The Best Episodes Written By Larry Gelbart
Every TV Episode Written by Larry Gelbart Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Larry Gelbart Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Larry Gelbart is "Deal Me Out", rated 8.5/10 from 4 user votes. It was "directed by Gene Reynolds". "Deal Me Out" aired on 12/8/1973 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "5 O’Clock Charlie".
8.5/10 4 votes#1 - Deal Me Out
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1973
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.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.4/10 5 votes#2 - 5 O’Clock Charlie
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1973
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
8.3/10 3 votes#3 - 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: Larry Gelbart
8.3/10 3 votes#4 - 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
8.2/10 4 votes#5 - 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
8.0/10 5 votes#6 - Dear Dad...Again
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1973
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.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 4 votes#7 - Showtime
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1973
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.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 4 votes#8 - Kim
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1973
Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 4 votes#9 - Dear Dad... Three
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1973
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.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 3 votes#10 - As You Were
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1974
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: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 2 votes#11 - Crisis
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1974
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
8.0/10 2 votes#12 - A Smattering of Intelligence
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1974
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
8.0/10 4 votes#13 - 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: Larry Gelbart
8.0/10 3 votes#14 - 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
8.0/10 2 votes#15 - 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
8.0/10 3 votes#16 - 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
7.8/10 4 votes#17 - Ceasefire
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1973
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.8/10 4 votes#18 - L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1973
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
7.8/10 6 votes#19 - Carry On, Hawkeye
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1973
A flu epidemic leaves yet-to-be infected Hawkeye and Margaret more overworked than ever.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.8/10 6 votes#20 - The Incubator
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1973
Hawkeye and Trapper hassle the brass to obtain a vital piece of medical equipment.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.7/10 6 votes#21 - Divided We Stand
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1973
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
7.6/10 5 votes#22 - Germ Warfare
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1972
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.
Director: Terry Becker
Writer: Larry Gelbart
7.5/10 2 votes#23 - Henry in Love
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1974
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
7.5/10 2 votes#24 - Mail Call
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1974
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
7.5/10 2 votes#25 - 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