After MASH opening credits

[jeysack]

boring

[cleancab]

Too bad this show didn't make it. I guess the public had seen enough of these characters. I for one could have watched this show for years and years.

[ATamandua]

In retrospect, I liked the show when I saw it years ago. (I'd gotten tired of Alan Alda's and Mike Ferrell's characters...Harry Potter, Klinger and Mulcahy were an interesting threesome to carry on this TV experiment.) I LOVED the trombone work on this opening theme, especially the repeated notes around 0:52...very "Henry Mancini-esque". In fact, was this Dick Nash (Mancini's favorite trombonist) playing here?

[gospelsinger100]

My daughter was 12 & 13 these years.  I was busy 'making a living' and did not even know it was on! I linked over to this from the news article about the passing of Harry Morgan. He was quite an actor. My condolences to this family.

[toonsis]

This show sucked, I didnt know they destroyed so many

[CommanderThunderush]

I love how they go from the sad MASH theme to a cheerful one.

[ATamandua]

@CommanderThunderush Agreed wholeheartedly!

[cocacaola]

Those aren't the only anachronisms relative to 1954, but I"ll leave that to someone else.

[cocacaola]

There are so many things wrong with that first version of the pilot! That scene with the 3d glasses is from a famous black and white photograph and the part they colorized, the lenses of the 3d glasses, is the one thing in the original scene that would have been grey, since all 3D features shown in the US during the 50s were polarized. Also, that TV was way too small and the picture was way too big for the size of the TV!

[2270000]

The third version reminded me of some music they played in Wallace and Gromit: Wrong Trousers.... am i that nerdy? And i actually liked this show.

[JoelRowan]

Impressive. With each new intro, it gets more and more mid-1980's...

[noehsdad1]

This show sucked

[destructivedandy]

God this looks awful...in every incarnation!

[chism26]

it wa not just ok it was Lousy

[chism26]

this show was crapy cochraexyz

[chism26]

it was not that long runing

[RandyAKing]

So many credits, and I don't even remember this show.

[cochranexyz]

I am appalled that people, at the time, hated this show.  It was OK.

[ivegotalongdong]

never cared much for this show. have all the original series, but this one was DOA

[Hopmans23]

And coming soon, After AfterMASH.

[MrGreymalkin]

(continued from below)

...and, indeed, some of the funnier ones, don't have a laugh track.

[MrGreymalkin]

FyAthyRio69...

I think maybe you're confusing something with regards to the concept of MASH. It's not that the show was broadcast without a laugh track in the U.K. Rather, the show ITSELF alternated between sometimes having a laugh track and sometimes not. It was quite a brilliant concept, actually - it was the individual DIRECTOR who decided if a specific episode would have a laugh track or not. If you go back and watch the series today, you'll find that many of the more serious episodes

[Mel0132]

It's unfortunate they pulled this show just as it really began to settle down and blossom. The stories were getting better each week.

[snootzie78]

With all the success from its precesessor show, why on EARTH would you pick such a cheesy Al Jarreau-ish opening/closing tune? And what about some of the main characters such as Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, or Loretta Switt to name a few? Worst spin-off in TV history--period!

[ecmulder]

@snootzie78 the only reason got Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher to return was because they were the only ones who wanted to do the MASH follow up (most everyone else wanted to move on). Overall, I'd say these characters just look out of place in a civilian hopsital, it just worked so much better as a group of misfit Army personel in a MASH unit.

[Pauluk33]

@CapertheFox1 because Caper, listen to the mash theme and then this to the opening to this. Music sometimes is the reason why serials last. From what i have seen, this was not thought out enough. This is not kool. Mash is the coolest series every broadcast, this is trash compared to that. The music makes it sound like you are about to watch an episode of Neighbours, No wonder it did not last and it did not, look how far mash lastest and its iconic

[Wheeljack35]

How many intros did they have for a short lived show?

[EDDIEinWAR]

HARRY MORGAN!? FROM DEXTER!!!!!?????

[jaws553]

tv could have done without this show (not MASH i mean AFTER MASH)

[dXd1986]

to be honest after mash should of just been a 1 season series and each episode should of been a dif mash character returning to their home's

[jadewarlock]

I've seen parts of this series, and while I admit it's a bit cheesy, we have to remember this was back in the 1980s when a lot of shows were cheesy.

That said, it hurt them because it wasn't "M*A*S*H."

The actors in this show have appeared in things post these shows, though yes Chao had the most success.

[CapertheFox1]

@jadewarlock why do you say that their cheesy? Do you just hate the 80s for no reason?

[jadewarlock]

@CapertheFox1 Actually Fox, I was agreeing with some other posters that yes - it is cheesy.

That said, I love the '80s - most if not all my favorite shows are at least partially from that era. Only three are not - "Wild Wild West" "Diagnosis Murder" and "The Monkees."

Next time, please read closer to what is being said instead of jumping to conclusions.

[Pauluk33]

what god awful music, i think it should have been thought out a lot more

[CapertheFox1]

@Pauluk33 why do you think it was awful?

Least have a reason to bash something cool.

[jaws553]

i dont think they should have mad an after mash

[justgetsome]

I can't see being stuck in a wheelchair very amusing in any situation; comedy or otherwise.

[83pgm]

even the opening credits were horrible.

[alexp9999]

ohhh...it's SPECIAL all right =P

[jksonny]

Wow! The opening is WAY too long . . .

[Zoetrope77]

They really tried to milk the original series with this flop.

[realbustylatinas]

I just saw this and I wanna gouge my eyes and ears out. Thanks a lot.

[mastermonarch]

Frank Burns,margaret Houlihan and maybe one or two others would have helped this show along maybe? Was Klinger a transvestite in this show or am I remembering wrong? someone let me know.

[mikecleona]

@mastermonarch Klinger went back to wearing women's clothes when he was hiding from the law, after punching out a shady real estate agent in the final episode of season one.

[Dirtfire]

Is David Ackroyd the brother of Dan Ackroyd?

[ToonORama]

They're not related. Dan's last name is Aykroyd. However, Dan's brother Peter is a writer, producer and occasional actor.

[planetiowa]

I thought it was a good show, but viewers apparently tired of the characters. I was surprised to read 32 episodes were made.

[mikemikemikexxxx]

Another question. While researching AfterMASH, I came upon another show that didn't take off. W*A*L*T*E*R. Check it out if you havent seen it already.

PS I love the opening song from 10secs until about 16 seconds. I wish they made a full version of the MASH song in that note.

[FyAthyRio69]

It was never shown in the U.K. (where M*A*S*H was shown WITHOUT a laugh-track).

[mikemikemikexxxx]

@FyAthyRio69

Your personal opinion. Was that well accepted throughout the UK? IOW did most people like that or disklike that?

[FyAthyRio69]

@mikemikemikexxxx - Sorry, I'm confused! "AfterM*A*S*H" wasn't SHOWN in the UK. Did you mean this as a comment on my piece "Farewell Henry Blake"???

[mikemikemikexxxx]

@FyAthyRio69

Apologizes for not clarifying. Was well M*A*S*H well accepted without the laugh track?

[FyAthyRio69]

@mikemikemikexxxx - Ah, got you! It was strange. No-one in England KNEW a laugh-track EXISTED... until a few YEARS into the series, a clumsy engineer accidentally ran an episode with the laugh-track SWITCHED ON.

Half-way through, the engineer switched it OFF. People then flooded the BBC's switchboard asking "What the hell..."

But apart from that one time, it ALWAYS played without a laugh track. And people preferred it.

A similar incident occurred with "The Addams Family" [more]

[FyAthyRio69]

@mikemikemikexxxx - [continued] - Both these shows had CANNED laughter. They didn't even show it to an audience and record the laughter.

And I can tell you BOTH work best WITHOUT the laugh-track. Britain definitely preferred them that way.

The producers of M*A*S*H wanted no laugh-track - but were over-ruled.

Imagine "30 Rock" with a canned laugh-track....

[mikemikemikexxxx]

@FyAthyRio69 - This is exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you very much.

[stableshadow]

SOOOOOO BAD!

[zazozung]

I like Klinger.

[Naranjabill]

Oye what a dog of a show!!!

[stableshadow]

@Naranjabill Totally terrible.

[cartoongameshowfan76]

Ugh! I had heard how this was but wow just the intros are bad enough!

[luvthoseclips]

I remember this spinoff after M*A*S*H ended...didn't last long. What was really bad was.....at the end of the final episode of the first season, (pt. 1), they made everyone WAIT for (pt. 2) in like 3 more months, resuming the story in Sept. 1984.

[rickyfan3956]

Well, it was nice to see Mrs. Potter here. I was beginning to think she'd joined Norm Peterson's wife, Vera, on a trip to visit Chuck Cunningham!

[nuwavevidspud]

A pre Star Trek TNG&DS9 Rosalind Chao was the only one to make it past this mediocre show.

[albear972]

God, what crappy music and opening montage. No wonder I never heard of this show until now!

[musicom67]

That music score is akin to "Too Close for Comfort" theme- but it is the most unmelodic piece of trash I've ever heard used as a sitcom theme... Even as listening music it's painful. Sorry, Mr. Composer, doesn't work for me.

[musicom67]

I'm referring to the syrupy scores heard on the later episodes, even though the pilot score isn't much better...

[sgtpepper1138]

@musicom67 It reminds me a lot of the Siskel & Ebert theme.

[soloist93]

Damn this looked horrible.

[stableshadow]

@soloist93 Oh, it was bad. All you needed was a farting dog.

[tuummie]

I like the concept of the show. It can be retooled to fit with the lives of our "War on Terror" veterans who have to readjust to civilian life. This series was way, way ahead of its time. Now, it is finally time for AfterMASH.

PS: Please note that the conflict with North Korea is still haunting us today.

[tuummie]

Yes, the music for the opening credits was awful. I liked the theme of the first set of slides showing iconic images of the 50's. The second set of slides was more personal, showing hearth and home - the "idyllic" family life of the 50's. The third set of clips was awful, not because the show was awful, but because there was a problem with the production values: they made the show look more like "9-to-5" than "Andy Griffith."

[3rdstooge]

The opening credits (all 3 different versions), especially the music, could put any viewer to sleep. This made it look so boring.

[HOLadd3]

Agreed...what a piece of fetid rat shit. Makes me wonder why we went traipsing after WMDs in Iraq when this WMD was under our noses the whole time.

I wonder if they have outtakes of Harry Morgan slapping his wife around between set-ups.

[greeniem]

wow how shitty lmao

[MeetVirginiaFanatic]

Stumbled*

[MeetVirginiaFanatic]

yeah its retarded, it is M*A*S*H* doing regular surgery  instead of Meat ball surgery and no artillery going off or attacks-- so the show sucked and ended just as quickly as it began.

[thx4077]

So naturally you came on Youtube to watch a clip of it, right?

[MeetVirginiaFanatic]

no i stubbled upon it and then watched it. . . rude person

[jsladey09]

In All Fairness This is quite good, Aftermash was Ok

[caedus06]

So if you take Hawkeye, BJ, Margret and Charles away do you know what you get: Its called C*R*A*P.

[goodysun]

So, appoarently loads of Frasier etc (thankfully, I might add) but no mash? fucking cencorship, greedy twat telly networks. Fuck em!

[j24800]

this show looks like poop

[tracyterry]

yuck. terrible credits and stupid song. deadhead hollywood idiots trying to milk another dollar into their greedy pockets

[conradragzoff]

Ugh-- I remember this show, they tried so desperately to keep the MASH premise going, but it just never clicked. If anyone remembers Trapper John, MD that was the same idea-- Trapper was supposed to have kept going after the war with that stupid show!

[Marckymarc71]

Trapper John M.D. was actually a very successful show which ran many years.

[zubey91]

so my only question was this..... was Father Mulcahy deaf in AfterMASH? because int he last episode of MASH he was losing his hearing!

[thx4077]

Mulcahy's deaf for the first couple episodes, but Potter offers to have corrective surgery done for him later on.

[mikecleona]

Always believed that had CBS kept AfterMASH on its monday night timeslot instead of moving it to Tuesdays, where it was clobbered in the ratings by "The A-Team", the series might've at least made it to a full second season. From what I've read, there were actually 30 episodes made, the final one never aired on CBS, due to a news bulletin.

[mammothfilms]

The first one was the best.

[Aeolis7]

I have been looking for these for years!

I am a HUGE M*A*S*H fan.

Thanks for posting these... I didn't remember that many variations!

[LianeBarrett]

Is David Ackroyd Dan's brother? I love Dan,he is a great actor.

Thanks!!

[garrisonskunk]

There WAS a time when TVLand would air these instead of the 3,000th rerun of the original show.

[CapertheFox1]

@garrisonskunk This has not been shown as reruns so far,

[PDCougar]

Actually ... you missed one! There's a 2nd version of the 1st season credits that eliminated Jay O. Sanders' name after his character was dropped from the show, beginning with the Radar episode that's promo'ed in this clip.

[ToonORama]

Yes, I know. However, it didn't affect the main title sequence enough to include it in this edit. I could barely sit through it once! :)

[56thAlbanyProd]

Cool, nice job, I enjoyed seeing these