M*A*S*H in the trailer it was rendered as "M*A*S*H". "M*A*S*H", a spin-off of the film, ran from 1972 to 1983, more than three times as long as the war it chronicled. It starred Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John McIntyre. After the third season, Rogers left the show and was replaced by Mike Farrell as B. J. Hunnicutt. Another change was the addition of Harry Morgan as Colonel Sherman T. Potter, a veteran character actor and former Universal contract player, who replaced McLean Stevenson the same year. This series is the most popular and best-known version
Fallen Idol (M*A*S*H) Radar's Grape Nehi. The episode closes with another unusually formal event involving Radar and Hawkeye. The Army has decided to award Radar the Purple Heart due to his injury, and Hawkeye presents it to him. After pinning in on him, Hawkeye gives a salute to the company clerk, something he rarely does and jokingly tells him not to get hurt again. Fallen Idol (M*A*S*H) "Fallen Idol" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American situation comedy-series "M*A*S*H" (after the two-part "Fade Out, Fade In") and its 125th overall. The episode aired on CBS on September 27, 1977