“M*A*S*H” shot a good deal at the Fox Ranch in Malibu, California, but if you wanted to drop in on the exploits of Hawkeye, Klinger and Hot Lips, you paid a visit to Stage 9 on the Fox studio lot in Century City. And, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 article timed to the 35th anniversary of the show’s legendary finale, big-time celebrities of all stripes dropped by the 4077th’s interiors for a looksee.
How big-time? Jane Fonda and television comedy pioneer Sid Caesar were spied on the outskirts of the sets. Henry Morgan, a veteran actor who came up through Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg’s industry-altering Group Theatre before embarking on a successful movie career in the early 1940s, used his cachet as Colonel Sherman T. Potter to give buddies like Ralph Bellamy and Dana Andrews a tour of the show’s sets. Prince Charles even peeked his inbred visage into the 4077th’s operating room.