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the 1976/77 season...

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.

 

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