Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate 50th anniversary of CBS series M*A*S*H on Twitter
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Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of CBS series M*A*S*H on Twitter
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Alan Alda and Mike Farrell teamed up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dark war comedy M*A*S*H, which premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972.
The 86-year-old actor who played Captain Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce on the critically acclaimed show shared a photo on Twitter on Saturday showing Farrell, 83, who played Captain BJ Hunnicutt.
Mike Farrell and I toast today to the 50th anniversary of the show that changed our lives – and our brilliant friends who made it what it was. MASH was a great gift to us,” Alda captioned his approximately 324,000 followers.
Fiftieth Anniversary: Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up on Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dark war comedy M*A*S*H that premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972
Alda and Farrell in the photo were beaming as they stood side by side with stemmed glasses filled with red wine.
The ensemble cast originally included Alda and the late Wayne Rogers, who died in 2015 at age 82, as surgeons Hawkeye and “Trapper” John McIntyre at the “4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. .
Rogers was written from the third season along with the late McLean Stevenson, who died in 1996 at the age of 68, who played Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake.
Farrell replaced Rogers with Hunnicutt and became bunkmate and straight-man for Hawkeye’s antics.
TV Stars: The 86-year-old actor who played Captain Benjamin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce in the critically acclaimed show shared a photo on Twitter on Saturday showing Farrell, 83, who played Captain BJ Hunnicutt, shown in a 1975 still.
Fan Favorites: Farrell, seen in November 2019, and Alda, seen in January 2020, played Korean War bunkmates and surgeons on the CBS series
M*A*S*H is an adaptation of the 1970 feature film of the same name and aired on CBS for 11 seasons from September 1972 to February 28, 1983.
The series is one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television history, and its final episode was the most-watched television broadcast in U.S. history from 1983 to 2010.
Titled ‘Goodbye, Farewell and Amen’, the finale remains the most-watched TV-series finale and the most-watched script-series episode.
Original Ensemble: Alda is shown with other original ensemble cast members Larry Linville as Major Frank Burns and Wayne Rogers as Captain ‘Trapper’ John McIntyre in a 1972 still
The show was honored with a Peabody Award in 1975.
Alda revealed in 2018 that he has Parkinson’s disease.
In addition to portraying Hawkeye, Alda also played a senator who became president on The West Wing and he also hosted Scientific American Frontiers on PBS.
Highly Popular: Show stars Alda, Rogers and Lorett Swit, 84, while Major Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan is shown in a 1972 film