Alan Alda and Mike Farrell teamed up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the war dark comedy M*A*S*H that premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972.The 86-year-old actor who portrayed Captain Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce on the critically acclaimed show shared a photo on Twitter on Saturday showing him with Farrell, 83, who played Captain B.J.
Hunnicutt.'Mike Farrell and I today toasting the 50th anniversary of the show that changed our lives - and our brilliant pals who made it what it was.
MASH was a great gift to us,' Alda wrote as a caption for his roughly 324,000 followers. Fiftieth anniversary: Alan Alda and Mike Farrell teamed up on Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the war dark comedy M*A*S*H that premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972Alda and Farrell in the photo beamed while standing next to each other holding stemmed glasses filled with red wine.The ensemble cast originally featured Alda and the late Wayne Rogers, who died in 2015 at age 82, as surgeons Hawkeye and 'Trapper' John McIntyre at the '4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital' in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War.
Rogers was written out of the after the third season along with the late McLean Stevenson, who died in 1996 at age 68, who portrayed Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake.Farrell replaced Rogers with Hunnicutt becoming bunkmate and straight-man to Hawkeye's antics.
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