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M*A*S*H season 8

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6711919 ↗
Source-derived summary

The eighth season of M*A*S*H premiered on September 17, 1979 and concluded its 25-episode season on March 24, 1980. Like season 7, this season aired Mondays at 9:00–9:30 pm on CBS.

Cast

Alan Alda as Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

Mike Farrell as Capt. B.J. Hunnicut

Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman T. Potter

Loretta Swit as Maj. Margaret Houlihan

David Ogden Stiers as Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III

Gary Burghoff as Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly (4 episodes)

Jamie Farr as Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger

William Christopher as Lt./Capt.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “M*A*S*H season 8” is season of television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through season, television and series, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, season, television and series is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6711919. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “M*A*S*H season 8” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.