| # | Title[n 1] | Director[n 2] | Writer[n 2] | Original airdate | Production Code[n 3] |
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| 1 | "Commander Pierce" | Burt Metcalfe | Ronny Graham | September 18, 1978 | T404 |
| Hawkeye discovers it's no picnic to be in command of the unit after Colonel Potter goes to Seoul and leaves him in charge of the 4077. | |||||
| 2 | "Peace on Us" | George Tyne | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | September 25, 1978 | T401 |
| September 10, 1952 With the peace talks broken down yet again and his tour of duty lengthened again, Hawkeye is fed up with the diplomatic impasse and decides to go to Panmunjom himself to try to force an end to the war. Margaret finds out that her husband had himself transferred to San Francisco to avoid discussing problems with their marriage, and decides to file for divorce. B.J. grows a mustache, which he'll wear the rest of the series (even though he had the mustache in the previous episode "Commander Pierce"). | |||||
| 3 | "Lil" | Burt Metcalfe | Sheldon Bull | October 2, 1978 | T406 |
| A visiting nursing Colonel provides Colonel Potter with some company and some temptation to break his vows with Mrs. Potter, much to protective Radar's dismay. Hawkeye tries to figure out what the B.J. in B.J. Hunnicutt stands for. | |||||
| 4 | "Our Finest Hour" | Burt Metcalfe | Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Larry Balmagia, Ronny Graham | October 9, 1978 | T408 (1), T409 (2) |
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Another one-hour episode, this is a clip show framed as another Clete Roberts "documentary" with new links filmed in black and white interspersed with color clips from previous episodes. Note: Roberts claims the date is "October 9, 1952" -in fact- "October 9, 1978 is the actual date of when this episode first airs, giving birth to Day-of-setting-to-Day-Of-Air match, which actually means the day it airs, not the year it airs. |
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| 5 | "The Billfold Syndrome" | Alan Alda | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | October 16, 1978 | T405 |
| Major Winchester suffers a setback to his civilian career and vows to never speak to anyone in camp again (a promise they naturally try to get him to break), while Dr. Freedman shows up to treat a medic who has lost his memory. The Battle of Hill 402 against the Chinese - where the Medic has amnesia with the 5th Regimental Combat team was - occurred in May 1951 | |||||
| 6 | "None Like It Hot" | Tony Mordente | Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Johnny Bonaduce | October 23, 1978 | T410 |
| When temperatures soar over 100 degrees, Hawkeye and B.J. come up with the perfect remedy - a mail-order canvas bathtub from Abercrombie & Fitch. However, their private refuge soon becomes public. Radar has his tonsils removed, and Hawkeye and B.J. trade the bathtub to get Radar ice cream. Meanwhile, Klinger's latest attempt to get his Section 8 discharge is to wear a rubberized suit for 24 hours in the oppressive heat. He fails, ripping the suit off and jumping in Hawkeye's tub an hour short of 24. The title is a spoof of the movie Some Like it Hot. | |||||
| 7 | "They Call the Wind Korea" | Charles S. Dubin | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | October 30, 1978 | T407 |
| While high winds prevent the arrival of incoming wounded, Charles decides to go to Seoul to some R&R. But his plans take an unexpected detour after Klinger volunteers to drive. The wind knocks over the camp water tower, injuring a nurse with whom Hawkeye had a date and whom Margaret feels guilty for sending out to work on securing it. After saving three badly injured Greek soldiers, Winchester and Klinger find they are only about 200 yards from M*A*S*H. (Name is a spoof of 'They Call the Wind Maria' from the Clint Eastwood movie Paint Your Wagon) | |||||
| 8 | "Major Ego" | Alan Alda | Larry Balmagia | November 6, 1978 | T412 |
| After reviving a dying patient by performing a heart massage, Charles makes a call to "Stars & Stripes" so the paper can print an article about his heroics. However, his bragging distracts him and he risks the health of another patient when he performs substandard surgery. Margaret, frustrated with her husband's complicating the divorce proceedings, spends a night with the visiting "Stars & Stripes" reporter to release her tension. | |||||
| 9 | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | George Tyne | Gary David Goldberg | November 13, 1978 | T403 |
| When the temperatures falls to 13°F (-10°C), Charles becomes very unpopular as he flaunts his fully winterized polar suit in front of the freezing staff and patients. | |||||
| 10 | "Point of View" | Charles S. Dubin | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | November 20, 1978 | T415 |
| September 1951: This unique episode is told entirely in first-person, through the eyes of a soldier who is wounded in battle (including throat wounds to eliminate any dialogue coming from the narrator), and tells the story of a typical GI's visit to a M*A*S*H. Alan Alda listed this as one of his favorite episodes.[1] | |||||
| 11 | "Dear Comrade" | Charles S. Dubin | Tom Reeder | November 27, 1978 | T413 |
| Major Winchester's new houseboy is actually a North Korean spy (unbeknownst to anybody in the camp), sent to check on reports that the 4077th is an extremely effective outfit. The spy also turns out to be the only person who knows a folk remedy for a rash that modern medicine has proven unable to cure. The utter lack of military bearing and discipline lead him to the conclusion that while the reports of their efficiency are true, they are also utterly unreproducible by North Korea. | |||||
| 12 | "Out of Gas" | Mel Danski | Tom Reeder | December 4, 1978 | T411 |
| When the camp runs out of sodium pentothal, Father Mulcahy comes through and manages to obtain some on the black market when nobody else could. | |||||
| 13 | "An Eye for a Tooth" | Charles S. Dubin | Ronny Graham | December 11, 1978 | T414 |
| 1953 {First year anniversary of Officers Club and B.J at M*A*S*H 4077th} Angry to be passed over for a promotion once again, Father Mulcahy boldly takes matters into his own hands with near disastrous results. Hawkeye and B.J. embark on a war of practical jokes against Margaret, with Winchester playing both sides. | |||||
| 14 | "Dear Sis" | Alan Alda | Alan Alda | December 18, 1978 | T417 |
| December 1951: Father Mulcahy sends his sister a Christmas letter bemoaning his feelings of uselessness and his desperate desire to provide more comfort for the troops. Mulcahy has run-ins with two problem patients; one who won't take anesthetic and nearly chokes Mulcahy, and a hysteric who punches Mulcahy, the latter Mulcahy punches back. | |||||
| 15 | "B.J. Papa San" | James Sheldon | Larry Balmagia | January 1, 1979 | T402 |
| B.J. becomes a surrogate father to an impoverished Korean family, but he spends so much time worrying about them that Hawkeye begins to worry about B.J. | |||||
| 16 | "Inga" | Alan Alda | Alan Alda | January 8, 1979 | T420 |
| Dr. Inga Helversen (Mariette Hartley), a stunningly beautiful Swedish surgeon visits the camp, and Hawkeye, despite his chauvinistic attitudes toward female personnel, finds himself having to deal with a woman who is as skilled a surgeon as he is. | |||||
| 17 | "The Price" | Charles S. Dubin | Erik Tarloff | January 15, 1979 | T418 |
| Colonel Potter tries to find where his beloved horse Sophie has disappeared to, while Klinger tries to buy his way out of the army, and Hawkeye and B.J. try to help a Korean draft dodger only to fail. Yuki Shimoda guest stars as Cho Pak | |||||
| 18 | "The Young and the Restless" | William Jurgensen | Mitch Markowitz | January 22, 1979 | T421 |
| A hotshot medical demonstrator stationed in Tokyo has strange effects on the docs of the 4077 after he shows up to demonstrate the latest medical techniques. | |||||
| 19 | "Hot Lips is Back in Town" | Charles S. Dubin | Gary Markowitz (story) Benard Dilbert (story and teleplay) Larry Balmagia (teleplay) |
January 29, 1979 | T419 |
| While Radar takes advice from Hawkeye on how to deal with a cute new nurse, Margaret celebrates her divorce and new self-confidence. | |||||
| 20 | "C*A*V*E" | William Jurgensen | Larry Balmagia, Ronny Graham | February 5, 1979 | T423 |
| Under heavy artillery fire, the 4077th must evacuate into a network of nearby caves. Unfortunately, Hawkeye is seriously claustrophobic, and entering the cave gives him a panic attack. | |||||
| 21 | "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys" | Harry Morgan | Mitch Markowitz | February 14, 1979 | T425 |
| Colonel Flagg returns to the camp, this time trying to recruit Major Winchester to spy for him against Hawkeye, after Hawkeye saved a North Korean officer by putting the North Korean in front of an American. However, Winchester proves to be far more cunning than Flagg gave him credit for and outwits him. A spoof of Rally Around the Flag. | |||||
| 22 | "Preventive Medicine" | Tony Mordente | Tom Reeder | February 19, 1979 | T416 |
| Hawkeye is willing to seriously bend, or break, medical ethics to keep a reckless colonel from endangering his troops any further. While Klinger tries to get out of the army by doing voodoo. | |||||
| 23 | "A Night at Rosie's" | Burt Metcalfe | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | February 26, 1979 | T426 |
| One by one, the staff takes refuge from the war at Rosie's Bar and tries to forget for just one night the war that surrounds them. First appearance of Joshua Bryant as Sgt. Jack Scully, a new love interest for Margaret. | |||||
| 24 | "Ain't Love Grand" | Mike Farrell | Ken Levine, David Isaacs | March 5, 1979 | T422 |
| After a month at M*A*S*H, Major Winchester finds himself falling for a "working girl," while an upper-class nurse from a neighboring M*A*S*H is attracted to Klinger. Winchester and Klinger both end up drunk and singing Stormy Weather. | |||||
| 25 | "The Party" | Burt Metcalfe | Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda | March 12, 1979 | T424 |
| Hoping for an end to the war, the staff begins talking about a reunion after the war. Instead, they decide to have their stateside families meet up while they are still in Korea. The plans are put on hold, however, when they have to bug out in the face of a new Chinese offensive. | |||||
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