( Kim ll Sung was a brutal mass-murder ER, communist leader of North Korea and the start of the whole Korean War. Never mentioned on Mash!)

1. Marcia Strassman
2. G. Wood
3. Odessa Cleveland
4. Timothy Brown
5. Karen Phillip
6. John Orchard
7. Linda Miekljohn
8. Patrick Adiarte
9. Herb Voland
10. Sorrell Booke

Of these only Cleveland and Voland made it to the second season as their characters. Cleveland's part as Ginger was smaller in season 2 before she totally disappeared. Adiarte was having big problems getting along with the cast so Ho John vanished by the end of numero uno.

John Orchard, a positively splendid actor, was Ugly John and returned later in the post-Burns as an Australian military man ( in real life Orchard was from England).

The actress who played Nurse Kelleye was also in season one as a semi-regular and she stayed on the show till the end. 10 other semi-regulars ( actually eleven if you count and actor playing a dentist) and by the show's end only two other semi-regulars ( One G. W. Bailey as Rizzo!). Mash had way more happening at first than later!