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AfterMASH was a situation comedy that ran for two seasons (1983-1985) on CBS. A sequel to the long-running hit series M*A*S*H, AfterMASH took place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicled the adventures of three members of the original series -- Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan), Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Father Francis Mulcahy (William Christopher).
In the pilot episode, Colonel Potter returns home from Korea to his wife Mildred. He finds retirement boring, so he returns to work as the head of General Pershing Veteran's Hospital ("General General"). Soon thereafter, he hires Max Klinger as his assistant. Klinger has married Soon Lee, a Korean woman, and the couple has found it difficult to adjust to life back in the United States.
Eventually, Potter and Klinger reunite with Father Mulcahy. Mulcahy had lost his hearing in the final episode of MASH. This leads him into a depression which drives him to drink. He receives surgery, recovers his hearing and stops drinking. He decides to join Potter and Klinger at the veteran's hospital as the chaplain.
AfterMASH attempted to parallel M*A*S*H as closely as possible. Because it took place in a veterans hospital, most of the episodes featured a storyline that highlighted the horrors and suffering of war, just as most episodes of MASH had done in the final seasons. Furthermore, many of the characters in MASH had counterparts in AfterMASH. Like Hawkeye, there was the trouble-making but idealistic and talented young surgeon, Jules Pfeiffer (who was replaced in the second season). Like Frank Burns and Major Houlihan, there were the closed-minded, falsely patriotic military/bureaucratic authority figures in the guise of hospital administrator Mike D'Angelo and his assistant, Alma Cox. Unfortunately, the series was a pale imitation of its predecessor, as predicted by most critics and anyone remotely familiar with the history of television.
The only other character from the original series to appear on AfterMASH was Corporal Walter (Radar) O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff), who appeared in a two-part episode shortly before the show was cancelled. The same character was also the star of a pilot called W*A*L*T*E*R. In this pilot, Radar had moved from Iowa to St. Louis and had become a cop. The series was never picked up.
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