Episode: 098 | Aired: September 21, 1976
Fearing an imminent attack by the Chinese, the 4077th repositions itself all except for Hawkeye, B.J., Radar and Hot Lips, who are midway through critical surgery.
Episode: 099 | Aired: September 21, 1976
Fearing an imminent attack by the Chinese, the 4077th repositions itself all except for Hawkeye, B.J., Radar and Hot Lips, who are midway through critical surgery.
Episode: 100 | Aired: September 28, 1976
Margaret goes away on temporary duty in Tokyo. She returns with big news: shes engaged. Frank is devastated. He takes his frustration out on a Korean family that he demands to be arrested as spies.
Episode: 101 | Aired: October 05, 1976
Hawkeye is trying to fix the nurses furnace when it explodes, injuring his eyes and endangering his sight. The camp grows tense as everyone worries that Hawkeye could be blinded forever. Hawkeye receives comfort and perspective from a soldier who lost his sight in combat. In the end, Hawkeye sees again. Like never before. Frank, meanwhile, wins bets on baseball games he has already heard on the radio.
Episode: 102 | Aired: October 12, 1976
Radar wins a promotion to Lieutenant in a poker game. Soon he opts to return to his original rank.
Episode: 103 | Aired: October 19, 1976
Hot Lips confines Nurse Baker to her tent, not realizing her husband has arrived at camp so they can finally have their long-overdue honeymoon. Hawkeye, B.J. and the rest of the nurses conspire to make the honeymoon happen in Margarets tent.
Episode: 104 | Aired: October 26, 1976
North Korean prisoners are released near the 4077th. Next thing you know, Margaret is missing. Everyone worries. In the end, it turns out she was helping a Korean family with the birth of their child.
Episode: 105 | Aired: November 09, 1976
An Army psychiatrist finds himself depressed, so he visits the compound to observe how the 4077th combats depression. He decides to compose a letter to Sigmund Freud as a form of self-therapy. A mystery prankster victimizes Frank.
Episode: 108 | Aired: November 30, 1976
After a long stretch in the O.R., Hawkeye and Potter are chosen -- against their will -- to go on a mercy mission to a Korean hospital that needs their expertise. Protocol and practicality demand that Hawkeye carry a gun. He resists adamantly. On the trip home, he finds out why guns are required in war.
Episode: 106 | Aired: November 16, 1976
Father Mulcahy feels he has failed to relate to a soldier who shot himself to get relief from combat. The priest believes he needs to visit the front lines to understand what the soldiers are going through. He ends up performing an emergency tracheotomy, with Hawkeye coaching him by phone.
Episode: 109 | Aired: December 07, 1976
Potters horse develops colic, Klinger develops severe depression, and Margaret develops appendicitis. The camp pitches in to save the horse. Klinger receives a discharge for depression, only to see it revoked because his going away celebration is proof that he has overcome his depression. Margaret chooses Hawkeye, not Frank, to perform her operation.
Episode: 107 | Aired: November 23, 1976
Hawkeye and Pierce maneuver to get a new surgeon added to the staff. The trouble is that the skilled medical man is North Korean and technically should be detained as a prisoner of war. Hot Lips and Frank contend that the doctor is a spy.
Episode: 110 | Aired: December 14, 1976
Col. Potter orders Radar to remove a Korean spirit post that the locals believe wards off evil. An elderly Korean man refuses to receive treatment at the 4077th unless a priestess performs an exorcism to rid the camp of the wicked spirits.
Episode: 113 | Aired: January 11, 1977
Stumped by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades Potter to send for an old Navy buddy whos known to be a word whiz. Meanwhile, Klinger tries to prove hes insane by attempting to eat a jeep.
Episode: 111 | Aired: December 21, 1976
Hawkeye finds himself in the middle of a war inside his head. The constant shelling, the endless wounded; the confines of the camp are starting to get to him. An Army psychiatrist assures him that hes as sane as he can be. In other words, under the circumstances of war, it would be insane to be sane.
Episode: 114 | Aired: January 18, 1977
An old friend of Col. Potter, Lt. Col. Harold Becket, is resting in post-op at the 4077th. Potter confronts him when he realizes the commander is putting his troops in harms way in order to put in the time he needs to get a promotion. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. help ping pong champion Cho Lin get married at the camp.
Episode: 112 | Aired: January 04, 1977
Radar begins to study writing in a correspondence course offered by an outfit called the Famous Las Vegas Writers School. Meanwhile, as their gift to Frank on his birthday, Hawkeye and Pierce pretend to have a big fight.
Episode: 115 | Aired: January 25, 1977
A college football star learns that his leg has to be amputated and decides that he would rather die. Radar comforts him and restores his will to live.
Episode: 116 | Aired: February 01, 1977
B.J. consoles a nurse who receives a letter from her husband telling her that their marriage is over. Although it was never his intention, Hunnicutt ends up spending the night with the nurse. The question is: Will he tell his wife?
Episode: 117 | Aired: February 08, 1977
An outbreak of hepatitis rages through the camp. Father Mulcahy becomes infected. Hawkeye must treat patients while dealing with back pain that seems to have been triggered by bad news he receives from his hometown.
Episode: 118 | Aired: February 15, 1977
Hawkeye is nominated to become a generals personal physician. Meanwhile, Radar is nominated by a G.I. to temporarily play father to the soldiers child.
Episode: 119 | Aired: February 22, 1977
To improve the morale of his troops, Col. Potter hosts a screening of a Western film. But the film keeps breaking, the audience grows restless, and soon the audience begins to entertain itself. Father Mulcahy jumps on the piano, Radar does impressions, and others act out scenes from the movie.
Episode: 120 | Aired: March 01, 1977
Col. Potter tries to prevent the injuries often caused when Korean children and U.S. soldiers hunt for souvenirs that turn out to be booby-trapped by the enemy. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. plot against a local junk dealer.
Episode: 121 | Aired: March 08, 1977
The camp runs out of blood. Everyone in the compound is donating every 48 hours to try to fill the need. Finally, a truckload of Turkish soldiers arrive and line up to give.
Episode: 122 | Aired: March 15, 1977
Under pressure from Frank to make a decision about her love life, Margaret decides to marry Donald Penobscott. The camps host a bridal shower and raucous bachelor party. Hawkeye and B.J. put Donald in a cast while he sleeps off his hangover.