Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate 50th anniversary of CBS series M A S H on Twitter

Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate 50th anniversary of CBS series M A S H on Twitter

Alan Alda and Mike Farrell teamed up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the war dark comedy M*A*S*H that premiered on CBS on September 17, 1972.

The 86-year-old actor who portrayed Captain Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce on the critically acclaimed show shared a photo on Twitter on Saturday showing him with Farrell, 83, who played Captain B.J. Hunnicutt.

'Mike Farrell and I today toasting the 50th anniversary of the show that changed our lives - and our brilliant pals who made it what it was. MASH was a great gift to us,' Alda wrote as a caption for his roughly 324,000 followers.

Alda and Farrell in the photo beamed while standing next to each other holding stemmed glasses filled with red wine.

Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate 50th anniversary of CBS series M A S H on Twitter

The ensemble cast originally featured Alda and the late Wayne Rogers, who died in 2015 at age 82, as surgeons Hawkeye and 'Trapper' John McIntyre at the '4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital' in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War.

Rogers was written out of the after the third season along with the late McLean Stevenson, who died in 1996 at age 68, who portrayed Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake.

Farrell replaced Rogers with Hunnicutt becoming bunkmate and straight-man to Hawkeye's antics.

M*A*S*H was adapted from the 1970 feature film of the same name and aired 11 seasons on CBS from September 1972 until February 28, 1983.

Alan Alda and Mike Farrell team up to celebrate 50th anniversary of CBS series M A S H on Twitter

The series is one of the highest-rated shows in US television history and its final episode was the most-watched television broadcast in American history from 1983 until 2010.

The finale titled 'Goodbye, Farewell and Amen' remains the most-watched finale of an TV series and the most-watched episode of a scripted series.

The show was honored in 1975 with a Peabody Award.

Alda in 2018 revealed that he has Parkinson's disease.

In addition to portraying Hawkeye, Alda also played a senator who ran for president on The West Wing and he also hosted Scientific American Frontiers on PBS.