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MASH creator hated anti-war message of TV show and only made £300 an episode

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Hawkeye in MASH is one of the best-loved TV comedy ­characters but one man who never became a fan was the real doctor he was based on.

Millions of viewers around the world were won over by the wise-cracking army surgeon in the series. And Alan Alda’s portrayal of Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce saw him become the anti-war poster boy of the 1970s.

But that was the last thing Hawkeye’s creator wanted. H. Richard Hornberger, who ­published under the name Richard Hooker, said: “I intended no ­messages in the book.

I am a ­conservative Republican. I don’t hold with this anti-war nonsense.” His novel MASH was a hit that, before its TV version, was made into a film starring Donald Sutherland.

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