M*A*S*H
It's from 1972, before you were born.
- Network
- CBS
- Genre
- Comedy-drama
- Premiered
- 1972
- Setting
- Korean War field hospital
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About
As of 2026, it's 54 years old.
M*A*S*H pulled off the near-impossible: a comedy set in a Korean War surgical unit that was somehow hilarious and quietly devastating, often in the same scene. Wisecracking army doctors used jokes as armor against the horror around them, and the show trusted audiences to handle both at once.
It ran far longer than the actual war it depicted, and its 1983 finale was watched by so many people it stood for decades as the most-viewed broadcast in US history.
Funny, humane, and quietly profound, M*A*S*H is the rare comedy that earned its laughs and its tears in equal measure.
M*A*S*H season by season
M*A*S*H ran for 11 seasons (1972–1982) across 251 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
