M*A*S*H (1972)
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, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
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Episode 1 - Welcome to Korea
Release Date: 1975-09-12Trapper 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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Episode 2 - Change of Command
Release Date: 1975-09-19Frank settles in as commanding officer, only to have a new one appointed over his head, one that, to his chagrin, fits in very well.
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Episode 3 - It Happened One Night
Release Date: 1975-09-26A 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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Episode 4 - The Late Captain Pierce
Release Date: 1975-10-03When 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.
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Episode 5 - Hey, Doc
Release Date: 1975-10-10Its 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.
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Episode 6 - The Bus
Release Date: 1975-10-17Radar 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.
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Episode 7 - Dear Mildred
Release Date: 1975-10-24It'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.
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Episode 8 - The Kids
Release Date: 1975-10-31The 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.
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Episode 9 - Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler
Release Date: 1975-11-07Intelligence 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.
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Episode 10 - Dear Peggy
Release Date: 1975-11-11B.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.
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Episode 11 - Of Moose and Men
Release Date: 1975-11-21Hawkeye 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.
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Episode 12 - Soldier of the Month
Release Date: 1975-11-28Frank has a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
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Episode 13 - The Gun
Release Date: 1975-12-02A 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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Episode 14 - Mail Call, Again
Release Date: 1975-12-09Mail brings a letter to Frank saying his wife is divorcing him, and one to Potter telling him he's going to be a grandfather.
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Episode 15 - The Price of Tomato Juice
Release Date: 1975-12-16Radar 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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Episode 16 - Dear Ma
Release Date: 1975-12-23Radar writes home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.
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Episode 17 - Der Tag
Release Date: 1976-01-06Potter decides Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
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Episode 18 - Hawkeye
Release Date: 1976-01-13Hawkeye 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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Episode 19 - Some 38th Parallels
Release Date: 1976-01-20Frank 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.
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Episode 20 - The Novocaine Mutiny
Release Date: 1976-01-27Frank 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?!).
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Episode 21 - Smilin' Jack
Release Date: 1976-02-03The 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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Episode 22 - The More I See You
Release Date: 1976-02-10Hawkeye is reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.
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Episode 23 - Deluge
Release Date: 1976-02-17A 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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Episode 24 - The Interview
Release Date: 1976-02-24Clete 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.