1972 TV Series – M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983. It was developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film M*A*S*H, which, in turn, was based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The series, which was produced with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the “4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War (1950–53). The show’s title sequence features an instrumental-only version of “Suicide Is Painless,” the original film’s theme song. The show was created after an attempt to film the original book’s sequel, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine, failed. The television series is the best-known of the M*A*S*H works, and one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television history.
Musicians
Bass | Carol Kaye |
Drums | Earl Palmer |
Guitar | Tommy Tedesco |
Piano | Pete Jolly |
Trombone | Dick Nash |
Trombone | Joe Howard |
Trombone | Tommy Shepard |
Trombone | George Roberts |
Trumpet | Chuck Findley |
Trumpet | Malcolm McNab |
Trumpet | Bobby Findley |
Woodwinds | Bud Shank |
Woodwinds | Gene Cipriano |
Woodwinds | Harry Klee |
Woodwinds | Jack Nimitz |
Percussion | Larry Bunker |
Songwriter
Johnny Mandel