History Series / AfterMASH

The show aired for two seasons, but after failing to catch on with viewers even after a second-season {{Retool}} it was cancelled in 1983; the last episode was never aired.

''Another'' attempt at continuing the ''M*A*S*H'' storyline, called ''W*A*L*T*E*R'' and focusing on Walter "Radar" O'Reilly joining the St. Louis police force after he loses his family's farm, had its pilot aired in-between seasons of this show before sinking without a trace. The pilot was the only episode produced for the show and has fallen into obscurity.

''[=AfterMASH=]'' was a short-lived follow-up to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in September 1983, just months after its parent series ended. ''[=AfterMASH=]'' followed Colonel Potter (Creator/HarryMorgan), Klinger (Creator/JamieFarr), and Father Mulcahy (Creator/WilliamChristopher) to a Veterans Administration hospital in Missouri, and picked up where ''M*A*S*H'' left off there.

* FromTheAshes: Despite the incredible resolution of the final episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', it still managed to spawn a follow-up the very next season, starring Colonel Potter, Klinger, and Father Mulcahy. This happened after a vote from the main cast of the former show voted not to continue for another season - these three actors voted in the minority to continue on. The new show took place in a veteran's hospital and attempted to mimic the dramatic turns of the later seasons of ''M*A*S*H.'' It lasted for two seasons, never getting high ratings in its first season and being pitted against the intensely popular ''Series/TheATeam'' in its second, which effectively slaughtered it.

The show aired for two seasons, but was cancelled in 1985 after failing to catch on with viewers even following a second-season {{Retool}}; the last episode was never aired.

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''[=AfterMASH=]'' was a short-lived follow-up to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' that premiered in September 1983, just months after its parent series ended. ''[=AfterMASH=]'' followed Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy to a Veterans Administration hospital in Missouri, and picked up where ''Series/{{MASH}}'' left off there.

The show ran for two seasons, but was cancelled in 1985 after a ReTool failed to catch on with viewers; the last episode was never aired.

''Another'' attempt at continuing the ''M*A*S*H'' storyline, called ''W*A*L*T*E*R'' focusing on Walter "Radar" O'Reilly joining the police force after he loses his family's farm, had its pilot aired in-between seasons of this show before sinking without a trace. The pilot was the only episode produced for the show and had fallen into obscurity.

''[=AfterMASH=] was a short-lived follow-up to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' that premiered in September 1983, just months after its parent series ended. ''[=AfterMASH=]'' followed Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy to a Veterans Administration hospital in Missouri, and picked up where ''Series/{{MASH}}'' left off there.

A short-lived to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' that premiered in September 1983, just months its parent series ended. ''[=AfterMASH=]'' followed Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy to a Veterans Administration hospital in Missouri, and picked up where ''Series/{{MASH}}'' left off there.

The show ran for two seasons, but was cancelled in 1985 after a ReTool failed to catch on with viewers; the last episode was never aired.

A short-lived to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' that premiered in September 1983, just months its parent series ended. ''AfterMASH'' followed Colonel Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy to a Veterans Administration hospital in Missouri, and picked up where ''Series/{{MASH}}'' left off there.

This follow-up to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is one of the most infamous {{Spinoff}}s of all time.

So, after you've spent the last eleven... ahem, ''[[ComicBookTime three]]'' years depicting an Army hospital in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, what can you possibly do for an encore? Why, come back to the U.S. and restage the whole shebang in a veterans' hospital, of course! With the show's least interesting characters and {{Exp|y}}ies of the ones whose actors refused to come back! How could it fail?

Fail it did. Why? For starters, the wrong hands got a hold of the franchise and decided to [[{{Flanderization}} overplay the comedic elements of the original series]]. What was once a ComedyDrama devolved into pure {{Slapstick}}, and from there, things just smoldered out.

It didn't help that, after the first season did reasonably well in the ratings (enough to be renewed for a second), CBS [[ExecutiveMeddling executives]] decided to program the second season directly opposite ''Series/TheATeam'', [[WhatAnIdiot thinking it would be the one to topple that up-and-coming Goliath]]. They even commissioned print ads of Klinger shaving off the iconic mohawk off Creator/MrT, for crying out loud! The ratings tanked, and the show went off the air.

The three ''M*A*S*H'' regulars to return were Col. Potter, Klinger, and Father Mulcahy, although Radar and even Flagg dropped by as {{Special Guest}}s. What's that, you ask? Didn't Klinger [[IChooseToStay Choose To Stay]] in Korea in the parent show's GrandFinale? Well, don't worry; that was {{Hand Wave}}d away in the {{pilot}}, because Soon-Lee's parents turned up safe and sound. Oh, and Mulcahy got his hearing back because we can't have deaf people on television. (Actually, Klinger and Mulcahy end up returning to resolve some lingering plots from the ''M*A*S*H'' finale.) Anyway, the result is essentially the same show as ''M*A*S*H'' except without the war. Too bad the war was the dramatic driving force behind the whole thing.

Premiering on Creator/{{CBS}} in the fall of 1983, ''[=AfterMASH=]'' was [[{{Cancellation}} cancelled]] after two seasons. The last episode never aired.

** Gene Pfeffier/Dr. Boyer = Hawkeye/Trapper/BJ

* PutOnABus: Neither Pfeiffer nor D'Angelo made it past the first season. The former actually [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappears without explanation]], while the latter is transferred to a different hospital in Montana.

* SequelSeries: Heavily promoted as a continuation of Series/{{MASH}} as that show was ending.