That’s all folks! The 11th and final season of M*A*S*H is upon us. I’m going to be a bit forward with you, the readers, in that I’m going to spend an unusually high amount of time on the final episode in terms of the context of this review. It’s not to say the other 15 episodes (what a short season) weren’t important -- far from it. But the final episode is so important, that, well…yeah.

The show lasted 11 years -- almost four times the length of the war in which it’s set. The show, at one point, was seen as a commentary on Vietnam. By the end of the show’s run, we were halfway between Vietnam and Desert Storm. What started as a pure-breed comedy in 1972 was one of TV’s first, and possibly finest, drama-comedy hybrids (a “dramedy”) by the end, and had taken a somewhat more serious tone, while still retaining a lot of the same humor as before. Of the 1972, not many original cast members remained - only two whom appeared in the first episode that first year were still around at the end: Alan Alda and Loretta Swit. William Christopher, of course, debuted as Father Mulcahy in the third episode, while Jamie Farr as the unforgettable Max Klinger debuted later that year.

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