17/09/1979 Too Many Cooks
Gary Burghoff
(Radar)
A clumsy
foot soldier, 'Look out below' Conway, finds the quickest way to the crew's heart,
boosting morale at the 4077th by cooking gourmet delights. Only Colonel Potter, burdened with a personal crisis, is immune
from the high spirits enveloping the hospital.
24/09/1979 Are
You Now, Margaret?
A Congressional
aide, Williamson, visits the 4077th on a supposedly routine fact-finding tour, but it's discovered that his motives are far
deeper - too uncover Margaret as a communist sympathizer. His case is full of innuendo, so the gang set out to help Margaret.
01/10/1979 Guerilla
My Dreams
Gary Burghoff
(Radar)
The arrival
of a wounded Korean woman sparks a conflict at the 4077th: Hawkeye wants to heal her, but a steely ROK officer, Lt. Park,
is more anxious to "question" her about alleged guerilla activities.
08/10/1979 Good-Bye
Radar (Part 1)
Gary Burghoff
(Radar)
On leave
in Tokyo, Radar is desperately needed back at the crisis-stricken 4077th, but
his return is delayed by outside events. While casualties continue to pour in from the front, the 4077th's generator conks
out, and the backup has been stolen, depriving the medical unit of all electrical power. But Klinger, filling in for the vacationing
Radar, lacks the expertise and experience to wheel and deal for a new machine.
15/10/1979 Good-Bye
Radar (Part 2)
Gary Burghoff
(Radar)
As company
clerk Radar O'Reilly reluctantly prepares to depart the 4077th, the unit is still without electricity due to a broken generator,
and the operating room continues to fill up with war wounded as night falls. The responsibility for procuring a new generator
falls on Klinger, who lacks Radar's masterful knack of cutting through red tape in search of much-needed supplies.
22/10/1979 Period
of Adjustment
Col. Potter
is continuously covering for Klinger, who, as new company clerk, has become so overwhelmed by the increasing demands of the
unit, he has gotten far behind in his army paperwork. He gets sick of everyone giving him a hard time, forever comparing him
to by-now departed Radar O'Reilly and how he doesn't measure up to him. A letter from Peg Hunnicutt brings news of Radar's
visit to San Francisco (en route to his hometown in Iowa).
When poor BJ reads his daughter Erin called Radar "Daddy!" because he was wearing a uniform just like her real daddy, he is
put into so deep a funk he gets very drunk, destroys the still, slugs Hawkeye and disappears, along with Klinger. As Hot Lips and Charles search for them, they discover that BJ and Klinger, fresh from the officers' club,
were kicked out of Rosie's Bar as a result of throwing darts, pretzels and peanuts at Radar's face drawn on a napkin. Meanwhile,
Father Mulcahy tells Potter an interesting story about another company clerk who had an equally harrowing time learning about
his job: Radar! BJ and Klinger are discovered in Potter's office, having broken into his liquor cabinet and getting even more
drunk. Potter talks to Klinger, apologizes, and tells him to ease into the job and make it his, while BJ breaks down and confesses
to Hawkeye his jealousy of Radar and his predecessor Trapper John, both being back home, and the tragic realization of how,
no matter what happens, all of the time he spent away from his daughter is lost forever. The two make up and, along with Klinger,
rebuild the still.
29/10/1979 Nurse
Doctor
A beautiful
and ambitious young nurse, Harris, who plans to become a doctor when she leaves the Army, finds herself in a misunderstanding
with Father Mulcahy. Meanwhile, the camp's water supply is depleted, and the rest of the 4077th is more concerned about where
their next shower will come from.
05/11/1979 Private
Finance
A South Korean
Woman misinterprets Klinger's motives when he tries to aid her daughter financially. Meanwhile, Hawkeye wrestles with his
conscience over a promise made to a dying soldier, Eddie Hastings.
12/11/1979 Mr.
and Mrs. Who?
Charles returns
to the 4077th after a trip to Tokyo with an uncharacteristic hangover and the
uneasy feeling of a romantic entanglement. Meanwhile, the hospital struggles to find a cure for an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic
fever.
The
Yalu Brick Road
Hawkeye and
BJ lose their way while rushing urgently needed antibiotics to the 4077th, which is wracked with low-mileage Thanksgiving
turkey-induced salmonella. Wandering back to M*A*S*H, the pair are found by a peculiar North Korean soldier.
26/11/1979 Life
Time
As Hawkeye,
BJ, Klinger and Hot Lips play cards, a chopper arrives bearing a soldier with a severely lacerated aorta who will die or be
permanently paralyzed if he doesn't receive major surgery in 20 minutes. Hawkeye does an emergency procedure to quell the
bleeding by temporarily cutting off the blood supply to the spine, and the 4077th staff must work quickly to prevent paralysis.
They try to buy more time as they search desperately for a graft. When more wounded arrive, Roberts, the friend of a dying
soldier named Harold Sherwood (with a severe head injury), berates BJ for not trying to save him. The reason is that Sherwood
could provide an aortic graft, and waiting for the graft donor to expire takes up precious time, for he is still using it.
Roberts' wrath is unintentionally incurred when he learns they want to use his friend's artery as a graft for the man being
operated on. BJ works fast to take the graft when Sherwood dies, and Mulcahy comforts Roberts by telling him that his friend
is giving of himself for the sake of another soldier in peril. He then suggests that Roberts tell the injured man who gets
the graft all about his pal. The operation is a success!
03/12/1979 Dear
Uncle Abdul
Klinger discovers
that his duties as company clerk include catering to the eccentric whims of the 4077th officers. Consequently, the unusual
demands by Klinger's superiors leave little time to write a letter home to Toledo.
Meanwhile, the Doctors are concerned about a young soldier who appears to be mentally deficient.
10/12/1979 Captain's
Outrageous
A brawl at
Rosie's Bar puts Rosie in the hospital, and the 4077th doctors are pressed into service as temporary saloon-keepers. Meanwhile,
Father Mulcahy is apprehensive that his long-pending promotion to captain will again be denied. Potter: "The Pentagon. Weird
looking building. Four walls and a spare. Monument to Murphy's Law."
17/12/1979 Stars
and Stripes
Friction
arises between B.J. and Winchester when they are asked to write an article for
a prestigious medical journal, on how they saved a soldier's life with a daring operation. Meanwhile, Hot Lips receives an
eventful visit from Scully, her combat soldier beau.
31/12/1979 Yessir,
That's Our Baby
A baby born
to a Korean woman and an American GI is abandoned at the 4077th. Knowing that Amer-Asian children are often mistreated in
Korean society, the troop sets about the frustrating task of finding a new home for the infant.
07/01/1980 Bottle
Fatigue
Horrified
by the gigantic size of his monthly bar tab at the officer's club, Hawkeye vows to give up booze for a week. Meanwhile, Winchester
desperately tries to halt his sister's impending marriage to a man he considers unworthy of the Winchester
heritage.
14/01/1980 Heal
Thyself
Colonel Potter
turns crotchety when he catches the mumps, and his condition is worsened when Winchester
gets the same disease and has to be quarantined with him. A temporary replacement surgeon, Newsome, is quickly brought into
the 4077th and seems to be a gem in terms of both personality and ability.
21/01/1980 Old
Soldiers
Hawkeye is
appointed temporary commander of the 4077th when Colonel Potter rushes off to Tokyo
on a mysterious mission. While in command, Hawkeye's main problem is housing a large group of Korean refugees comprised mainly
of rambunctious children who need medical care.
28/01/1980 Morale
Victory
Tired of
their constant complaints about the quality of recreational activities at the 4077th, Colonel Potter appoints Hawkeye and
B.J. as the new morale officers. Winchester's morale has already reached a new
peak: He's ecstatic about his operation on a wounded soldier, Sheridan, which saved the boy's leg, leaving only "negligible"
side effects - less use of his right hand. However, the soldier was a concert pianist before the war, so Winchester
obtains music written by Maurice Ravel for a pianist that had lost a hand in World War I.
04/02/1980 Lend
a Hand
Irritated
that the 4077th is planning a "surprise" party for him, Hawkeye volunteers to go to the aid of a wounded surgeon at the front.
An additional irritant to Hawkeye is the arrival of Dr. Borelli, a wisecracking medical advisor with whom he habitually disagrees.
11/02/1980 Goodbye,
Cruel World
Allan Arbus
(Sidney Freedman)
Klinger redecorates
his quarters, but the resultant ridicule he receives drives him to new heights in his efforts to get out of the Army. Meanwhile,
the doctors are perplexed by the reaction of an Asian-American war hero who tries to kill himself when he's told that he will
be going home. Sidney Freedman is called in to assist.
18/02/1980 Dreams
The 4077th
can't escape the Korean War, even in its dreams. Exhausted after two days without sleep, members of the 4077th steal away
for catnaps and experience dreams that reveal their fears, yearnings and frustrations.
03/03/1980 War
Co-Respondent
B.J. finds
himself attracted to a famous war correspondent, Aggie O'Shea, who has fallen in love with him.
10/03/1980 Back
Pay
Angered by
the way civilian doctors in the States are profiting from the war, Hawkeye presents the Army with a bill for his medical services.
Meanwhile, Charles reluctantly demonstrates American medical practices to three Korean medics, and is on the receiving end
of their medical expertise.
24/03/1980 April Fools
A no-nonsense
Colonel, who is notorious as a hard-nosed disciplinarian, visits the 4077th during an outbreak of April Fools' Day pranksterism.
Colonel Potter tries in vain to halt the mayhem before Colonel Tucker arrives in camp.
