The Best Episodes Directed By William Wiard

Hawkeye creates a fake doctor, Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity, Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Captain Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!

Director: William Wiard

Writer: David Ketchum

The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Alan Alda

Frank throws his back out whilst spending the evening with Margaret, and ends up in traction. He promptly applies for the Purple Heart, having been 'technically' wounded at a frontline unit. Tommy Gillis, an old friend of Hawkeye's, is writing a book about the war, and pays him a visit. Later, Tommy is brought into the camp, seriously wounded, and Hawkeye can't save him. A 15-year-old kid is in the hospital to have his appendix out. He joined up to be a hero back home, but Hawkeye has him sent home, giving him Frank's purple heart.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt

Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Larry Gelbart

Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: David Chase

Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a man's missing wife.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: David Chase

Hawkeye cuts through red tape to help a GI marry his child's Korean mother, and cuts romantic ties with a bigoted nurse.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Larry Gelbart

Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Laurence Marks

A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Arthur Bernard Lewis

Killers pursue Rocky, as Becker and Rockford investigate a hijacking operation.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway

Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife, in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: N/A

The trail of a missing model leads to murder and an underworld operation within a high-fashion studio.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett