The TV series M*A*S*H was based on a movie, which was based on a book, which was based on an actual M*A*S*H unit in the Korean war.
The factual and fictionalized links between those four things are analyzed in the documentary film The Real M*A*S*H, by Min Sook Lee. It airs Monday, Oct. 11 on History Television.
Both the TV series and the film were based on a book written by the late Richard Hornberger - who was a surgeon at a M*A*S*H unit in Korea - under the pen name Richard Hooker.
Hornberger was the closest thing to the fictional Hawkeye Pierce, right down to the word "Swamp" painted on the door of Hornberger's tent. But one of the ironies pointed out in the documentary is that Hornberger's political views were quite conservative and he came to resent the overt left-wing bias of the TV show.
The Real M*A*S*H has interviews with some of the surviving doctors, nurses, pilots and enlisted men who served in the Korean war, as well as actors Gary Burghoff (Radar), Loretta Swit (Hot Lips) and Jamie Farr (Klinger).
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