9.4/101,557 votesLoading...#1 - Abyssinia, Henry
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1975
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...
Director: Larry Gelbart
Writer: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
8.9/101,196 votesLoading...#2 - Tuttle
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1973
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, Bruce Shelley
8.8/10692 votesLoading...#3 - Life Time
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1979
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.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Alan Alda, Walter D. Dishell, M.D.
8.8/104,009 votesLoading...#4 - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1983
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.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Burt Metcalfe, Karen Hall, Alan Alda, John Rappaport, Elias Davis, David Pollock, Thad Mumford, Dan Wilcox
8.7/101,012 votesLoading...#5 - Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1973
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
8.7/10872 votesLoading...#6 - Welcome to Korea
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1975
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Larry Gelbart
8.7/10761 votesLoading...#8 - Point of View
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1978
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine
8.7/10661 votesLoading...#9 - The Party
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1979
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.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda
8.7/10712 votesLoading...#10 - Good-Bye Radar: Part 2
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1979
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine
8.7/10702 votesLoading...#11 - Death Takes a Holiday
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 12/15/1980
Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret try to save the life of a critically injured solider so that his family won't think of Christmas as the day that their father died. Meanwhile, Winchester fulfills a family Christmas tradition but has trouble maintaining the anonymity required to keep it a truly charitable act. Even Klinger lends a hand.
Director: Mike Farrell
Writer: N/A
8.6/10886 votesLoading...#12 - Deal Me Out
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1973
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks
8.6/10875 votesLoading...#13 - Adam's Ribs
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1974
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Laurence Marks
8.6/10774 votesLoading...#14 - The Interview
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1976
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.
Director: Larry Gelbart
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.6/10623 votesLoading...#15 - April Fools
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1980
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: N/A
8.5/10913 votesLoading...#16 - 5 O’Clock Charlie
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1973
An inept, if punctual, bomber pilot provides comic relief for Hawkeye and Trapper, but inspires Frank to call out the heavy artillery.
Director: Norman Tokar
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks, Keith Walker
8.5/10825 votesLoading...#17 - The Trial of Henry Blake
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1973
Henry's fitness for command is called into question when he's put on trial for charges stemming from the tomfoolery at the 4077th.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: McLean Stevenson
8.5/10834 votesLoading...#18 - The General Flipped at Dawn
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1974
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.
Director: Larry Gelbart
Writer: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
8.5/10627 votesLoading...#19 - Aid Station
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1975
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.
Director: William B. Jurgensen
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner
8.5/10733 votesLoading...#20 - Change of Command
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1975
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
8.5/10721 votesLoading...#21 - Movie Tonight
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1977
Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Don Reo
8.4/10749 votesLoading...#22 - Carry On, Hawkeye
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1973
A flu epidemic leaves yet-to-be infected Hawkeye and Margaret more overworked than ever.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Bernard Dilbert, Laurence Marks
8.4/10716 votesLoading...#23 - Crisis
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1974
A wave of conservation hits the 4077th after a vital supply line is cut, creating a variety of shortages.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks
8.4/10698 votesLoading...#24 - O.R.
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1974
The OR is filled with more wounded than the unit can handle. Hawkeye does heart massage on a soldier, which saves his life, but he dies four hours later. Sidney Freedman drops in during the deluge, and is dragged into the fray by Hawkeye.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks
8.4/10647 votesLoading...#25 - Bug Out
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1976
When a rumor for a camp relocation turns out to be real, Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar volunteer to stay behind for a patient who cannot be moved.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
The Best Episodes of M*A*S*H
Every episode of M*A*S*H ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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,...
Genres:War & PoliticsDramaComedy
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Abyssinia, Henry" is the best rated episode of "M*A*S*H". It scored 9.4/10 based on 1557 votes. Directed by Larry Gelbart and written by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, it aired on 3/18/1975. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Tuttle".
