



The tables show the broadcast order by default. #" and "# in Series" refer to the sequence of episodes as first broadcast. Two recurring characters- Allan Arbus as Major Sidney Freedman, a psychiatrist (called Milton Freedman in his first appearance) and Edward Winter as Colonel Sam Flagg (a Lieutenant Colonel, before the fourth season), CIA-were introduced in the second season. Gary Burghoff left the series during the eighth season. Larry Linville would leave the series at the end of the fifth season and be replaced in the sixth season by David Ogden Stiers as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. Hunnicutt and Harry Morgan as Colonel Sherman T. Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson both left the series at the end of the third season and were replaced in the fourth by, respectively, Mike Farrell as Captain B.J. Ugly John and Spearchucker were dropped after the first season, while Klinger and Father Mulcahy were retained and became permanent cast members in, respectively, the fourth and fifth seasons. Several changes were made in the cast line up during the 11-year run. Recurring characters in the first season consisted of John Orchard as Captain John "Ugly John" Black, Timothy Brown as Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones, William Christopher as Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, the company chaplain (played by George Morgan in the pilot), and Jamie Farr as Corporal then Sergeant Maxwell Q. Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon and the base commander Loretta Swit as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the head nurse Larry Linville as Major Frank Burns, another surgeon and Gary Burghoff as Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, the company clerk. The regular cast originally consisted of Alan Alda as Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and Wayne Rogers as John Francis Xavier "Trapper" McIntyre, two surgeons McLean Stevenson as Lt.
