| # |
Title[n 1] |
Director[n 2] |
Writer[n 2] |
Original airdate |
Production Code[n 3] |
| 1 |
"The Best of Enemies" |
Charles S. Dubin |
Sheldon Bull |
November 17, 1980 (1980-11-17) |
Z404 |
| On his way to some R&R in Tokyo, Hawkeye is forced by a North Korean soldier to perform an emergency roadside operation on his buddy. Charles, Colonel Potter, B.J. and Margaret compete against each other in a bridge tournament with frequently rotating partners. |
| 2 |
"Letters" |
Charles S. Dubin |
Dennis Koenig |
November 24, 1980 (1980-11-24) |
Z403 |
| The 4077th receives a load of letters from a 4th grade class from Hawkeye's hometown in Maine, and they decide to answer the letters and tell the kids back home about life in Korea. |
| 3 |
"Cementing Relationships" |
Charles S. Dubin |
David Pollack, Elias Davis |
December 1, 1980 (1980-12-01) |
Z401 |
| The staff struggles to install a more sanitary cement floor for their operating room despite the fact that no one is experienced at the job. An Italian soldier, recently dumped by his girlfriend back home, becomes infatuated with Margaret. |
| 4 |
"Father's Day" |
Alan Alda |
Karen Hall |
December 8, 1980 (1980-12-08) |
Z405 |
| Margaret's father, the famous Colonel Alvin "Howitzer Al" Houlihan comes to the camp, but both daughter and father do not get along as well as they would like. Meanwhile, Hawkeye receives a stolen frozen side of beef from a grateful patient, and the camp must eat it before the MPs find it. |
| 5 |
"Death Takes a Holiday" |
Mike Farrell |
Mike Farrell |
December 15, 1980 (1980-12-15) |
Z408 |
| During Christmas time, Father Mulcahy takes up a collection to feed the local orphanage, to which Major Winchester appears to donate little. Everybody thinks he is a scrooge, unaware that he made a very generous donation of chocolates to the orphanage. Winchester goes out of his way to keep the entire donation a secret, only to be upset when the chocolates are sold on the black market. He later finds out it was in order to buy a month's worth of food, to which he fully understands. Meanwhile, Hawkeye, B.J. and Margaret try to prolong the life of a mortally wounded patient until midnight, so his family "won't have to remember Christmas as the day their Daddy died." |
| 6 |
"A War For All Seasons" |
Burt Metcalfe |
Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford |
December 29, 1980 (1980-12-29) |
Z409 |
| On New Year's Eve 1951, the camp reflects on events that took place since the previous New Year's Eve. Winchester and Klinger lose bets when the Brooklyn Dodgers lose the National League Pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round The World". A spoof of A Man For All Seasons. |
| 7 |
"Your Retention Please" |
Charles S. Dubin |
Erik Tarloff |
January 5, 1981 (1981-01-05) |
Z406 |
| Klinger, heartbroken when he finds out that his ex-wife is marrying his best friend, is approached by a Retention Sergeant who does the unthinkable and convinces an irrational Klinger to re-enlist in the Army for six more years. Klinger is not forced to re-enlist because Colonel Potter gives him the oath of office to become a president rather than the oath to re-enlist. Meanwhile, a corpsman is irate that sexist Army policies kept him from automatically becoming an officer when he was drafted, as he is a male nurse and thus could not become an army nurse when drafted. |
| 8 |
"Tell it To the Marines" |
Harry Morgan |
Hank Bradford |
January 12, 1981 (1981-01-12) |
Z410 |
| While under the temporary command of Major Winchester, a Dutch immigrant Marine who passes through the 4077th is in desperate need of a hardship discharge because of his mother's imminent deportation. The Marines have no sympathy for his plight, so the doctors try to help him out. |
| 9 |
"Taking the Fifth" |
Charles S. Dubin |
Elias Davis, David Pollack |
January 19, 1981 (1981-01-19) |
Z407 |
| Hawkeye gets a bottle of very rare and fine French wine he hopes to use to seduce nurses, while Colonel Potter, irate that a useful anesthetic (curare) has been banned by the Army for little reason, trades supplies with a Canadian medical unit for a supply of it. |
| 10 |
"Operation Friendship" |
Rena Down |
Dennis Koenig |
January 26, 1981 (1981-01-26) |
Z412 |
| Klinger saves Major Winchester's life from a freak accident with an autoclave, although B.J. is seriously injured in the accident. Winchester helps Klinger out of gratitude (which Klinger is quick to take advantage of), while Hawkeye has a clash of egos with the specialist who is called in to evaluate B.J.'s injuries and temporarily replace him in the operating room. |
| 11 |
"No Sweat" |
Burt Metcalfe |
John Rappaport |
February 2, 1981 (1981-02-02) |
Z402 |
| In a particularly powerful heat wave, everybody is trying to keep cool, despite problems ranging from Margaret's prickly-heat rash to Winchester's tax problems. |
| 12 |
"Depressing News" |
Alan Alda |
Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford |
February 9, 1981 (1981-02-09) |
Z411 |
| When 500,000 tongue depressors are delivered by mistake to the 4077th, Hawkeye decides to use them to build a monument to Army stupidity, which Klinger covers in the camp newspaper he is starting. The army hears about this and wants to display his monument as a propaganda tool. |
| 13 |
"No Laughing Matter" |
Burt Metcalfe |
Elias Davis, David Pollack |
February 16, 1981 (1981-02-16) |
Z413 |
| Hawkeye makes a bet with B.J. that he can go 24 hours without making a joke, while Major Winchester has a confrontation with the Colonel who had him sent to Korea, and both must practice extreme self control. |
| 14 |
"Oh, How We Danced" |
Burt Metcalfe |
John Rappaport |
February 23, 1981 (1981-02-23) |
Z414 |
| B.J. is upset as his wedding anniversary is coming up while he is stuck in Korea away from his family, so the camp has a home movie shipped in from his wife. The camp also takes care of an injured Korean child and Major Winchester grudgingly performs a hygiene inspection on a front-line unit. |
| 15 |
"Bottoms Up" |
Alan Alda |
Dennis Koenig |
March 2, 1981 (1981-03-02) |
Z415 |
| While almost everybody at the 4077th drinks, it becomes a serious problem to one nurse, a close friend of Margaret's, who had been an alcoholic before. Meanwhile, Hawkeye's practical joke against Major Winchester goes too far, and he becomes very unpopular with the camp after his attempt at saving face is sabotaged by B.J. |
| 16 |
"The Red/White Blues" |
Gabrielle Beaumont |
David Pollack, Elias Davis |
March 9, 1981 (1981-03-09) |
Z416 |
| With Colonel Potter suffering from stress-related hypertension, the camp decides to try to make life easier on their beloved leader. Unfortunately, their attempts to calm him down and make his life easier backfire, giving him even more stress. Klinger suffers exhaustion and back pain and is accused of faking it, but is in fact suffering a negative reaction to Primaquine malaria medication due to his Mediterranean heritage. |
| 17 |
"Bless You, Hawkeye" |
Nell Cox |
Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford |
March 16, 1981 (1981-03-16) |
Z417 |
| Hawkeye has a serious sneezing problem that appears to be psychological in nature, so Dr. Sidney Freedman arrives to find out what has him sneezing around the clock. |
| 18 |
"Blood Brothers" |
Harry Morgan |
Elias Davis, David Pollack |
April 6, 1981 (1981-04-06) |
Z421[n 4] |
| While matching a patient's blood for donation to another patient, Hawkeye discovers that the soldier, Pvt. Gary Sturgis (Patrick Swayze) has leukemia and must balance his own desire to do everything he can to save Sturgis against Sturgis's own wishes. In the subplot, Father Mulcahy struggles to prepare himself and the camp for a visit from a Cardinal. |
| 19 |
"The Foresight Saga" |
Charles S. Dubin |
Elias Davis, David Pollack |
April 13, 1981 (1981-04-13) |
Z422[n 4] |
| Klinger accidentally breaks Colonel Potter's eyeglasses just as an overly positive letter from Radar arrives. The doctors help one of the local teenagers whose family has fled south to escape the war and who is losing his farm. Margaret has problems with her eyesight and is bothered by the fact that she is getting older. The title is a spoof of the soap opera title The Forsythe Saga. |
| 20 |
"The Life You Save" |
Alan Alda |
John Rappaport, Alan Alda |
May 4, 1981 (1981-05-04) |
Z418[n 4] |
| After nearly dying, Major Winchester becomes unusually introspective, polite and obsessed with death. |