The Best Episodes Written By Larry Gelbart

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #1 - Welcome to Korea

   S4:E19/12/1975

   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.

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   #2 - The Interview

   S4:E242/24/1976

   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.

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   #3 - The More I See You

   S4:E222/10/1976

   Hawkeye is reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.

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   #4 - Deluge

   S4:E232/17/1976

   A sudden deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm which makes matters difficult for the staff.

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   #5 - It Happened One Night

   S4:E39/26/1975

   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.

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   #6 - The Price of Tomato Juice

   S4:E1512/16/1975

   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.

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   #7 - 5 O’Clock Charlie

   S2:E29/22/1973

   An inept, if punctual, bomber pilot provides comic relief for Hawkeye and Trapper, but inspires Frank to call out the heavy artillery.

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   #8 - Dear Dad...Again

   S1:E182/4/1973

   Once again, Hawkeye writes home to his father, telling him of the latest gossip: the camp gets a new surgeon, who turns out to be a fake; Hawkeye bets he can walk into the mess tent naked for lunch, and no one will notice; Radar cheats on his final exam from the High School diploma company; Margaret rejects Franks advances and he gets drunk late into the night; the camp have a no talent night.

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   7.4/10(10 votes)

   #9 - Divided We Stand

   S2:E19/15/1973

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

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    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Hawkeye

    S4:E181/13/1976

    Hawkeye is injured in a jeep accident and, aware he has a concussion, babbles to a Korean family to keep himself awake.

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    #11 - Smilin' Jack

    S4:E212/3/1976

    The 4077th turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.

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    7.3/10(4 votes)

    #12 - White Gold

    S3:E233/11/1975

    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.

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    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #13 - The Gun

    S4:E1312/2/1975

    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.

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    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Kim

    S2:E610/20/1973

    Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

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    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #15 - The Incubator

    S2:E1212/1/1973

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

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    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Chief Surgeon Who?

    S1:E410/8/1972

    Frank Burns complains about Hawkeye Pierce's disrespect...and Henry appoints Hawkeye chief surgeon, to Burns's shock. The rest of the 4077th "coronates" Hawk while Frank and Hot Lips complain to General Barker. The General's visit provides him with a view of life at the 4077th M*A*S*H unit: camp hijinks, a poker game, and a surgery session. This shows him M*A*S*H has fun but gets the job done.

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    #17 - Dear Dad... Three

    S2:E911/10/1973

    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.

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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Deal Me Out

    S2:E1312/8/1973

    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.

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    #19 - Iron Guts Kelly

    S3:E410/1/1974

    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.

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    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #20 - Ceasefire

    S1:E233/18/1973

    General Clayton calls to say that a ceasefire is to be declared. The camp celebrates, Klinger gives away his dresses and locals start to take pieces of the camp. But Trapper does not believe it. Hawkeye claims he is married to avoid promises he made to several nurses. The party to celebrate the cease-fire, which never really took place, is interrupted by incoming wounded.

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    #21 - Showtime

    S1:E243/25/1973

    Captain Kaplan is to be shipped home, but becomes paranoid that something will happen to him before he leaves. He takes the wheel of the jeep to drive to Kimpo himself, but crashes and ends up in plaster. Henry's wife is in labor and gives birth while he has Radar calling the hospital every 5 mins.An entertainer, Jackie Flash, visits the camp to entertain the troops.

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    6.9/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Germ Warfare

    S1:E1112/10/1972

    Hawkeye moves a wounded North Korean soldier into The Swamp, rather than let him be shipped out before he's stable. During the night he and Trapper play Dracula, and siphon off a pint of Frank's blood. The soldier then contracts hepatitis, so they have to test Frank without him knowing, and have to keep him away from Margaret and the patients.

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    #23 - Sticky Wicket

    S1:E213/4/1973

    Hawkeye and Frank argue over Frank's surgical ability. Hawkeye performs a difficult operation and the patient does not recover, as he should. Hawkeye begins to doubt his ability and moves out of The Swamp. He decides to open up his patients again, and discovers a nick in the colon that even Frank admits anyone could have missed.

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    6.9/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Rainbow Bridge

    S3:E29/17/1974

    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.

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    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #25 - O.R.

    S3:E510/8/1974

    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.

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