

That same year, Harry Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson. After the third season, Rogers left the show and was replaced by Mike Farrell as B. It starred Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre. M*A*S*H, a TV adaptation of the film, ran from 1972 to 1983, more than three times as long as the war it chronicled.
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A large fanbase for the series continues to exist the show has never been out of syndication worldwide, and 20th Century Fox has had notable success selling the film and seasons of the TV series on DVD. The franchise effectively ended with the conclusion of Trapper John, M.D. However, to relieve the pressures of duty in a field hospital close to the front and the attendant horrors of war, the staff engage in humorous hijinks, frivolity, and petty rivalries off-duty.

Almost all versions of the series fit into the genre of black comedy or dramedy the lead characters were doctors or nurses, and the practice of medicine was at the center of events. Later spin-offs involve characters who appeared in the series, but were set after the end of the war. Hawkeye Pierce is featured as the main character, played by Donald Sutherland in the 1970 film M*A*S*H and by Alan Alda on the television series also titled M*A*S*H. The franchise depicts a group of fictional characters who served at the fictional "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H)" during the Korean War, loosely based on the historic 8055th MASH unit. M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
