M*A*S*H - Season 2 (3 DVDs)

~~~Background~~~ In 1968, a man named Richard Hooker penned a blackly humorous novel entitled M*A*S*H, A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It became a popular read, and spawned several sequels. The book told the tale of surgeons Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank Burns and their comrades at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. In 1971, a film adaptation was released in cinemas and gathered a huge following. Inspired by the film, the books, and by the plot of the 1961 novel catch-22 by Joseph Heller (it is a dark satire taking place in WW II), television producer Larry Gelbhart decided to develop the M*A*S*H concept for television, starring an all new ...