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First Aired: September 17th, 1972

Status: Ended

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War & Politics

Network: CBS

Summary: The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

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Season 5

Episode 1: Bug Out

Air Date: September 21st, 1976

Summary: When a rumor for a camp relocation turns out to be real, Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar volunteer to stay behind for a patient who cannot be moved.

Episode 2: Margaret's Engagement

Air Date: September 28th, 1976

Summary: Margaret, calling from Tokyo, holds the camp in suspense until she returns with the news of her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Frank Burns takes the news hard and arrests a Korean family as spies.

Episode 3: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Air Date: October 5th, 1976

Summary: Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.

Episode 4: Lt. Radar O'Reilly

Air Date: October 12nd, 1976

Summary: Following an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.

Episode 5: The Nurses

Air Date: October 19th, 1976

Summary: The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.

Episode 6: The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan

Air Date: October 26th, 1976

Summary: Margaret takes off in the middle of the night to help deliver a Korean baby. Nobody knows of her whereabouts, and Colonel Flagg is brought in to help investigate her disappearance.

Episode 7: Dear Sigmund

Air Date: November 9th, 1976

Summary: Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman composes a letter to Sigmund Freud during a visit to the 4077, while the rest of the camp endures the hijinks of a mystery prankster.

Episode 8: Mulcahy's War

Air Date: November 16th, 1976

Summary: Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.

Episode 9: The Korean Surgeon

Air Date: November 23rd, 1976

Summary: Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.

Episode 10: Hawkeye Get Your Gun

Air Date: November 30th, 1976

Summary: Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers.

Episode 11: The Colonel's Horse

Air Date: December 7th, 1976

Summary: Everybody pitches in to save Colonel Potter's horse, who becomes sick while Potter is away in Tokyo. And Margaret asks Hawkeye, not Frank, to operate on her appendix.

Episode 12: Exorcism

Air Date: December 14th, 1976

Summary: To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.

Episode 13: Hawk's Nightmare

Air Date: December 21st, 1976

Summary: Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."

Episode 14: The Most Unforgettable Characters

Air Date: January 4th, 1977

Summary: Radar becomes an aspiring writer after ordering a flier from a comic book, and Hawkeye and B.J. give Frank a surprise birthday present that only he will appreciate.

Episode 15: 38 Across

Air Date: January 11st, 1977

Summary: A fouled radio call for help on a crossword puzzle leads to a senior officer coming to the 4077th to help with a supposed serious medical problem.

Episode 16: Ping Pong

Air Date: January 18th, 1977

Summary: The 4077th hosts a traditional Korean wedding, much to Frank's objections. And Colonel Potter runs into an old friend who has put his troops in jeopardy so that he could receive a promotion.

Episode 17: End Run

Air Date: January 25th, 1977

Summary: A former star college football player suffers a severe leg injury in combat and must deal with the consequences, and Major Burns goes behind Colonel Potter's back to set up a boxing match between Klinger and Zale.

Episode 18: Hanky Panky

Air Date: February 1st, 1977

Summary: B.J. falls off the fidelity wagon while trying to provide consolation to a nurse whose marriage has just ended. But will he confess his infidelity to his wife?

Episode 19: Hepatitis

Air Date: February 8th, 1977

Summary: The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain.

Episode 20: The General's Practitioner

Air Date: February 15th, 1977

Summary: General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.

Episode 21: Movie Tonight

Air Date: February 22nd, 1977

Summary: Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.

Episode 22: Souvenirs

Air Date: March 1st, 1977

Summary: Hawkeye and BJ try to stop a chopper pilot from selling souvenirs derived from war materials derived from locals facing danger getting them, and Klinger becomes a pole-sitter in his latest attempt to get a Section Eight.

Episode 23: Post Op

Air Date: March 8th, 1977

Summary: The 4077th is deluged with patients and their individual medical histories. Then they run out of blood and everyone is donating at 48-hour intervals.

Episode 24: Margaret's Marriage

Air Date: March 15th, 1977

Summary: Pressured by Frank, Margaret decides to marry Colonel Donald Penobscott at the 4077th. When Donald arrives in camp, he is treated to a bachelor party and a practical joke while the nurses give Margaret a bridal shower.

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