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The Best Episodes of M*A*S*H

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in,...
  1. Background image for Abyssinia, Henry
    9.4/10(1.7k votes)

    #1 - Abyssinia, Henry

    S3:E24

    Everyone is happy when Henry finds out that he is being discharged and sent home, and Hawkeye and Trapper decide to literally send him off in style...

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  2. Background image for For Want of a Boot
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - For Want of a Boot

    S2:E17

    Hawkeye's quest for new boots turns into a never-ending game of horse trading.

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    Director:Don Weis
  3. Background image for What's Up, Doc?
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - What's Up, Doc?

    S6:E19

    Hot Lips, believing herself to be pregnant, asks Hawkeye to test her. The only rabbit available to use for the test is Radar's pet, Fluffy. Meanwhile, Martinson, a patient, holds Charles at gunpoint, demanding he be sent back to Ohio.

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    Director:George Tyne
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Mail Call Three
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Mail Call Three

    S6:E20

    After a delay of three weeks, five sacks of mail arrive, and everyone in camp reacts to good and bad news from home. Hawkeye receives love letters addressed to another Benjamin Pierce, another man has approached B.J.'s wife, and Radar's mom has found a boyfriend. Klinger: "I may not have a family in Toledo, but I got one here."

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  5. Background image for Tuttle
    8.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #5 - Tuttle

    S1:E15

    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...!

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  6. Background image for Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
    8.9/10(4.1k votes)

    #6 - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

    S11:E16

    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. Background image for Good-Bye Radar: Part 2
    8.8/10(789 votes)

    #7 - Good-Bye Radar: Part 2

    S8:E5

    As company clerk Radar O'Reilly reluctantly prepares to depart the 4077th, the unit is still without electricity due to a broken generator, and the operating room continues to fill up with war wounded as night falls. The responsibility for procuring a new generator falls on Klinger, who lacks Radar's masterful knack of cutting through red tape in search of much-needed supplies.

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  9. Background image for Life Time
    8.8/10(760 votes)

    #8 - Life Time

    S8:E11

    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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  10. Background image for Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
    8.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #9 - Sometimes You Hear the Bullet

    S1:E17

    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.

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  11. Background image for Welcome to Korea
    8.7/10(940 votes)

    #10 - Welcome to Korea

    S4:E1

    Trapper is shipped home while Hawkeye is on R&R. Hawkeye speeds to Kimpo with Radar to catch Trapper's plane, but they just miss him. While they are there, they pick up BJ Hunnicut and take him back to camp. On the way back, BJ is introduced to the Korean War.

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  12. Background image for Dear Sigmund
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Dear Sigmund

    S5:E7

    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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    Director:Alan Alda
    Writer:Alan Alda
  13. Background image for Point of View
    8.7/10(837 votes)

    #12 - Point of View

    S7:E10

    In this unique episode, the camera becomes the eyes of a young wounded soldier. It records his sensory responses to being wounded, flown by helicopter to the 4077th, examined, operated on, and treated in post-operation.

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  14. Background image for The Party
    8.7/10(727 votes)

    #13 - The Party

    S7:E25

    Talk of a post-war reunion gives BJ an idea- planning a present-day stateside gathering of 4077th families. He continues to obsess with the idea even under the duress of bug-out instigated by a Chinese breakthrough. Also, Klinger fears that the party will blow his cover, as his mother doesn't know he's stationed in Korea.

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  15. Background image for Pressure Points
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Pressure Points

    S10:E15

    Potter sends for Sidney Freedman when he loses confidence in his surgical abilities, and Winchester loses patience with his bunkmates' sloppiness.

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  16. Background image for Where There's a Will, There's a War
    8.7/10(3 votes)

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

    S10:E16

    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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  17. Background image for The Trial of Henry Blake
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Trial of Henry Blake

    S2:E8

    Henry's fitness for command is called into question when he's put on trial for charges stemming from the tomfoolery at the 4077th.

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    Director:Don Weis
  18. Background image for Adam's Ribs
    8.6/10(937 votes)

    #17 - Adam's Ribs

    S3:E11

    Sick and tired of having liver and fish for an 11-day stretch, Hawkeye, driven near to insanity, starts a riot in the mess tent. He and Trapper then orders spare ribs and sauce from the best place he ever had them, in Chicago. Trapper calls a woman he spent a weekend with to pick up the ribs, and then they get choppered in. Unfortunately, right as they're sitting down to eat, wounded arrive, and Hawkeye is forced to postpone sinking his teeth into his beloved ribs.

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  19. Background image for The Interview
    8.6/10(838 votes)

    #18 - The Interview

    S4:E24

    Clete Roberts introduces this segment as his show; he's arrived at Korea to interview the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital because of its high 97% efficiency rating. In Roberts' interviews with Hawkeye, BJ, Frank, Radar, Klinger, Mulcahy and Potter, they talk about how they cope with their situation, what they miss about home, how they feel about who they work with, and whether they see any good in coming from war.

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  20. Background image for April Fools
    8.6/10(674 votes)

    #19 - April Fools

    S8:E25

    A no-nonsense Colonel, who is notorious as a hard-nosed disciplinarian, visits the 4077th during an outbreak of April Fools' Day pranksterism. Colonel Potter tries in vain to halt the mayhem before Colonel Tucker arrives in camp.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Deal Me Out
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Deal Me Out

    S2:E13

    The 4077th and friends convene for their weekly “Medical Conference,” A.K.A. Poker while Radar runs over a civilian and Frank is held hostage in the showers by an enlisted man.

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  22. Background image for The General Flipped at Dawn
    8.5/10(901 votes)

    #21 - The General Flipped at Dawn

    S3:E1

    The MASH 4077 is visted by General Steele. He wishes to move the camp 5 miles down the road. Hawkeye and Henry are charged with mutiny. And Hawkeye is also charged with impersonating a reporter.

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  23. Background image for Aid Station
    8.5/10(685 votes)

    #22 - Aid Station

    S3:E19

    Hawkeye, Houlihan, and Klinger go to an aid station at the front. Working closely together under heavy fire and unsanitary medical conditions, the three return to camp with new found respect for one another.

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  24. Background image for Change of Command
    8.5/10(791 votes)

    #23 - Change of Command

    S4:E2

    Frank settles in as commanding officer, only to have a new one appointed over his head, one that, to his chagrin, fits in very well.

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  25. Background image for War of Nerves
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - War of Nerves

    S6:E4

    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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    Director:Alan Alda
    Writer:Alan Alda
  26. Background image for Potter's Retirement
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Potter's Retirement

    S6:E22

    When bad reports are filed at headquarters, Col. Potter contemplates retirement.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Abyssinia, Henry" is the best rated episode of "M*A*S*H". It scored 9.4/10 based on 1662 votes. Directed by Larry Gelbart and written by Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell, it aired on 3/18/1975. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "For Want of a Boot".