21/09/1976 Bug Out (Double Length Episode)
A rumour
that there's going to be a practive bug-out causes anxiety. When Potter assembles the unit in an attempt to squelch the rumor,
the call comes in to bug out, and the rumour suddenly comes to life! Meanwhile, Hawkeye begins surgery on a patient with a
spinal injury. The bug-out proceeds without him, Hot Lips and Radar, and they quickly learn after the unit departs that they're
in the midst of the front. When Potter, Mulcahy, BJ, Frank and the others arrive at the buildings which had been scouted by
helicopter, they find the house full of "business girls," and Potter gives them Klinger's dresses to persuade them to leave
the house. A helicopter comes to evacuate the spinal injury patient, and just as the three get ready to go to the new location,
they find the 4077 is already returning, and eventually everyone reunites back at the camp, what with the Chinese being repulsed.
28/09/1976 Margaret's
Engagement
Margaret,
calling from Tokyo, holds the camp in suspense until she returns with the news
of her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Frank Burns takes the news hard and arrests a Korean family as
spies.
Klinger
and Mulcahy do not appear in this episode
05/10/1976 Out
of Sight, Out of Mind
While
fixing a stove that explodes, Hawkeye's face is badly burned. His eyes are bandaged, and it is not known if he will ever see
again. Meanwhile Frank bets on the outcome of a baseball game, which he has already heard on the radio. After much tension in the camp the bandages come off, and happily, Hawkeye
can see again.
Mulcahy
does not appear in this episode
12/10/1976 Lt.
Radar O'Reilly
Following
an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding
this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.
19/10/1976 The
Nurses
When
Hot Lips confines Nurse Baker to her quarters, little does she know that Baker's husband has arrived in the camp. Hawkeye
and B.J. put them together in Hot Lips' tent, telling everyone that a quarantined patient has been placed there. When Hot
Lips discovers what has happened, she breaks down and refuses to press charges.
26/10/1976 The
Abduction of Margaret Houlihan
Edward Winter
(Lt.Colonel Flagg)
After hearing
that North Korean prisoners have been released in the area, everyone is upset when Margaret disappears. Colonel Flagg is called
in to investigate, and bungles things in his usual manner. Finally Hot Lips returns, after helping in the birth of a Korean
baby.
Mulcahy does
not appear in this episode
09/11/1976 Dear
Sigmund
Allan Arbus
(Sidney Freedman)
Sidney
Freedman, feeling depressed, visits the 4077th to observe how they fare under the pressures of war. He begins a letter to
Sigmund Freud as a form of self-therapy, and releases his tension in the form of a practical joke with B.J., aimed at Frank
Burns.
16/11/1976 Mulcahy's
War
After Frank
discovers that Danny Fitzsimmons has shot himself to get out of combat, Father Mulcahy is called in. Realizing his lack of
understanding of the fighting, Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station, where they encounter the real war at first hand.
Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheotomy, guided by Hawkeye over the radio.
23/11/1976 The
Korean Surgeon
When Dr.
Syn Paik, a North Korean surgeon, arrives with some wounded, he is passed off as a South Korean by Hawkeye and B.J., but to
no avail. Hot Lips and Frank try to convince Potter that Paik is a spy. Paik, Hawkeye, and B.J. agree that it would be in
the interest of all for Syn to leave.
30/11/1976 Hawkeye
Get Your Gun
After 24
hours of surgery, Hawkeye and Potter venture off to a Korean hospital to lend a hand. Hawkeye is appalled to learn that he
must carry a gun. After helping the Koreans, they are shelled on the way back. They scramble from the jeep before it is shelled,
and Potter urges Hawkeye to shoot in self-defense, against Hawkeye's will, and he does...into the air.
07/12/1976 The
Colonel's Horse
While Colonel
Potter goes to Tokyo on R&R, his horse develops colic. Klinger becomes chronically
depressed, and Hot Lips gets appendicitis. The horse is flushed out with a hose, Hawkeye and B.J. perform an appendectomy
on Hot Lips, and all are well when Potter returns, except Klinger. Potter offers Klinger a discharge for severe depression,
and Klinger gets very excited, which loses him the discharge.
14/12/1976 Exorcism
After Potter
orders Radar to move a Korean spirit post believed to ward off evil spirits, things mysteriously begin to go wrong. When an
old Korean man is brought into camp for medical attention, he refuses surgery unless the spirits in the camp are exorcised.
A priestess is brought in, who exhibits her dance and her bells and chants. All is well, and Radar returns the spirit post
to its original position.
21/12/1976 Hawk's
Nightmare
Allan Arbus
(Sidney Freedman)
After Hawkeye
bemoans the young age of the wounded, he appears to develop problems. Sleepwalking and bad dreams, according to Sidney Freedman,
are taking Hawkeye back to a simple time, but the horrors of war continue to intrude. After Sidney's
assurances that he is as sane as can be, Hawkeye's life once again seems to settle down.
04/01/1977 The
Most Unforgettable Characters
Radar gets
accepted into the "Famous Las Vegas Writers
School", and begins to write his impressions of the camp. It happens to be Frank's
birthday, so Hawkeye and B.J. stage a fight with each other to make Frank happy.
11/01/1977 38
Across
Befuddled
by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades Potter to get his old friend Tippy Brooks, a whiz at puzzles, brought to camp. Tippy
arrives with his commanding officer, thinking it's a medical emergency. Having scrubbed up and helped out with the wounded
they provided the needed solution to the puzzle.
18/01/1977 Ping
Pong
Lieutenant
Colonel Harold Beckett lies wounded in post-op waiting to get back to the front for thirty more days of combat duty to get
his promotion. Meanwhile, Cho Lin, the Ping Pong champ, is engaged to Soony. He leaves to get her a ring, when the South Korean
army conscripts him. He arrives at the 4077th as a wounded soldier, and after being patched up he is married at the camp.
25/01/1977 End
Run
Billy Tyler,
a young black sergeant, is brought into camp with a bullet wound in the leg. He is a football player, and when he discovers
that his leg has been amputated, he wants to die. After talks with Radar, Billy agrees that he must live on.
01/02/1977 Hanky
Panky
Nurse
Carrie Donovan receives a "Dear Jane" letter from her husband, and practically falls apart. B.J. consoles her, and they spend
the night together. Feelings of guilt come over B.J. until he discusses them with Donovan and the air is cleared.
Mulcahy
does not appear in this episode.
08/02/1977 Hepatitis
Hawkeye gets
upset when Radar brings main and news from his hometown paper about the successes of a mediocre doctor. About this time, Hawkeye
develops a psychosomatic back pain. But another health problem in the unit arises: Father Mulcahy comes down with infectious
hepatitis. The 4077th unit mobilizes to prevent further cases, what with Hawkeye having to give the whole camp blood tests
and gamma globulin. When he visits Margaret, she resists being injected at first but he gets her to discuss letters she's
been getting from her future in-laws. She demands respect when he horses around over injecting her, and he then suggests respect
is what she shoud demand from her in-laws. BJ in the meantime has to perform a very difficult operation and celebrates afterward;
when he faints from excessive drinking, Hawkeye provides him with his gamma globulin shot. When Col. Potter gives Hawk
his shot, he suggests his envy of the mediocre doctor back home is the reason for his backache.
15/02/1977 The
General's Practitioner
In the midst
of Hawkeye being considered, much to his distaste, for the position of a general's personal physician, Radar becomes a surrogate
father to a Korean woman and her baby, until the baby's GI father returns.
22/02/1977 Movie
Tonight
A lull in
the fighting meant no wounded and this gave a chance for the O.R. to get a much needed clean. Having to clean the O.R. was
bad enough but what made it worse was the fact that Frank had been put in charge. And with no mail from home everyone was
starting to become very irritable. At long last Mulcahy arrived with the mail, he also brought a movie, not just any old movie,
this was My Darling Clementine, Col. Potter's all time favorite. The Colonel announced that the movie was to be screened in
the mess tent and everyone was invited. Hawkeye saw this as an ideal opportunity to go out with one of the nurses, but he
was too late they'd all been invited to a party at I-Corp. Frank was also out of luck when he tried to ask Hotlips to go with
him. Klinger was acting as projectionist, but he wasn't having a lot of luck,
the movie was in such poor condition that it kept breaking. While Klinger was repairing the movie Father Mulcahy went to the
O'Club to fetch the piano and Col. Potter led everyone in a chorus of "The Tennessee Waltz". It wasn't long before Klinger
had the movie ready to run again, but it didn't last for long, this time it was the projector bulb that had blown. With Mulcahy
on the piano it was time for another sing along with everyone taking it in turns to sing. Next it was Radar who provided the
entertainment, with impersonations of John Wayne and Jack Benny, (with a little help from Klinger and Father Mulcahy.) Then
everyone did an impersonation of Father Mulcahy. Next it was Margaret's turn.
She got so carried away with her song that the movie started running while she was still singing. By the time it came to the
scene of the 'gunfight at the O.K. Corral' everyone was having a great time, in fact when they began acting out the scene,
they got so involved they didn't hear the ambulance arrive in the compound. The movie was over but the war was still on. As everyone stood over their patients in the O.R they sang one final chorus of "My
Darling Clementine".
01/03/1977 Souvenirs
Korean children
and American soldiers are often badly wounded when they hunt for souvenirs which the enemy have booby-trapped. Potter asks
for it to stop, and Hawkeye and B.J. put a local junk dealer out of business.
Radar does
not appear in this episode
08/03/1977 Post
Op
In the midst
of a deluge of patients and their individual medical histories, the 4077th is out of blood. Everyone in camp is donating at
48-hour intervals when a truckload of Turkish soldiers arrives to offer their blood and save the day.
Neither Radar
or Mulcahy appear in this episode.
15/03/1977 Margaret's
Marriage
Provoked
by pressure and antagonizing comments from Frank about the lack of a wedding date, Margaret approaches Donald Penobscott about
when they will get married. The Lt. Colonel arrives at the 4077th to announce that they have decided to marry the very next
day, and to thank Frank for persuading him. The nursing staff throws a wedding shower for Margaret, where Klinger donates
a wedding dress (which his uncle used to get out of WWI) in her honor; mean while at The Swamp, the men get riproaring drunk
at Lt. Colonel Penobscott's stag bachelor's party. When Don passes out, everyone departs, and BJ hatches a plot to put him
in a body cast from his chest to his ankles and tell him he broke his leg! The
ensuing wedding ceremony gets rushed when choppers bearing wounded start arriving, and scenes in the OR intervene. When The
Major and Lt. Colonel get ready to leave for a honeymoon, she throws her bouquet, and Frank catches it, but he quicky hands
it away, being an already married man. Hawk and Beej try to confess to Margaret about the fake cast and that Donald desn't
need it, but she fails to understand what they are trying to say over the noise of the helicopter. When everybody departs,
Maj. Frank Burns stays behind to wistfully watch the chopper fly away. Later
at The Swamp, Frank bemoans his lost love, as Hawk, Beej and Potter look on.