AfterMASH

AfterMASH
AfterMASH title screen (season 1)
Created by	Larry Gelbart Gene Reynolds Ken Levine David Isaacs
Based on	MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
Starring	Harry Morgan Jamie Farr William Christopher Rosalind Chao John Chappell Jay O. Sanders Barbara Townsend David Ackroyd Anne Pitoniak Peter Michael Goetz Brandis Kemp
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	31 (1 unaired in America)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Burt Metcalfe
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	22–25 minutes
Production company(s)	20th Century Fox Television
Distributor	20th Television
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 26, 1983 (1983-09-26) – May 31, 1985 (1985-05-31)
Chronology
Preceded by	M*A*S*H
Followed by	W*A*L*T*E*R
Website

AfterMASH is an American sitcom produced as a spin-off and continuation of M*A*S*H that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to May 31, 1985. The series takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three characters from the original series: Colonel Potter (played by Harry Morgan), Klinger (played by Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahy (played by William Christopher). M*A*S*H supporting cast-member Kellye Nakahara joined them, albeit off-camera, as the voice of the hospital's public address system. Rosalind Chao rounded out the starring cast as Soon-Lee Klinger, a Korean refugee whom Klinger met, fell in love with and married in the M*A*S*H series finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen."

AfterMASH premiered in autumn 1983 in the same Monday night 9:00 P.M. EDT time slot as its predecessor, M*A*S*H. It finished 10th 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 to Tuesday nights at 8:00 EST, opposite NBC's Top 10 hit The A-Team, and launched a marketing campaign featuring illustrations by Sanford Kossin of Max Klinger in a nurse's uniform shaving off Mr. T's signature mohawk, theorizing that AfterMASH would take a large portion of the A-Team audience. In fact, however, the opposite occurred, as AfterMASH's ratings plummeted to near the bottom of the television rankings, leading to its cancellation just nine episodes into its second season, while The A-Team continued until 1987, with 97 episodes.