Take Me Out To The Ball Game
The writers of the show gained inspiration for M*A*S*H characters from real people, just like modern-day shows like The Office. A lot of the patients from the sixth and seventh seasons were named after the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as the Angels baseball players. Also drawing inspiration from their personal lives to name characters, the writers named characters such as Radar’s love interests after previous girlfriends of one of the writers. Shown talking on the phone with his character’s family, actor Mike Farrell requested that his daughter have the same name as his actual daughter, Erin.
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Alan Alda’s Commute
During the eleven seasons he starred on the show, Alan Alda commuted from Los Angeles to New Jersey each and every weekend. The reason he didn’t want to move his family to Los Angeles was since he didn’t know how long the show would last. His acting career flourished after the show ended, with him acting in both television and films. He appeared in ER, he starred in The West Wing, 30 Rock, Blacklist, and Horace and Pete. Alda was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards and won six of them, as well as a Golden Globe Award.
Alan Alda