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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—17 September 1972
The Swamp's Korean houseboy, Ho-Jon, is accepted to attend school at Hawkeye's alma mater. The camp raises money to send Ho-Jon to Maine by raffling a weekend in Tokyo with a nurse, much to the chagrin of Hot Lips and Burns. The winner? Father Mulcahy!

Season 1, Episode 2: To Market, to Market

Original Air Date—24 September 1972
After losing vital medical supplies to black marketeers, Hawkeye and Trapper attempt to make a deal to get them back. Henry gets a new antique oak desk.

Season 1, Episode 3: Requiem for a Lightweight

Original Air Date—1 October 1972
Trapper enters the inter-camp boxing tournament.

Season 1, Episode 4: Chief Surgeon Who?

Original Air Date—8 October 1972
When Hawkeye is appointed Chief Surgeon over Frank Burns, Burns and Houlihan go over Col. Blake's head to a general to protest the decision.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Moose

Original Air Date—15 October 1972
Hawkeye is outraged when a visiting sergeant brings his 'moose' to camp - a young Korean woman he has bought to keep as his personal servant.

Season 1, Episode 6: Yankee Doodle Doctor

Original Air Date—22 October 1972
A major selects the 4077th as the site for a documentary featuring 'false heroics' about MASHs in Korea. After destroying the film Hawkeye and Trapper make their own movie as a replacement.

Season 1, Episode 7: Bananas, Crackers and Nuts

Original Air Date—5 November 1972
Hawkeye feigns insanity to prove he needs a leave.

Season 1, Episode 8: Cowboy

Original Air Date—12 November 1972
A wounded cowboy is itching to get back to the states to keep his marriage intact, but his request is denied. Henry becomes the target of a mad bomber.

Season 1, Episode 9: Henry, Please Come Home

Original Air Date—19 November 1972
When Col. Henry Blake is transferred to Tokyo and Frank starts imposing military discipline on the camp, the surgeons will do anything to get Henry back.

Season 1, Episode 10: I Hate a Mystery

Original Air Date—26 November 1972
Hawkeye finds himself investigating a rash of petty thefts in the camp.

Season 1, Episode 11: Germ Warfare

Original Air Date—10 December 1972
Hawkeye and Trapper after tapping Frank Burns for blood believe Frank has hepatitis after the recipient develops complications and Hawkeye and Trapper try to keep Frank from operating.

Season 1, Episode 12: Dear Dad

Original Air Date—17 December 1972
Hawkeye writes his dad, describing the antics of the 4077th.

Season 1, Episode 13: Edwina

Original Air Date—24 December 1972
The nurses enlist Hawkeye to cheer up a lonely colleague.

Season 1, Episode 14: Love Story

Original Air Date—7 January 1973
After Radar gets a "Dear John" letter Hawkeye and Trapper try to help him with a new nurse who's into classical literature and music.

Season 1, Episode 15: Tuttle

Original Air Date—14 January 1973
A little white lie about an imaginary officer balloons into an elaborate charade.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Ringbanger

Original Air Date—21 January 1973
Hawkeye and Trapper hit it off with a wounded Colonel, but when they discover his combat zeal is costing lives, they conspire to keep him from returning to the front line.

Season 1, Episode 17: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet

Original Air Date—28 January 1973
Hawkeye's childhood buddy drops by, and reveals that he is writing a book about his experiences in the infantry - experiences that may hit a little too close to home.

Season 1, Episode 18: Dear Dad, Again

Original Air Date—4 February 1973
Hawkeye pens another letter to his father, detailing the day-to-day insanity of living in the camp, including a bet with Trapper that nobody will notice if Hawkeye dines naked. A new surgeon, Captain Casey, does brilliant work but has dubious credentials.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Longjohn Flap

Original Air Date—18 February 1973
A cold snap has everybody trying to get their hands on Hawkeye's thermal underwear.
Next US airings:
Sat. Nov. 289:00 AMHALMRK

Season 1, Episode 20: The Army-Navy Game

Original Air Date—25 February 1973
The Army-Navy game back home holds everyone's attention (and everyone's bet money) until an artillery barrage forces the camp to dispose of an unexploded shell.
Next US airings:
Sat. Nov. 289:30 AMHALMRK

Season 1, Episode 21: Sticky Wicket

Original Air Date—4 March 1973
Hawkeye moves out of the Swamp while brooding over a patient gone sour, while Frank rubs salt in the wound after suffering Hawkeye's insults to his surgical ability.

Season 1, Episode 22: Major Fred C. Dobbs

Original Air Date—11 March 1973
Frank applies for a transfer out of the 4077, and Hawkeye and Trapper can't resist broadcasting his goodbye to Margaret through the camp P.A. The prospect of gold in the region gives Frank second thoughts.

Season 1, Episode 23: Ceasefire

Original Air Date—18 March 1973
The camp erupts into celebration when they receive word that there's a ceasefire.

Season 1, Episode 24: Showtime

Original Air Date—25 March 1973
A USO troupe entertains the 4077th in between the usual chaos.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Divided We Stand

Original Air Date—15 September 1973
Henry's orders to the 4077th to be on their best behavior when General Clayton sends a psychiatrist to evaluate them meet with mixed results. Will the team be broken up and sent to other units?

Season 2, Episode 2: 5 O'Clock Charlie

Original Air Date—22 September 1973
When an ammo dump is placed near the camp, it attracts an inept North Korean bomber that everyone in the camp sees as an attraction rather than a serious threat, except for Majs. Burns and Houlihan. When The Majors ask General Clayton for an anti-aircraft gun, Hawkeye and Trapper decide the Majors have to be stopped, at any cost.

Season 2, Episode 3: Radar's Report

Original Air Date—29 September 1973
Radar reports on the comedies and tragedies of a typical 4077th week while Majors Houlihan and Burns try to get Cpl. Klinger transferred and Hawkeye falls hard for a nurse.

Season 2, Episode 4: For the Good of the Outfit

Original Air Date—6 October 1973
Hawkeye and Trapper discover that a nearby town has been shelled by U.S. forces. When they pursue the issue, the army resists accepting responsibility.

Season 2, Episode 5: Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde

Original Air Date—13 October 1973
After Hawkeye is kept awake in surgery for 3 days straight he decides to find out who started the war.

Season 2, Episode 6: Kim

Original Air Date—20 October 1973
A wounded Korean boy captures the hearts of the 4077th especially Trapper who wants to adopt him.

Season 2, Episode 7: L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)

Original Air Date—27 October 1973
Hawkeye helps a soon-to-be-discharged enlisted man who wants to marry a Korean girl and take her and their child back to the U.S.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Trial of Henry Blake

Original Air Date—3 November 1973
Henry's on trial on charges that Frank and Margaret brought against him. So that Hawkeye and Trapper can't help Henry, the Majors put them under house arrest.

Season 2, Episode 9: Dear Dad... Three

Original Air Date—10 November 1973
Hawkeye pens another letter to his father during a 'typical' day at the 4077th.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Sniper

Original Air Date—17 November 1973
The 4077th deals with more than the usual mayhem when a sniper opens fire on the camp.

Season 2, Episode 11: Carry On, Hawkeye

Original Air Date—24 November 1973
All the surgeons except for Hawkeye, and most of the support staff except for Margaret, Radar, and Mulcahey come down with the flu. In this Korea-wide epidemic, they can't even find someone to come in and help with casualties.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Incubator

Original Air Date—1 December 1973
Hawkeye and Trapper go on a desperate quest to acquire an incubator for the camp. Captain Sloan, the Quartermaster, turns them down. They meet a colonel with three incubators but won't let them have one, and they cause an uproar at a general's press conference. Radar, however, is sure he can acquire an incubator, but it would mean trading in Henry's new barbecue. Henry was overjoyed with it, but it was a sacrifice Radar was willing to make.

Season 2, Episode 13: Deal Me Out

Original Air Date—8 December 1973
Radar hits a local with a jeep and a GI suffers from battle fatigue while Pierce and McIntyre clash with Frank Burns and the CID all during a poker game disguised as an officer's conference.

Season 2, Episode 14: Hot Lips and Empty Arms

Original Air Date—15 December 1973
A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.

Season 2, Episode 15: Officers Only

Original Air Date—22 December 1973
In gratitude for Hawkeye and Trapper saving his son, a general donates an officer's club to the 4077th. Hawkeye and Trapper work to allow everyone access to the club.

Season 2, Episode 16: Henry in Love

Original Air Date—5 January 1974
Henry falls in love with a 20-year-old ex-cheerleader, but she comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surgery. When Radar, on his own, puts through a call to his wife, Henry remembers that she's the one he loves.

Season 2, Episode 17: For Want of a Boot

Original Air Date—12 January 1974
After months of waiting, Hawkeye finds that it may take more than a requisition form to get a new pair of boots.

Season 2, Episode 18: Operation Noselift

Original Air Date—19 January 1974
Private Danny Baker has a big problem, and it's attached to his face. After he is caught trying to AWOL, Hawkeye calls in his friend Major Stanley "Stosh" Robbins, a plastic surgeon to help the private. When Frank and Margaret catch wind of the unauthorized operation, it is up to Hawkeye, Trapper, and Radar to prevent the majors from getting in the way.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Chosan People

Original Air Date—26 January 1974
A Korean family claims that the 4077th is set up on their farm and wants the unit to move; a Korean girl names Radar as the father of her child.

Season 2, Episode 20: As You Were

Original Air Date—2 February 1974
The team delivers a baby, handles casualties and operates on Frank Burns' hernia during a power outage while Radar tries to divert friendly mortar fire falling too close to the camp.

Season 2, Episode 21: Crisis

Original Air Date—9 February 1974
When enemy action cuts the supply lines to the 4077th in the middle of a freezing Korean winter, the unit struggles with a shortage of supplies and heating fuel.

Season 2, Episode 22: George

Original Air Date—16 February 1974
A decorated GI confides to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own unit for being gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he finds out from another source and tries to have the soldier dishonorably discharged.

Season 2, Episode 23: Mail Call

Original Air Date—23 February 1974
Margaret talks marriage to Frank while Hawkeye tries to trick him into a phony stock investment , Klinger tries to convince Col. Blake that a 'death in the family' letter came for him (Klinger) in the mail bag, and a drunk Trapper tries to go AWOL to be with his family.

Season 2, Episode 24: A Smattering of Intelligence

Original Air Date—2 March 1974
When the cryptic Col. Flagg starts snooping around the 4077, he draws in the interest of another intelligence agent named Pratt, a friend of Trapper's. When chaos reigns as Flagg and Pratt try to outsmart and one up each other, Hawkeye and Trapper decide it is time to teach them both a lesson.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The General Flipped at Dawn

Original Air Date—10 September 1974
A visiting general, appearing to be more eccentric than the usual army brass and a stickler for regulations, tries to move the camp closer to the front and court martial Hawkeye before they discover that he's completely loony.

Season 3, Episode 2: Rainbow Bridge

Original Air Date—17 September 1974
Hawkeye and Trapper are planning to leave for Tokyo when an unusual offer comes in to swap P.O.W. patients between the Chinese and the 4077th. After much debate, Henry agrees to send Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Radar, and Klinger into enemy territory.

Season 3, Episode 3: Officer of the Day

Original Air Date—24 September 1974
Assigned by Frank Burns as Officer of the Day in Henry's absence, Hawkeye must deal with the daily 4077th chaos and try to thwart sneaky Col. Flagg's plans for his Korean prisoner.

Season 3, Episode 4: Iron Guts Kelly

Original Air Date—1 October 1974
General Robert "Iron Guts" Kelly arrives for an inspection and dies in Margaret's tent, prompting his aide Colonel Wortman to do damage control and make it look as if Kelly died in combat.

Season 3, Episode 5: O.R.

Original Air Date—8 October 1974
Drama, pathos and humor combine when heavy casualties result in a long session in the O.R.

Season 3, Episode 6: Springtime

Original Air Date—15 October 1974
Several wild events happen during a nice spring day in Korea. First, a marine who Hawkeye performs surgery on feels beholden to him. Next, Radar falls for a nurse who's main interest is poetry. Then Klinger receives a letter from his girl Laverne who agrees to marry him. Finally, a young soldier in a catatonic state and with no tags wanders into post-op with a strange fixation for a kitten.

Season 3, Episode 7: Check-Up

Original Air Date—22 October 1974
Trapper John's ulcer flares up and could provide grounds for a medical discharge from the Army.

Season 3, Episode 8: Life with Father

Original Air Date—29 October 1974
Henry suspects his wife is having an affair, Hawkeye searches for presidents' faces to try to win a pony and Father Mulcahy officiates at a Jewish Bris with the help of a rabbi on a faraway aircraft carrier.

Season 3, Episode 9: Alcoholics Unanimous

Original Air Date—12 November 1974
When Henry goes to Tokyo for a conference Frank outlaws alcoholic beverages and dismantles the still but discovers that it's not so easy to dry out the 4077th.

Season 3, Episode 10: There Is Nothing Like a Nurse

Original Air Date—19 November 1974
After a run-in with Major Houlihan, Henry is not altogether unhappy when the nurses are evacuated due to a possible enemy attack but soon finds out with rest of the camp just how much the nurses mean to the unit.

Season 3, Episode 11: Adam's Ribs

Original Air Date—26 November 1974
After literally being fed up with mess hall food, Hawkeye goes on a desperate quest to order barbecue spare ribs from his favorite restaurant, Adam's Ribs, at Dearborn Station in Chicago.

Season 3, Episode 12: A Full Rich Day

Original Air Date—3 December 1974
Hawkeye records a letter to his Dad, detailing the exploits of a mad Turkish soldier, the loss of a Luxembourg Lieutenant's corpse, and a lieutenant's strong-arm tactics to obtain medical care for a comrade.

Season 3, Episode 13: Mad Dogs and Servicemen

Original Air Date—10 December 1974
Against Frank's objections, Hawkeye and Trapper treat a young, shell-shocked GI with hysterical paralysis while Henry searches for a possibly rabid dog that bit Radar.

Season 3, Episode 14: Private Charles Lamb

Original Air Date—31 December 1974
When the 4077th is invited to share an Easter meal with a Greek unit, tender-hearted Radar comes up with a creative way to save the main course...a lamb!

Season 3, Episode 15: Bombed

Original Air Date—7 January 1975
While Radar tries to stop the camp from being shelled by their own artillery, Frank finds a wounded enemy soldier wired to explode, Margaret and Trapper get stuck in a supply shed and Henry and Father Mulcahy get blown up in the latrine.

Season 3, Episode 16: Bulletin Board

Original Air Date—14 January 1975
Trapper writes a letter to his daughter, Shirley Temple dances, and the 4077th tries to take a mental break from GIs suffering from hypothermia and post-op bleeding by throwing a benefit picnic for the orphanage.

Season 3, Episode 17: The Consultant

Original Air Date—21 January 1975
Hawkeye learns more than just a new surgical technique when a casual conversation in a Tokyo bar with a medical consultant convinces the man to come to the 4077th.

Season 3, Episode 18: House Arrest

Original Air Date—4 February 1975
After a trying day in O.R., Hawkeye offends Margaret, who turns to Frank to do something about it. Frank, in an act of sheer childishness, snaps a towel at Hawkeye, who in turn, in an act of sheer rage, belts him. Frank goes right to Henry Blake about the matter, while Trapper and Hawkeye deny it constantly. A dumbfounded Henry places Hawkeye under house arrest, while Frank endlessly taunts him. But when a renowned female colonel visits the camp, Frank tries to put the moves on her and she screams "Rape!", Frank finds himself under house arrest, being taunted by a benevolent Hawkeye.

Season 3, Episode 19: Aid Station

Original Air Date—11 February 1975
Hawkeye, Margaret, and Klinger travel to an aid station at the front, where they end up working closely together under heavy fire and unsanitary medical conditions.

Season 3, Episode 20: Love and Marriage

Original Air Date—18 February 1975
Hawkeye and Trapper try to unite a Korean medic with his family in spite of Frank's interference and find out that a young GI isn't telling the whole truth about his upcoming marriage to a Korean woman.

Season 3, Episode 21: Big Mac

Original Air Date—25 February 1975
The camp prepares for a visit from General Douglas MacArthur, but Klinger interrupts the proceedings with his attempts to earn a Section 8 discharge.

Season 3, Episode 22: Payday

Original Air Date—4 March 1975
A clerical error results in an unexpected payday windfall for Hawkeye and the ire of a zealous payroll clerk.

Season 3, Episode 23: White Gold

Original Air Date—11 March 1975
The attempted theft of penicillin from the 4077th by a group of suspected black marketeers brings Col. Flagg to investigate.

Season 3, Episode 24: Abyssinia, Henry

Original Air Date—18 March 1975
Henry finds out he's been discharged from the army, and everyone at the 4077th prepares to say goodbye to him as he heads for home.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Welcome to Korea

Original Air Date—12 September 1975
Hawkeye returns from R&R to find out Trapper has been discharged. He rushes to the airport to say goodbye but misses him. But it gives him an opportunity to welcome Trapper's replacement, B.J., to Korea.

Season 4, Episode 2: Change of Command

Original Air Date—19 September 1975
Col. Sherman T. Potter assumes command of the 4077th.

Season 4, Episode 3: It Happened One Night

Original Air Date—26 September 1975
It's a bitterly cold night, and Hawkeye and B.J. are stuck with the overnight shift and a roomful of unruly patients. In the meantime, Margaret tells Frank that she keeps all his love letters--so he ransacks her tent to get them back.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Late Captain Pierce

Original Air Date—3 October 1975
Hawkeye finds out that due to clerical error, he has been declared dead.

Season 4, Episode 5: Hey, Doc

Original Air Date—10 October 1975
Hawkeye and B.J. agree to help a colleague trying to start a Korean restaurant when he gets home. But Frank refuses to cooperate--until he is involved in an ridiculous tank accident.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Bus

Original Air Date—17 October 1975
After their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere on the way back from a medical convention, Hawkeye, B.J., Colonel Potter, Frank and Radar find themselves stranded.

Season 4, Episode 7: Dear Mildred

Original Air Date—24 October 1975
Colonel Potter writes his anniversary letter to his wife. Meanwhile, Frank and Margaret try to find the perfect anniversary gift, only to be outdone by Radar.

Season 4, Episode 8: The Kids

Original Air Date—31 October 1975
The 4077th takes in Nurse Cratty's Korean orphans during a shelling attack, including a pregnant girl with a bullet wound. But Frank accuses one of the orphans of stealing his newly (and dubiously) awarded Purple Heart.

Season 4, Episode 9: Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler

Original Air Date—7 November 1975
The latest group of casualties includes a bomber pilot who claims he's Jesus Christ. Frank and Margaret think he's faking battle fatigue in order to get a discharge, and they bring in Colonel Flagg to help expose him.

Season 4, Episode 10: Dear Peggy

Original Air Date—14 November 1975
B.J. writes a letter home to his wife, and Father Mulcahy gets a visit from one of his rigid superiors.

Season 4, Episode 11: Of Moose and Men

Original Air Date—21 November 1975
Hawkeye saves the life of a colonel who wants him reprimanded for disrespect. B.J. tries to save the marriage of a friend who found out his wife is cheating on him, and Frank is paranoid that all Koreans are hiding or burying bombs.

Season 4, Episode 12: Soldier of the Month

Original Air Date—28 November 1975
The 4077th introduces a "soldier of the month" award, which includes a week of R&R in Tokyo, and Klinger and Radar go all out to win the honor. Frank is supposed to choose the winner, but he contracts a rare fever.

Season 4, Episode 13: The Gun

Original Air Date—2 December 1975
A vintage revolver is stolen from the camp's gun locker and Radar is accused as the thief.

Season 4, Episode 14: Mail Call, Again

Original Air Date—8 December 1975
Colonel Potter finds out that he's about to become a grandfather, and Major Burns learns that his wife knows about his affair with Margaret--and wants a divorce.

Season 4, Episode 15: The Price of Tomato Juice

Original Air Date—16 December 1975
What seems to be a simple request to request to get tomato juice for Colonel Potter becomes a ridiculous, complicated ordeal when Major Burns asks for something in return.

Season 4, Episode 16: Dear Ma

Original Air Date—23 December 1975
Radar's letter home recounts the latest round of foot inspections, and how Colonel Potter's wife's premonition of bad luck comes to fruition.

Season 4, Episode 17: Der Tag

Original Air Date—6 January 1976
Hawkeye and B.J. place a toe tag on a passed-out Frank as part of a drunken practical joke. But the joke backfires on them when he is accidentally shipped out to the front lines.

Season 4, Episode 18: Hawkeye

Original Air Date—13 January 1976
Hawkeye Pierce, going solo, has an accident with a Jeep, and is rescued by a South Korean family. To prevent himself from succumbing to a concussion, Hawkeye begins talking endlessly to the family, who can't understand a word he's saying.

Season 4, Episode 19: Some 38th Parallels

Original Air Date—20 January 1976
Hawkeye has impotency problems, Frank auctions off the 4077th's garbage, and Radar becomes distraught after a patient he has taken special interest in dies.

Season 4, Episode 20: The Novocaine Mutiny

Original Air Date—27 January 1976
Hawkeye is court martialed for mutiny under Frank Burns' command.

Season 4, Episode 21: Smilin' Jack

Original Air Date—3 February 1976
A chopper pilot with diabetes dead set on getting bringing in the most wounded from the front to be the 'Chopper Pilot of the Year' continues flying against the docs' orders.

Season 4, Episode 22: The More I See You

Original Air Date—10 February 1976
A nurse that Hawkeye used to live with and never got over arrives at the 4077th. And Hawkeye's heartbreak is only intensified when he learns that she is now married.

Season 4, Episode 23: Deluge

Original Air Date—17 February 1976
The Chinese Army joins the war, killing any hopes the 4077th has about a speedy resolution and homecoming.

Season 4, Episode 24: The Interview

Original Air Date—24 February 1976
War Correspondent Clete Roberts interviews the members of the 4077.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Bug Out

Original Air Date—21 September 1976
When a rumor for a camp relocation turns out to be real, Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar volunteer to stay behind for a patient who cannot be moved.

Season 5, Episode 2: Margaret's Engagement

Original Air Date—28 September 1976
Margaret's sudden engagement comes as a surprise to everyone, but Frank predictably takes it the hardest.

Season 5, Episode 3: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Original Air Date—5 October 1976
Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.

Season 5, Episode 4: Lt. Radar O'Reilly

Original Air Date—12 October 1976
To settle a poker debt, an officer forges promotion papers for Radar to become a Lieutenant

Season 5, Episode 5: The Nurses

Original Air Date—19 October 1976
The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.

Season 5, Episode 6: The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan

Original Air Date—26 October 1976
Margaret takes off in the middle of the night to help deliver a Korean baby. Nobody knows of her whereabouts, and Colonel Flagg is brought in to help investigate her disappearance.

Season 5, Episode 7: Dear Sigmund

Original Air Date—9 November 1976
Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman composes a letter to Sigmund Freud during a visit to the 4077, while the rest of the camp endures the hijinks of a mystery prankster.

Season 5, Episode 8: Mulcahy's War

Original Air Date—16 November 1976
Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.

Season 5, Episode 9: The Korean Surgeon

Original Air Date—23 November 1976
Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.

Season 5, Episode 10: Hawkeye Get Your Gun

Original Air Date—30 November 1976
Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers.

Season 5, Episode 11: The Colonel's Horse

Original Air Date—7 December 1976
Everybody pitches in to save Colonel Potter's horse, who becomes sick while Potter is away in Tokyo. And Margaret asks Hawkeye, not Frank, to operate on her appendix.

Season 5, Episode 12: Exorcism

Original Air Date—14 December 1976
Against Frank's objections, Colonel Potter allows an Korean exorcism ceremony to be performed for a local civilian who rejects an operation because of the bad spirits that surround the 4077th.

Season 5, Episode 13: Hawk's Nightmare

Original Air Date—21 December 1976
Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."

Season 5, Episode 14: The Most Unforgettable Characters

Original Air Date—4 January 1977
Radar becomes an aspiring writer after ordering a flier from a comic book, and Hawkeye and B.J. give Frank a surprise birthday present that only he will appreciate.

Season 5, Episode 15: 38 Across

Original Air Date—11 January 1977
A fouled radio call for help on a crossword puzzle leads to a senior officer coming to the 4077th to help with a supposed serious medical problem.

Season 5, Episode 16: Ping Pong

Original Air Date—18 January 1977
The 4077th hosts a traditional Korean wedding, much to Frank's objections. And Colonel Potter runs into an old friend who has put his troops in jeopardy so that he could receive a promotion.

Season 5, Episode 17: End Run

Original Air Date—25 January 1977
A former star college football player suffers a severe leg injury in combat and must deal with the consequences, and Major Burns goes behind Colonel Potter's back to set up a boxing match between Klinger and Zale.

Season 5, Episode 18: Hanky Panky

Original Air Date—1 February 1977
B.J. falls off the fidelity wagon while trying to provide consolation to a nurse whose marriage has just ended. But will he confess his infidelity to his wife?

Season 5, Episode 19: Hepatitis

Original Air Date—8 February 1977
The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain.

Season 5, Episode 20: The General's Practitioner

Original Air Date—15 February 1977
General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.

Season 5, Episode 21: Movie Tonight

Original Air Date—22 February 1977
Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.

Season 5, Episode 22: Souvenirs

Original Air Date—1 March 1977
Hawkeye and BJ try to stop a chopper pilot from selling souvenirs derived from war materials derived from locals facing danger getting them, and Klinger becomes a pole-sitter in his latest attempt to get a Section Eight.

Season 5, Episode 23: Post Op

Original Air Date—8 March 1977
The 4077th is deluged with patients and their individual medical histories. Then they run out of blood and everyone is donating at 48-hour intervals.

Season 5, Episode 24: Margaret's Marriage

Original Air Date—15 March 1977
Pressured by Frank, Margaret decides to marry Colonel Donald Penobscott at the 4077th. When Donald arrives in camp, he is treated to a bachelor party and a practical joke while the nurses give Margaret a bridal shower.

Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Fade Out, Fade In

Original Air Date—20 September 1977
Frank Burns cracks up over Margaret's marriage while on R&R in Tokyo, and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is sent to the 4077th as a replacement by a vindictive superior officer.

Season 6, Episode 2: Fallen Idol

Original Air Date—27 September 1977
Radar has always looked up to Hawkeye and admired him as his hero. But after suffering a Jeep accident en route to R&R at Hawkeye's behest. Radar questions his own hero worship. Particularly when he and his hero have a falling out.

Season 6, Episode 3: Last Laugh

Original Air Date—4 October 1977
A practical joking friend gets BJ into serious trouble when he is arrested for a run-in he supposedly had with a general in Seoul.

Season 6, Episode 4: War of Nerves

Original Air Date—11 October 1977
Sidney Freedman feels depressed over Tom, a young soldier, who blames Sidney for his injuries because Sidney sent him back into combat. The 4077th members light a bonfire to release their stress.

Season 6, Episode 5: The Winchester Tapes

Original Air Date—18 October 1977
Hawkeye tries to travel to Seoul in order to visit Nurse Gilmore for the weekend. Charles tapes an angry message to his influential parents back home in Boston, asking for their help in getting him reassigned stateside.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Light That Failed

Original Air Date—25 October 1977
A delivery error keeps the 4077th from receiving a vital shipment of supplies, Winchester has a selfish reaction to an error that nearly kills a patient, and everyone is forced to guess at the murderer's identity in a mystery novel.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 229:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 7: In Love and War

Original Air Date—1 November 1977
Despite Colonel Potter's warning, Hawkeye falls in love with a Korean villager. Meanwhile, Margaret learns that her husband Donald may have made a pass at a new nurse assigned to the 4077th.

Season 6, Episode 8: Change Day

Original Air Date—8 November 1977
Winchester plots to cheat the natives when the Army changes the military scrip while Klinger tries to attempt to apply to West Point in order to drop out later.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 229:30 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 9: Images

Original Air Date—15 November 1977
Radar wants to get a tattoo, which Hawkeye and B.J. try to discourage. Major Houlihan wants to transfer one of her nurses out because she is too emotional for the job.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2210:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 10: The M*A*S*H Olympics

Original Air Date—22 November 1977
When Col. Potter decides the 4077th personnel are out of shape, he orders them to exercise. To motivate them, he comes up with the idea for a series of competitions like the Olympics, with the prize being a 3-day pass.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2210:30 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 11: The Grim Reaper

Original Air Date—29 November 1977
Colonel Bloodworth threatens to press court-martial charges against Hawkeye, who violently shoved him in the bar. However, when Bloodworth becomes a patient himself and witnesses Hawkeye's skill, he drops the charges.

Season 6, Episode 12: Comrades in Arms: Part 1

Original Air Date—6 December 1977
Hawkeye and Margaret become romantically involved while they are trapped behind enemy lines.

Season 6, Episode 13: Comrades in Arms: Part 2

Original Air Date—13 December 1977
B.J. disobeys orders and goes out to find Hawkeye and Margret, who are still missing in action. Meanwhile, their romantic relationship quickly goes up in flames, and they become even more hostile toward each other.

Season 6, Episode 14: The Merchant of Korea

Original Air Date—20 December 1977
B.J. and Hawkeye are fed up with doing favors for Winchester because they owe him money. So they challenge him to a poker game to win it back.

Season 6, Episode 15: The Smell of Music

Original Air Date—3 January 1978
Hawkeye and B.J. refuse to shower until Charles stops playing his French horn, and Colonel Potter deals with a patient who wants to kill himself because he is now disfigured.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2910:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 16: Patent 4077

Original Air Date—10 January 1978
Hawkeye is fed up with having to work with inadequate surgical equipment, so he tries to find somebody to create a makeshift clamp for him. And Klinger tries to find Margaret's wedding ring after it was accidentally thrown out with the trash.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2910:30 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 17: Tea and Empathy

Original Air Date—17 January 1978
Father Mulcahy retrieves some stolen penicillin after a soldier's confession, B.J. deals with a patient who is hooked on morphine, and a British officer demands that Hawkeye release his still-injured soldiers.

Season 6, Episode 18: Your Hit Parade

Original Air Date—24 January 1978
As the unit becomes overrun with casualties and tempers begin to flare, Radar tries to raise everyone's spirits by playing some new records over the intercom.

Season 6, Episode 19: What's Up, Doc?

Original Air Date—30 January 1978
Hawkeye conducts a rabbit test on Radar's bunny to find out if Margaret is pregnant, and a patient desperate to get home holds Winchester hostage.

Season 6, Episode 20: Mail Call Three

Original Air Date—6 February 1978
Klinger's wife wants a divorce, Radar's upset because his mom is seeing a new man, B.J. finds out that another man made a pass at his wife, and Hawkeye receives another love letter for another soldier named Benjamin Pierce.

Season 6, Episode 21: Temporary Duty

Original Air Date—13 February 1978
The 4077th and the 8063rd exchange Hawkeye and a nurse for a crude bumpkin surgeon and a personal friend of Margaret.

Season 6, Episode 22: Potter's Retirement

Original Air Date—20 February 1978
When Col. Potter learns of an informant feeding negative reports on his command bad enough to prompt an outside inspection, he decides to retire.

Season 6, Episode 23: Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde

Original Air Date—27 February 1978
While dealing with a long stretch of surgery duty, Winchester gets addicted to amphetamines. And Radar sets up a mouse race competition between the 4077th and a group of cocky Marine patients.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2911:00 PMTVLAND

Season 6, Episode 24: Major Topper

Original Air Date—27 March 1978
Between the Swamp-mates trying to top each other, the camp deals with a bad batch of morphine and a corporal who shoots down invisible enemy gliders.
Next US airings:
Sun. Nov. 2911:30 PMTVLAND

Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: Commander Pierce

Original Air Date—18 September 1978
When Pierce is temporarily put in charge of the 4077th, the weight of the responsibility takes its toll. He changes, becoming up-tight and authoritarian.

Season 7, Episode 2: Peace on Us

Original Air Date—25 September 1978
When the Army increases the number of points needed for a discharge, Hawkeye gets angry and interrupts official peace talks. Meanwhile, Margaret decides to divorce Donald after he permanently transfers himself stateside.

Season 7, Episode 3: Lil

Original Air Date—2 October 1978
Radar gets bent out of shape when he thinks Colonel Potter is spending too much time with a visiting female colonel, and Hawkeye tries to figure out what BJ's initials stand for.
Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 245:00 AMTVLAND
Wed. Nov. 255:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 4: Our Finest Hour

Original Air Date—9 October 1978
An hour-long series retrospective. A reporter, Clete Roberts, interviews the staff. Mixed in are scenes from past shows.
Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 245:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 5: The Billfold Syndrome

Original Air Date—16 October 1978
Major Winchester decides to quit talking to everyone at the camp, which Hawkeye and B.J. take as a challenge. Meanwhile, a medic gets amnesia.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 255:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 6: None Like It Hot

Original Air Date—23 October 1978
A bath tub Hawkeye and B.J. purchase during a heat wave instantly becomes the ultimate hot spot.

Season 7, Episode 7: They Call the Wind Korea

Original Air Date—30 October 1978
During a wind storm, and while lost on the way to Seoul, Winchester and Klinger come across an overturned Greek transport with several injured men.

Season 7, Episode 8: Major Ego

Original Air Date—6 November 1978
Major Winchester lets his surgical prowess go to his head when a "Stars and Stripes" journalist comes to interview him. But the journalist is more interested in making moves on Margaret than getting the story.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 2510:00 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 9: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Original Air Date—13 November 1978
The 4077th is forced to use extreme measures to save a group of soldiers suffering from hypothermia, while Klinger suffers temporary deafness after a mine explosion on his watch.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 2510:30 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 10: Point of View

Original Air Date—20 November 1978
You see a wounded soldier being treated at the 4077th through his eyes.
Next US airings:
Wed. Nov. 2511:00 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 11: Dear Comrade

Original Air Date—27 November 1978
A North Korean Spy infiltrates the 4077 and poses as Charles' Houseboy, in order to observe and report on 4077th's efficiency and success to his superiors.

Season 7, Episode 12: Out of Gas

Original Air Date—4 December 1978
When the camp copes with a critical shortage of sodium pentathol, a vital anesthetic, Father Mulcahy must use his black market contacts to get some.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 275:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 13: An Eye for a Tooth

Original Air Date—11 December 1978
Winchester encourages Hawkeye, B.J. and Margaret to raise the stakes in their practical joke battle, and Father Mulcahy is desperate to receive a promotion.
Next US airings:
Fri. Nov. 275:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 14: Dear Sis

Original Air Date—18 December 1978
It's Christmas time in Korea, and everybody's depressed--especially Father Mulcahy, who is concerned that he isn't making a difference to anyone.
Next US airings:
Sat. Nov. 285:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 15: B. J. Papa San

Original Air Date—1 January 1979
B.J. helps out a local Korean family. Meanwhile, a general has a series of mishaps in camp.
Next US airings:
Sat. Nov. 285:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 16: Inga

Original Air Date—8 January 1979
Hawkeye falls for a visiting Swedish doctor, but is disconcerted by her take-charge ways. As a result, he is forced to confront his chauvinistic views toward powerful women.
Next US airings:
Tue. Dec. 15:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 17: The Price

Original Air Date—15 January 1979
Klinger tries to bribe Colonel Potter, but Potter is more concerned with the disappearance of his horse, Sophie. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. try to hide a man who is about to be drafted into the Korean army.
Next US airings:
Tue. Dec. 15:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 18: The Young and the Restless

Original Air Date—22 January 1979
The arrival of fresh-faced lecturer Capt. Simmons and his subsequent performance in ER turns Winchester into a drunk, Potter into an invalid, and BJ into a bookworm. Meanwhile, Klinger begins acting like he's back home in Toledo.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 25:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 19: Hot Lips Is Back in Town

Original Air Date—29 January 1979
Margaret celebrates her newly obtained divorce by creating a new way to handle triage and invites a general to observe. Radar is enamored of a new nurse and tries everything he knows to get her attention.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 25:30 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 20: C*A*V*E

Original Air Date—5 February 1979
A hurried relocation to a cave is complicated by Hawkeye revealing he has claustrophobia.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 210:00 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 21: Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys

Original Air Date—14 February 1979
A patient accuses Hawkeye of being a Communist sympathizer when he operates on a Korean soldier ahead of an American. As a result, Colonel Flagg attempts to recruit Winchester to spy on Hawkeye.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 210:30 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 22: Preventative Medicine

Original Air Date—19 February 1979
Hawkeye Pierce performs a shocking and sinister stunt to keep a war-obsessed colonel from sending more young victims to a possible early grave.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 211:00 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 23: A Night at Rosie's

Original Air Date—26 February 1979
In an act of protest, Hawkeye goes to Rosie's Bar and decrees he is not leaving. One by one he is joined by fellow surgeons and staff, including an annoyed Colonel Potter.
Next US airings:
Wed. Dec. 211:30 PMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 24: Ain't Love Grand

Original Air Date—5 March 1979
While B.J. and Hawkeye snipe at each other, Klinger romances a nurse and Winchester romances a Korean working girl.
Next US airings:
Thur. Dec. 35:00 AMTVLAND

Season 7, Episode 25: The Party

Original Air Date—12 March 1979
Even while the camp is bugging out (and back), B.J. promotes the idea of a stateside "reunion" for the families of those at the 4077th.
Next US airings:
Thur. Dec. 35:30 AMTVLAND

Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Too Many Cooks

Original Air Date—17 September 1979
The 4077 receives a patient who is a bumbler at the front but regular gourmet in the mess tent. The surgical staff try and convince Potter to keep him but he flatly refuses. He has enough trouble as it is, his marriage is in danger.
Next US airings:
Fri. Dec. 45:00 AMTVLAND

Season 8, Episode 2: Are You Now, Margaret?

Original Air Date—24 September 1979
A Congressional aide comes to the camp with accusations of Margaret of being a communist sympathizer that could ruin her career.
Next US airings:
Fri. Dec. 45:30 AMTVLAND

Season 8, Episode 3: Guerilla My Dreams

Original Air Date—1 October 1979
Hawkeye refuses to accept a South Korean officer's warning that a wounded civilian he brought in is a dangerous enemy guerrilla soldier.

Season 8, Episode 4: Good-Bye Radar: Part 1

Original Air Date—8 October 1979
As Radar makes his way back from leave, the camp struggles with a total loss of electricity with a malfunctioning generator and the backup is stolen.

Season 8, Episode 5: Good-Bye Radar: Part 2

Original Air Date—15 October 1979
Although Radar is granted a hardship discharge, the camp's difficulties make him seriously consider staying.

Season 8, Episode 6: Period of Adjustment

Original Air Date—22 October 1979
B.J. and Klinger get drunk in despair at being envious to the now departed Radar.

Season 8, Episode 7: Nurse Doctor

Original Air Date—29 October 1979
The senior staff's attempt to help a nurse enter medical school to become a doctor is complicated by her unwanted romantic advances towards Father Mulcahy.

Season 8, Episode 8: Private Finance

Original Air Date—5 November 1979
Pierce deals with a dead soldier's ill-gotten gains, while a Korean mama attacks Klinger for dishonoring her daughter.

Season 8, Episode 9: Mr. and Mrs. Who?

Original Air Date—12 November 1979
After a drunken trip to Tokyo, Winchester is visited by his new wife. Meanwhile, the camp is hit with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever that they don't know how to deal with.

Season 8, Episode 10: The Yalu Brick Road

Original Air Date—19 November 1979
Hawkeye and BJ get lost in enemy territory.

Season 8, Episode 11: Life Time

Original Air Date—26 November 1979
As marked by an on screen clock, the 4077th staff have a specific time limit to operate on a patient before he dies or is left paralyzed.

Season 8, Episode 12: Dear Uncle Abdul

Original Air Date—3 December 1979
Now resigned to staying for his term of service, Klinger writes home about his job, which includes appeasing the eccentricities of the officers.

Season 8, Episode 13: Captains Outrageous

Original Air Date—10 December 1979
While the 4077th staff substitute for Rosie at her bar, Father Mulcahy is at the end of his patience when he is passed over for promotion yet again.

Season 8, Episode 14: Stars and Stripes

Original Air Date—17 December 1979
Friction occurs when Winchester and B.J. are asked to write an article for a prestigious journal on a procedure they'd performed. Margaret discovers more about herself through a visit from Scully.

Season 8, Episode 15: Yessir, That's Our Baby

Original Air Date—31 December 1979
When the 4077th staff find an abandoned Amerasian baby, their efforts to help her prove a frustrating struggle.

Season 8, Episode 16: Bottle Fatigue

Original Air Date—7 January 1980
Hawkeye goes on the wagon and drives everyone crazy. When Winchester hears that his sister is going to marry an Italian, he goes nuts, doing everything in his power to stop the marriage.

Season 8, Episode 17: Heal Thyself

Original Air Date—14 January 1980
When the mumps bring down Col. Potter and Winchester, a replacement surgeon from Tokyo is brought in.

Season 8, Episode 18: Old Soldiers

Original Air Date—21 January 1980
When Col. Potter is called to Tokyo to visit a sick friend, the 4077th must treat a group of refugee orphans.

Season 8, Episode 19: Morale Victory

Original Air Date—28 January 1980
While Hawkeye and BJ struggle as morale officers of the disgruntled camp, Winchester tries to help a patient whose pianist career seems ruined due to a crippled hand.

Season 8, Episode 20: Lend a Hand

Original Air Date—4 February 1980
Irritated that the 4077th is planning a "surprise" birthday party for him, Hawkeye aids a wounded surgeon at the front and habitually disagrees with wisecracking medical advisor Dr. Anthony Borelli. Constant interruptions prevent Klinger from frosting a cake in Hawkeye's honor.

Season 8, Episode 21: Goodbye, Cruel World

Original Air Date—11 February 1980
When Klinger's attempt to redecorate his office is rejected, he decides to desert while Hawkeye has a homebound war hero patient who attempts suicide.

Season 8, Episode 22: Dreams

Original Air Date—18 February 1980
During a hectic non-stop rush of wounded that is overcrowding the camp, the staff's brief naps have disturbing dreams in which the war is an never-ending intrusion.

Season 8, Episode 23: War Co-Respondent

Original Air Date—3 March 1980
A visiting war correspondent falls for B.J. He is attracted to her as well, and that causes him to feel torn.

Season 8, Episode 24: Back Pay

Original Air Date—10 March 1980
Pierce is upset by the fact that civilian doctors are making a lot of money off the war, and decides to bill the army for all his work. Meanwhile, Winchester is reluctantly showing 3 Korean doctors American medical techniques, putting them down all the while, until he is on the receiving end of their expertise.

Season 8, Episode 25: April Fools

Original Air Date—24 March 1980
A visiting spit and polish officer visits the camp at the worst time during April Fool's Day.

Season 9


Season 9, Episode 1: The Best of Enemies

Original Air Date—17 November 1980
En route to R&R, Hawkeye is flagged down by a North Korean soldier who holds him at gun point, forcing him to treat his wounded comrade.

Season 9, Episode 2: Letters

Original Air Date—24 November 1980
The staff of the 4077th answer letters from school children from Hawkeye's home town of Crabapple Cove.

Season 9, Episode 3: Cementing Relationships

Original Air Date—1 December 1980
To fight an ongoing infection in the O.R., the staff decides to remove the old wood floor and make a concrete one. The surgeons do the menial labor while Klinger acts as foreman (he knows cement and it's not that hard); while an Italian soldier falls head-over-heels for Margaret.

Season 9, Episode 4: Father's Day

Original Air Date—8 December 1980
Margaret's cold-hearted father comes to visit while the gang tries to dispose of a stolen side of beef.

Season 9, Episode 5: Death Takes a Holiday

Original Air Date—15 December 1980
It's Christmas time again. The surgeons and staff are throwing a Christmas party in the mess tent, and the children from the local orphanage are coming to join in the fun. B.J. donates a box of fudge from Peg and Charles donates some smoked oysters. Everybody in camp thinks Charles is a Scrooge, but, under the cover of darkness that night, Charles generously and anonymously donates packages of chocolate bars from home to the orphanage. The Christmas party takes off without a hitch. Colonel Potter dresses as Santa Claus and the children are having fun, but Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret miss out on the festivities when a mortally wounded man lands in pre-op. When learning the man is a husband and loving father, B.J. tries with all his might and skill to delay the man's death so his family won't remember this Christmas as they day their daddy died. Will they succeed? Or will they somehow be able to move the hands of time so the man makes it until after Christmas?

Season 9, Episode 6: A War for All Seasons

Original Air Date—29 December 1980
As the year 1951 comes to a close, the 4077th staff and surgeons hope 1952 is "a damn sight better" and hopefully they'll be going home. The year 1951 is not uneventful: Klinger makes a bet on a baseball team Charles is sure will lose, Hawkeye and B.J. build a kidney machine, Margaret knits a scarf which soon becomes a bed sheet, and Father Mulcahy plants a garden. By the time New Years Eve rolls around again, they all hope 1952 will be a "damn sight better" and that they will be returning home.

Season 9, Episode 7: Your Retention Please

Original Air Date—5 January 1981
When an pushy retention officer comes to the camp to persuade staff to extend their terms of service, Klinger, distraught at his domestic situation, is persuaded to do so.

Season 9, Episode 8: Tell It to the Marines

Original Air Date—12 January 1981
B.J. and Hawkeye try to get a hardship discharge for an immigrant Marine whose Mom is being deported before he can get home. Winchester becomes C.O. for a few days, using his new position to get himself silk sheets and other "basic necessities of life".

Season 9, Episode 9: Taking the Fifth

Original Air Date—19 January 1981
Klinger happens upon a bottle of vintage French wine and Hawkeye uses it to lure a nurse into his clutches. Winchester deals with Klinger to get more bottles of the wine. Col. Potter trades with the Canadians for a special anesthetic forbidden by the U.S. army.

Season 9, Episode 10: Operation Friendship

Original Air Date—26 January 1981
When the steam generator explodes in O.R., Klinger pushes Charles out of the line of fire just in time, but B.J. catches part of the blast and has a serious arm injury. For saving his life, Charles declares he is fully indebted to Maxwell Klinger and becomes his personal assistant. But after several days of bowing to Klinger's ever command, Charles begins to wish he HAD been killed. Meanwhile, Hawkeye doesn't like the doctor called in to help treat B.J., who refuses to admit there is anything wrong with him.

Season 9, Episode 11: No Sweat

Original Air Date—2 February 1981
We're having a heat wave! The 4077th deals with a sudden heat wave in their own personal ways: Klinger disassembles the P.A. system, Charles goes through all of his tax returns and bonds, B.J. stresses over a letter from Peg, Margaret develops a severe case of prickly heat, and Colonel Potter can't get a good night's sleep.

Season 9, Episode 12: Depressing News

Original Air Date—9 February 1981
After placing an order for 5,000 tongue depressors, the 4077th receives 500,000. Hawkeye decides to use every single one of them to erect a monument to Army inefficiency, and dedicate it to all the brave men and women who have passed through, while Klinger presses his luck when he starts a printing press.

Season 9, Episode 13: No Laughing Matter

Original Air Date—16 February 1981
Hawkeye's challenge to go through a day without telling a joke is complicated by Winchester's amusingly desperate attempt to curry the favor of a hated visiting officer.

Season 9, Episode 14: Oh, How We Danced

Original Air Date—23 February 1981
When Winchester goes to inspect the sanitary conditions at another camp, the failing mark he gives the commander is met with physical violence. Meanwhile, the gang comes up with a surprise for B.J. on his anniversary.

Season 9, Episode 15: Bottoms Up

Original Air Date—2 March 1981
Margaret's good friend Captain Helen Whitfield visits the 4077th and it seems like old times again, but what the Major doesn't know is that Whitfield is still a raging closet-alcoholic; Meanwhile, Hawkeye pulls one prank that goes too far when he drops Charles' pants in O.R.

Season 9, Episode 16: The Red/White Blues

Original Air Date—9 March 1981
Col. Potter's blood pressure is too high and he has two weeks to get it back down, causing everyone to mollycoddle him, much to his dismay. Meanwhile, the malaria medicine they are sent makes Klinger sick.

Season 9, Episode 17: Bless You Hawkeye

Original Air Date—16 March 1981
Hawkeye starts inexplicably sneezing uncontrollably until Col. Potter suspects it's psychological in nature and calls in Dr. Freedman.

Season 9, Episode 18: Blood Brothers

Original Air Date—6 April 1981
Father Mulcahy tries to prepare himself and the camp for a visit from Cardinal Reardon, a VIP to both the Army and the church. Hawkeye, meanwhile, prepares to tell a young soldier why he can't donate blood to his wounded buddy; Hawkeye and B.J. have discovered the soldier has leukemia.

Season 9, Episode 19: The Foresight Saga

Original Air Date—13 April 1981
Klinger accidentally breaks Potter's eyeglasses, requiring a visit from traveling optometrist Dr. Bud Herzog. The 4077th receives fresh vegetables from a grateful Korean. Potter questions the authenticity of an upbeat letter from Radar.

Season 9, Episode 20: The Life You Save

Original Air Date—4 May 1981
Winchester goes on a spiritual journey when he undergoes a near-death experience. Pierce experiences the problems of being the officer in charge of food services.

Season 10


Season 10, Episode 1: That's Show Biz

Original Air Date—26 October 1981
A touring USO show brings an unexpected touch of vaudeville to the 4077th when the star showgirl requires an emergency operation.

Season 10, Episode 2: Identity Crisis

Original Air Date—2 November 1981
Father Mulcahy counsels a GI who is plagued by guilt because he has swapped tags with a dead colleague. Meanwhile, B.J. and Charles consider ways of keeping a soldier-salesman quiet.

Season 10, Episode 3: Rumor at the Top

Original Air Date—9 November 1981
The Army is starting a new MASH unit, and the surgeons and staff of the 4077th fear they will be split up and reassigned. So they act completely unprofessional, uncouth, and incompetent in front of an army rep hoping he will reconsider.

Season 10, Episode 4: Give 'Em Hell, Hawkeye

Original Air Date—16 November 1981
Hawkeye writes a protest letter to President Truman complaining about the war and the senseless tasks they have to do like camp beautification.

Season 10, Episode 5: Wheelers and Dealers

Original Air Date—23 November 1981
After being cited for reckless Jeep driving, Colonel Potter voluntarily takes driving lessons from Rizzo and B.J. decides he will make all the money he can to pay the second Mortgage, by gambling.

Season 10, Episode 6: Communication Breakdown

Original Air Date—30 November 1981
Stop the presses! Charles has just received a load of newspapers from back home and the camp, being without a newspaper for weeks, are determined to share Charles'. He is reluctant, but agrees--only after he's read them all of course. But when he finds a newspaper missing, he wages war on the camp and they, in turn, wage a war of practical jokes on him.

Season 10, Episode 7: Snap Judgment

Original Air Date—7 December 1981
When Hawkeye's snappy new Polaroid camera is stolen, Klinger searches the black market and finds it. Unfortunately en route back to camp, Klinger is stopped by MPs who assume he is the camera thief.

Season 10, Episode 8: Snappier Judgment

Original Air Date—14 December 1981
It's the day of Klinger's hearing before a trial of angry officers. Will Klinger be sent up the river? With Charles as his attorney, it's almost certain. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. set out to catch the real thief.

Season 10, Episode 9: 'Twas the Day After Christmas

Original Air Date—28 December 1981
On the day after Christmas, the 4077th decides to try out an English tradition, Boxing Day, where the officers and enlisted personnel change places for a day.

Season 10, Episode 10: Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead

Original Air Date—4 January 1982
While Klinger is sick, he communicates with the ghost of a dead soldier.

Season 10, Episode 11: The Birthday Girls

Original Air Date—11 January 1982
While Margaret tries desperately to get to Tokyo for her birthday, the camp helps an injured cow give birth.

Season 10, Episode 12: Blood and Guts

Original Air Date—18 January 1982
When a U.N. war correspondent comes to the 4077th, he charms everyone. But when he doesn't report the war, but instead makes it up, making it sound exciting and heroic, Hawkeye is outraged.

Season 10, Episode 13: A Holy Mess

Original Air Date—1 February 1982
A special egg breakfast is complicated by a distraught AWOL soldier talking Father Mulcahy into granting him sanctuary in the mess tent during a preceding church service.

Season 10, Episode 14: The Tooth Shall Set You Free

Original Air Date—8 February 1982
While Winchester fearfully avoids getting his agonizing toothache treated, the other surgeons discover a racist commander is sending his African-American soldiers disproportionally into dangerous duty.

Season 10, Episode 15: Pressure Points

Original Air Date—15 February 1982
Col. Potter fears he's losing his touch badly enough to summon Dr. Sidney Freeman.

Season 10, Episode 16: Where There's a Will, There's a War

Original Air Date—22 February 1982
Fearing for his life at an aid station, Hawkeye writes his will with special bequests for his friends.

Season 10, Episode 17: Promotion Commotion

Original Air Date—1 March 1982
When Winchester, Hawkeye and Hunnicutt are assigned to determine promotion recommendations, they are intensively wooed by the enlisted staff while one bully physically threatens Winchester.

Season 10, Episode 18: Heroes

Original Air Date—15 March 1982
A famous prizefighter, 'Gentleman Joe' Cavanaugh, comes to visit the 4077th and while there, has a stroke. Everyone is irritated by Pierce, who as his doctor, becomes the spokesman to the press. Father Mulcahey is upset, since Gentleman Joe was his childhood hero.

Season 10, Episode 19: Sons and Bowlers

Original Air Date—22 March 1982
Colonel Potter and B.J. head a bowling team that plays in a championship match against the Marines. Meanwhile Hawkeye learns his father is having an operation back home and feels so helpless, so he confides in Charles.

Season 10, Episode 20: Picture This

Original Air Date—5 April 1982
After becoming fed up with his bunkmates' living habits, Hawkeye moves out of The Swamp and into a quaint shack behind Rosie's. Meanwhile, Charles and B.J. continue to annoy one another: Charles with his loud, classical music playing at all hours, and B.J. constantly sharing news of Erin's potty training; Colonel Potter wants to paint a portrait of the entire camp as a present for Mildred, but it proves difficult with the men fighting with one another. Klinger, Margaret and Father Mulcahy take it upon themselves to try and get the Swampmen back together. Will they succeed in bringing at least one war to a peaceful finish?

Season 10, Episode 21: That Darn Kid

Original Air Date—12 April 1982
A peddler wheels his cart into camp. Klinger buys from him a goat to get rich selling milk. B.J. shows interest in a blue vase, but Charles outbids him greatly. Meanwhile, much to his chagrin, Hawkeye is paymaster again. But just as he gets the pay rolling, wounded arrive. Hawkeye tells Klinger to keep an eye on the money while he's in surgery. Unfortunately, Klinger left the money in his office alone with the goat...Hawk and Klinger return to find the money gone. It had been eaten. No way would I-CORPS believe that. Worse yet, he still had a ton of angry, unpaid staff members. Meanwhile, Charles, who hasn't yet been paid, can't afford the vase he wants, however Rizzo agrees to loan him the money, with a small 100% interest attached. Will Charles ever get himself out of debt? Will Hawkeye go down for the disappearance of the money, or will his name be cleared by sheer luck or help from a very hungry kid?

Season 11


Season 11, Episode 1: Hey, Look Me Over

Original Air Date—25 October 1982
All the nurses have been evacuated and the doctors must handle incoming casualties by themselves, leaving the O.R. and everything else in a mess. When the nurses returns, Colonel Potter announces that there will be an inspection in two days, so Major Houlihan gets very busy getting everything back in order for this.

Season 11, Episode 2: Trick or Treatment

Original Air Date—1 November 1982
It's time for the annual 4077th Halloween party. Hawkeye is dressed as Superman, B.J. is a clown, Margaret is a geisha girl, Colonel Potter is a cowboy and Klinger is Al Capone. But it's not much of a party for the surgeons when unexpected wounded guests show up; Charles tries to help a slovenly marine who has a billiard ball stuck in his mouth; Father Mulcahy inadvertently saves a man's life when he is presumed dead.

Season 11, Episode 3: Foreign Affairs

Original Air Date—8 November 1982
Charles falls in love with a french Red Cross woman but realizes that their lifestyles are not compatible. Hawkeye and BJ are helping with an army PR stunt in their own way.

Season 11, Episode 4: The Joker Is Wild

Original Air Date—15 November 1982
It's another M*A*S*H prankathon. This time, Hawkeye appears to be the marked man after menial practical jokes happen to everyone in camp, but him. Will they get him too? Or is Hawkeye already the victim of an even larger practical joke?

Season 11, Episode 5: Who Knew?

Original Air Date—22 November 1982
When a nurse that Hawkeye is dating dies, he offers to deliver the eulogy. The problem is that he discovers that he didn't know her.

Season 11, Episode 6: Bombshells

Original Air Date—28 November 1982
The whole 4077 are looking forward to a visit from Marilyn Monroe but BJ is more interested in going fishing.

Season 11, Episode 7: Settling Debts

Original Air Date—6 December 1982
Hawkeye receives a letter from Colonel Potters wife where she informs that she has paid the last mortgage on their home and asks Hawkeye and friends to throw a small surprise party for Potter to celebrate.

Season 11, Episode 8: The Moon Is Not Blue

Original Air Date—13 December 1982
Bored at the terrible film selection, Hawkeye and BJ decide to try to get a copy of the notorious film, "The Moon is Blue."

Season 11, Episode 9: Run for the Money

Original Air Date—20 December 1982
Father Mulcahy must save the camp's honor in a high-stakes footrace against the 8063rd. Hawkeye, BJ, and Hot Lips each bet on it. Meanwhile, Charles tries to help Private Walter Palmer, a patient who suffers frequent verbal abuse from his fellow soldiers due to a speech impediment.

Season 11, Episode 10: U.N., the Night and the Music

Original Air Date—3 January 1983
Three U.N. delegates come to the 4077th, and each makes a lasting impression on the members of the camp.

Season 11, Episode 11: Strange Bedfellows

Original Air Date—10 January 1983
Col. Potter discovers that his son-in-law has had an affair. Meanwhile, Charle's snoring is keeping his tent-mates from getting a good night's sleep.

Season 11, Episode 12: Say No More

Original Air Date—24 January 1983
General Addison Collins refuses to accept responsibility for the war games that have mortally wounded his son Curtis, a lieutenant. Charles tries to help Margaret, who develops laryngitis as she is about to meet her hero, Dr. Steven Chesler.

Season 11, Episode 13: Friends and Enemies

Original Air Date—7 February 1983
Colonel Potter must decide whether to blow the whistle on an old army chum, Woody Cooke, whose military mistakes are costing human lives. BJ suffers from both an ingrown toenail and from Charles' insistence on playing his Mahler records.

Season 11, Episode 14: Give and Take

Original Air Date—14 February 1983
Wounded Private Kurland learns a painful lesson from the enemy soldier he's critically wounded, while the thankless job of charity collection officer passes from one staff member to another.

Season 11, Episode 15: As Time Goes By

Original Air Date—21 February 1983
Margaret seeks contributions for a time capsule.

Season 11, Episode 16: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Original Air Date—28 February 1983
In the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.

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