The Best Episodes of M*A*S*H Season 5

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

Margaret, calling from Tokyo, holds the camp in suspense until she returns with the news of her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Frank Burns takes the news hard and arrests a Korean family as spies.

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: Gary Markowitz

Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine

Following an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell

The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.

Director: Joan Darling

Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

Margaret takes off in the middle of the night to help deliver a Korean baby. Nobody knows of her whereabouts, and Colonel Flagg is brought in to help investigate her disappearance.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: Alan Alda

Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.

Director: George Tyne

Writer: Richard Cogan

Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: Bill Idelson

Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers.

Director: William B. Jurgensen

Writer: N/A

Everybody pitches in to save Colonel Potter's horse, who becomes sick while Potter is away in Tokyo. And Margaret asks Hawkeye, not Frank, to operate on her appendix.

Director: Burt Metcalfe

Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell

To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: N/A

Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."

Director: Burt Metcalfe

Writer: Burt Prelutsky

Radar becomes an aspiring writer after ordering a flier from a comic book, and Hawkeye and B.J. give Frank a surprise birthday present that only he will appreciate.

Director: Burt Metcalfe

Writer: David Isaacs, Ken Levine

A fouled radio call for help on a crossword puzzle leads to a senior officer coming to the 4077th to help with a supposed serious medical problem.

Director: Burt Metcalfe

Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell

The 4077th hosts a traditional Korean wedding, much to Frank's objections. And Colonel Potter runs into an old friend who has put his troops in jeopardy so that he could receive a promotion.

Director: William B. Jurgensen

Writer: Sid Dorfman

A former star college football player suffers a severe leg injury in combat and must deal with the consequences, and Major Burns goes behind Colonel Potter's back to set up a boxing match between Klinger and Zale.

Director: Harry Morgan

Writer: John D. Hess

B.J. falls off the fidelity wagon while trying to provide consolation to a nurse whose marriage has just ended. But will he confess his infidelity to his wife?

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: Gene Reynolds

The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain.

Director: Alan Alda

Writer: Alan Alda

General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: Burt Prelutsky

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

Hawkeye and BJ try to stop a chopper pilot from selling souvenirs derived from war materials derived from locals facing danger getting them, and Klinger becomes a pole-sitter in his latest attempt to get a Section Eight.

Director: Joshua Shelley

Writer: Burt Prelutsky

The 4077th is deluged with patients and their individual medical histories. Then they run out of blood and everyone is donating at 48-hour intervals.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: N/A

Pressured by Frank, Margaret decides to marry Colonel Donald Penobscott at the 4077th. When Donald arrives in camp, he is treated to a bachelor party and a practical joke while the nurses give Margaret a bridal shower.

Director: Gene Reynolds

Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell