After MASH opening credits

Here are all the opening credits for the short lived spin-off "After MASH". The series starred Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher who all worked at a stateside Veterans hospital after the Korean war. Many of MASHs behind the scenes crew were involved in this spinoff. Gary Burghoff appeared as Radar in one episode (a promo of which is featured as part of this clip) and Edward Winter returned in a season two episode as Col. Flagg. Burghoff would star in the ill-conceived pilot W*A*L*T*E*R which was dumped on the air in the summer of 1984 between the two seasons of After MASH.

There were some good moments and while it finished somewhat strong in the ratings after the first season, things quickly spun out of control as After MASH entered it's second season. There were cast changes and a 'to be continued' story arc that followed the plight of Klinger who was in trouble yet again. The 'theme' as you will see in this clip, was given a more contemporary feel, perhaps to compete with comedy/drama shows like St. Elsewhere which were popular at that time. With the show trapped in a 1950's setting, things lost direction very soon. The cast (what was left) and crew of MASH had said all they needed to say. The show was canceled by CBS and two remaining episodes were never aired. The series has never been seen in syndication to our knowledge.

Surprisingly, with only 32 episodes this show has three different opening title sequences!! All three of them are featured here along with two episode promos.

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Entertainment

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• MASH
• M*A*S*H
• after MASH
• after M*A*S*H
• Harry Morgan
• william christopher
• jamie farr
• comedy
• 1980s television

[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.

[CommanderThunderush]

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

[JoelRowan]

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

[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]

@CommanderThunderush Agreed wholeheartedly!

[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

[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!