12/09/1975 Welcome to Korea
(Double Length Episode)
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Maj. Frank
Burns takes full charge and gives the 4077th hell with his usual military regimen as the new CO (something he will soon be
disappointed to learn is only temporary!); Lt. Col. Henry Blake having lost his life en route home. Capt. Hawkeye Pierce arrives
back from 3 days R&R in Tokyo (by rickshaw!) and heads straight for the shower.
Radar follows him in to break him the bad news: Capt. Trapper John MacIntyre had recieved his orders to ship home. Hawkeye
wants to go to Seoul to bid his buddy farewell, but Frank refuses. When Radar
gets in a jeep to go to Kimpo to collect a replacement doctor, Hawkeye insists on going along to try and catch Trapper before
he goes Stateside, even going so far as to run a blockade. Meanwhile at the 4077th Frank and Hot Lips fawn as they look over
the new man's record and envisions shaping him into their image. Once at Kimpo, Radar goes off to find the new doctor, while
Hawkeye tries to find his friend before he left for home, only to learn he is 10 minutes too late. When Hawkeye meets the
new doctor, a Captain BJ Hunnicutt, he was very abrupt with greeting him, still angry that he had missed Trapper. With the
introductions over they headed for the jeep only to find that it had been stolen! So
with no transport to get them back to the 4077th Hawkeye decides it's time to visit the officers club, with just one setback:
Radar wasn't an officer, being a mere corporal. So Hawkeye borrows some of BJ's captains bars and gives him a field promotion
to Corporal-Captain! When they emerge, they find a jeep (belonging to Major-General Cornell Dickering!) was waiting; it didn't
matter that it wasn't theirs, to Hawkeye a jeep was a jeep, so they commandeer it to get back to the 4077th. On the way back,
they encounter a farming family using their daughters to check for land mines to protect their cows. A land mine explodes,
injuring one daughter, and Radar braves the field to pick her up and bring her to their jeep. Having taken her to the hospital,
they continue on their way to the 4077th and blow a tire. A group of locals walks by, then suddenly disappears. Hawk, Beej
and Radar barely change the tire and evacuate as a barrage of gunfire erupts. Presumably out of danger, they meet up with
a group of G.I's, only to have shells rain immediately down upon them, and B.J. gets his first taste of war when they have
to treat the wounded soldiers. As BJ tries to help the injured men, the physical gruesomeness of one dead soldier makes him
physically sick. After a detour to Rosie's bar, they become so riproaring drunk that only Radar is able to drive them back
to the 4077th. Back at camp, B.J falls out of the jeep, landing at Frank's feet with a drunken "What say ya, Ferret Face?"
indicating that he, like Hawk and his predecessor, Trapper John, won't fulfill Maj. Burns and Houlihan's wishes. Furthermore,
Frank gets picked up by the M.P.s for stealing the General's jeep when he shows lousy timing in using it.
19/09/1975 Change
of Command
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Hawkeye and
BJ finish building "The Henry Blake Memorial Bar," just as Radar comes in with news that a new commander is coming. Margaret
is outraged to hear that Frank is being replaced, and Frank weeps in her tent. Col. Sherman T. Potter arrives and quickly
meets Klinger, who's anxious to start working him for a Section 8---but, alas, to no avail. An officers' meeting finds Frank
has apparrently left the 4077. Margaret informs Hawkeye and BJ that Frank has apparently gone AWOL. Choppers arrive bearing
wounded, and, after a long OR session, Potter decides that he can use a belt---a matter of which Hawkeye and Beej are
only too happy to be a service. Frank finally returns, and when Klinger arrives wearing a sailor's dress, he is stunned to
hear Col. Potter say, "Nice outfit, Klinger!"
26/09/1975 It
Happened One Night
A freezing
night, an artillery barrage that's coming too close, a patient going downhill, and Frank's searching Hot Lips' tent for his
letters.
03/10/1975 The
Late Captain Pierce
When Hawkeye's
father is notified that he's dead, he finds it's no easy matter either to get word to him or to establish otherwise.
Radar and
Margaret do not appear in this episode
10/10/1975 Hey,
Doc
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Its quid
pro quo at the 4077th: two bottles of Scotch for secret surgery, and a tank to scare off snipers for an unauthorized shot
of penicillin. During one of the sniper attacks, Margaret looks out of her tent.
When she does, you can see Frank inside cheating at gin.
17/10/1975 The
Bus
The bus driven
by Radar and taking Hawkeye, BJ, Potter and Burns back from a medical meeting, gets lost. After they stop to try to figure
out where they are, the bus, having hit a deep rut during the trip, fails to start when they try to leave. Frank has candy
bars but keeps them to himself. Radar, blaming himself when they get lost, goes out to search for help but doesn't return.
The remaining four go out looking for him but come up emptyhanded. A North Korean soldier arrives and surrenders to them.
Just then Radar finally returns, waking up Frank and sees his concealed chocolate bars. The prisoner manages to repair the
bus and they start on their way, just as Frank "discovers" his chocolate bars and shares them.
Neither Margaret
or Klinger appear in this episode.
24/10/1975 Dear
Mildred
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
While Potter
writes home, Frank and Hot Lips have a wood carving made for him, and Radar rescues a horse and makes him a present of it.
31/10/1975 The
Kids
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
The 4077th
plays host to kids bombed out of their orphanage, and at the same time has to deliver a baby and care for battle casualties.
07/11/1975 Quo
Vadis, Captain Chandler
Allan Arbus
(Sidney Freedman) Edward Winter (Lt.Colonel Flagg) William Christopher (Mulcahy)
Intelligence
officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapple over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who
claims to be Jesus Christ.
11/11/1975 Dear
Peggy
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
B.J. writes
home to his wife, Peg, reporting Klinger's escape attempts, the visit of a formidable chaplain, and one of Frank's goof-ups.
21/11/1975 Of
Moose and Men
Hawkeye tangles
with a tough Army colonel, Colonel Spiker, B.J. helps Zale, who's received a "Dear John" letter, and Frank looks endlessly
for Korean saboteurs.
28/11/1975 Soldier
of the Month
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Frank has
a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
This is the first mention of Korean hemorrhagic fever. It would come back to plague the 4077th in the episode "Mr.
and Mrs. Who?".
02/12/1975 The
Gun
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
A wounded
colonel's gun, a showpiece, disappears, and Hawkeye and B.J. play a hunch and bluff Frank, who has it, into returning it.
09/12/1975 Mail
Call, Again
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Mail brings
a letter to Frank saying his wife is divorcing him, and one to Potter telling him he's going to be a grandfather. Gary Burghoff appears in this episode as both Radar and his mother.
16/12/1975 The
Price of Tomato Juice
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Radar gets
the help of Hawkeye and B.J. to procure something Colonel Potter says he's fond of, but that's hard to come by - tomato juice.
23/12/1975 Dear
Ma
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Radar writes
home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.
06/01/1976 Der
Tag
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Potter decides
Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
13/01/1976 Hawkeye
Hawkeye is
injured in a jeep accident and, aware he has a concussion, babbles to a Korean family to keep himself awake.
No other
regular cast members appear
20/01/1976 Some
38th Parallels
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Frank tries
to distinguish himself by selling the camp garbage, but it's Hawkeye who finds a use for it: he dumps it on a troublesome
Colonel Coner.
Margaret
does not appear in this episode
27/01/1976 The
Novocaine Mutiny
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Frank has
Hawkeye up on charges of mutiny, for usurping his authority when Potter was away on leave, and Frank was the C.O. The Judge
Advocate, Colonel Carmichael, tries the case; BJ, Potter, and Radar are in attendance of the preliminary hearing to offer
support for Hawkeye. There are several versions of what happened: according to Frank, he was trying to hold the 4077th together
during heavy casualties when everyone else was falling apart; according to Hawkeye, BJ and Radar, it was Frank who was out
of control with his usual overzealous military regimen. Finding no evidence of the alleged mutiny, the judge drops all charges
against Hawkeye and puts Frank in his place.
Margaret
does not appear in this episode
03/02/1976 Smilin'
Jack
The 4077th
turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.
Klinger does
not appear in this episode
10/02/1976 The
More I See You
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Hawkeye is
reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.
Neither Frank
or Margaret appear in this episode.
17/02/1976 Deluge
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
A sudden
deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm which makes matters difficult for the staff.
24/02/1976 The
Interview
William Christopher
(Mulcahy)
Clete Roberts
introduces this segment as his show; he's arrived at Korea
to interview the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army
Surgical Hospital because of its high 97% efficiency
rating. In Roberts' interviews with Hawkeye, BJ, Frank, Radar, Klinger, Mulcahy and Potter, they talk about how they cope
with their situation, what they miss about home, how they feel about who they work with, and whether they see any good in
coming from war.
Margaret
does not appear in this episode.
