Between 1972 and 1983, TV Guide published short summaries for nearly every new episode of M*A*S*H on CBS as well as most repeats. These summaries were one or two lines and occasionally included information on a guest star.
Below you’ll find TV Guide summaries for most episodes from Season 2 through Season 11. Some of the summaries are missing and I’ve noted which summaries were taken from repeats.
Season 2 (1973-1974)
02×01 “For the Good of the Outfit”
Saturday, September 15th, 1973
02×02 “5 O’Clock Charlie”
Saturday, September 22nd, 1973
Frank Burns is up in arms. He’s demanding action against that poor enemy bomber pilot who has yet to hit anything.
[Summary from the June 15th, 1974 repeat.]
2×03 “Radar’s Report”
Saturday, September 29th, 1973
Radar’s tongue-in-cheek report on a typical week at MASH … a POW goes berserk in the operating room, high-heeled Corporal Klinger goes for a psychiatric discharge and Hawkeye goes for a luscious new nurse (Joan Van Ark).
[Summary from the March 9th, 1974 repeat.]
02×04 “For the Good of the Outfit”
Saturday, October 6th, 1973
Hawkeye and Trapper John run into high-level flak as they try to report a U.S. artillery barrage that hit friendly South Koreans.
[Summary from the March 30th, 1974 repeat.]
02×05 “Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde”
Saturday, October 13th, 1973
Hawkeye has been operating so long he just can’t quit-and no one can stop him. Alan Alda, who plays the haggard Hawkeye, coauthored the script.
[Summary from the May 4th, 1974 repeat.]
02×06 “Kim”
Saturday, October 20th, 1973
Maternal feelings blossom like flowers in spring with the appearance of Kim, a wounded and apparently orphaned Korean boy whom everyone wants to mother.
[Summary from the April 6th, 1974 repeat.]
02×07 “L.I.P (Local Indigenous Personnel)”
Saturday, October 27th, 1973
The course of true love may never run smooth, but rarely does it run so rough as in the Army. A case in point is a poor G.I. who wants to marry his child’s Korean mother.
[Summary from the April 28th, 1974 repeat.]
02×08 “The Trial of Henry Blake”
Saturday, November 3rd, 1973
For C.O. Henry Blake, it’s time to pay the piper. He’s up on charges stemming from all the tomfoolery at MASH. Script by McLean Stevenson (Henry).
[Summary from the March 16th, 1974 repeat.]
02×09 “Dear Dad… Three”
Saturday, November 10th, 1973
02×10 “The Sniper”
Saturday, November 17th, 1973
Predictable panic erupts at MASH as a lone enemy sniper turns the hospital compound into a combat zone.
[Summary from the April 13th, 1974 repeat.]
02×11 “Carry On, Hawkeye”
Saturday, November 24th, 1973
02×12 “The Incubator”
Saturday, December 1st, 1973
Taking the time-honored route of going through channels, Hawkeye and Trapper John discover that it might be easier to win the war than to obtain a vitally needed piece of medical equipment.
[Summary from the May 11th, 1974 repeat.]
02×13 “Deal Me Out”
Saturday, December 8th, 1973
Let the cards–and crises–fall as they may, the gang’s weekly poker party plans on … and on … and on.
[Summary from the July 27th, 1974 repeat.]
02×14 “Hot Lips and Empty Arms”
Saturday, December 15th, 973
Hot Lips is rebelling. Fed up with just about everything, she’s ready to end her romance with Frank and transfer out of MASH.
02×15 “Officers Only”
Saturday, December 22nd, 1973
The opening of an officers-only club is looked upon as rank discrimination.
[Summary from the May 25th, 1974 repeat.]
2×16 “Henry in Love”
Saturday, January 5th, 1974
If Henry’s feet seem to be planted firmly in the clouds, it’s because he’s returned from Tokyo heels over head in love -with a girl just half the age of his wife. Kathy Bateman plays the youngster who has Henry running for the hair dye.
2×17 “For Want of a Boot
Saturday, January 12th, 1974
All Hawkeye wants is a pair of boots, but first comes this game of musical favors: the supply sergeant wants a dental appointment, the dentist wants a three-day pass to Japan … and on … and on.
2×18 “Operation Noselift”
Saturday, January 19th, 1974
“Operation Noselift,” or how to get a prohibited plastic surgery for a private with a prominent proboscis. Stuart Margolin plays the specialist imported for the job.
2×19 “The Chosen People”
Saturday, January 26th, 1974
Now it’s the Korean nationals who are giving Henry the hives. A local farmer is demanding that MASH get off his land, and a peasant girl is claiming that a G.I. doctor fathered her child.
2×20 “As You Were”
Saturday, Febraury 2nd, 1974
Frank chooses a lull in the action for his hernia operation, and that’s just when the war resumes full tilt.
2×21 “Crisis”
Saturday, February 9th, 1974
A cut supply line creates a crisis at MASH. They’re running out of everything but casualties.
2×22 “George”
Saturday, February 16th, 1974
Once again Frank is in high dudgeon, this time over a homosexual patient he thinks should be drummed out of the Army.
2×23 “Mail Call”
Saturday, February 23, 1974
Alan Alda (Hawkeye) made his directorial debut in this episode highlighted by a practical joke that exploits Frank Burns’ basic guile and greed.
2×24 “A Smattering of Intelligence”
Saturday, March 2nd, 1974
Suspicion runs rampant as competing undercover agents descend on MASH in search of security risks.
Season 3 (1974-1975)
3×01 “The General Flipped at Dawn”
Tuesday, September 10th, 1974
The Emmy-winning MASH team opens a third season with a madcap reception for a spit-and-polish general, played by Harry Morgan.
3×02 “Rainbow Bridge”
Tuesday, September 17th, 1974
A surprising offer by the Red Chinese puts a crimp in Hawkeye and Trapper’s plan for a three-day leave in Tokyo.
3×03 “Officer of the Day”
Tuesday, September 24th, 1974
As officer of the day, Hawkeye is bedeviled with a host of improbable problems. The most galling stems from an overzealous intelligence officer (Edward Winter reprises his role from last season) who wants a wounded prisoner patched up for execution.
03×04 “Iron Guts Kelly”
Tuesday, October 1st, 1974
03×05 “O.R.”
Tuesday, October 8th, 1974
This series’ first episode without a laugh track is also also its most serious to date. The action–set entirely in the operating room–concerns the skill and endurance of the 4077th as it treats and overwhelming number of battle casualties.
03×06 “Springtime”
Tuesday, October 15th, 1974
The onset of spring brings out the sap in everyone, especially in a patient (played by former Detroit Lion Alex Karras) who can’t thank Hawkeye enough for saving his life.
03×07 “Check-Up”
Tuesday, October 22nd, 1974
Trapper reacts with surprising hostility to an order requiring everyone to undergo a medical checkup.
03×08 “Life with Father”
Tuesday, October 29th, 1974
Honoring a G.I.’s request for a traditional Jewish religious ceremony poses a problem in a unit where the only chaplain is Catholic.
03×09 “Alcoholics Unanimous”
Tuesday, November 12th, 1974
Stuffy Frank Burns commits the ultimate outrage when he dismantles the surgeons’ still and brings back Prohibition.
[Summary for the September 2nd, 1975 repeat.]
03×10 “There Is Nothing Like a Nurse”
Tuesday, November 19th, 1974
The men’s morale plummets when the threat of an enemy parachute drop forces evacuation of all the nurses.
03×11 “Adam’s Rib”
Tuesday, November 26th, 1974
A craving for barbecued spareribs is driving Hawkeye crazy. But the only ribs he wants are from a restaurant in Chicago.
03×12 “A Full Rich Day”
Tuesday, December 3rd, 1974
A berserk Turk, a missing corpse and a menacing lieutenant are the main contributors to what Trapper calls a well-rounded day of insanity.
03×13 “Mad Dogs and Servicemen”
Tuesday, December 10th, 1974
While Henry looks for the possibly rabid pooch that bit Radar, Hawkeye raises eyebrows with his heartless treatment of a paralysis case.
[Summary for the June 17th, 1975 repeat.]
03×14 “Private Charles Lamb”
Tuesday, December 31st, 1974
A lamb, flown in from Greece for an Easter feast, finds a friend in tender-hearted Radar (Gary Burghoff).
03×15 “Bombed”
Tuesday, January 7th, 1975
A heavy barrage precipitates confusion at the 4077th.
Courage and humor are literally tested under fire as the 4077th is caught in a heavy artillery barrage.
[Summary for the August 26th, 1975 repeat.]
03×16 “Bulletin Board”
Tuesday, January 14th, 1975
It’s one of those days when absolutely nothing comes off as planned, from Henry’s lecture on sex to the company picnic. Directed by Alan Alda (Hawkeye).
[Summary for the August 5th, 1975 repeat.]
03×17 “The Consultant”
Tuesday, January 21st, 1975
In Tokyo, an expert on new surgical techniques is challenged by the surgeons to visit the 4077th and “really get into the game.” Robert Alda, father of Alan (Hawkeye), plays the medical consultant.
03×18 “House Arrest”
Tuesday, February 4th, 1975
Hawkeye is confined to quarters awaiting court martial after punching Frank in the eye.
03×19 “Aid Station”
Tuesday, February 11th, 1975
Hawkeye, Hot Lips and Klinger make up the relief team sent to a front-line medical-aid station under heave enemy fire.
[Summary for the July 29th, 1975 repeat.]
03×20 “Love and Marriage”
Tuesday, February 18th, 1975
03×21 “Big Mac”
Tuesday, February 25th, 1975
With the predictable exception of Hawkeye and Trapper, the personnel at MASH work themselves into a tizzy over the impending visit of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
[Summary for the August 19th, 1975 repeat.]
03×22 “Payday”
Tuesday, March 4th, 1975
Payday produces a host of bizarre consequence, including a $10 surplus that eventually proves embarrassing for pay officer Hawkeye (Alan Alda).
03×23 “White Gold”
Tuesday, March 11th, 1975
A theft of penicillin prompts an immediate visit by Colonel Flagg, a masochist CIA agent who would give his life to break up the penicillin ring.
03×24 “Abyssinia, Henry”
Tuesday, March 18th, 1975
It’s a red-letter day for the 4077th when Henry (McLean Stevenson) gets the news that he has been discharged. Sentimental moments mix with bon-voyage hoopla as the C.O. prepares to take his leave, and Frank (Larry Linville) prepares to take command.
Directed by series creator Larry Gelbart.
Season 4 (1975-1976)
04×01 “Welcome to Korea”
Friday, September 12th, 1975
04×02 “Change of Command”
Friday, September 19th, 1975
Command of the 4077th is assumed by Col. Sherman Potter, a regular Army man who is about to learn that life at the 4077th is anything but regular.
[Summary for the March 9th, 1976 repeat.]
04×03 “It Happened One Night”
Friday, September 26th, 1975
Through a long and freezing night, doctors and patients alike are rattled by the continual roar of friendly fire.
04×04 “The Late Captain Pierce”
Friday, October 3rd, 1975
No one rests in peace after the Army officially, if prematurely, lists Hawkeye as dead.
04×05 “Hey, Doc”
Friday, October 10th, 1975
Hit by an epidemic of requests for special favors, the doctors do unto others as they would have others do unto them.
04×06 “The Bus”
Friday, October 17th, 1975
Stranded on an unfamiliar road by the breakdown of their bus, the men are out of contact with the base, out of provisions and nearly out of their minds: they are lost in what may be enemy-held territory.
04×07 “Dear Mildred”
Friday, October 24th, 1975
Surprise gifts are in store for Colonel Potter on his 27th wedding anniversary.
04×08 “The Kids”
Friday, October 31st, 1975
With the predictable exception of self-centered Frank Burns the MASH personnel open their hearts and tents to a refugee band of Korean orphans.
04×09 “Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler”
Friday, November 7th, 1975
A patient’s insistence that he is really Jesus Christ prompts immediate visits by a hard-nose CIA agent and a compassionate psychiatrist (Edward Winter and Allan Arbus in recurring roles).
[Summary for the May 4th, 1976 repeat.]
04×10 “Dear Peggy”
Tuesday, November 11th, 1975
In a letter to his wife, B.J. details a wide variety of newsy and nutty happenings at MASH. Included is an inspection by a taskmaster chaplain (played by Ned Beatty). [Pre-empts “Joe and Sons.”]
04×11 “Of Moose and Men”
Friday, November 21st, 1975
While Hawkeye finds a unique way to make amends for splattering mud on an unforgiving artillery colonel, B.J. consoles a furious sergeant whose wife strayed from the fold and now wants back.
04×12 “Soldier of the Month”
Friday, November 28th, 1975
To boost morale during a fever epidemic, Colonel Potter announces a Soldier-of-the-Month contest that will send the lucky winner on a six-day leave to Tokyo. [Last day in this time period. “M*A*S*H” moves to Tuesday beginning Dec. 2.]
04×13 “The Gun”
Tuesday, December 2nd, 1975
Ever-sneaky Frank Burns steals a rare old Colt .4 from the supply-room gun bin and lets poor radar take the rap. Warren Stevens plays the gun’s owner, a hospitalized colonel. [New day and time.]
04×14 “Mail Call, Again”
Tuesday, December 9th, 1975
Letters from home spark a number of mini dramas, including Frank’s flight into frenzy because his wife found out about Hot Lips (Loretta Swit).
04×15 “The Price of Tomato Juice”
Tuesday, December 16th, 1975
To please Colonel Potter, Radar attempts to insure a steady supply of hard-to-obtain tomato juice–setting off a virtual chain reaction of favor-exchanging.
[Summary for the September 7th, 1976 repeat.]
04×16 “Dear Ma”
Tuesday, December 23rd, 1975
The 4077th’s monthly foot inspection is but one of several ticklish matters that Radar describes in a letter to his mother.
04×17 “Der Tag”
Tuesday, January 6th, 1976
Colonel Potter asks the near-impossible of his surgeons: to be nice to Frank, who is more disagreeable than ever now that Hot Lips is away at a seminar in Tokyo.
04×18 “Hawkeye”
Tuesday, January 13th, 1976
04×19 “Some 38th Parallels”
Tuesday, January 20th, 1976
Four separate stories are united by the common element of anxiety, ranging from Frank’s fear that the Koreans are stealing the 4077th’s garbage to a wounded colonel’s worry about retrieving the killed-in-action, no matter what the cost in lives.
04×20 “The Novocaine Mutiny”
Tuesday, January 27th, 1976
The Army conducts a preliminary hearing to investigate Frank’s charge of mutiny against Hawkeye (Alan Alda).
04×21 “Smilin’ Jack”
Tuesday, February 3rd, 1976
Differing attitudes toward war are embodied by an ailing helicopter pilot who doesn’t want to quit and a two-time Purple Heart winner who definitely does.
04×22 “The More I See You”
Tuesday, February 10th, 1976
The only woman Hawkeye ever wanted to marry is assigned as a nurse to the 4077th, but now she is married to somebody else.
04×23 “Deluge”
Tuesday, February 17th, 1976
The 4077th’s personnel and facilities are suddenly taxed to the limit by a deluge of casualties from an unexpected enemy offensive.
04×24 “The Interview”
Tuesday, February 24th, 1976
Interviews with individual MASH personnel probe the private feelings of men caught up in a bloody, ambiguous conflict that lacks even an official declaration of war. TV newscaster Clete Roberts portrays the war correspondent. Filmed in black and white to simulate a ’50s documentary; the actors’ responses are largely improvised.
Season 5 (1976-1977)
05×01 “Bug Out”
Tuesday, September 21st, 1976
05×02 “Margaret’s Engagement”
Tuesday, September 28th, 1976
The men wait with bated breath for Frank’s reaction to Hot Lips’ news that she became engaged to a bull colonel while on temporary duty in Tokyo.
05×03 “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
Tuesday, October 5th, 1976
Hawkeye opens his eyes to a new world of sensory experience when he is blinded-perhaps permanently-by a heater explosion. Blind singer-composer Tom Sullivan makes his acting debut as another sightless patient
05×04 “Lt. Radar O’Reilly”
Tuesday, October 12th, 1976
As a practical joke Hawkeye, B.J. and a mimeograph operator cut orders “promoting” meek Cpl. Radar O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff) to the dizzying rank of second lieutenant.
05×05 “The Nurses”
Tuesday, October 19th, 1976
A nurse’s overnight honeymoon with her Army husband is threatened by a long-simmering feud that finally comes to a boil between Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) and her staff.
05×06 “The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan”
Tuesday, October 26th, 1976
Hot Lips suddenly disappears from the compound, and though she’s only off delivering a Korean woman’s baby, the speculation is that she’s been abducted.
05×07 “Dear Sigmund”
Tuesday, November 9th, 1976
A depressed psychiatrist hopes to heal himself by vacationing at the 4077th, where it seems everyone has mastered the fine art of acting crazy to keep from going insane.
05×08 “Mulcahy’s War”
Tuesday, November 16th, 1976
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), disturbed because chaplains aren’t allowed in battle, devises a way to get his baptism of fire.
05×09 “The Korean Surgeon”
Tuesday, November 23rd, 1976
A captured North Korean surgeon (Soon-Teck Oh) goes along with Hawkeye’s scheme to sneak him onto the staff disguised as a ROK doctor.
05×10 “Hawkeye Get Your Gun”
Tuesday, November 30th, 1976
After an exhausting 24-hour stint in the operating room, Hawkeye and Potter respond to a call for surgeons and supplies by a Korean hospital near the front.
05×11 “The Colonel’s Horse”
Tuesday, December 7th, 1976
When Colonel Potter is off in Tokyo, his mare falls ill and Hot Lips suffers an attack of appendicitis.
05×12 “Exorcism”
Tuesday, December 14th, 1976
05×13 “Hawk’s Nightmare”
Tuesday, December 21st, 1976
A series of sleepwalking episodes and terrifying nightmares suggest to Hawkeye (Alan Alda) that he’s finally going bananas.
05×14 “The Most Unforgettable Characters”
Tuesday, January 4th, 1977
When Radar hones his creative-writing skills through a correspondence course, Hawkeye and B.J. amuse Frank on his birthday by pretending to fight with each other.
05×15 “38 Across”
Tuesday, January 11th, 1977
Needing a word for a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye radios for help to a Navy buddy, who misconstrues the request as a call for medical aid–and comes running in person with an admiral in tow.
05×16 “Ping Pong”
Tuesday, January 18th, 1977
Frank (Larry Linville) is betting that Hawkeye and B.J. can kiss their money goodbye when they lend $40 for a wedding ring to the 4077th’s young Korean table-tennis champ (Richard Narita).
05×17 “End Run”
Tuesday, January 25th, 1977
Hawkeye and B.J. may have to amputate the leg of a former college-football star (Henry Brown) who’d rather die than never play again. In a subplot, Frank arranges a grudge fight between high-heeled Klinger (Jamie Farr) ad burly Sergeant Zale (Johnny Haymer).
05×18 “Hanky Panky”
Tuesday, February 1st, 1977
Mail call brings bad news: Hot Lips’ fiance is inexplicably hospitalized in Tokyo, and one of the nurses receives a Dear Jane letter from her husband.
05×19 “Hepatitis”
Tuesday, February 8th, 1977
Hawkeye manages to suppress his back ailment enough to give everyone examinations and shots after Father Mulcahy comes down with hepatitis.
05×20 “The General’s Practitioner”
Tuesday, February 15th, 1977
05×21 “Movie Tonight”
Tuesday, February 22nd, 1977
05×22 “Souvenirs”
Tuesday, March 1st, 1977
A helicopter pilot raise everyone’s hackles by buying and selling war souvenirs, a practice that leads to injuries from booby traps and mines for G.I.s and Korean children collecting the mementos.
05×23 “Post Op”
Tuesday, March 8th, 1977
A demanding 180-hour duty stretch produces a variety of mini dramas including a shortage of whole blood that requires stringent countermeasures–even persuading Frank to donate some of his own.
05×24 “Margaret’s Marriage”
Tuesday, March 15th, 1977
The social event of the Korean War . . . after an eight-month engagement, Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (Loretta Swit) finally marches down the aisle (of the mess tent) with her beloved Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott (Beeson Carroll), radiant in a bridal gown given to her by Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr).
Season 6 (1977-1978)
06×01 “Fade Out, Fade In”
Tuesday, September 20th, 1977
The sixth year with the 4077th introduces a replacement for an AWOL Frank Burns. David Ogden Stiers plays Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, a surgeon who is everything Frank wasn’t: intelligent, articulate, competent and, above all, an arrogant match for his freewheeling colleagues.
06×02 “Fallen Idol”
Tuesday, September 27th, 1977
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) takes it hard when Radar follows his advice to sow a few wild oats in Seoul and is wounded by mortar fire while driving there.
06×03 “Last Laugh”
Tuesday, October 4th, 1977
A report that the provost marshal is investigating B.J. (Mike Farrell) merely signals the impending visit of B.J.’s practical-joking buddy (James Cromwell).
06×04 “War of Nerves”
Tuesday, October 11th, 1977
Wounded psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) is brought to the 4077th and promptly enlisted by Potter to heal the healers, who are at each other’s throats.
06×05 “The Winchester Tapes”
Tuesday, October 18th, 1977
Others write letters. Predictably, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) makes a tape for his parents, and he fills it with vitriolic descriptions of the personnel and conditions at the 4077th “cesspool.”
06×06 “The Light That Failed”
Tuesday, October 25th, 1977
A light-bulb shortage and a copy of a murder mystery with no last page combine to leave everyone in the dark–in every respect.
06×07 “In Love and War”
Tuesday, November 1st, 1977
Despite Colonel Potter’s warning that “love and war don’t mix,” Hawkeye falls for a compassionate Korean aristocrat (played by Kieu Chinh, who was a talk show hostess and leading actress in South Vietnam before the communist takeover).
06×08 “Change Day”
Tuesday, November 8th, 1977
Enterprising Charles (David Ogden Stiers) expects to profit from the Army’s imminent scrip exchange: he plans to pay villagers 10 cents on the dollar for old scrip and turn it in for new scrip at full value.
[Summary for the April 17th, 1978 repeat.]
06×09 “Images”
Tuesday, November 15th, 1977
Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) tries to drum a soft-hearted nurse out of the 4077th, and Radar gets the needle because he wants to be tattooed.
[Summary for the May 1st, 1978 repeat.]
06×10 “The M*A*S*H Olympics”
Tuesday, November 22nd, 1977
To shape up the troops, Potter institutes the 4077th Olympics, with Hawkeye and B.J. as captains of the two opposing teams. Interspersed throughout the program are clips of the 1952 Games in Helsinki.
06×11 “The Grim Reaper”
Tuesday, November 29th, 1977
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is moved to violence by a colonel (Charles Aidman) whose job it is to predict battle casualties: he seems to love his work.
06×12 “Comrades in Arms (Part 1)”
Tuesday, December 6th, 1977
Traveling companions Hot Lips and Hawkeye abandon their usual cat-and-dog relationship and begin to look at each other in a different light when they suddenly find themselves lost in enemy territory. First of two parts.
06×13 “Comrades in Arms (Part 2)”
Tuesday, December 13th, 1977
After surviving a frightening night of artillery fire in enemy territory, Hot Lips and Hawkeye find themselves comrades in each other’s arms in the concluding half of this two-part story.
06×14 “The Merchant of Korea”
Tuesday, December 20th, 1977
After lending money to Hawkeye and B.J., Charles exacts his pound of flesh by demanding petty servitude.
06×15 “The Smell of Music”
Tuesday, January 3rd, 1978
There’s something awful in the air: Hawkeye and B.J. refuse to shower until Charles gives up his French horn.
06×16 “Patent 4077”
Tuesday, January 10th, 1978
Tests for the doctors’ ingenuity: they must devise a specialized surgical clamp, and recover Hot Lips’ wedding ring, which Klinger inadvertently threw in the garbage.
06×17 “Tea and Empathy”
Tuesday, January 17th, 1978
The treatment of wounded British troops is complicated by black-market thefts of penicillin and a clash of customs between the doctors and their patients.
06×18 “Your Hit Parade”
Tuesday, January 24th, 1978
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, and it’s Radar (Gary Burghoff) who plays disc jockey to the casualty-swamped 4077th. [Last show on this day. ‘M*A*S*H” moves to Monday beginning Jan. 30. Movies will be seen at this time beginning next week.]
06×19 “What’s Up, Doc?”
Monday, January 30th, 1978
Radar is asked to sacrifice his pet rabbit for Hot Lips’ pregnancy test, and the doctors contend with a patient determined to remain out of action. [Now seen on this day.]
06×20 “Mail Call Three”
Monday, February 6th, 1978
Mail from home brings unsettling news for many–especially Section 8 candidate Klinger, who claims his wife wants a divorce.
06×21 “Temporary Duty”
Monday, February 13th, 1978
The 4077th is shaken to its tent posts by two bons vivants on temporary duty: a fun-loving nurse (Marcia Rodd) and a boorish surgeon (George Lindsey).
06×22 “Potter’s Retirement”
Monday, February 20th, 1978
Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) learns that one of his subordinates has been filing highly critical reports on the way he runs the outfit.
06×23 “Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde”
Monday, February 27th, 1978
An exhausted Charles (David Ogden Stiers) finds a pick-me-up in a bottle of amphetamines. Meanwhile, Radar (Gary Burghoff) enters his mouse in a race with a Marine Corps rodent.
06×24 “Major Topper”
Monday, March 27th, 1978
While Klinger (Jamie Farr) breaks in a new man who’s even nuttier than he, Hawkeye and B.J. attempt to top Charles in the telling of tall tales.
Season 7 (1978-1979)
07×01 “Commander Pierce”
Monday, September 18th, 1978
The 4077th faces a seventh season on the Korean front with the C.O. summoned to Seoul, Major Winchester incapacitated, add command placed in the reluctant hands of Hawkeye (Alan Alda), a self-described “cringing chicken” who “can’t give orders.”
07×02 “Peace On Us”
Monday, September 25th, 1978
Pushed to the brink by a breakdown in the Panmunjom peace talks, Hawkeye (Alan Aldad) acts on his own to stop the war.
07×03 “Lil”
Monday, October 2nd, 1978
The warm relationships that develops between Potter (Harry Morgan) and a visiting nurse his own age disturbs ever-protective Radar (Gary Burghoff) who fears the colonel may be forgetting that he’s a happily married man.
07×04 “Our Finest Hour”
Monday, October 9th, 1978
The MASH staff bares its soul in this hour-long show, which is similiar in theme to a 1976 episode. It takes semi-documentary form: interviews, filmed in black and white, are conducted among the personnel by a TV correspondent (Clete Roberts). Responses to questions are fleshed out flashbacks to previous episodes, featuring former regulars McLean Stevenson (as Henry Blake), Wayne Roger (Trapper) and Larry Linville (Major Burns). [This expanded M*A*S*H begins one-half hour earlier than usual, pre-empting regular programming.]
07×05 “The Billfold Syndrome”
Monday, October 16th, 1978
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) swears he’ll never speak to them again–which only goads them into finding a way to break his vow of silence.
07×06 “None Like It Hot”
Monday, October 23rd, 1978
During a blistering heat wave, Hawkeye and B.J. try to freeze the news that they’ve received a portable rubber bathtub everyone would love to use.
07×07 “They Call The Wind Korea”
Monday, October 30th, 1978
A big storm out of Manchuria brings an ill wind that blows nobody good–especially Charles (David Ogden Stiers) who’s forced to take an ill-fated jeep ride to Seoul after his flight is grounded.
07×08 “Major Ego”
Monday, November 6th, 1978
A Stars and Stripes reporter (Greg Mullavey) arrives to do a story on Charles (David Ogden Stiers), and how he snatched a G.I. from the jaws of death.
07×09 “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
Monday, November 13th, 1978
A bitter cold snap brings out the abominable in Charles (David Ogden Stiers), who flaunts a thermal suit sent from home. Of more serious consequence is the weather’s effect on a patient already suffering from severe hypothermia. [Seen one hour earlier than usual, pre-empting regular programming.]
07×10 “Point of View”
Monday, November 20th, 1978
An episode filmed through the eyes of a patient, a G.I. with a throat would who cannot speak.
07×11 “Dear Comrade”
Monday, November 27th, 1978
Charles’ new Korean houseboy is actually an enemy agent sent to evaluate the 4077th, which at the moment can’t even cope with a simple outbreak of rashes.
07×12 “Out of Gas”
Monday, December 4th, 1978
Surprisingly, it’s gentle Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) who volunteers to barter with unscrupulous black marketeers for vitally needed sodium pentothal.
07×13 “An Eye for a Tooth”
Monday, December 11th, 1978
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) becomes a bit hot under the collar after being passed over for a promotion; and Hawkeye and B.J. engage Hot Lips and Charles in an escalating war of practical jokes.
07×14 “Dear Sis”
Monday, December 18th, 1978
In a Christmas letter to his sister, Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) describes the heaviest cross he has to bear: his frustration at being unable to offer more than spiritual comfort.
07×15 “B.J. Papa San”
Monday, January 1st, 1979
07×16 “Inga”
January 8th, 1979
The surgeons have trouble believing that someone as pretty as a visiting Swedish physician (Mariette Hartley) could teach them anything in the operating room. [Seen one-half hour later than usual. “One Day at a Time moves to Wed. beginning Jan 17.]
07×17 “The Price”
Monday, January 15th, 1979
Hawkeye and B.J. harbor a Korean teen-ager trying to avoid conscription; Potter’s beloved mare disappears; and Klinger tires out-and-out bribery to get out of the Army.
07×18 “The Young and the Restless”
Monday, January 22nd, 1979
The 4077th is visited by an extremely young surgeon (James Canning) who humiliates Charles with his brilliance and causes uncharacteristic resignation in Potter, who is out of action with phlebitis and suddenly content to stay that way.
07×19 “Hot Lips is Back in Town”
Monday, January 29th, 1979
Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) receives her final divorce decree with mixed emotions, but quickly rallies herself as a free and independent woman. Meanwhile, Radar (Gary Burghoff) would love to find a way to assert himself with a pretty new nurse (Peggy Lee Brennan). [Seen one hour earlier than usual.]
07×20 “C*A*V*E”
Monday, February 5th, 1979
Caught in an artillery cross fire, the 4077th takes refuge in a damp, close cave, which does nothing for anybody’s health or temper.
07×21 “Rally Round the Flagg, Boys”
Wednesday, February 14th, 1979
Giving surgical priority to a wounded North Korean over an American hardly helps Hawkeye when Obnoxious Colonel Flagg (Edward Winter) turns up again, still nosing around for spies.
07×22 “Preventive Medicine”
Monday, February 19th, 1979
The 4077th is paid a visit by the man responsible for most of its business: a line officer with the highest casualty rate of any battalion commander.
07×23 “A Night at Rosie’s”
Monday, February 26th, 1979
Hawkeye Hopes for a brief respite at Rosie’s Bar, where his breakfast consists of cereal and beer.
07×24 “Ain’t Love Grand”
Monday, March 5th, 1979
Cupid’s arrows misfire: aristocratic Charles falls for a Korean bar girl (Sylvia Chang), and earthy Klinger flips for a classy nurse (Kit McDonough).
07×25 “The Party”
Monday, March 12th, 1979
B.J. keeps trying to arrange a get-acquainted party for stateside dependents, and he’s not about to let a little thing like an emergency evacuation get in the way.
Season 8 (1979-1980)
08×01 “Too Many Cooks”
Monday, September 17th, 1979
For the 4077th, the Korean War runs into an eighth year, and that’s why it’s crucial to retain the services of a wounded private (Ed Begley, Jr.) who can’t handle a rifle, but earns four stars as a chef de cuisine.
08×02 “Are You Now, Margaret?”
Monday, September 24th, 1979
A Congressional aide (Lawrence Pressman) asks the kinds of questions that belie his claim to be on a routine fact-finding tour.
08×03 “Guerilla My Dreams”
Monday, October 1st, 1979
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) wages a private war to prevent a coldblooded South Korean officer (Mako) from “interrogating” a wounded woman he claims is an enemy guerrilla “as dedicated to killing as any uniformed soldier.”
08×04 “Good-Bye, Radar (Part 1)”
Monday, October 8th, 1979
The generator explodes, leaving the 4077th without electricity and without hope for a quick replacement: Radar the wheeler-dealer is on leave in Tokyo. First of two parts.
08×05 “Good-Bye, Radar (Part 2)”
Monday, October 15th, 1979
Radar Goes Home. For details, see the Close-up on page A-61.
08×06 “Period of Adjustment”
Monday, October 22nd, 1979
B.J. is hit hard when he hears that his daughter met Radar at the airport and mistook him for her daddy; and Klinger learns that the little corporal left very large boots to fill.
08×07 “Nurse Doctor”
Monday, October 29th, 1979
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), who’s helping a nurse study for medical school, is disconcerted by her overly warm display of appreciation.
08×08 “Private Finance”
Monday, November 5th, 1979
A Korean mother accuses Klinger (Jamie Farr) of disgracing her daughter; Hawkeye (Alan Alda) runs into complications keeping a promise to a dying soldier.
08×09 “Mr. and Mrs. Who?”
Monday, November 12th, 1979
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) returns badly hung-over from Tokyo; and the doctors are stymied by a deadly fever they’ve been ordered not to treat.
08×10 “The Yalu Brick Road”
Monday, November 19th, 1979
Hawkeye and B.J. lose their way while rushing antibiotics to the 4077th, which has been stricken with food poisoning thanks to Klinger’s Thanksgiving turkey. [Seen one-half hour earlier than usual.]
08×11 “Life Time”
Monday, November 26th, 1979
A Race Against Time. A close up in TV GUIDE
08×12 “Dear Uncle Abdul”
Monday, December 3rd, 1979
In an often-interrupted letter to his uncle, Klinger (Jamie Farr) describes the bizarre duties he has been given as the new company clerk.
08×13 “Captains Outrageous”
Monday, December 10th, 1979
A brawl at Rosie’s Bar puts her in the hospital, and the doctors behind the bar. Meanwhile, Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) anxiously awaits a long-denied promotion.
08×14 “Stars and Stripes”
Monday, December 17th, 1979
Fiery clashes of ego mark the collaboration of B.J. and Charles on a medical paper, and the reignited romance between Hot Lips and a macho G.I. (Joshua Bryant).
08×15 “Yessir, That’s Our Baby”
Monday, December 31st, 1979
The unit has difficulty finding a home for an abandoned infant of mixed Korean and American blood.
08×16 “Bottle Fatigue”
Monday, January 7th, 1980
08×17 “Heal Thyself”
Monday, January 14th, 1980
Mumps send Potter and Charles into quarantine and bring a replacement (Edward Herrmann) with an impressive record in combat surgery.
08×18 “Old Soldiers”
Monday, January 21st, 1980
Potter behaves strangely after a trip to Tokyo “to visit a sick friend.”
08×19 “Morale Victory”
Monday, January 28th, 1980
Fed up with everyone’s bellyaching, Potter (Harry Morgan) puts the biggest gripers of all–Hawkeye and B.J.–in charge of boosting morale
08×20 “Lend a Hand”
Monday, February 4th, 1980
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is teamed with a visiting surgeon he can’t stand in an operation on a wounded doctor at the front. Alda’s father Robert plays the irritating visitor and his brother Antony is a medic.
08×21 “Goodbye, Cruel World”
Monday, February 11th, 1980
Klinger’s strong reaction to ridicule is unexpected, but it’s not nearly as surprising as a wounded man’s reaction to the news that he’s being shipped back to the States.
08×22 “Dreams”
Monday, February 18th, 1980
The doctors are plagued with nightmares. Close-Up.
08×23 “War Co-Respondent”
Monday, March 3rd, 1980
The instant chemistry that develops between a vivacious journalist and happily married B.J. (Mike Farrell) shows promise of turning the correspondent into a corespondent.
08×24 “Back Pay”
Monday, March 10th, 1980
Incensed over the fees of stateside doctors, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) brazenly bills the Army for his services.
08×25 “April Fools”
Monday, March 24th, 1980
A fire-breathing medical inspector (Pat Hingle) arrives just in time for April Fools’ Day maneuvers.
Season 9 (1980-1981)
09×01 “The Best of Enemies”
Monday, November 17th, 1980
In the ninth-season opener, while a bizarre bridge tournament rages at the 4077th, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is captured by a North Korean intent on saving his wounded comrade.
09×02 “Letters”
Monday, November 24th, 1980
Inquisitive letters from fourth-graders in Hawkeye’s home town elicit a wide variety of responses reflecting war-time experiences.
09×03 “Cementing Relationships”
Monday, December 1st, 1980
Klinger (Jamie Farr) supervises the pouring of a concrete floor in the operating room. Meanwhile, Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) is beginning to lose control over an amorous patient (Joel Brooks).
09×04 “Father’s Day”
Monday, December 8th, 1980
Hot Lips’ father (Andrew Duggan) is a retired colonel who is even more Regular Army than his daughter.
09×05 “Death Takes a Holiday”
Monday, December 15th, 1980
The spirit of Christmas manifests itself in various ways at the 4077th, beginning with a potluck party for the Korean orphans.
09×06 “A War For All Seasons”
Monday, December 29th, 1980
Opening with Potter’s wistful New Year’s toast, this innovative episode condenses the entire Korean War year 1951: Hot Lips takes up knitting, Father Mulcahy tends a garden, Hawkeye and B.J. construct an artificial kidney, and Charles joins Klinger in covering all bets on the National League pennant race.
09×07 “Your Retention Please”
Monday, January 5th, 1981
A sergeant looking for re-enlistees gets the cold shoulder from everyone but Klinger, who just received a letter from his ex-wife saying she’s marrying his best friend.
09×08 “Tell It To The Marines”
Monday, January 12th, 1981
While Charles (David Ogden Stiers) takes temporary command of the 4077th, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) takes on the Marine Corps to help an immigrant leatherneck get a hardship discharge.
09×09 “Taking the Fifth”
Monday, January 19th, 1981
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) angles a bottle of vintage French Bordeaux as bait to score with the nurses.
09×10 “Operation Friendship”
Monday, January 26th, 1981
An explosion leaves Charles (David Ogden Stiers) beholden to Klinger (Jamie Farr) for saving his life, and also injures B.J.–perhaps more seriously than he’s willing to admit.
09×11 “No Sweat”
Monday, February 2nd, 1981
A night of insufferable heat brings a rash of irritants to the sleepless 4077th, especially to Hot Lips (Loretta Swit), whose rash is all too itchingly real.
09×12 “Depressing News”
Monday, February 9th, 1981
Klinger (Jamie Farr) finds a big story for his new unit newspaper in the “monument of stupidity” Hawkeye is building out of the half-million tongue depressors mistakenly sent to the 4077th.
09×13 “No Laughing Matter”
Monday, February 16th, 1981
While Hawkeye (Alan Alda) swears off corny jokes for a day, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) plans to get the last laugh on the colonel (Robert Symonds), who had him transferred to Korea.
09×14 “Oh, How We Danced”
Monday, February 23rd, 1981
The gang plans a surprise to brighten B.J.’s first wedding anniversary away from his wife and infant daughter.
09×15 “Bottoms Up”
Monday, March 2nd, 1981
Prankster Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is ostracized after he embarrasses Charles (David Ogden Stiers) during surgery. Meanwhile, one of Hot Lips’ best nurses is beginning to act strangely.
09×16 “The Red/White Blues”
Monday, March 9th, 1981
Potter (Harry Morgan) is nearly killed with kindness after word spreads that his blood pressure is too high.
09×17 “Bless You, Hawkeye”
Monday, March 16th, 1981
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is seized by non-stop sneezing fits that defy diagnosis and treatment.
09×18 “Blood Brothers”
Monday, April 6th, 1981
While Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) works like the devil to get the 4077th in shape for a cardinal’s visit, a wounded G.I. entreats Hawkeye (Alan Alda) to save his worse-off buddy.
09×19 “The Foresight Saga”
Monday, April 13th, 1981
A cheery letter from Radar and fresh vegetables on the table brighten everyone’s day, with the exception of Potter (Harry Morgan) who’s in the dark after Klinger (Jamie Farr) sits on his last pair of spectacles.
09×20 “The Life You Save”
Monday, May 4th, 1981
While colleagues struggle with tough new assignments, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) becomes uncharacteristically introspective after a brush with death. [Summary from the original March 30th, 1981 air date.]
Season 10 (1981-1982)
10×01 “That’s Show Biz”
Monday, October 26th, 1981
The 10th year kicks off with the unscheduled visit of USO troupe headed by a former stripper (Gwen Verdon) who finds Potter (Harry Morgan) a real doll.
10×02 “Identity Crisis”
Monday, November 2nd, 1981
The 4077th staff faces more than just medical problems with the arrival of three wounded GIs–a depressed “Dear John” recipient, an irrepressible securities salesman and a corporal with an unusual confession to make.
10×03 “Rumor at the Top”
Monday, November 9th, 1981
10×04 “Give ’em Hell, Hawkeye”
Monday, November 16th, 1981
Frustrated by the stalled peace talks, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) writes a letter to President Truman detailing some of the insanities of life in Korea.
10×05 “Wheelers and Dealers”
Monday, November 23rd, 1981
Unsettling news from home makes B.J. (Mike Farrell) reckless at poker, and a delinquent traffic ticket sends Potter (Harry Morgan) to a remedial driving class.
10×06 “Communications Breakdown”
Monday, November 30th, 1981
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) won’t share the only newspapers in camp until he’s read them–at a rate of one per day
10×07 “Snap Judgement (Part I)”
Monday, December 7th, 1981
An indefatigable thief is swiping everything from steaks to the instant camera shared by Hawkeye and B.J. (Alan Alda, Mike Farrell). First of two parts.
10×08 “Snappier Judgement (Part II)”
Monday, December 14th, 1981
Conclusion. Facing court-martial for the theft of a camera, Klinger (Jamie Farr) retains Charles (David Ogden Stiers) as his defense counsel.
10×09 “‘Twas the Day After Christmas”
Monday, December 28th, 1981
The 4077th borrows a yuletide tradition from the British: the officers trade places with enlisted personnel for a day.
10×10 “Follies of the Living — Concerns of the Dead”
Monday, January 4th, 1982
10×11 “The Birthday Girls”
Monday, January 11th, 1982
Margaret (Loretta Swit) struggles to get to Tokyo for her birthday; and the surgeons labor to save a wounded-and pregnant-cow.
10×12 “Blood and Guts”
Monday, January 18th, 1982
A famous war correspondent (Gene Evans) visits the 4077th to do stories on the blood donated by his readers.
10×13 “A Holy Mess”
Monday, February 1st, 1982
A deeply distress AWOL private (Cyril O’Reilly) seeks refuge at the 4077th.
10×14 “The Tooth Shall Set You Free”
Monday, February 8th, 1982
While an insufferable Charles (David Ogden Stiers) suffers from a throbbing toothache, the 4077th is confronted with a more serious problem: a high proportion of black casualties from a combat-engineer outfit.
10×15 “Pressure Points”
Monday, February 15th, 1982
Potter’s bungled operation is bothering him enough to call in psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus).
10×16 “Where There’s a Will, There’s a War”
Monday, February 22nd, 1982
Heavy shelling near the front prompts Hawkeye (Alan Alda) to draw up a will–carefully tailored to fit his friends back at the 4077th
10×17 “Promotion Commotion”
Monday, March 1st, 1982
Everyone curries favor with the promotion board–Charles, B.J. and Hawkeye–while a wounded GI (Jim Reid Boyce) arouses Potter’s paternal instincts.
10×18 “Heroes”
Monday, March 15th, 1982
The 4077th swarms with reporters after a famous boxer (Pat McNamara) suffers a massive stroke while on tour.
10×19 “Sons and Bowlers”
Monday, March 22nd, 1982
While the 4077th tackles the Marines on a makeshift bowling alley, an anxious Hawkeye (Alan Alda) seeks information about his hospitalized father back home.
10×20 “Picture This”
Monday, April 5th, 1982
A hut of one’s own is what Hawkeye (Alan Alda) wants when off-duty in-fighting drives him off base.
10×21 “That Darn Kid”
Monday, April 12th, 1982
Klinger’s new goat eats the payroll, leaving paymaster Hawkeye (Alan Alda) in debt to the Army for $22,000.
Season 11 (1982-1983)
11×01 “Hey, Look Me Over”
Monday, October 25th, 1982
The 4077th enters its 11th and final season with the arrival of a notoriously strict colonel (Peggy Feury) whose white-glove inspection gives Margaret cause to take a good look at herself and reveals to Hawkeye a Nurse Kellye he has never really seen before.
11×02 “Trick or Treatment”
Monday, November 1st, 1982
A touch of the supernatural, beginning with strange tales from the past, infuses a busy Halloween night in the O.R.
11×03 “Foreign Affairs”
Monday, November 8th, 1982
While Charles (David Ogden Stiers) finds l’amour with a French Red Cross volunteer (Melinda Mullins), an Army PR officer (Jeffry Tambor) finds a propaganda scoop in an enemy pilot (Byron Chung) who landed his plan nearby.
11×04 “The Joker is Wild”
Monday, November 15th, 1982
[Close Up in TV Guide]
11×05 “Who Knew?”
Monday, November 22nd, 1982
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) offers to deliver the eulogy for a nurse no one really knew. Meanwhile, Klinger (Jamie Farr) badgers Charles (David Ogden Stiers) to back his latest brainchild: an unusual toy.
11×06 “Bombshells”
Monday, November 29th, 1982
Hawkeye and Charles (Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers) start a rumor that Marilyn Monroe is coming to the 4077th. Meanwhile, B.J. searches for a wounded GI he was forced to leave in the field.
11×07 “Settling Debts”
Monday, December 6th, 1982
Potter (Harry Morgan) is beside himself with curiosity: his wife sent a letter to Hawkeye (Alan Alda), who won’t tell him what it said.
11×08 “The Moon is Not Blue”
Monday, December 13th, 1982
The heat is on at the 47077th: the temperature’s sizzling, booze is prohibited, and Hawkeye and B.J. (Alan Alda, Mike Farrell) are making a feverish attempt to get a print of the banned-in-Boston film “The Moon Is Blue.”
11×09 “Run for the Money”
Monday, December 20th, 1982
Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) hasn’t a prayer: to benefit an orphanage, he’s matched in a long-distance race against a well-trained runner (Mark Anderson) from another unit.
11×10 “U.N., the Night, and the Music”
Monday, January 3rd, 1983
The members of a three-man U.N. delegation have a profound impact on the members of the 4077th, each in his own way.
11×11 “Strange Bedfellows”
Monday, January 10th, 1983
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) goes on a snoring binge; and Potter’s son-in-law (Dennis Dugan) pays a visit.
11×12 “Say No More”
Monday, January 24th, 1983
Margaret (Loretta Switt) contracts laryngitis at a most inauspicious time, and a brusque general (John Anderson) sets up command at the 4077th to be near his wounded son (Michael Horton).
11×13 “Friends and Enemies”
Monday, February 7th, 1983
B.J. (Mike Farrell) sabotages Charles’s efforts to play his Mahler records, and a World War I friend of Potter’s is brought in with a minor leg wound.
11×14 “Give and Take”
Monday, February 14th, 1983
While the thankless job of charity collection officer is passed from hand to hand, a slightly wounded GI (Craig Wasson) is bedded next to the North Korean (Dereck Wong) he shot–perhaps fatally.
11×15 “As Time Goes By”
Monday, February 21st, 1983
Margaret (Loretta Swit) wants to bury a time capsule at the 4077th, and asks everyone “to contribute one item they think symbolizes their experience in Korea.”
11×16 “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen”
Monday, February 28th, 1983
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Published July 12th, 2021
Last updated March 6th, 2026
