9.0/101 votes#1 - The House on Willis Avenue
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1978
When a fellow P.I. is killed on the Ventura freeway, Jim and Richie Brockelman team up to find out if it really was an accident.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.2/104 votes#2 - Rainbow Bridge
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1974
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/102 votes#3 - Operation Noselift
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1974
A private with a prominent proboscis pleads for prohibited plastic surgery--but Frank and Margaret smell a rat.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Paul Richards
8.0/103 votes#4 - As You Were
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1974
Frank chooses a lull in the action to ask Hawkeye and Trapper to perform his hernia operation, and that's just when the war returns full tilt.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Gene Reynolds
8.0/102 votes#5 - Private Charles Lamb
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1974
A Greek Colonel thanks the 4077th by giving them food and drink for an Easter celebration. But 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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Sid Dorfman
8.0/102 votes#6 - Fade Out, Fade In
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1977
Frank Burns cracks up over Margaret's marriage while on R&R in Tokyo, and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is sent to the 4077th as a replacement by a vindictive superior officer.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: James Fritzell
7.9/1028 votes#7 - A Stitch in Crime
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1973
Leonard Nimoy plays a heart surgeon whose talents turn to murder. Stung by jealousy, he's planning a surgical death for his brilliant but ailing associate. Will Geer plays the intended victim.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: N/A
7.8/104 votes#8 - I Hate a Mystery
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1972
A rash of thefts breaks out in the camp. Missing pieces include Frank's silver picture frame, Margaret's hair brush, and Trapper's watch. The camp is searched and everything is found in Hawkeye's locker. Everyone thinks he did it. Hawkeye manages to announce to the camp that the items will be dusted for prints to identify the real thief, and catches Ho-Jon. He needed money to bring his family from the North, and to bribe border guards.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Hal Dressner
7.7/103 votes#9 - Officer of the Day
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1974
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.7/103 votes#10 - Alcoholics Unanimous
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1974
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Everett Greenbaum
7.7/106 votes#11 - The Moose
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1972
Sergeant Baker arrives at the camp with his Moose. Hawkeye decides to find a way of getting her away from Baker. He tries ordering him to release her, tries buying her, and then resorts to cheating at cards. He releases her but she won't go, so he tries to teach her how to be independent.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Laurence Marks
7.5/102 votes#12 - House Arrest
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1975
Hawkeye is accused of hitting Frank and is placed under house arrest pending a court-martial. Meanwhile. Margaret is nervous about a visit from a meticulous female colonel.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Everett Greenbaum
7.5/102 votes#13 - Payday
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1975
Frank buys two sets of pearls, 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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Gary Markowitz
7.5/102 votes#14 - White Gold
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1975
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.5/102 votes#15 - Sons and Bowlers
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 3/22/1982
After losing to the Marines once again, Colonel Potter wishes there was one sport the 4077th were any good at. When Klinger mentions he can bowl, the Colonel decides to have a bowling competition. Unfortunately, he and Klinger are the only 2 good bowlers in the camp, so BJ and Father Mulcahy are "recruited" to the team. Colonel Potter becomes obsessed with winning the game, and excludes Margaret from the team because she helped the team lose at softball. Then the 4077th team hear the Marines have got a "ringer" in their team after pulling some strings..... Meanwhile, Hawkeye finds out his father is in hospital and tries to speak to him over the phone, watched by Charles, who envies Hawkeye's close relationship with his father.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Elias Davis
7.4/1038 votes#16 - Suitable for Framing
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1971
An art critic, Dale Kingston, kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. All the clues lead to the dead man's first wife. Can Columbo correct the Lieutenant's error before it is too late?
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Jackson Gillis
7.3/103 votes#17 - Bombed
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1975
The camp is under fire and is swamped with wounded. They are being attacked by their own artillery in a frightening "friendly fire" incident. Trapper and Margaret get trapped in the Supply Tent together. Frank's jealousy of Trapper drives him to propose to Margaret.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Everett Greenbaum
7.3/103 votes#18 - Snappier Judgment (2)
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/1981
B.J. and Hawkeye resolve to clear Klinger's name after he chooses Winchester to defend him at his military court-martial.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Paul Perlove
7.2/106 votes#19 - Requiem for a Lightweight
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1972
Trapper and Hawkeye seek to keep a new nurse from being transferred by Hot Lips, and they vie for her affection. Henry Blake, challenged by another commander to a boxing tournament, makes Trapper fight a big, intimidating soldier in exchange for keeping the nurse at the 4077th. Hawkeye and Ugly John employ the use of a glove soaked with ether to insure Trapper's victory, which impresses the nurse. Margaret and Frank's attempts to unfix the match collapses, as they are flattened by the unconscious boxer!
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Robert Klane
7.0/101 votes#20 - Broadway Malady
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1985
Broadway legend Rita Bristol and her daughter star in a musical produced by her son, not knowing that murder is lurking in the wings.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/102 votes#21 - Life With Father
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1974
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Everett Greenbaum
7.0/102 votes#22 - Mad Dogs and Servicemen
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1974
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.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Mary Kay Place
7.0/102 votes#23 - Snap Judgment (1)
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/1981
The military police think they've solved a rash of thefts at the 4077th when they apprehend Klinger with Hawkeye's stolen camera.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Paul Perlove
6.7/103 votes#24 - There is Nothing Like a Nurse
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1974
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. Hawkeye: "The plot thins. Watch the cake sue for malpractice when Frank cuts into it."
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: Larry Gelbart
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"The House on Willis Avenue" is the best rated episode directed by Hy Averback. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Stephen J. Cannell. It aired on 2/24/1978 and is rated 0.8 points higher than their second-best episode, "Rainbow Bridge".