M*A*S*H 4077th - Korean War based
hospital (a tent city) featured on the military sitcom M*A*S*H/CBS/1972-83.
The 4077th is a Mobile Army Surgical Unit that treated wounded soldiers near
the front lines. Medical staff on duty includes Captain Benjamin Franklin
“Hawkeye” Pierce (Alan Alda); Captain John “Trapper John” McIntyre
(Wayne Rogers); Head Nurse Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (Loretta
Swit); company clerk Corporal Walter “Radar” O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff);
Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger who wore dresses so that he could be declared
crazy and sent home [Klinger replaced “Radar“ when he went stateside];
Chaplain Father John Francis Patrick “Dago
Red” Mulcahy (William Christopher); Captain B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell)
[who replaced “Trapper John“]; Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
(David Ogden Stiers); and Colonel Sherman T. Potter (Harry Morgan) [who
replaced Henry Blake after he died in a plane crash]. Note: The exterior
shots for the series were filmed at Malibu Canyon Creek State Park (Fox
Ranch) that was donated by Twentieth Century-Fox to the State of California.
A portion of the park burned down in a brush fire during the filming of the
series finale and so the script writers incorporated the disaster into the
final script “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.”
