re: Actors who left Successful TV Shows too early

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Stevenson leaving hurt MASH badly, then the death blow came the next year when the show's creative leader, the brilliant Larry Gelbart, left. From that point there was no question Alda was the driving force behind the series, and it quickly devolved into a liberal guiltfest.

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Good take.

The shift in tone is palpable when they transitioned to the new cast and Alda is front and center and years later we would come to learn his activism and views.