Episodes

1-The Pilot
Ho John, the Korean houseboy who works at the Swamp, learns that he's been accepted at Hawkeye's alma mater. Hawkeye helps the boy raise tuition money by selling raffle tickets. The grand prize: a weekend in Tokyo with a camp nurse!

Factoid: William Christopher, the actor who made the TV role of Father Mulcahy famous, did not appear in the pilot.

2-To Market, To Market
The camp's entire supply of hydrocortisone is stolen and sold on the black market. Hawkeye and Trapper acquire a fresh supply by cutting an elaborate deal with a seedy local thief. To close the deal, however, they have to bargain Henry's antique oak desk.

Factoid: G. Wood played the same role, Gen. Hamilton Hammond, in the film and the first two episodes of the series.

3- Requiem for a Lightweight
After Hot Lips convinces Henry to transfer a beautiful nurse out of the camp, Trapper literally fights to save the nurse's job by entering the intercamp boxing tournament with Hawkeye as his trainer.

4-Chief Surgeon Who?
After Hawkeye is named chief surgeon, Hot Lips and Frank scheme against him; they recruit a general to visit the camp to scrutinize Hawkeye. After his encounter with the 4077th madness - especially the cross-dressing Klinger - the general declares that the unit is crazy.

Factoid: Jamie Farr was supposed to appear only in this episode as Klinger, but the character was so popular that they kept bringing him back. After three years as a recurring character, he was contracted as a regular cast member.

5- The Moose
The gang comes together to protest keeping a Korean housegirl as a servant. Hawkeye wins the girl from the sergeant who originally purchased her, but can't seem to make her understand that he's setting her free.

Factoid: Alan Alda is the only cast member who actually served active duty in the armed forces in Korea. Alda spent six months as a gunnery officer in Korea.

6-Yankee Doodle Doctor
A brigadier general chooses the 4077th as the location to stage a fabricated documentary about the heroics of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals or M*A*S*H units. Offended by the faked footage, Hawkeye and Trapper produce an authentic film.

7-Bananas, Crackers, and Nuts
When Hawkeye's request for a leave in turned down, he takes a page from Klinger's book by faking insanity. His antics prove quite a challenge for the psychiatrist assigned to his case.

Factoid: Alan Alda, Jamie Farr and Loretta Swit are the only cast members to appear in every episode of the series. Farr appeared in early episodes as the P.A. Announcer.

8-Cowboy
Henry denies a chopper pilot's request to go home. The pilot decides to make his own episode of "Kill Henry." The inevitable hi-jinks ensue.

9- Henry, Please Come Home
Henry is transferred to Tokyo for administrative duty, which leaves Frank in charge of the camp. Hawkeye and Trapper to persuade Radar to fake an illness to lure Henry back.

10- I Hate A Mystery
When Hawkeye is accused of stealing from the 4077, he conducts his own investigation into the crime spree.

11-Germ Warfare
Hawkeye and Trapper steal a pint of Frank's blood. The patient who receives the blood develops complications, leading them to suspect that Frank has hepatitis.

Factoid: No laugh track was ever used in any of the scenes set in the operating room.

12-Dear Dad
Hawkeye describes the life inside the 4077th, from the clowning around to Father Mulcahy convincing Klinger not to kill himself. Dressed as Santa Claus, Hawkeye saves the life of a wounded soldier.

Factoid: The location used to shoot the exterior scenes of the 4077 M*A*S*H camp is today known as Malibu Creek State Park in Malibu, California.

13-Edwina
The nurses take a celibacy vow until someone goes on a date with lonely nurse Eddie (Edwina). The men draw straws, and Hawkeye is the big loser. Eddie nearly eats him alive on the date.

14-Love Story
Radar gets a dreaded "Dear John" letter. Hawkeye and Trapper find him the perfect match, a nurse who's actually into classical literature and music.

15- Tuttle
Hawkeye and Trapper talk Radar into helping them invent a fictitious Capt. Tuttle, whose "salary" could be donated to help a local orphanage. The innocent lie mushrooms into a full-blown escapade.

Factoid: M*A*S*H is the highest-rated American series of all time with a household rating of 60.2%, which translated to 50.15 million viewers at the time.

16-The Ring Banger
Hawkeye, Trapper, and Radar collaborate to send home a colonel (Leslie Nielsen) who has an unusually high casualty record.

17-Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
Hawkeye is upset when he finds himself unable to save the life of an old friend who is wounded on the front. The grief moves Hawkeye to send home a baby-faced soldier (Ron Howard), who lied about his age to join the service.

18- Dear Dad ... Again
Hawkeye writes a letter to his father, describing the volatile romance of Frank and Hot Lips, Radar's correspondence course, and a ridiculous bet Hawkeye makes, purporting that he could dine naked and no one would even notice.

19-The Long-John Flap
Hawkeye gets a pair of longjohns from home, which he loans to his ill friend Trapper, who loans them to someone else, who loans them to someone else, and so on, until just about everybody in camp has a turn with the longjohns.

Factoid: To generate story ideas, the producers often interviewed real M*A*S*H veterans about their experiences.

20- The Army-Navy Game
During the Army-Navy football game, the 4077th gets accidentally bombed by the CIA, leaving an unexploded shell in the camp. As they try to defuse the bomb, it explodes, littering the camp with U.S. propaganda leaflets.

Factoid: The cast of M*A*S*H literally bonded early in the production cycle because of the excessively cold weather during filming.

21- Sticky Wicket
Hawkeye, as usual, belittles Frank's ability in the operating room. However, as one of Hawkeye's patients starts slipping away, he begins to question his own abilities.

22- Major Fred C. Dobbs
Frank threatens to transfer until he overhears Hawkeye and Trapper say they discovered gold. He figures out that they're pulling his leg when he discovers a ridiculous array of gilded objects, including a pure-gold jeep.

Factoid: A real-life M*A*S*H doctor wrote a letter to TV Guide to say the most insane jokes and idiotic pranks depicted in the series were the most realistic, including Klinger's crossdressing.

23-Ceasefire
Word rages through camp that there's a ceasefire and, inevitably, a celebration erupts until the wounded soldiers arrive.

Factoid: Richard Hooker wrote the book on which the TV and film versions of M*A*S*H were based.

24-Showtime
The 4077th gets a little R&R in the compound when an USO troupe comes to visit.