The Best Episodes Directed By Alan Alda

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(12 votes)

   #1 - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

   S11:E162/28/1983

   Hawkeye is sent to a mental hospital; a freak accident causes Father Mulcahy to lose his hearing; Margaret worries about her post-war plans; Charles run across a band of Chinese musicians; BJ is sent home, much to Hawkeye's dismay; Klinger decides to stay in Korea to marry Soon-Lee; a ceasefire is declared, ending the war.

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   8.4/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Life Time

   S8:E1111/26/1979

   Hawkeye and BJ race against the clock to save a soldier from paralysis. BJ harvesting an aorta from a dead soldier doesn't sit well with the soldier's friend.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Dear Sigmund

   S5:E711/9/1976

   Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman composes a letter to Sigmund Freud during a visit to the 4077, while the rest of the camp endures the hijinks of a mystery prankster.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Where There's a Will, There's a War

   S10:E162/22/1982

   Hawkeye goes to help at an aid station, and under heavy shelling he draws up a will, leaving various items to his friends at the 4077th.

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   8.0/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Margaret's Engagement

   S5:E29/28/1976

   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.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #6 - War of Nerves

   S6:E410/11/1977

   The 4077th, caught up in tension and nerves, creates a bonfire to release their pressure. Meanwhile, Sidney Freedman is depressed over a young soldier who blames him for his injuries, because Freedman had sent him back into combat.

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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Fallen Idol

   S6:E29/27/1977

   Radar has always looked up to Hawkeye and admired him as his hero. But after suffering a Jeep accident en route to R&R at Hawkeye's behest. Radar questions his own hero worship. Particularly when he and his hero have a falling out.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Lend a Hand

   S8:E202/4/1980

   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.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Father's Day

   S9:E412/8/1980

   Margaret has trouble pretending she's a chip off the old block when her dad, blood and guts "Howitzer" Al Houlihan, arrives for a visit. Also, Hawkeye fixes up a soldier who repays them with a large side of steak, but the general who it belongs to is really steamed.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Kids

    S4:E810/31/1975

    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.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - The Life You Save

    S9:E205/4/1981

    After Charles is nearly felled by a sniper's bullet, he develops a philosophical obsession with death. Meanwhile, the officers have all been assigned new responsibilities.

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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Dear Ma

    S4:E1612/23/1975

    Radar writes home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.

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    7.7/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Dear Sis

    S7:E1412/18/1978

    Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter to his sister, who is a nun. He recounts his frustrations at not being more effective at the 4077th.

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    7.7/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Inga

    S7:E161/8/1979

    It's instant attraction for Hawkeye when a beautiful Swedish doctor, called Inga, arrives to observe combat surgery. That is, until she upstages him in the operating room with a superior technique, and his ego is bruised.

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15. 

    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Dear Mildred

    S4:E710/24/1975

    It's Potter's anniversary. 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.

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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead

    S10:E101/4/1982

    Whilst suffering a fever, Klinger communicates with the spirit of a dead soldier, Private Weston, who stays on to witness his own last rites.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #17 - The Late Captain Pierce

    S4:E410/3/1975

    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.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #18 - Yessir, That's Our Baby

    S8:E1512/31/1979

    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.

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    7.3/10(6 votes)

    #19 - Exorcism

    S5:E1212/14/1976

    To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Bulletin Board

    S3:E161/14/1975

    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.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - The Billfold Syndrome

    S7:E510/16/1978

    Charles becomes so irate, when he is turned down for a future medical position at home, that he refuses to talk to anyone in the unit, until Hawkeye and B.J. send him a false telegram from home. Meanwhile, a young soldier, Jerry Wilson, can't remember his own identity, so Sidney Freedman is called for help.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Major Ego

    S7:E811/6/1978

    Captain Tom Greenleigh of Stars and Stripes comes to the 4077th to write an article about Charles, which makes him act even more egotistical than usual. Meanwhile, Margeret finds out her estranged husband Donald has tied up their joint account, while fending off at first -- then accepting -- the advances of Greenleigh. Klinger dresses up as various movie characters with the hope that Stars and Stripes will write about how crazy he is.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Guerilla My Dreams

    S8:E310/1/1979

    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.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Bottoms Up

    S9:E153/2/1981

    One of Margaret's nurses tries to hide her severe drinking problem, and Hawkeye is scorned after a practical joke he plays on Winchester backfires.

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    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Comrades in Arms: Part 2

    S6:E1312/13/1977

    B.J. disobeys orders and goes out to find Hawkeye and Margret, who are still missing in action. Meanwhile, their romantic relationship quickly goes up in flames, and they become even more hostile toward each other.

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