AFTERMASH

[treky]

do you think this show would have been a hit if it had focused on other characters besides Potter, Klinger & Fr. Mulcahey? For instance Hawkeye, BJ & Charles?

They probably would have to get someone else to play Hawkeye if they did though, since A.A. probably wouldn't want to do the character again.

[Marvo301]

Originally Posted by treky

do you think this show would have been a hit if it had focused on other characters besides Potter, Klinger & Fr. Mulcahey? For instance Hawkeye, BJ & Charles?

They probably would have to get someone else to play Hawkeye if they did though, since A.A. probably wouldn't want to do the character again.

They held a vote near the end of the run of M*A*S*H and Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher were the only ones who voted to continue the show. That is why Aftermash was built around their characters. (Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy) It would have probably helped the show if some of the other cast members from M*A*S*H would donee guest appearances. The only one who did was Gary Burghoff. (Radar)

[treky]

no, Sidney Freedman & Col. Flagg both appeared in the 2nd season.

[biffbronson]

I was always a bigger fan of Trapper John, MD, although I do remember watching AfterMASH. And that's an exception for me, as I normally way preferred sitcoms over dramas. At the time, I thought that Farr and the others should probably give it a rest -- although I later understood their need to keep their careers going.

[KurtfromPitts]

My late mom coerced me into seeing the premiere episode. Didn't care for it.

[Will Dockery]

Originally Posted by Marvo301

They held a vote near the end of the run of M*A*S*H and Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher were the only ones who voted to continue the show. That is why Aftermash was built around their characters. (Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy) It would have probably helped the show if some of the other cast members from M*A*S*H would donee guest appearances. The only one who did was Gary Burghoff. (Radar)

Sure wish they'd put out a DVD of AfterM*A*S*H!

I never got to see AfterM*A*S*H because when it aired my interest in M*A*S*H had waned for a time, and my interest in television was at an all-time low, of course I would love to see it now, just as I actually enjoy the paperback novel sequels to M*A*S*H that the creator if the series Richard Hooker churned out in the 1970s to cash in on the success of the television version.

About every six months or so I seem to find another title in the M*A*S*H paperback series of the 1970s, goofy little novels based very loosely on the M*A*S*H cast, written by the creator Richard Hooker, or at least credited to him as aco-author with William Butterworth.

With the author of the original M*A*S*H involved, these are sort of "canon" in a way, although as part of some wild alternate universe from the TV series, which had AfterM*A*S*H and Trapper John, MD... these books started with the very good M*A*S*H Goes To Maine and soon took the characters all over the world to different cities, this time, Miami, as in "M*A*S*H Goes To Miami"

Reading the back cover copy, I see the dentist Painless Pole is involved in this one.

Shamelessly parlaying on bothe the television series (listing the actor of the 1976 season on the back cover, as if they had anything to do with this) and on the front cover using the icon from the film the "peace sign" fingers and lady's legs photoshop, with the Army helmet on one of the fingers.

Goofy as they are, I'm always pleased to find one of these, and are fairly good reads, more-or-less... and of course quite rare, having been out of print for several decades now, with very little chance of them being reprintsed, no doubt.

Yes, this interesting post cover that alternate reality where Henry Blake survived, and thrived:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....E/s3FSdM8FWvcJ

Mikael Uhlin wrote:
12/5/98

Did you know that in the "M*A*S*H Goes To..." - novels by Richard Hooker and
William Butterworth, Blake wasn't killed at all?!?!
"M*A*S*H Goes To San Fransisco" says that "despite irresponsible reports to
the contrary from people who would have known better had they been able to read words of more than one syllable, survived the Korean War and achieved high rank". He's now Major General Henry Blake, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

I think I've got every novel except "..Montreal" and "..Moscow" and this is
information I've found about what happned to the other main characters:

HAWKEYE
is married to Mary and got three children: Billy, Stephen and Karen. He
worked for a while in East Orange, New Jersey, but then returned to Maine, where he started to work at Spruce Harbor General Hospital. Together with his old friends from Korea, he also opened Finestkind Clinic and Fishmarket.

TRAPPER
was sent to Okinawa after the truce and then worked at Saint Lombard's in
New York. Trapper finally joined the others in Spruce Harbor and soon fell in love with Hawkeye's secretary Lucinda and later married her.

HOT LIPS
After retiring from the Army Margaret was briefly married to, and widowed
by, Mr. Isadore Wachauf, Chairman of the Board of Wachauf Metal Recycling, International(formerly Izzy's Junkyard). Margaret then went to San Marcos in Brazil as a chief nurse of a mission hospital, the Green Inferno Christian Medical Missionary Hospital. She went to New Orleans in connection with mission business and met the Reverend Buck Wilson, founder of the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church Inc. After a whirlwind courtship Hot Lips married Reverend Wilson. He expired on the nuptial couch on their wedding day, apparently of a heart seizure brought on by overexertion. Margaret Houlihan Wachauf Wilson is now acting as Mother Emeritus of the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church Inc.

FRANK
Francis Burns, M.D., lives in Hillandale, Ohio, with his wife Louise and
kids. He left the practice of pediatric medicine and founded the Burns Vasectomological Institute and also runs The Burns Loving Family and Zero Population Growth Clinic. He is social secretary (with ambition to become president) of the American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.
About his time in Korea, he calls himself "combat surgeon" and claims to
have been both chief surgeon of the 4077th MASH and personal medical adviser to General Douglas MacArthur.
(M*A*S*H Goes To New Orleans)

MULCAHY
His Eminence John Patrick Mulcahy has become titular Archbishop of
Swengchan (China). Due to a misunderstanding between his superiors and the Democratic People's Republic of China, he has not been able to actually preside over his archdiocese. In "M*A*S*H Goes To New Orleans" Hawkeye removed a tumor during an operation upon His Eminence

RADAR
is called J.Robespierre O'Reilly in the "M*A*S*H Goes To..."-novels and has
started an international fast-food service operation (Mother O'Reilly's Irish Stew Parlors). In "M*A*S*H Goes To Las Vegas", Radar marries Kristina Korsky-Rimsakov, telephatic sister of opera singer Boris Korsky-Rimsakov, who appears in several of the novels. The knot is firmly tied by Archbishop Mulcahy.

HO-JON
The Korean houseboy they sent to Androscoggin College is now the Director
of Admissions at Androscoggin. In the novel "M*A*S*H Mania" he helped Hawkeye's
37-year-old brother-in-law Claremont "Meanstreak" Morse to join the college, finally becoming the Chief of Neurological Surgery in Spruce Harbor.

DUKE and SPEARCHUCKER
They left Georgia and Philadelphia respectivally to join Hawkeye and
Trapper in Maine.

PAINLESS
Walter Kosciusko Waldowski, Doctor of Dental Surgery, is now "bald and fat"
and lives in
Hamtramck, Michigan. He's married to Wilma and got one daughter, Wanda.
(M*A*S*H Goes To Miami)

One I never have been able to get my hands on, and for sure the third best of the sequels, is M*A*S*H Mania, the last book of the series and the one where Hooker returns to apparently write it all himself.

I have found on Goodreads site a pretty nice set of synopsis/critiques, including cover scans and other information on the books. Here's the one on M*A*S*H Mania for example:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201843.Mash_Mania

Well, that one's a little skimpy compared to the reviews of the first couple, here's their list of all 15 books, yeah, there were 14 "After M*A*S*H" books, with 5 or 6 that come out in 1976 alone!

https://www.goodreads.com/series/54894-m-a-s-h

Good place to view the covers and get an idea of which characters were in what book, for the completists and oddity seekers.