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Loretta Swit reminisces about her hit TV series M*A*S*H and reveals the secret to the show's massive success while praising her co-stars


Just over 40 years after the hit TV series M*A*S*H* aired its iconic finale - still one of the most-watched TV broadcasts of all time - star Loretta Swit is reminiscing.

Swit, 86, played Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in the series, which ran 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983, adapted from Robert Altman's 1970 film The series finale - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - was watched by 105 million viewers - one of the most-watched narrative TV episodes of all time Swit opened up in a wide-ranging chat with First For Women , where she spoke about the camaraderie she had with her cast members Swit, 86, played Major Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in the series, which ran 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983, adapted from Robert Altman's 1970 film. The original Robert Altman film was a dark comedy that starred Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye Pierce, Elliot Gould as Trapper John McIntyre and Sally Kellerman as Hot Lips Houlihan, based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.

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