8.7/10872 votes#1 - 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
8.5/10733 votes#2 - 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
7.7/10565 votes#3 - It Happened One Night
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1975
A freezing night, an artillery barrage that's coming too close, a patient going downhill, and Frank's searching Hot Lips' tent for his letters.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: N/A
8.2/10667 votes#4 - The Late Captain Pierce
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1975
When Hawkeye's father is notified that he's dead, he finds it's no easy matter either to get word to him or to establish otherwise.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Glen Charles, Les Charles
7.6/10588 votes#5 - Hey, Doc
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1975
Its quid pro quo at the 4077th: two bottles of Scotch for secret surgery, and a tank to scare off snipers for an unauthorized shot of penicillin.
Director: William B. Jurgensen
Writer: Rick Mittleman
8.1/10637 votes#6 - The Bus
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1975
Radar is driving Hawk, B.J., Sherman, and Frank in a bus back from a "medical conference" when they get lost. They stop to see if they can find anything they recognize. When they decide to turn around, they find that the bus does not want to start. Radar goes off in the middle of the night for the latrine, and does not immediately return. Stricken, Hawkeye wants to set out to find him, only to be stopped by Sherman. An injured Korean surrenders to get medical help from Hawk and B.J.. Upon Radar return, the Korean helps repair the bus and get them out of danger.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: John D. Hess
8.3/10672 votes#7 - Dear Mildred
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1975
It's Potter's anniversary. While Potter writes home, Frank and Hot Lips have a wood carving made for him, and Radar rescues a horse and makes him a present of it.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
7.7/10607 votes#8 - The Kids
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1975
The 4077th plays host to kids bombed out of their orphanage, and at the same time has to deliver a baby and care for battle casualties.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
8.1/10680 votes#9 - Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1975
Intelligence officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapples over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who claims to be Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most poignant scene is when Radar asks Chandler to bless his teddy bear.
Director: Larry Gelbart
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
7.4/10555 votes#10 - Dear Peggy
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1975
B.J. writes home to his wife, Peg, reporting Klinger's escape attempts, the visit of a formidable chaplain, and one of Frank's goof-ups.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
7.3/10555 votes#11 - Of Moose and Men
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1975
Hawkeye tangles with a tough Army colonel, Colonel Spiker, B.J. helps Zale, who's received a "Dear John" letter, and Frank looks endlessly for Korean saboteurs.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Jay Folb
7.7/10538 votes#12 - Soldier of the Month
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1975
Frank has a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
7.6/10558 votes#13 - The Gun
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1975
A wounded colonel's gun, a showpiece, disappears, and Hawkeye and B.J. play a hunch and bluff Frank, who has it, into returning it.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart
7.9/10560 votes#14 - Mail Call, Again
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/9/1975
Mail brings a letter to Frank saying his wife is divorcing him, and one to Potter telling him he's going to be a grandfather.
Director: George Tyne
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
7.7/10555 votes#15 - The Price of Tomato Juice
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/16/1975
Radar gets the help of Hawkeye and B.J. to procure something Colonel Potter says he's fond of, but that's hard to come by - tomato juice.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart
7.7/10545 votes#16 - Dear Ma
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/23/1975
Radar writes home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.
Director: Alan Alda
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
7.9/10561 votes#17 - Der Tag
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1976
Potter decides Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
6.9/10785 votes#18 - Hawkeye
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1976
Hawkeye is injured in a jeep accident and, aware he has a concussion, babbles to a Korean family to keep himself awake.
Director: Larry Gelbart
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner
7.6/10570 votes#19 - Some 38th Parallels
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1976
Frank tries to distinguish himself by selling the camp garbage, but it's Hawkeye who finds a use for it: he dumps it on a troublesome Colonel Coner.
Director: Burt Metcalfe
Writer: Gary Markowitz
8.1/10612 votes#20 - The Novocaine Mutiny
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1976
Frank has Hawkeye up on charges of mutiny, for usurping his authority when Potter was away on leave, and Frank was the C.O. The Judge Advocate, Colonel Carmichael, tries the case; BJ, Potter, and Radar are in attendance of the preliminary hearing to offer support for Hawkeye. There are several versions of what happened: according to Frank, he was trying to hold the 4077th together during heavy casualties when everyone else was falling apart; according to The Eye Of The Hawk, BJ and Radar, it was Frank who was out of control with his regimen. Finding no evidence of the alleged mutiny, the judge drops all charges against Hawkeye and puts Frank in his place (but will he stay there?!).
Director: Harry Morgan
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
7.6/10576 votes#21 - Smilin' Jack
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1976
The 4077th turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner
7.3/10629 votes#22 - The More I See You
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1976
Hawkeye is reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart
8.1/10649 votes#23 - Deluge
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1976
A sudden deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm which makes matters difficult for the staff.
Director: William B. Jurgensen
Writer: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner
8.6/10774 votes#24 - 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
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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 4 Ratings Summary
"Welcome to Korea" is the best rated episode of "M*A*S*H" season 4. It scored 8.7/10 based on 872 votes. Directed by Gene Reynolds and written by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Larry Gelbart, it aired on 9/12/1975. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Change of Command".