The Best Episodes of M*A*S*H Season 2

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

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

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

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

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

Frank is investigated by two crazy intelligence men, one who's convinced he's a communist, the other's certain Frank's a fascist.

Director: Larry Gelbart

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

Another letter from Hawkeye to his father tells about a bigoted soldier who wants the "right color" blood, a live grenade in the OR and Henry's home movies.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

Hawkeye and Trapper hassle the brass to obtain a vital piece of medical equipment.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

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

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Sheldon Keller

Gen. Clayton sends a psychiatrist to the 4077th to gauge the camp's cohesiveness and fitness as a unit.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Larry Gelbart

A lone sniper turns the hospital compound into a combat zone, traps Henry and Radar in the showers and forces surgery by candlelight after he knocks out the generator.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Richard M. Powell

Radar chronicles the antics of a typical week at the 4077th, which includes Hawkeye falling for a new nurse, a POW going berserk in the OR and Klinger seeking a psychiatric discharge.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Sheldon Keller, Laurence Marks

Mail call inspires Hawkeye and Trapper to play on Frank's greed, and Klinger's letters from home cover everything from death to pregnancy.

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

Depressed by news from home, Margaret examines her life and decides to request a transfer.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Mary Kay Place

Hawkeye learns a patient was beaten up in his unit because he's homosexual, and Frank wants the soldier drummed out of the Army.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: Gary Markowitz, John Regler

Hawkeye and Trapper receive high-level flak when they buck the brass to report the "friendly fire" shelling of a South Korean village.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Jerry Mayer

Something smells rank at the 4077th, and it might be the new officers' club--from which enlisted types are barred.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Ed Jurist

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, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Marc Mandel, Laurence Marks

Hawkeye has been operating so long he just can't quit, and he decides to try to end the war while he's at it.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Alan Alda, Robert Klane

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, Carl Kleinschmitt, Lawrence Marks

A local farmer claims the 4077th is on his land, and a Korean woman claims Radar is the father of her child.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, Jeff Wilhelm, Gerry Renert, Laurence Marks

Henry returns from Tokyo in love with a woman half his age, but he seems to have forgotten one thing--he's married.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks

A private with a prominent proboscis pleads for prohibited plastic surgery--but Frank and Margaret smell a rat.

Director: Hy Averback

Writer: Paul Richards, Erik Tarloff