The Winchester Tapes

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The Winchester Tapes
M*A*S*H episode

"Don't change the color of your face!! I'm out of umber!!"
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 5
Written by Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
Directed by Burt Metcalfe
Guest stars Thomas Carter (Patient)

Kimiko Hiroshige (Korean Woman)

Production no. 605
Original airdate October 18, 1977
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"The Winchester Tapes" is an episode from the TV series M*A*S*H. The fifth episode of the sixth season, it originally aired on CBS October 18, 1977, with a repeat on December 27, 1977, and was written by Everett Greenbaum and Jim Fritzell and directed by Burt Metcalfe.

Guest cast is Thomas Carter as a patient and Kimiko Hiroshige as the Korean woman.

The night the episode originally aired happened to be the same night that Yankees baseball player Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

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Major Winchester records a taped message to his parents, begging them to do whatever it takes to get him home.

Preceded by
"War of Nerves"
M*A*S*H episodes Succeeded by
"The Light That Failed"