| # | Title[n 1] | Director[n 2] | Writer[n 2] | Original airdate | Production Code[n 3] |
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| 1 | "Bug Out" | Gene Reynolds | Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum | September 21, 1976 | U801 (1), U802 (2) |
| A one-hour episode. With North Korean forces on the march, the 4077th must bug out and move the entire camp, but a soldier who has just had serious spinal surgery cannot be moved. Hawkeye, Radar and Major Houlihan stay behind as the rest of the camp tries to set up a new base. Hawkeye is told MASH 4077 is on the "front Lines"; apparently, the Battle of Uijeongbu which occurred June 25/26, 1950. | |||||
| 2 | "Margaret's Engagement" | Alan Alda | Gary Markowitz | September 28, 1976 | U803 |
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Major Margaret Houlihan reveals when she comes back from Tokyo that she is now engaged to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscot, a West Point graduate who has swept her off her feet. Frank Burns does not take the news so well and almost has a complete nervous breakdown.
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| 3 | "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" | Gene Reynolds | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | October 5, 1976 | U806 |
| Hawkeye is blinded after a heater he was fixing in the middle of winter explodes, and he fears he may have lost his sight forever. Major Burns makes a tidy sum of money betting with enlisted men on baseball games he is secretly already listened to—for a while. | |||||
| 4 | "Lt. Radar O'Reilly" | Alan Rafkin | Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell | October 12, 1976 | U805 |
| After Hawkeye wins a favor from someone at headquarters in a poker game, he uses it to get Radar promoted from Corporal to Second Lieutenant. Radar struggles to adjust to his new status as an officer, but he eventually is able to resign his commission and return to being the company clerk. Sandy Kenyon guests stars as Master Sgt Woodruff. | |||||
| 5 | "The Nurses" | Joan Darling | Linda Bloodworth | October 19, 1976 | U809 |
| Tensions between Major Houlihan and her nurses reach a breaking point as her discipline becomes draconian, while her nurses' defiance reaches new heights. Hawkeye helps sneak a nurse's husband into camp for a rendezvous, ending in a confrontation in which Major Houlihan reveals what it is like being the head nurse at the 4077th. | |||||
| 6 | "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" | Gene Reynolds | Gene Reynolds (story) Allan Katz, Don Reo |
October 26, 1976 | U808 |
| Klinger forgets to tell anybody that Major Houlihan is going to a local village to deliver a baby, so everybody thinks she is been kidnapped by the enemy, and Colonel Flagg shows up to investigate. | |||||
| 7 | "Dear Sigmund" | Alan Alda | Alan Alda | November 9, 1976 | U810 |
| While visiting the 4077th, Dr. Sidney Freedman writes a letter to the long-deceased Sigmund Freud as a way of gathering his thoughts and reflecting on recent events. A string of practical jokes is played by a mysterious trickster. | |||||
| 8 | "Mulcahy's War" | George Tyne | Richard Cogan | November 16, 1976 | U812 |
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A young private has shot himself in the foot (much to Major Burns ire), and to understand why anybody would do such a thing, Father Mulcahy decides to volunteer to visit the front lines, where he sees the horrors of war firsthand and has to overcome his own fears to save somebody's life.
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| 9 | "The Korean Surgeon" | Gene Reynolds | Bill Idelson | November 23, 1976 | U814 |
| An escaped North Korean prisoner of war who is a skilled surgeon passes himself off as South Korean (with the help of Hawkeye and BJ) so he can work at the 4077th. They are glad for any help they can get, but Majors Burns and Houlihan suspect he is not who he says he is. In a subplot, Major Burns is taken as a POW by North Korean soldiers pretending to be South Koreans. | |||||
| 10 | "Hawkeye Get Your Gun" | William Jurgensen | Gene Reynolds (story) Jay Folb (story and teleplay) |
November 30, 1976 | U813 |
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While returning from a short mission to a Korean field hospital, Colonel Potter and Hawkeye are pinned down by enemy fire. To defend himself, Hawkeye must fire a gun for the first time in his life despite his strong moral objections against killing and dislike of guns. In the end, he fires the gun in the air.
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| 11 | "The Colonel's Horse" | Burt Metcalfe | Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum | December 7, 1976 | U811 |
| While Colonel Potter is away in Tokyo, several problems befall the 4077th, including Klinger being deeply depressed, Major Houlihan having appendicitis and the Colonel's horse falling ill. The camp tries to fix these problems before the Colonel gets back. | |||||
| 12 | "Exorcism" | Alan Alda | Gene Reynolds (story), Jay Folb (story and teleplay) | December 14, 1976 | U815 |
| Radar is ordered to remove a Korean spiritual relic from the camp and a string of bad luck begins to befall the 4077th. An elderly Korean patient refuses treatment until a ritual is performed to remove evil spirits. | |||||
| 13 | "Hawk's Nightmare" | Burt Metcalfe | Burt Prelutsky | December 21, 1976 | U804 |
| Hawkeye experiences constant nightmares and bouts of sleepwalking, so Dr. Sidney Freedman arrives to help Hawkeye deal with his problems. | |||||
| 14 | "The Most Unforgettable Characters" | Burt Metcalfe | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | January 4, 1977 | U818 |
| While taking a correspondence course in fiction writing, Radar takes notes on the strange people and events around him. | |||||
| 15 | "38 Across" | Burt Metcalfe | Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum | January 11, 1977 | U821 |
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April 1953: The entire camp obsesses over the answer to a difficult crossword puzzle clue, and goes to remarkable lengths to find out what it is.
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| 16 | "Ping Pong" | William Jurgensen | Sid Dorfman | January 18, 1977 | U817 |
| A Korean corpsman, also the camp's Ping Pong champion, wants to borrow $40 to buy a wedding ring. Among the patients is an old friend of Col. Potter's, an injured colonel in command of combat troops despite being a career bureaucrat. Hawkeye and B.J. discover that the Colonel is a danger to his unit, and Potter must decide whether to return him to the line for a few days to earn his Combat Infantryman Badge and a promotion. | |||||
| 17 | "End Run" | Harry Morgan | John D. Hess | January 25, 1977 | U816 |
| A former college football star becomes suicidal after losing a leg to injuries, and Radar tries to console him. Major Burns decides to organize a boxing match between Klinger and Sgt. Zale to settle a dispute and to get an emotional high from watching two men beat each other senseless. In the end, it is Burns who gets a K.O. from both Klinger and Zale. Burns almost presses charges until he learns that anyone who promotes a fight gets court-martialed as well. | |||||
| 18 | "Hanky Panky" | Gene Reynolds | Gene Reynolds | February 1, 1977 | U822 |
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Donald Penobscot is admitted to a Tokyo hospital under suspicious circumstances, while B.J. has a lapse in his normally happily married life for a night with a nurse in the process of a divorce, which he soon regrets.
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| 19 | "Hepatitis" | Alan Alda | Alan Alda | February 8, 1977 | U823 |
| When Father Mulcahy is quarantined with hepatitis, Hawkeye must give inoculations to the entire camp, but he has difficulty because of a mysterious back ailment. B.J. must perform an experimental operation out of a medical journal. | |||||
| 20 | "The General's Practitioner" | Alan Rafkin | Burt Prelutsky | February 15, 1977 | U807 |
| A general wants Hawkeye as his personal physician and will not take no for an answer. Hawkeye, though, does not want to give up actually helping wounded and saving lives in exchange for doting on a pampered General. Korshak lets Pierce stay at M*A*S*H 4077th; although it is not clear whether he is going to take Hawkeye's advice to give up smoking and drinking and check into a hospital. A subplot has Radar taking care of a Korean woman and her half-American child. | |||||
| 21 | "Movie Tonight" | Burt Metcalfe | Gene Reynolds, Don Reo, Allan Katz, Jay Folb | February 22, 1977 | U824 |
| During a showing of the movie My Darling Clementine the projector breaks repeatedly, so the camp provides its own entertainment, which includes Father Mulcahy performing a piano solo, members of the unit singing improvised lyrics to "Gee, Mom, I Want to Go Home", and doing Father Mulcahy impressions. | |||||
| 22 | "Souvenirs" | Joshua Shelley | Reinhold Weege (story) Burt Prelutsky (story and teleplay) |
March 1, 1977 | U819 |
| A helicopter pilot is making a lucrative side business selling war souvenirs, and many Koreans are being hurt scavenging battlefields for his merchandise. Hawkeye and B.J. blackmail the pilot into going out of the scrap metal business. Frank aggravates Major Houlihan by pretending that he does not have a gift that she gave him in happier times. Hawkeye and B.J. foil Frank Burns's plan to send a Korean national treasure to the United States. | |||||
| 23 | "Post Op" | Gene Reynolds | Gene Reynolds, Jay Folb (story) Ken Levine, David Isaacs (teleplay) |
March 8, 1977 | U825 |
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The camp is critically low on blood, so everybody in the camp must donate, even those who are normally quite afraid of needles.
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| 24 | "Margaret's Marriage" | Gene Reynolds | Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell | March 15, 1977 | U820 |
| Margaret Houlihan decides that she will wed her fiancee at the 4077th, and the camp plays host to bachelor and bachelorette parties and a wedding interrupted by incoming wounded. | |||||
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