MeTV Brings Back ‘MAS*H’s Iconic Finale for Veterans Day

Gabrielle Moss November 5, 12:21 pm

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MeTV will air a special Veterans Day event on November 11, 2025, featuring the iconic M*A*S*H series finale “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” along with exclusive cast interviews.
The M*A*S*H finale, directed by Alan Alda, remains the most-watched scripted TV episode in U.S. history, drawing over 105 million viewers when it first aired in 1983.
The finale depicts the end of the Korean War for the 4077th unit, and its original broadcast was so popular that ad slots sold for Super Bowl-level prices.

This Veterans Day, rewatch one of the greatest TV series finales of all time, when MeTV broadcasts their special “MeTV Remembers the M*A*S*H Finale” — a three-hour block of programming that will not only air the series’ famous two-and-a-half-hour final episode, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” but will also feature exclusive cast interviews with Alan Alda Jamie Farr, and others. The event begins at 6pm EST on November 11, 2025.

The final episode of M*A*S*H, directed by Alan Alda, originally aired on February 28, 1983, and to this day remains the most-watched scripted television event in U.S. history. More than 105 million viewers — nearly 50% of people in America at the time — tuned in to watch how things would end for Hawkeye, Hot Lips, and the rest of the gang at the 4077th.

In “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” a ceasefire has been called in the Korean War, and the members of the 4077th Mash Unit consider their futures, as Klinger falls in love and Hawkeye deals with PTSD.

In an interview with EmmyLegends.org, Alda revealed that having the chance to be part of the finale episode was why he agreed to be part of the final season of M*A*S*H, but that shooting the episode itself was quite difficult: “the set burned down” after a brushfire hit the Malibu area where they filmed. “All that was left” of the metal buildings the show shot in “was little puddles of aluminum on the ground.”

When the episode originally aired, it was so highly anticipated that thirty seconds of ad time sold for $450,000 ($1.42 million in today’s dollars), which is roughly what it cost to run an ad in that year’s Super Bowl.

For M*A*S*H fans who want more, MeTV airs four episodes of the show back-to-back Monday-Friday from 5-7pm EST, and on Sundays from 6-7pm EST. Check MeTV’s schedule for more details.