M A S H. The Exclusive, Inside Story of T.V.’s Most Popular Show by David Reiss. With a Foreword by Alan Alda

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1980. First Edition. Oversize paperback. Signed and inscribed by Alan Alda: “To Joyce, with love, Alan Alda”. Alan Alda played the part of chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” pierce in the phenomenally successful television series M*A*S*H based on the Robert Altman film and novel by Richard Hooker set in a U.S. Army medical hospital unit during the Korean War. Illustrated throughout with 200 photographs, many behind the scenes shots, as well as never-before-published baby pictures of some of the stars of the show. With interviews with the lead actors, including Alan Alda (Hawkeye Pierce), Loretta Swit (Hotlips Houlihan), Harry Morgan (Col. Sherman T. Potter), Jamie Farr (Corporal Klinger), Mike Farrell (Capt. B.J. Hunnicut), Larry Linville (Major Frank Burns), Gary Burghoff (’Radar’), Wayne Rogers (Trapper John" McIntyre), William Christopher (Father Mulcahy), McLean Stevenson (Lt. Col. Henry Blake), David Ogden Stiers (Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III), and the producers. Also gives summaries with complete cast lists for every episode of its eleven year run, a chronology of awards the show received over the years, samples of the show’s considerable fan mail, and more. Near fine bright copy with a touch of handling in printed wrappers. M*A*S*H ran from September, 1972 through February, 1983 for a total of 251 episodes. It was nominated year after year for both Emmy’s and Golden Globes, often winning, and was an enthusiastically followed series by devoted fans, and can still be seen in reruns nearly any day of the week.