The Best Episodes Written By Laurence Marks

When LeBeau, Newkirk and Carter are captured by the Gestapo during a sabotage mission, Hogan must convince the affable sergeant Schultz to impersonate the stern Colonel Klink and demand their release.

When the Gestapo targets Colonel Klink's radio expert, Hogan helps save him before he's silenced for good.

Sergeant Schultz, while escorting Newkirk to the dentist, gets drunk and is replaced by a hard-lined, no-nonsense guard. Hogan and his crew must act fast to get the docile Schultz restored to his post.

Somewhere along the elaborate, intricate underground escape route there is a disastrous weak link, Determined to find it, Hogan, Newkirk and Lebeau decide to break out of Stalag 13 by following the escape route themselves.

Hogan is unexpectedly drawn into an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler when he is ordered to deliver a briefcase rigged with explosives to a German general involved in the plot.

Hogan manages to free four underground leaders from the Germans and smuggles the quartet into Stalag 13. But a plan to spirit the men off to freedom in England suddenly looks hopeless when a leaky pipe fills the gang's emergency tunnel with water!

With camp security raised, Hogan and his men are desperate to smuggle some top-secret photos of German fortifications to the allies. The solution? Make liberal use of Carter's remarkable impersonation of Adolf Hitler.

The aristocratic Colonel Klink fails a routine physical exam and lands a combat assignment at the Russian front! Fearing a hard-line replacement at Stalag 13, the men must do all they can to rescind Klink's marching papers.

An assertive General Burkhalter "requisitions" the famous Édouard Manet painting, "The Fife Player," from the Louvre museum in Paris to give to Hermann Goering as a birthday present. Undaunted by the seeming impossible logistics, Hogan and LeBeau decide to steal it back!

Captain Kurtz, General Burkhalter's brother-in-law, becomes the camp's tough new adjutant. What's worse he's keeping a watchful eye on every corner of Stalag 13 and ends up getting in the way of Hogan's plans to blow up an enemy munitions train.

Newkirk, Kinchloe and LeBeau must help Hogan fool the Germans with a look-alike German official to thwart the Nazis' planned assassination plot against British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Hogan must somehow deliver a shipment of bulletproof vests to the French underground --- and a captured French Resistance fighter seems to be the perfect candidate to help Hogan pull of the caper.

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.

When bad reports are filed at headquarters, Col. Potter contemplates retirement.

An agreement to aid two escapees quickly goes awry when 20 men show up at the appointed hour. Where will Hogan and his gang find uniforms and papers for the men? And how will they get them out of Stalag 13, with German guards stationed near the end of the secret escape tunnel?

The British plan to bomb a strategic German beach on Hitler's birthday, unaware that a major gun emplacement is at the site and the Allied planes will be sitting ducks. Hogan and his crew must figure out how to silence the guns in order for the air raid to be a success.

Stalag 13 becomes the site for a German counterfeiting factory that will produce both American and British currencies. But Sergeant Schultz's sticky fingers inadvertently tip Hogan off to the scheme when Schultzy spends some of the "funny money" gambling at the prisoners' casino.

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

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.

Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

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.

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.

A wave of conservation hits the 4077th after a vital supply line is cut, creating a variety of shortages.

Frank is investigated by two crazy intelligence men, one who's convinced he's a communist, the other's certain Frank's a fascist.

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.