Decorated and Honored Time and Time Again
Like a successful military general with a box full of medals, M*A*S*H ended its run as one of the highest rated and most decorated shows of all time. The show earned an astonishing total of more than 100 Emmy nominations over its run, winning 14 in total, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 1974, Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Alan Alda, and various Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress awards for Gary Burghoff, Loretta Swit, and others.
Actor Jamie Farr, who played Klinger in the T.V. show MASH, poses with some of the products spun off from the popular movie and T.V. show. Five hundred products, including everything from hats to teddy bears, carry the MASH logo.
The show also won the Golden Globe for Best TV Seris in 1981, with Alda winning the Best TV Actor Golden Globe on no less than six occasions. The Peabody Awards, Writers Guild of America, and Directors Guild of America all awarded the show several additional honors, and it was consistently rated among the most-watched programs in the US during its long run. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America even called it the fifth best-written show in history, and the final episode holds the distinct honor of being one of the most viewed episodes of any show ever made, with a Nielsen rating of 60.2.