Network: CBS
Episodes: 31, one unaired (half-hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: September 26, 1983 – December 11, 1984
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Rosalind Chao, Barbara Townsend, John Chappell, Patrick Cranshaw, David Ackroyd, and Jay O. Sanders.
TV show description:
This sitcom picks up where M*A*S*H leaves off, following some of the sitcom’s characters after the end of the Korean war.
Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) finds that retired life back home in Hannibal, Missouri is not quite what he was expecting. He’s terribly bored so his wife, Mildred (Barbara Townsend, later Ann Pitoniak), suggests that he go back to work. So, Colonel Potter gets a job as Chief of Staff at General Pershing Veteran’s Hospital, being hired by the hospital administrator Mike D’Angelo (John Chappell).
Back in Toledo and married to Soon-Lee (Rosalind Chao) from Korea, Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) gets in trouble with the law so Colonel Potter offers him a job as an administrative assistant at the hospital. D’Angelo’s uptight executive secretary, Alma Cox (Brandis Kemp), has it out for the unorthodox veteran while secretary Bonnie Hornbeck (Wendy Schall) is smitten with him.
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Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), whose hearing was extremely damaged at the end of the war, becomes very depressed and starts drinking too much. Colonel Potter arranges for surgery to restore his hearing and Father Mulcahy then joins the hospital staff as Chaplain.
Also working at General Pershing are a bright but naive resident surgeon named Gene Pfeiffier (Jay O. Sanders) and an absent-minded long-time patient named Bob Scannell (Patrick Cranshaw) who once served with Colonel Potter in World War I.
As Soon Lee is about to go into labor, he gets arrested for punching a shady real estate agent and goes to jail. He escapes jail in order to be there for the birth of his child and then feigns insanity to avoid prison. He’s sent to the psychiatric unit at the hospital and is treated by Dr. Lenore Dudziak (Wendy Girard). While Klinger’s “away,” the Potters take in Soon-Lee and the baby.
Bureaucratic D’Angelo is transferred to Montana and is replaced as administrator by Wally Wainwright (Peter Michael Goetz) from Washington, D.C. Young Dr. Pfeffier is replaced with Dr. Boyer (David Ackroyd), a brilliant but bitter surgeon who lost a leg in Korea.
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AfterMASH
