Picks and Pans Review: Aftermash

UPDATED 09/26/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/26/1983 at 01:00 AM EDT

CBS (8-9 p.m. ET)

Is there life—or an audience—after M*A*S*H? In the hour debut episode of this spin-off series, Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan), Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) regroup—sans Alan Alda—in a Midwestern veterans' hospital in 1953. Viewers get to know Klinger's wife (Rosalind Chao). (Premiere)