Another big connection for MASH for me was that in 1983 I was going through a period of depression and watching MASH was one of the bright spots for me and so when I watched the final episode and was saying goodbye to those characters that was really sad for me.

For a while I even thought I’d go into the military because of the two shows. It was on back to back with Hogan’s Heroes so that was my nightly military hour of television. I grew up watching it in reruns every weekday night during the summers. MASH has always been very important to me.

I later heard it would be the 28th though I didn’t realize the significance of the date. Great to have the show out! I added it to my podcast app once the rss feed was announce and kept watching the icon to see a 1 appear in the corner to let me know that the first episode had dropped. It now sits next to my All in the Family box sex (I wish there was a podcast for that sitcom).įinally, MASH fans may want to check out the wonderful “Archive of American Television” website for in-depth video interviews with many of the key MASH alums. In anticipation of the podcast, I purchased the DVD set of the entire series so now I can watch along with you and reacquaint myself with the series.

Although it was set in the 1950s, MASH is very much a series about the 1970s. I have a lecture called “The Sitcom Revolution” where we cover the groundbreaking programs of the 1970s that reflected the era’s changing cultural attitudes (All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Good Times, Maude, etc) The famous line on TV’s dramatic evolution that came from comedian Pat Buttram (Green Acres) was that “CBS cancelled everything with a tree in it.” All the broad rural-based shows that the network had been running to great profits in the 1960s were replaced by programs that now skewed to a younger, more urban,and educated demographic. Congrats on the new show! I’m teaching a course on “Television as Popular Culture” this semester and will definitely be covering MASH in class within the next few weeks.

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