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6. The pilot was written in two days

Sometimes a lot of work goes into getting a show off the ground, and sometimes not. Veteran screenwriter Larry Gelbart wrote the pilot in two days and was paid $25,000 to do so. It was based on a series of novels by Richard Hooker and inspired by the 1970 Robert Altman film of the same name. Apparently neither Hooker or Altman were big fans of the show, the latter feeling like the TV version “softened the anti-war and anti-authoritarian spirit of the movie.”

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