On this day in history, Feb. 28, 1983, 'MASH' finale draws record TV audience of over 100 million
"Viewers laughed at the characters’ antics in Rosie’s bar or The Swamp with Hawkeye, nestled in his purple robe, the color of royalty," the Hollywood Reporter wrote while celebrating the 35th anniversary of the finale in 2018.
The sitcom was based on the hit 1970 movie"M*A*S*H," which in turn was inspired by the 1968 book"M*A*S*H: A Novel of Three Army Doctors" by Richard Hooker, the pen name of a former military surgeon. Alda, who not only starred in"M*A*S*H" but helped script the final episode, was a U.S. Army veteran who actually served inAll of them were bound together by duty and common humanity, while lamenting the state of a species so quick to kill one another.
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