10/09/1974 The
General Flipped at Dawn
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
An inspection
by a decorated and strict 2-star Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele puts the 4077th on edge. When he arrives, its behaviour
leaves much to be desired, but so does the general's sanity! He mistakes Klinger for his wife and Hawkeye for a news reporter,
but the final straw comes when, after talking to a chopper pilot, he decides too much fuel is being wasted and orders the
unit to bug out and move the camp closer to the front, just to show that a MASH unit should in fact be mobile. At this point,
everyone except Frank has decided the Gen. Steele is nuts. When Hawkeye goes
over Steele's head and sends a chopper off with a patient on it to get him to Seoul
instead of letting the general use it for scouting out the new MASH site, Steele calls for a court martial. When the military
hearing is assembled, the general asks for an African-American pilot for a "musical number," because he has it in his blood.
Thus the general exposes his own mental instability, and the MP calls the hearing off. The next day, upon learning that Gen.
Steele has been promoted to 3-star general at a Korean theter of operations, Hawkeye, Trapper and Col. Blake respond by breaking
into a "musical number" of their own!
17/09/1974 Rainbow
Bridge
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
As Hawkeye
and Trapper are planning to leave for Tokyo, an unusual offer to swap POW patients
between the Chinese and the 4077th comes in. Henry, after much debate, agrees to send Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Radar, and
Klinger into enemy territory. Frank almost botches the swap when he brings a squirt gun to the exchange. Fortunately, the
Chinese Dr. Lin Tam has a sense of humor; he went to the University of Illinois,
after all.
24/09/1974 Officer
of the Day
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy) Edward Winter (Lt.Colonel Flagg)
While Henry
is away in Seoul, Burns and Houlihan are in charge, and Hawkeye is the officer
of the day. His refusal to release a wounded Korean soldier, wanted by US Intelligence, leads to a confrontation with Colonel
Flagg.
Henry does
not appear in this episode.
01/10/1974 Iron
Guts Kelly
General 'Iron
Guts' Kelly arrives for an inspection, and ends up dying in Margaret's tent. Hawkeye and Trapper help the General's aide smuggle
him out of camp. The next day he is reported killed at the front, as that is where he would have wanted to die.
08/10/1974 O.R.
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy) Allan Arbus (Sidney Freedman)
A massive
onslaught of casualties keeps the 4077th unit mightily busy in the O.R. An Ethiopian soldier expresses gratitude to Hawkeye,
while Frank nearly takes a healthy kidney out of a patient who has only one. Then Hawk performs an open-heart massage to revive
a patient...only to tragically lose him four hours later. Mobile Army head shrink Sidney Freedman arrives for the weekly poker
game only to scrub up and join in on the fun. Further panic starts when a fire starts in OR, but is quickly extinguished.
Capts. Pierce and MacIntyre pass out on OR tables when the nightmarish session of meatball surgery finally ends.
15/10/1974 Springtime
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
When spring
arrives, Klinger gets word from home that his sweetheart back in Toledo wants
to marry him. Father Mulcahy arranges to do this over short wave radio. Radar falls in love with a nurse, while a grateful
patient won't leave Hawkeye alone, and even threatens Major Burns.
22/10/1974 Check-Up
Jamie Farr
(Klinger)
Trapper gets
an ulcer and a ticket home. Unfortunately, his going-away party is spoiled by a new Army regulation, which forces him to stay.
29/10/1974 Life
With Father
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Mail from
home worries Henry that Lorraine may be seeing other men. Father Mulcahy presides
over a Jewish circumcision ceremony for the Korean-born son of a US GI.
12/11/1974 Alcoholics
Unanimous
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Henry's departure
to Tokyo leaves Major Burns in charge of the 4077th. He declares total prohibition
of alcohol, which leads to a near riot amongst the camp, especially from Hawkeye and Trapper.
Henry does
not appear in this episode.
19/11/1974 There
is Nothing Like a Nurse
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
The nurses
are evacuated when the threat of an enemy parachute drop arises. Hawkeye and Trapper try to enliven everyone's spirits whilst
they are gone.
26/11/1974 Adam's
Ribs
Jamie Farr
(Klinger)
Sick and
tired of having liver and fish for an 11-day stretch, Hawkeye, driven near to insanity, starts a riot in the mess tent. He
and Trapper then orders spare ribs and sauce from the best place he ever had them, in Chicago.
Trapper calls a woman he spent a weekend with to pick up the ribs, and then they get choppered in. Unfortunately, right as
they're sitting down to eat, wounded arrive, and Hawkeye is forced to postpone sinking his teeth into his beloved ribs.
Neither Frank
nor Hotlips appear in this episode.
03/12/1974 A
Full Rich Day
Jamie Farr
(Klinger)
Hawkeye records
a letter to his dad, detailing the exploits of a mad Turkish soldier who calls Hawkeye a "damn good Joe," the unfortunate
loss of the corpse of a Luxembourg soldier (who turns out not to be dead), Lt. Hanri-Batiste LeClerc, and of a gun-happy officer.
Hotlips does
not appear in this episode.
10/12/1974 Mad
Dogs and Servicemen
A local dog
bites Radar, and the camp conducts a search to find the pooch, so that Radar doesn't have to undergo a series of painful rabies
vaccinations. Hawkeye defies Frank, to take care of a GI who's suffering from a case of hysterical paralysis.
31/12/1974 Private
Charles Lamb
A Greek Colonel
thanks the 4077th by giving them food and drink for an Easter celebration. Bu the feast is foiled when softhearted Radar saves
the main course from the spit - a lamb, which Radar tricks Henry into giving a medical discharge and sends home to Ottumwa,
Iowa. Thus, Hawkeye and Trapper invent the famed Spam Lamb! Meanwhile, a soldier who had
shot himself to get out of the army confesses to Frank, thinking he is Father Mulcahy.
Hotlips does
not appear in this episode.
07/01/1974 Bombed
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
The camp
is under fire and is swamped with wounded. Franks jealousy of trapper drives him to propose to Margaret.
14/01/1974 Bulletin
Board
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Camp activities
include Henry's nervous delivery of a sex lecture, with Hawkeye's and Trapper's heckling, a Shirley Temple movie, and a cookout.
21/01/1974 The
Consultant
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Dr. Borelli
visits the 4077th to demonstrate his artery transplant technique. Unfortunately, being so close to the front at the 4077th
causes Borelli's drinking problem to interfere at the worst time - when a patient needs the transplant.
04/02/1975 House
Arrest
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Hawkeye hits
Major Burns and Houlihan is a witness. Despite Hawkeye and Trapper's claims that it wasn't intentional Frank makes allegations
against Hawkeye. A female colonel is sent to investigate Burns' allegations. When she cries "Rape!" when Burns visits her
tent, Houlihan recants her story, and Burns, not Hawkeye, ends up under house arrest.
11/02/1975 Aid
Station
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Hawkeye,
Houlihan, and Klinger go to an aid station at the front. Working closely together under heavy fire and unsanitary medical
conditions, the three return to camp with new found respect for one another.
18/02/1975 Love
and Marriage
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Hawkeye and
Trapper prevent a GI from marrying a call girl who has TB, whilst trying to help a Korean soldier join his pregnant wife.
Radar, of course, provides his usual invaluable help.
Margaret
does not appear in this episode.
25/02/1975 Big
Mac
Jamie Farr
(Klinger)
The camp
prepares for a visit from General MacArthur. Klinger dresses as the Statue of Liberty as the General's jeep drives through
the camp. MacArthur is so impressed, he salutes!
04/03/1975 Payday
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Frank buys
two sets of Pearl's, one for Margaret and one for his wife. After some talk, Radar
gets Hawkeye $3,000 in lost earnings, Hawkeye gives it to Mulcahy for the orphans, but then the army wants the money back.
Trapper wins big at poker after using Hawkeye's watch as a stake, so Hawkeye takes his winnings to avoid a stay in the honeymoon
suite of The Stockade Hilton.
11/03/1975 White
Gold
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Colonel Flagg
blows into camp trying to obtain penicillin to barter for information. But Flagg comes down with appendicitis, and the only
penicillin he gets is in the keister.
18/03/1975 Abyssinia,
Henry
Jamie Farr
(Klinger) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Henry finally
gets his discharge. While he is tying things up, Burns prepares for his new command. Henry bids a tearful adieu, but not before
Klinger turns up in an outrageous tropical outfit, and gets Henry to zip him up, and he gets a kiss Margaret. He gives Radar
a hug and his last order, and departs by helicopter. The traumatic
and shocking last scene finds Radar walking into the OR without a mask on, grief-stricken, to tell everyone of Colonel Blake's
death when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan.
