. T's signature Mohawk while theorizing that AfterMASH would draw a large portion of The A-Team's audience. The opposite happened: AfterMASH's ratings fell to the bottom of the television rankings and nine episodes of its second season were cancelled, while The A-Team ran until 1987 with 97 episodes.

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7. #007

   The series is set at General John J. Pershing General Hospital in River Bluff, MO. There is in fact a John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, MO.

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8. #008

   Martin Short auditioned for a role. The producers wanted to hire him but told Short he was too talented to take a supporting role in a series. Short followed their advice and the role was dropped.

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9. #009

   It ranked No. 1 on TV Guide's list of the 10 Worst Television Spin-Offs.

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10. #010

    Besides the characters of Harry Morgan, William Christopher and Jamie Farr, another character carried over from the original series is Rosalind Chao as Klinger's Korean wife, Soon-Lee.

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11. #011

    In 1999, TIME named the series one of the 100 Worst Ideas of the 20th Century. It was one of three series on the list, along with The Jerry Springer Show (1991) and Barney & Friends (1992).

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12. #012

    After ratings began to fall dramatically, the network dropped the series, and the final episode never aired in the United States.

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13. #013

    It was parodied in Mad Magazine under the name "AfterMUSH".

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14. #014

    Although the original M*A*S*H series was a major worldwide hit for Twentieth Century Fox Television Productions, this series was decidedly not. In the United Kingdom, for example, M*A*S*H was BBC2's most-watched programme in the weekly ratings, but After MASH was never shown there.

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15. #015

    Although M*A*S*H was a major hit and sold well to foreign television broadcasters, this sequel series was a disaster, with its only foreign sale going to an Australian channel.

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