AfterMASH was an
attempt to continue the success of M*A*S*H using only three of the regular characters- Sherman Potter, Max Klinger, &
Father Mulcahy. Mildred Potter (who had been referred to many times on M*A*S*H but never seen) and Soon-Lee were now regular
cast members. Radar and Col. Flagg guest starred in the new show. Other than that, no other M*A*S*H cast member participated.
AfterMASH did well in its first season, but at the beginning of the second season, ratings fell dramatically, and mid-way
through the season, and after a number of cast changes, the series was cancelled. AfterMASH has never been re-run in syndication.
A spin-off pilot called "R*A*D*A*R" starring Gary Burghoff was aired by CBS in July of 1984, but was never made into a television
series.
Harry
Morgan - Dr. Sherman Potter
Jamie
Farr - Max Klinger
William
Christopher - Father Francis Mulcahy
Barbara
Townsend - Mildred Potter
Rosalind
Chao - Soon-Lee Klinger
John
Chappell - Mike D'Angelo
Jay
O. Sanders - Dr. Gene Pfeiffer
Brandis
Kemp - Alma Cox
Lois
Foraker - Nurse Coleman
Wendy
Schaal - Bonnie Hornbeck
Patrick
Cranshaw - Bob Scannell
Shirley
Lang - Nurse Crown
David
Ackroyd - Dr. Boyer
Wendy
Girard - Lenore Dudziak
Peter
Michael Goetz - Wally Wainright
Susan
Luck - Nurse Weber
Sunshine
Parker - Sunshine
Anne
Pitoniak - Mildred Potter
Joan
Sweeny - Nurse Parker
Carolsue
Walker - Sarah
Gary
Burghoff - Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
The series was top-rated
during its initial season but was canceled midway through its second when its ratings took a sharp decline.
Col. Flagg and Radar
O'Reilly were the only characters from "M*A*S*H" to appear in guest roles.
In the second season,
plans were afoot to have Alan Alda and/or other veterans of the original series appear in order to boost the show's ratings,
but the series was cancelled before any of these plans were finalized.
26/09/1983 September of '53
Potter, Klinger
and Father Mulcahy find that adjusting to civilian life isn't easy. Potter, not wanting to mark time in retirement, applies
for a job at a VA hospital. Klinger spends time in jail before being offered a job by Potter. Father Mulcahy despairs over
his hearing loss suffered in the M*A*S*H finale.
26/09/1983 Together Again
After ear surgery,
Father Mulcahy goes on R-and-R at General Pershing, where Klinger is battling Alma
to find a room for a female patient.
03/10/1983 Klinger vs. Klinger
Soon-Lee wants to
bring her family to America; a semiconscious patient is brought
in without proper papers.
10/10/1983 Snap, Crackle,
Plop
Klinger has a day
to prepare for a civil-service exam.
17/10/1983 Staph Inspection
A flasher and a
staph carrier are on the loose just two days before and inspection by VA top brass.
24/10/1983 Night Shift
Myraid crises call
Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy to night duty at the hospital.
31/10/1983 Shall We Dance
In a campaign against
depravity, Alma bans From Here to Eternity and objects to a dance for the patients.
07/11/1983 Little Broadcast
of '53
Klinger plays disc
jockey on the PA system; a new nurse is being hazed; and Father Mulcahy has to contend with one patient who won't talk and
another who won't stop.
14/11/1983 Sunday, Cruddy
Sunday
Visitors' day attracts
a group that includes a car-selling faith healer, a man dying too be admitted as a patient and an acrophobe whose brother
is on the third floor.
21/11/1983 Thanksgiving
of '53
The Potters plan
their first family Thanksgiving in a dozen years -- but the guest list keeps on growing.
05/12/1983 Fallout
Potter and Pfeiffer
are thinking of leaving, but the discovery that a patient's leukemia may be linked to A-Bomb tests gives them both pause.
12/12/1983 Bladder Day
Saints
Pfeiffer gets the
needle from an obnoxious paitent with a face that Pfeiffer says "only a proctologist could love".
19/12/1983 All About Christmas
Eve
Santa sprinkles
surprises among his gifts to the staff and patients at the hospital.
02/01/1984 Chief of Staff
Potter seems to
be having more than his usual load of problems at the hospital.
09/01/1984 C.Y.A.
Mulcahy gets entangled
in red tape trying to get the VA to pay for his ear operation. A woman claims the hospital lost her son.
16/01/1984 Yours Truly,
Max Klinger
Gary Burghoff (Radar)
Klinger cites examples
of how "things are always jumping" in a letter to Radar.
23/01/1984 It Had To Be
You
Gary Burghoff (Radar)
About to be married,
Radar turns up at the Potters', panicky and determined to call the whole thing off.
30/01/1984 Odds and Ends
Klinger gambles
to provide for his unborn child. Scannell goes under the knife to remove migrating shrapnel.
06/02/1984 Another Saturday
Night
With Mildred out,
Potter plans a quiet dinner, but the evening is interrupted by a stream of friends.
27/02/1984 Fever Pitch
Boyer is steamed
because he can't get a cooling blanket for a feverish patient.
12/03/1984 Up and Down Payments
When Klinger goes
house hunting, he winds up getting trapped by an agent.
23/09/1984 Less Miserables
Klinger is in jail
for socking a shady real estate salesman. Soon-Lee is in labour. A stranger is poking around at the hospital.
25/09/1984 Calling Doctor
Habibi
A new administrator
arrives to take stock of the hospital. Klinger poses as doctor to avoid the police.
02/10/1984 Strangers and
Other Lovers
Potter is horrified
to find himself stuck with Alma as his new secretary. The fugitive Klinger can't
find a place to spend a chilly night.
09/10/1984 Trials
Edward Winter (Colonel
Sam Flagg)
The prosecution
recount Klinger's wartime high jinks. Wally forces Boyer to perform an operation he feels he cannot do.
16/10/1984 Madness to His
Method
Potter writes to
his old M*A*S*H colleague Sidney Freedman for advice after Klinger is sentenced to the mental ward.
30/10/1984 The Recovery
Room
The Klingers' baby
causes long-simmering frustrations betweens the Potters to boil over.
04/12/1984 Ward Is Hell
Klinger runs a lottery.
The acerbic Dr. Boyer becomes a patient.
11/12/1984 Saturday's Heroes
Wally bans passes
just as Klinger is preparing to spend a weekend with his family.
Unaired Wet Feet
plot tbc
