The TV series “M*A*S*H” ran on CBS from 1972 to 1983. Its star, Alan Alda, played Benjamin Franklin Pierce “Hawkeye,” a skilled physician reluctantly drafted during the Korean War. Stationed in an isolated army hospital, he was famous for heavy drinking, cracking jokes and pulling pranks on the surrounding doctors, nurses, and officers, especially “Frank” and “Hot Lips Houlihan.” He rarely saluted the Army brass, yet still earned the post of chief surgeon.
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