Loosely based on the real-life M*A*S*H unit 8055, life at the 4077 revolved around the day-to-day routines of Captain "Hawkeye" Pierce, Captain "Trapper" McIntyre, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, Major Margaret Houlihan, Major Franklin Burns and Corporal "Radar" O'Reilly. Through these characters, viewers traveled beyond the long hours and the horrors of the operating room to a place where friendships were forged, laughter was found and drinks were served.
At the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H) unit in Korea, two army doctors by the names of Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre receive some exciting news in the mail. Their Korean house boy, Ho-John got accepted into Hawkeye's old college. Hawkeye and Trapper decide to hold a party filled with music, dancing, and alcohol to raise money for Ho-John's plane trip to the U.S. They achieve this by raffling off a weekend pass with a nurse, Lieutenant Dish for R&R in Tokyo.
After black marketers hijack the 4077th's supply of hydrocortisone, Hawkeye and Trapper concoct a deal with a local black marketer, Charlie Lee, to get some more. The catch: Henry's antique oak desk, which they must trade in order to get some of it. Margaret and Frank become suspicious about their plotting, and about the Koreans who come to check out the desk, which is whisked away by chopper as Henry and Frank watches in disbelief.
Trapper and Hawkeye seek to keep a new nurse from being transferred by Hot Lips, and they vie for her affection. Henry Blake, challenged by another commander to a boxing tournament, makes Trapper fight a big, intimidating soldier in exchange for keeping the nurse at the 4077th. Hawkeye and Ugly John employ the use of a glove soaked with ether to insure Trapper's victory, which impresses the nurse. Margaret and Frank's attempts to unfix the match collapses, as they are flattened by the unconscious boxer!
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.
Sergeant Baker arrives at the camp with his Moose. Hawkeye decides to find a way of getting her away from Baker. He tries ordering him to release her, tries buying her, and then resorts to cheating at cards. He releases her but she won't go, so he tries to teach her how to be independent.
The 4077th is designated as the setting for the making of an army film on Mobile Army Surgical Hospital units. Hawkeye is chosen as the star while Margaret and Frank compose a screenplay. The Eye Of The Hawk objects to the piece of propaganda that filmmaker Lt. Bricker is producing and, having exposed the original film, reshoots a new one his way, starring himself as Groucho Marx-ish Yankee Doodle Doctor, and poking fun at glorifying doctors while concluding with a rather serious speech about the hell of war.
When Henry goes for some R&R, Hawkeye pretends to crack up so that Frank will let him and Trapper go on some R&R.
John Hodges, a chopper pilot referred to as The Cowboy because of his gun holster belt and cowboy hat, has been hit in the shoulder, and arrives at the 4077th. He is expecting a letter--he's worried his wife Jean at home is leaving him for another man ("She's probably off with some rodeo rider; she's a sucker for a 10-gallon hat!"). He wants to go home, but Henry refuses, stating Cowboy's wound isn't serious enough to merit a stateside ticket. Bad luck then follows Henry Blake like the seat of his pants: he gets shot at while golfing, his tent gets flattened by a driverless jeep, and the latrine explodes while he's inside. The Cowboy offers to fly Henry to Seoul and then threatens to shove him out! The letter finally arrives for Cowboy, assuring he is loved. Hawkeye and Trapper uses the radio to convince The Cowboy to spare Henry's life and come down, at which they succeed.
Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.
A rash of thefts breaks out in the camp. Missing pieces include Frank's silver picture frame, Margaret's hair brush, and Trapper's watch. The camp is searched and everything is found in Hawkeye's locker. Everyone thinks he did it. Hawkeye manages to announce to the camp that the items will be dusted for prints to identify the real thief, and catches Ho-Jon. He needed money to bring his family from the North, and to bribe border guards.
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.
Hawkeye writes home, describing Christmas in Korea: Radar ships a jeep home, a piece at a time; Henry gives the monthly lecture on sex, with the aid of figure A and figure B; Trapper helps deliver a calf; Klinger and Frank get into a fight, but Father Mulcahy smoothes things over; Hawkeye and Trapper sabotage Margaret's tent; Hawkeye flies to the front line dressed as Santa, to help a wounded soldier.
The nurses go to extremes lengths to find a date for Nurse Eddie - they won't go out with anyone until Eddie gets a date. The men draw straws, and Hawkeye is the big loser, especially after Eddie nearly kills him in a scene resembling teenage "mating" rituals.
Radar gets a Dear John recording from home. Hawkeye and Trapper try to set him up with a date, but fail. Radar is taken by a new nurse at the camp and she is into poetry and music, so they coach him. Margaret wants to stop the relationship, so Hawkeye and Trapper get between her and Frank until she relents. Radar's "Ahhhh, Bach!" and "That's highly significant," quotes win him the girl.
Hawkeye creates a fake doctor, Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity, Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Captain Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!
Hawkeye and Trapper operate on a famous Colonel - after discovering that he is particularly ruthless about sacrificing his men, they come up with a scheme to get him sent back to the states with a little unwitting help from Frank, Margaret, and a drunk Henry.
Frank throws his back out whilst spending the evening with Margaret, and ends up in traction. He promptly applies for the Purple Heart, having been 'technically' wounded at a frontline unit. Tommy Gillis, an old friend of Hawkeye's, is writing a book about the war, and pays him a visit. Later, Tommy is brought into the camp, seriously wounded, and Hawkeye can't save him. A 15-year-old kid is in the hospital to have his appendix out. He joined up to be a hero back home, but Hawkeye has him sent home, giving him Frank's purple heart.
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.
The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.
The camp tunes into the Army/Navy football game, only to be shelled and have an unexploded bomb land in the middle of the compound. They ring around trying to identify the bomb, and the camp prepares for the worst. Hawkeye and Trapper are left the task of following instructions to disarm the bomb, which turns out to be full of propaganda leaflets from the CIA.
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.
As usual Frank's normal drone of verbal abuse upsets Ginger, so Hawkeye puts his arm in a cast while he is asleep. Frank puts in for a transfer, and after a broadcast goes out of Frank telling Margaret he's leaving, she decides to leave as well. As a result, Col. Blake puts both Hawk and Trap on double post-op duty until he finds replacements for Majs. Burns and Houlihan. Unwilling to lose their two favorite patsies, and to be worn to a frazzle from doing 2 shifts in O/R, Hawkeye and Trapper hatch a scheme to prevent Frank and Hot Lips from leaving. That night, Hawkeye and Trapper pretend they have found gold, letting Frank overhear them. Frank then withdraws his request when he thinks he's found gold himself, although the joke is on him when he finds, amongst other things, a gilded jeep!
General Clayton calls so 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 wounds.
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.
Henry's orders to the 4077th to be on their best behavior when General Clayton sends a psychiatrist to evaluate them meet with mixed results. Will the team be broken up and sent to other units?
An inept bomber targets the 4077th for attack, but the results are more comical than deadly.
Radar reports on the comedies and tragedies of a typical 4077th week while Majors Houlihan and Burns try to get Cpl. Klinger transferred and Hawkeye falls hard for a nurse.
A visiting general, appearing to be more eccentric than the usual army brass and a stickler for regulations, tries to move the camp closer to the front and court martial Hawkeye before they discover that he's completely loony.
Hawkeye, Trapper and Frank go into enemy territory to make an exchange of wounded with the Chinese.
Right after Frank is put in charge, Hawkeye starts resisting his authority and skips camp, runs a blockade in an attempt to find Trapper.
After Hawkeye has brought the new surgeon into the MASH unit, A new commanding officer arrives who is regular army. Hawkeye and B.J. worry about his abilities since he has not practiced in 2 years and they worry about how the fact that he is regular army will affect them.
A rumor that the 4077th is going to "bug out" becomes grossly exaggerated until it is believed the entire Chinese army is attacking the camp.
Margaret's sudden engagement comes as a surprise to everyone, but Frank predictably takes it the hardest.
Hawkeye tries to help the nurses out when their stove goes out in the freezing weather and is injured when the stove blows up in his face.
Hot Lips returns from her honeymoon to discover that Frank has went awol and is on a course of wild events during his weekend pass. Charles Emerson Winchester joins the team as a temp surgeon after irritating a higher ranked officer. Klinger gets a lawyer that he thinks will be able to get him out of the army.
Radar becomes depressed when he thinks that his manhood has not been fulfilled.
Hawkeye becomes the temporary commander of the 4077th while Colonel Potter is away and discovers the realities of command.
When the Army increases the number of points needed for a discharge, Hawkeye gets angry and interrupts official peace talks. Meanwhile, Margaret decides to divorce Donald after he permanently transfers himself stateside.
Radar gets bent out of shape when he thinks Colonel Potter is spending too much time with a visiting female colonel, and Hawkeye tries to figure out what BJ's initials stand for.
A clumsy soldier lifts the 4077ths spirits when it is discovered that he is a cook, but Col. Potter remains down in the dumps.
A congressional aide on a fact-finding tour visits the 4077th.
A wounded Korean communist woman is brought in who Hawkeye wants to heal, while a ROK officer wants to question her.
Hawkeye is on his way to Seoul when he is ambushed by a North Korean soldier and taken prisoner. Unaware of Hawkeye's capture, the M*A*S*H unit hold a bridge tournament.
The 4077th receives a parcel of letters from a fourth grade class from Hawkeye's hometown and quickly learn that not every question has an answer
Margaret "Hot Lips" finds herself the object of unwanted affections when she comforts an Italian soldier who has been jilted by his girlfriend.
A touring USO show brings an unexpected touch of vaudeville to the 4077th when the star showgirl requires an emergency operation.
Father Mulcahy counsels a guilt-ridden GI who swapped tags with a dead colleague. B.J. and Charles consider ways of keeping a soldier-salesman quiet, while Hawkeye and Margaret help another GI get even with the woman who jilted him.
The nurses return from evacuation to find that the doctors have left the camp a mess. Potter announces an inspection in two days, so Margaret and the nurses try to get everything reorganized. Nurse Kelly is mad at Hawkeye for ignoring her.
It's time for the annual 4077th Halloween party. Hawkeye is dressed as Superman, B.J. is a clown, Margaret is a geisha girl, Colonel Potter is a cowboy and Klinger is Al Capone. But it's not much of a party for the surgeons when unexpected wounded guests show up; Charles tries to help a slovenly marine who has a billiard ball stuck in his mouth; Father Mulcahy inadvertently saves a man's life when he is presumed dead.
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Hawkeye and Trapper discover that a nearby town has been shelled by U.S. forces. When they pursue the issue, the army resists accepting responsibility.
After Hawkeye is kept awake in surgery for 3 days straight he decides to find out who started the war.
A wounded Korean boy captures the hearts of the 4077th especially Trapper who wants to adopt him.
Hawkeye helps a soon-to-be-discharged enlisted man who wants to marry a Korean girl and take her and their child back to the U.S.
Henry's on trial on charges that Frank and Margaret brought against him. So that Hawkeye and Trapper can't help Henry, the Majors put them under house arrest.
Hawkeye writes a letter to his father, telling him some of the wacky goings-on at the 4077th.
The 4077th deals with more than the usual mayhem when a sniper opens fire on the camp.
All the surgeons except for Hawkeye, and most of the support staff except for Margaret, Radar, and Mulcahey come down with the flu. In this Korea-wide epidemic, they can't even find someone to come in and help with casualties.
Hawkeye and Trapper desperately try to acquire an incubator for the camp. Captain Sloan, the Quartermaster, turns them down. A colonel with three incubators won't let them have one, and they cause an uproar at a general's press conference.
Radar hits a local with a jeep and a GI suffers from battle fatigue while Pierce and McIntyre clash with Frank Burns and the CID all during a poker game disguised as an officer's conference.
A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.
In gratitude for Hawkeye and Trapper saving his son, a general donates an officer's club to the 4077th. Hawkeye and Trapper work to allow everyone access to the club.
Family man Henry falls in love with 20-year-old ex-cheerleader Nancy Sue Parker, who is less than half his age. Nancy visits Henry at the camp and comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surgery.
After months of waiting, Hawkeye finds that it may take more than a requisition form to get a new pair of boots.
Hawkeye and Trapper boost a young G.I.'s self-image by getting him a nose job.
A Korean family claims that the 4077th is set up on their farm and wants the unit to move; a Korean girl names Radar as the father of her child.
The team delivers a baby, handles casualties and operates on Frank Burns' hernia during a power outage while Radar tries to divert friendly mortar fire falling too close to the camp.
When enemy action cuts the supply lines to the 4077th in the middle of a freezing Korean winter, the unit struggles with a shortage of supplies and heating fuel.
A decorated GI confides to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own unit for being gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he finds out from another source and tries to have the soldier dishonorably discharged.
Mail call yields goodies like photos and cookies (Trapper) and a huge knitted sweater (Hawkeye) but Henry gets only canceled checks. Frank's stock portfolio doubled since the war began but when he tells the guys they are less than thrilled. Margaret takes it as a near proposal of marriage. Klinger's father is dying for the 18th time; his file is full of familial death and pregnancy.
A helicopter crash introduces the 4077 to Colonel Sam Flagg, the well-built (says Hotlips) paranoid with a broken arm who refuses all painkillers. Colonel Flagg (who can also be identified as Major Brooks, Lt. Carter, Ensign Troy and Capt. Louise Klein) is CIA.
Assigned by Frank Burns as Officer of the Day in Henry's absence, Hawkeye must deal with the daily 4077th chaos and try to thwart sneaky Col. Flagg's plans for his Korean prisoner.
General Robert "Iron Guts" Kelly arrives for an inspection and dies in Margaret's tent, prompting his aide Colonel Wortman to do damage control and make it look as if Kelly died in combat.
Drama, pathos and humor combine when heavy casualties result in a long session in the O.R.
Spring is in the air: Klinger gets married; Radar falls in love; Frank and Hot Lips continue their passionate affair.
Trapper John's ulcer flares up and could provide grounds for a medical discharge from the Army.
Henry suspects his wife is having an affair, Hawkeye searches for presidents' faces to try to win a pony and Father Mulcahy officiates at a Jewish Bris with the help of a rabbi on a faraway aircraft carrier.
When Henry goes to Tokyo for a conference, Frank outlaws alcoholic beverages, dismantles the still, and enlists Father Mulcahy to present a sermon on the evils of drink. But Frank discovers that it's not so easy to dry out the 4077th.
After a run-in with Major Houlihan, Henry is not altogether unhappy when the nurses are evacuated due to a possible enemy attack but soon finds out with rest of the camp just how much the nurses mean to the unit.
After literally being fed up with mess hall food, Hawkeye goes on a desperate quest to order barbecue spare ribs from his favorite restaurant, Adam's Ribs, at Dearborn Station in Chicago.
Hawkeye records a letter to his Dad, detailing the exploits of a mad Turkish soldier, the loss of a Luxembourg Lieutenant's corpse, and a lieutenant's strong-arm tactics to obtain medical care for a comrade.
Against Frank's objections, Hawkeye and Trapper treat a young, shell-shocked GI with hysterical paralysis while Henry searches for a possibly rabid dog that bit Radar.
When the 4077th is invited to share an Easter meal with a Greek unit, tender-hearted Radar comes up with a creative way to save the main course...a lamb!
While Radar tries to stop the camp from being shelled by their own artillery, Frank finds a wounded enemy soldier wired to explode, Margaret and Trapper get stuck in a supply shed and Henry and Father Mulcahy get blown up in the latrine.
Trapper writes a letter to his daughter, Shirley Temple dances, and the 4077th tries to take a mental break from GIs suffering from hypothermia and post-op bleeding by throwing a benefit picnic for the orphanage.
Hawkeye learns more than just a new surgical technique when a casual conversation in a Tokyo bar with a medical consultant convinces the man to come to the 4077th.
Hawkeye is accused of hitting Frank and is placed under house arrest.
Hawkeye, Margaret, and Klinger travel to an aid station at the front, where they end up working closely together under heavy fire and unsanitary medical conditions.
Hawkeye and Trapper help a soldier try to join his pregnant wife and try to stop another soldier from marrying a business girl from Rosie's cafe.
The camp prepares for a visit from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Henry tries to keep Klinger out of MacArthur's sight for the visit while Klinger plans a big surprise welcome for General MacArthur.
Hawkeye becomes paymaster, Hot Lips becomes engrossed with a pearl necklace that Frank buys, and Hawkeye looses his watch and gets an unexpected windfall from Uncle Sam.
A man in caught during a raid on the medical supplies, then Colonel Flagg shows up wanting Penicillin to barter for information.
When Henry gets his discharge, Frank concerns himself with taking command. Later in the midst of surgery, the camp receives a devastating news report.
Hawkeye fights to keep a wounded solider alive while a incessant artillery barrage goes on near the 4077th's location.
The army mistakenly lists Hawkeye as dead, Hawkeye goes nuts trying to contact his father to let him know he is still alive. He also stops receiving his payroll checks and encounters problems trying to convince the army he is still alive.
Hawkeye does a secret surgery on a British Officer and receives two bottles of scotch and a tank to scare the snipers who have been hitting the 4077th at random times.
Col. Potter, B.J., Hawkeye, Radar and Major Burns are hopelessly lost on their way back from a medical meeting.
It'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.
The 4077th becomes a temporary orphanage when heavy shelling forces a group of Korean children to seek shelter at the camp.
Colonel Flagg returns and fights with the psychiatrist Dr. Sigmund over the fate of a wounded officer who is claiming he is Jesus Christ.
B.J. writes a letter home to his wife, and Father Mulcahy gets a visit from one of his rigid superiors.
Hawkeye has a run in with a tough army colonel on the way back from helping wounded soldiers; B.J. helps Zale with a Dear John letter.
The Doctors encounter a bad fever that is affecting some of the wounded and several others, when Frank comes down with it he upsets Hot Lips by leaving her his clothes and all his money to his wife.
When a wounded Colonel comes into camp, his antique six shooter is put into lockup. The gun comes up missing and Radar is in a direct line to take the blame for allowing it to be stolen. Hawkey and B.J. have their suspicions as to who might have stolen the gun.
Mail call brings a 'Dear John' letter to Frank from his wife who has heard a story about his flirtation with Hot Lips. Colonel Potter finds out that he is going to become a grandfather.
Radar tries to get some tomato juice for Colonel Potter and has to go through a whole lot of twists and turns in the process.
Radar writes home to his mother while Hawkeye carries on foot inspection and Col. Potter gets shot in the backside.
Potter decides Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
Haweye flips his jeep while returning to the 4077th and suffers a concussion. He is then rescued by a Korean family who can not understand a word of English.
Frank becomes sanitation officer and decides to make some money for the unit by auctioning off the camps garbage. Hawkeye has problems with his love life.
Frank tries to have Hawkeye court-martialed when things get out of hand while Colonel Potter is away from camp and Frank is left in charge.
The 4077th deals with a sick helicopter pilot who does not want to stop helping soldiers and a wounded G.I. who wants to quit.
Hawkeye encounters a new nurse at camp who turns out to be a old flame and discovers that she is now married. He then starts reevaluating their old relationship.
A sudden deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm.
Famed newscaster Clete Roberts visits the 4077th for a report on the feelings of the people stationed there.
Radar's sudden promotion to lieutenant stuns everyone but Hawkeye and B.J., who were responsible. Radar's promotion also causes problems between him and his dating interest.
The long-smoldering feud between Hot Lips and the nurses in her command comes to a head when she confines one of them to her tent.
Hot Lips' mysterious disappearance so disturbs Frank that he shoots B.J. while preparing to search for her.
Psychiatrist Maj. Freedman visits the 4077th to clear his head and finds release in its unique form of insanity.
After Frank discovers that Danny Fitzsimmons has shot himself to get out of combat, Father Mulcahy is called in. Realizing his lack of understanding of the fighting, Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station, where they encounter the real war at first hand. Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheotomy, guided by Hawkeye over the radio.
Frank is very antagonistic toward a wounded North Korean officer who turns out to be a doctor that tries to help other patients while he is being treated for his wounds.
Exhausted from 24 hours of duty, Hawkeye and Col. Potter respond to a desperate call from a Korean army hospital requesting surgeons.
Sudden symptoms of illness in Hot Lips and in Col. Potter's favorite mare cause concern in the 4077th.
Mysterious happenings in the 4077th seem to confirm the Korean belief in an unseen world of demons and ancestral spirits.
Hawkeye's extreme exhaustion manifests itself in the form of nocturnal basketball games and frightening nightmares.
Radar begins writing about activities in the camp when he is accepted to the 'Famous Las Vegas Writers School'.
Befuddled by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades his old friend Tippy Brooks, a whiz at puzzles, brought to camp. Tippy arrives with his commanding officer Admiral Prescot, thinking it's a medical emergency. Having scrubbed up and helped out with the wounded they provided the needed solution to the puzzle.
The company's young Korean table tennis champion persuades Hawkeye and B.J. to lend him money for an engagement ring.
A football hero creates a perplexing psychological problem for Hawkeye and B.J. when he suffers a wound that will end his career.
When B.J. attempts to comfort a nurse who has marriage troubles, he discovers a romantic problem of his own
An outbreak of infectious hepatitis threatens the entire medical staff of the 4077th.
Hawkeye is picked to be the personal physician for a corps commander until he gives the general a physical.
Col. Potter plans to show his all-time favorite Western as a pick-me-up for the company's badly sagging morale.
Hawkeye and B.J. decide to do something about a helicopter pilot who uses natives to gather battlefield bric-a-brac to sell as war souvenirs.
The surgical teams must somehow cope with a critical shortage of blood during a grueling 18-hour operating session
Maj. Houlihan's fiance arrives at the 4077th and shocks Frank by asking him to be his best man.
Madness strikes as B.J. and his old friend Bardonaro play a series of practical jokes on each other, just as Bardonaro is about to leave Korea. Hawkeye gets the last laugh. He sends Bardonaro off without his traveling papers, and in a jeep with too little gas.
When the camps moral hits a low point, Colonel Potter asks a wounded psychiatrist to help counsel some of the team.
Charles Winchester records a letter to his wealthy father back in Boston begging him to use his influence to get him out of the unit.
With supplies low, the 4077th gets a truckload of ice cream churns and salt tablets. But what it needs are light bulbs, and in the dimly lit post-op Charles makes an error for which he draws the ultimate wrath of his two surgeon bunkmates. Meanwhile, B.J. receives a mystery novel that everyone in camp reads in turn. The last page is missing and the solution to the mystery is undiscovered until B.J. calls the author by long distance.
Hawkeye falls in love with Kyong Soon, a Korean woman who is caring for her sick mother and orphaned children. But all hope is lost as Kyong takes her possessions and the children to the south after her mother has died.
New military money is going to be issued in order to help keep counterfeiting down and when Col. Potter tells the camp to prepare for it, Major Winchester comes up with a scheme to make money on the event. Corporal Klinger gets a invite to possibly be accepted into Westpoint.
Nurse Cooper has problems copping with the stress and blood of the operating room; Radar decides he want's to get a tattoo.
When Col. Potter decides the 4077th personnel are out of shape, he orders them to exercise. To motivate them, he comes up with the idea for a series of competitions like the Olympics, with the prize being a 3-day pass.
Colonel Bloodworth threatens to press court-martial charges against Hawkeye, who shoved him in the bar. But then he becomes a patient and witnesses Hawkeye's skills. Klinger bonds with a patient from his hometown.
Hawkeye and Margaret are chosen to go to the 8063rd to give a demonstration on medical techniques.
Hawkey and Hot Lips come under heavy fire in enemy territory and lose their jeep. Hawkeye then receives a leg would and needs Margarets help.
B.J. and Hawkeye are fed up with doing favors for Winchester because they owe him money. So they challenge him to a poker game to win it back.
Charles playing of his French horn drives Hawkeye and B.J. crazy and in retribution they go on a bath strike which affects the whole camp.
The junkman helps the doctors make a much needed clamp that will help them to save a soldiers leg. Klinger accidentally throws out Margaret's wedding ring and ends up in a bad bind trying to find it.
Father Mulcahy and Klinger retrieve some stolen penicillin after a soldier's confession, B.J. deals with a patient's morphine addiction, and British Major Ross demands that Hawkeye release his still-injured soldiers.
As the unit becomes overrun with casualties and tempers flare, Radar tries to raise everyone's spirits by playing new records over the intercom.
Margaret starts getting upset because she thinks she may be pregnant. The only rabbit in camp that can be used for a pregnancy test turns out to be Radar's pet rabbit Fluffy.
Klinger's wife wants a divorce, Radar's upset because his mom is seeing a new man, B.J. finds out that another man made a pass at his wife, and Hawkeye receives another love letter for another soldier named Benjamin Pierce.
A 'chest cutter' and a nurse from the 8063rd are sent to the 4077th in return for Hawkeye and Nurse Bigelow.
Colonel Potter learns that negative reports on how he runs the camp have reached Icore in Seoul and he makes some life altering choices because of it. Hawkeye and Bj. go on a mission to discover who has been sending the reports.
While dealing with a long stretch of surgery duty, Winchester gets addicted to amphetamines; Radar sets up a mouse race competition between the 4077th and a group of cocky Marine patients.
Klinger breaks in another psycho; the last box of morphine from supply seems to be contaminated.
An hour-long series retrospective. A reporter, Clete Roberts, interviews the staff. Mixed in are scenes from past shows.
Major Winchester decides to quit talking to everyone at the camp, which Hawkeye and B.J. take as a challenge. Meanwhile, a medic gets amnesia.
A bath tub Hawkeye and B.J. purchase during a heat wave instantly becomes the ultimate hot spot, while Radar prepares for a tonsillectomy.
During a wind storm, and while lost on the way to Seoul, Winchester and Klinger come across an overturned Greek transport with several injured men.
Major Winchester lets his surgical prowess go to his head when a "Stars and Stripes" journalist comes to interview him. But the journalist is more interested in making moves on Margaret than getting the story.
The 4077th is forced to use extreme measures to save a group of soldiers suffering from hypothermia, while Klinger suffers temporary deafness after a mine explosion on his watch.
A wounded soldier being treated at the 4077th provides a narrative through his eyes.
A North Korean Spy infiltrates the 4077 and poses as Charles' houseboy, to observe and report on 4077th's efficiency and success to his superiors. The staff is baffled by a skin-rash epidemic.
When the camp copes with a critical shortage of sodium pentathol, a vital anesthetic, Father Mulcahy must use his black market contacts to get some.
Winchester encourages Hawkeye, B.J. and Margaret to raise the stakes in their practical joke battle, and Father Mulcahy is desperate to receive a promotion.
It's Christmas time in Korea, and everybody's depressed--especially Father Mulcahy, who is concerned that he isn't making a difference to anyone.
B.J. helps out a local Korean family. Meanwhile, a general has a series of mishaps in camp.
Hawkeye falls for a Swedish doctor who arrives at the 4077th to observe combat surgery.
Col. Potters mare, Sophie mysteriously disappears from her corral; Hawkeye and B.J. Try to help a young Korean boy.
The arrival of fresh-faced lecturer Capt. Simmons and his subsequent performance in ER turns Winchester into a drunk, Potter into an invalid, and BJ into a bookworm. Meanwhile, Klinger begins acting like he's back home in Toledo.
Margaret celebrates her divorce and comes up with a new plan for her nurses; Radar falls in love with a new nurse.
The 4077th's evacuation to a nearby cave becomes a big problem for Hawkeye, the Col. Potter becomes aware of the problem.
Col. Flagg once again shows up at the 4077th, this time convinced that Hawkeye is a communist sympathizer.
A careless colonel increases the number of seriously wounded soldiers arriving at the 4077th. Klinger makes a Voodoo doll of Colonel Potter in an attempt to get a section 8.
Hawkeye, B.J. and other medical people of the 4077th find a new way to escape the depressive atmosphere of the war. Margaret meets Sgt. Scully for the first time.
Both Charles Winchester and Klinger develop romantic love interests at Rosie's Bar while trying to forget their troubles.
Even while the camp is bugging out (and back), B.J. promotes the idea of a stateside "reunion" for the families of those at the 4077th.
Radar returns from leave in Tokyo to find a new generator for the camp.
Klinger seems to lack Radar's knack for cutting through red tape to get much needed supplies for the unit.
Radar's departure leaves everyone depressed and Klinger has major problems stepping into Radar's old job. Radar and his parents meet B.J.'s wife and kid at the airport which depresses B.J.
A beautiful and ambitious young nurse, Harris, who plans to become a doctor when she leaves the Army, finds herself in a misunderstanding with Father Mulcahy. Meanwhile, the camp's water supply is depleted, and the rest of the 4077th is more concerned about where their next shower will come from.
A South Korean Woman misinterprets Klinger's motives when he tries to aid her daughter financially. Meanwhile, Hawkeye wrestles with his conscience over a promise made to a dying soldier, Eddie Hastings.
Charles is sure he had a great time in Tokyo, if he could only remember what he did while there.
Hawkeye and BJ lose their way while rushing urgently needed antibiotics to the 4077th, which is wracked with low-mileage Thanksgiving turkey-induced salmonella. Wandering back to M*A*S*H, the pair are found by a peculiar North Korean soldier.
Hawkeye and BJ race against the clock to save a soldier from paralysis. BJ harvesting an aorta from a dead soldier doesn't sit well with the soldier's friend.
Klinger discovers that his duties as company clerk include catering to the eccentric whims of the 4077th officers. Consequently, the unusual demands by Klinger's superiors leave little time to write a letter home to Toledo. Meanwhile, the Doctors are concerned about a young soldier who appears to be mentally deficient.
The officers are drafted into running Rosie's bar while Rosie is in the hospital.
B.J. and Charles go in together to write a paper and end up fighting about who did what. Hotlips has a date with Scully and they end up fighting because Scully has no respect for her.
A baby born to a Korean woman and an American GI is abandoned at the 4077th. Knowing that Amer-Asian children are often mistreated in Korean society, the troop sets about the frustrating task of finding a new home for the infant.
Horrified by the gigantic size of his monthly bar tab at the officer's club, Hawkeye vows to give up booze for a week. Meanwhile, Winchester desperately tries to halt his sister's impending marriage to a man he considers unworthy of the Winchester heritage.
Colonel Potter turns crotchety when he catches the mumps, and his condition is worsened when Winchester gets the same disease and has to be quarantined with him. A temporary replacement surgeon, Newsome, is quickly brought into the 4077th and seems to be a gem in terms of both personality and ability.
Hawkeye is appointed temporary commander of the 4077th when Colonel Potter rushes off to Tokyo on a mysterious mission. While in command, Hawkeye's main problem is housing a large group of Korean refugees comprised mainly of rambunctious children who need medical care.
Tired of their constant complaints about the quality of recreational activities at the 4077th, Colonel Potter appoints Hawkeye and B.J. as the new morale officers. Winchester's morale has already reached a new peak: He's ecstatic about his operation on a wounded soldier, Sheridan, which saved the boy's leg, leaving only "negligible" side effects - less use of his right hand. However, the soldier was a concert pianist before the war, so Winchester obtains music written by Maurice Ravel for a pianist that had lost a hand in World War I.
Irritated that the 4077th is planning a "surprise" party for him, Hawkeye volunteers to go to the aid of a wounded surgeon at the front. An additional irritant to Hawkeye is the arrival of Dr. Borelli, a wisecracking medical advisor with whom he habitually disagrees.
Klinger redecorates his quarters, but the resultant ridicule he receives drives him to new heights in his efforts to get out of the Army. Meanwhile, the doctors are perplexed by the reaction of an Asian-American war hero who tries to kill himself when he's told that he will be going home. Sidney Freedman is called in to assist.
Members of the M*A*S*H unit find moments to steal a brief nap, but even dreams cannot bring escape. Each person's dreams reveal their fears, yearnings and frustrations.
Aggie O'Shea , a famous war correspondent, arrives at the 4077th and is smitten with BJ. He soon fears that he is falling in love with her and struggles to remain faithful.
Hawkeye is incensed by the way civilian doctors in America are profiting from the war, so he takes matters into his own hands and sends the army a bill for services rendered.
A no-nonsense Colonel, who is a notorious disciplinarian, visits the 4077th during April Fools' Day. Col Potter tries desperately to stop the pranks before he arrives.
A visit from war legend "Howitzer Al" Houlihan is highly anticipated by one of his daughters, Margaret "Hot Lips". Hawkeye accepts a patient's promise of a steak dinner.
Hawkeye, Margaret and B.J. try to save the life of a critically injured soldier in the operating room while local orphans attend a Christmas party in the mess tent.
The staff reflect on the highlights of 1951. Father Mulcahy cultivates a garden, Klinger and Charles Winchester form an unlikely alliance and Margaret starts knitting.
The usually happy-go-lucky Klinger falls into a deep depression after reading a letter from his ex-wife, La Verne.We he consider re-enlisting in the army?
Winchester is in charge while the Colonel's away, and Hawkeye tries to help a young Marine but winds up tangling with his commander.
Hawkeye tries a bottle of vintage wine to woo the nurses and Col. Potter is furious over the banning of a needed anesthesia.
Klinger and B.J. are injured during an explosion, but B.J. shuns offers for help while Klinger views an opportunity for goldbricking.
The 4077th deals with a sudden heat wave in their own personal ways: Klinger disassembles the P.A. system, Charles goes through all of his tax returns and bonds, B.J. stresses over a letter from Peg, Margaret develops a severe case of prickly heat, and Colonel Potter can't get a good night's sleep.
When a supply snafu brings too many tongue depressors to camp, Hawkeye uses the extras to erect a monument to the wounded who have passed through camp. Klinger starts his own camp newspaper.
Hawkeye's challenge to go through a day without telling a joke is complicated by Winchester's amusingly desperate attempt to curry the favor of a hated visiting officer.
When Winchester goes to inspect the sanitary conditions at another camp, the failing mark he gives the commander is met with physical violence. Meanwhile, the gang comes up with a surprise for B.J. on his anniversary.
Hawkeye and B.J. play a prank on Charles, but Hawkeye is the victim of B.J.'s own prank.
Col. Potter's blood pressure is too high and he has two weeks to get it back down, causing everyone to mollycoddle him, much to his dismay. Meanwhile, the malaria medicine they are sent makes Klinger sick.
Hawkeye starts inexplicably sneezing uncontrollably until Col. Potter suspects it's psychological in nature and calls in Dr. Freedman.
While Father Mulcahy frantically tries to prepare for a visit from a respected cardinal, Hawkeye has to deal with a soldier who cannot donate blood for his buddy because it turns out that he himself has leukemia.
Klinger accidentally breaks Potter's eyeglasses, requiring a visit from traveling optometrist Dr. Bud Herzog. The 4077th receives fresh vegetables from a grateful Korean. Potter questions the authenticity of an upbeat letter from Radar.
Winchester goes on a spiritual journey after a near-death experience. Hawkeye experiences the problems of being the officer in charge of food services when Potter rotates the duty roster.
The Army is starting a new MASH unit, and the surgeons and staff of the 4077th fear they will be split up and reassigned. So they act completely unprofessional, uncouth, and incompetent in front of an army rep hoping he will reconsider.
Hawkeye writes to President Truman complaining about the war and the senseless tasks they have to do, like camp beautification to obtain a needed water heater.
After being cited for reckless Jeep driving, Colonel Potter voluntarily takes driving lessons from Rizzo and B.J. decides he will make all the money he can to pay the second Mortgage, by gambling.
During a newspaper shortage, Charles gets newspapers from home, refuses to share them, and incurs the wrath of the whole camp. A patient and a soldier are Asian brothers on opposite sides of the war.
When Hawkeye's snappy new Polaroid camera is stolen, Klinger searches the black market and finds it. Unfortunately en route back to camp, Klinger is stopped by MPs who assume he is the camera thief.
It's the day of Klinger's hearing before a special court martial. Will Klinger be sent up the river? With Charles as his attorney, it's almost certain. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. set out to catch the real thief.
On the day after Christmas, the 4077th decides to try out an English tradition, Boxing Day, where the officers and enlisted personnel change places for a day.
While Klinger is delirious with fever, he communicates with the ghost of deceased Private Jimmy Weston.
Margaret tries desperately to get to Tokyo for her birthday, and the camp helps an injured cow give birth with Klinger starting a betting pool on the exact day and time.
When a visiting U.N. war correspondent sensationalizes the war instead of reporting it, Hawkeye is outraged. B.J. tries to repair a motorcycle donated to him by a wounded private.
A special egg breakfast is complicated by a distraught AWOL soldier talking Father Mulcahy into granting him sanctuary in the mess tent during a preceding church service.
While Winchester fearfully avoids getting his agonizing toothache treated, the other surgeons discover a racist commander is sending his African-American soldiers disproportionally into dangerous duty.
After Hawkeye corrects a mistake that Colonel Potter made on a patient, Potter fears he's losing his touch badly enough to summon Dr. Sidney Freeman.
Fearing for his life at an aid station, Hawkeye writes his will with special bequests for his friends.
When Charles, Hawkeye, and B.J. determine promotion recommendations, they are wooed by the enlisted staff while a bully physically threatens Charles. Potter helps a GI who is being razzed by colleagues for being faithful to his girl.
A famous prizefighter, "Gentleman Joe" Cavanaugh, comes to visit the 4077th and while there, has a stroke. Everyone is irritated as Pierce, serving as his doctor, becomes spokesman to the press. Father Mulcahy is upset, since Gentleman Joe was his childhood hero.
Ignoring Margaret's offers to help, Potter and B.J. head a bowling team in a championship match against the Marines. Hawkeye's father is having an operation back home, so Hawkeye feels helpless enough to confide in Charles.
After becoming fed up with his bunkmates' living habits, Hawkeye moves out of The Swamp and into a quaint shack behind Rosie's. Meanwhile, Charles and B.J. continue to annoy one another: Charles with his loud, classical music playing at all hours, and B.J. constantly sharing news of Erin's potty training.
While Hawkeye is paymaster, a goat eats the payroll, making him personally responsible until the goat's eating habits are established with an officer from headquarters.
Charles falls in love with a French Red Cross woman but realizes that their lifestyles are not compatible. Hawkeye and BJ are helping with an army PR stunt in their own way.
It's another M*A*S*H prankathon. This time, Hawkeye appears to be the marked man after menial practical jokes happen to everyone in camp, but him. Will they get him too? Or is Hawkeye already the victim of an even larger practical joke?
When a nurse that Hawkeye is dating dies, he offers to deliver her eulogy and discovers that he didn't know her. Klinger tries to interest Charles in a business venture.
The whole 4077 are looking forward to a visit from Marilyn Monroe after a rumor starts; while B.J.'s fishing trip doesn't go as planned.
Hawkeye receives a letter from Colonel Potters wife where she informs that she has paid the last mortgage on their home and asks Hawkeye and friends to throw a small surprise party for Potter to celebrate.
Bored at the terrible film selection, Hawkeye and BJ try to get a copy of the notorious film, "The Moon is Blue." Wounded General Rothaker declares prohibition in camp.
Father Mulcahy must save the camp's honor in a high-stakes footrace against the 8063rd. Hawkeye, BJ, and Hot Lips each bet on it. Meanwhile, Charles tries to help Private Walter Palmer, a patient who suffers frequent verbal abuse from his fellow soldiers due to a speech impediment.
Three U.N. delegates come to the 4077th and make a lasting impression on members of the camp, while B.J. treats a patient whose leg injury may require an amputation.
Charles refuses to solve his annoying snoring problem; Potter's son-in-law visits with some shocking news.
A gruff general visits his severely injured son and faces the harsh realities of military life when the young man dies.
An old and dear friend of Col. Potter's arrives with injuries sustained in a careless accident.
When Charles is handed the job of being the 4077's charity collection officer, he desperately tries to pass the buck.
Everyone steps forth with memorable contributions when Hot Lips insists that a time capsule be left by the 4077th crew.
In the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.