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The Best Episodes of M*A*S*H Season 3

Every episode of M*A*S*H Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of M*A*S*H Season 3!

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

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The General Flipped at Dawn" is the best rated episode of "M*A*S*H" season 3. It scored 8.5/10 based on 824 votes. Directed by Larry Gelbart and written by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, it aired on 9/10/1974. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Rainbow Bridge".

  • The General Flipped at Dawn
    8.5/10824 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Rainbow Bridge
    8.3/10696 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, Laurence Marks

  • Officer of the Day
    7.9/10651 votes

    #3 - 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

  • Iron Guts Kelly
    7.9/10645 votes

    #4 - Iron Guts Kelly

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1974

    General 'Iron Guts' Kelly arrives for an inspection, and ends up dying in Margaret's tent. Hawkeye and Trapper help the General's aide smuggle him out of camp. The next day he is reported killed at the front, as that is where he would have wanted to die.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Sid Dorfman, Larry Gelbart

  • O.R.
    8.4/10687 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Springtime
    8.0/10659 votes

    #6 - Springtime

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1974

    When spring arrives, Klinger gets word from home that his sweetheart back in Toledo wants to marry him. Henry arranges for Father Mulcahy to do this over short wave radio. Radar falls in love with a nurse, while a grateful patient won't leave Hawkeye alone, and even threatens Major Burns.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Mary Kay Place

  • Check-Up
    7.6/10603 votes

    #7 - Check-Up

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1974

    Trapper gets an ulcer and a ticket home. Unfortunately, his going-away party is spoiled by a new Army regulation, which forces him to stay.

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Laurence Marks

  • Life With Father
    7.4/10593 votes

    #8 - 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, Jim Fritzell

  • Alcoholics Unanimous
    7.7/10622 votes

    #9 - 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, Jim Fritzell

  • There is Nothing Like a Nurse
    7.6/10617 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Adam's Ribs
    8.6/10868 votes

    #11 - 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

  • A Full Rich Day
    8.1/10615 votes

    #12 - A Full Rich Day

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1974

    Hawkeye records a letter to his dad, detailing the exploits of a mad Turkish soldier who calls Hawkeye a "damn good Joe," the unfortunate loss of the corpse of a Luxembourg soldier (who turns out not to be dead), Lt. Henri-Batiste LeClerc, and of a gun-happy officer.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: John D. Hess

  • Mad Dogs and Servicemen
    7.7/10602 votes

    #13 - 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

  • Private Charles Lamb
    8.1/10645 votes

    #14 - 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

  • Bombed
    8.0/10600 votes

    #15 - 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, Jim Fritzell

  • Bulletin Board
    7.6/10578 votes

    #16 - Bulletin Board

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1975

    Camp activities include Henry's nervous delivery of a sex lecture, with Hawkeye's and Trapper's heckling, a Shirley Temple movie, and a cookout.

    Director: Alan Alda

    Writer: Larry Gelbart

  • The Consultant
    7.9/10626 votes

    #17 - The Consultant

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1975

    Dr. Borelli visits the 4077th to demonstrate his artery transplant technique. Unfortunately, being so close to the front at the 4077th causes Borelli's drinking problem to interfere at the worst time - when a patient needs the transplant.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

  • House Arrest
    7.9/10668 votes

    #18 - 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, Jim Fritzell

  • Aid Station
    8.5/10618 votes

    #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

  • Love and Marriage
    7.3/10585 votes

    #20 - Love and Marriage

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1975

    Hawkeye and Trapper prevent a GI from marrying a call girl who has TB, whilst trying to help a Korean soldier join his pregnant wife. Radar, of course, provides his usual invaluable help.

    Director: Lee Philips

    Writer: Arthur Julian

  • Big Mac
    8.1/10639 votes

    #21 - Big Mac

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1975

    The camp prepares for a visit from General MacArthur. Klinger dresses as the Statue of Liberty as the General's jeep drives through the camp. MacArthur is so impressed, he salutes!

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Laurence Marks

  • Payday
    7.6/10573 votes

    #22 - 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

  • White Gold
    7.8/10589 votes

    #23 - 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, Simon Muntner

  • Abyssinia, Henry
    9.4/101,546 votes

    #24 - 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