The funny thing is, as silly as the lyrics are, the movie theme sounds much better than the TV version, thanks to the singing by the Bahler Brothers, Hicklin, and Freebairn-Smith. M*A*S*H* 1970 Movie Theme Song (Music by Johnny Mandel, lyrics by Michael Altman, as sung by John and Tom Bahler, Ron Hicklin, and Ian Freebairn-Smith) Klinger (Jamie Farr), who was trying to get a Section 8 discharge, appear every episode in a ridiculous dress, and one of the other characters say, “Nice dress, Klinger.” Every week, for eleven years.Įach episode opened with the movie theme song, sans lyrics. The show’s idea of humor was to have Cpl. While I generally liked Morgan in Westerns, he was idiotic here.Īnd yet, the show continued to get great ratings. And Larry Gelbart ( A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Tootsie, etc.) bid the show adieu. They replaced Rogers with Mike Farrell, a humorless, talentless communist, and got Harry Morgan to fill Stevenson’s role. That left Alda, who took over the show, making it uber-pc. However, when the producers tried to get Rogers to sign a morality clause, he told them to go to heck. And for about three years, M*A*S*H* was one of the funniest sitcoms on TV. It was an immediate hit, with a great staff of comedy writers, led by Larry Gelbart, and starring Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson. In 1972, the Korean war sitcom (but really about the War in Vietnam, natch) M*A*S*H* debuted on CBS.
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