Episodes

121-Fade Out, Fade In - Parts 1 & 2
Margaret goes on her honeymoon. Frank goes nuts. Major Charles Emerson Winchester III goes to the 4077th. Then, Frank goes back to the States to work in a V.A. hospital.

122-Fallen Idol
Hawkeye recommends that Radar look for female companionship at someplace called the Pink Pagoda in Seoul. En route, Radar falls under attack and is seriously injured. He ends up returning to the 4077th in need of surgery, which Hawkeye is too devastated to perform.

123-The Last Laugh
The 4077th is stricken by an outbreak of practical jokes. The jokes proliferate and escalate with each round of "gotcha." Naturally, Hawkeye gets the last laugh.

124- War of Nerves
In this episode, a soldier blames Sidney Freedman for sending him back to the front line.

Factoid: The writers of M*A*S*H were notorious for making references to movies and comics that did not exist at the time of the Korean War.

125-The Winchester Tapes
Winchester appeals to his influential parents to pull strings so he can be honorably relieved of duty. Hawkeye and B.J. wage an attack on Winchester's wardrobe.

Factoid: In the series, Winchester attended Harvard. In real life, David Ogden Stiers taught at Harvard.

126-The Light That Failed
A mystery novel gets passed around camp. So what's the problem? The last page is missing. Everyone is on edge until B.J. gets a brilliant idea: he calls the author long distance. Meanwhile, Winchester nearly kills a patient because he misreads a label.

127-In Love and War
Boy meets girl: Hawkeye falls in love with a Korean woman whose mother is ailing. Boy loses girl: the woman, Kyung Soon, moves away from the camp after her mother dies.

Factoid: Throughout its run, the 4077th was depicted on two different sets. The exteriors were shot in the mountains near Malibu, California, while the interiors were filmed on a sound stage at Fox studios miles away.

128-Change Day
Winchester brews an elaborate insider-trading scheme when he finds out the Army plans to switch from blue scrip to red. His get-rich-quick plot is foiled by Hawkeye and B.J.

129- Images
Radar admires the matrix of tattoos on a wounded patient and convinces himself that tattoos will make him irresistible to women. Despite everyone's discouragement, Radar gets a tattoo - the kind you can wash off with soap and water.

Factoid: A court ruled that Trapper John, M.D. was a spin-off of the M*A*S*H film, not the TV series.

130-The M*A*S*H Olympics
To trim the waistline of the 4077th, Potter stages a camp-wide Olympics competition. The prize is a three-day pass - for the entire winning team. Hawkeye's team wins and B.J. ends up having to chauffeur his best friend in a wheelchair for a week.

131-The Grim Reaper
When Hawkeye gets upset by a visiting Colonel's morbid prediction that the 4077th is about to receive a drove of war wounded, he shoves the officer against a wall, which precipitates a court martial hearing against Hawkeye.

132- Comrades in Arms - Part 1
Hawkeye and Margaret are lost behind enemy lines and seek shelter together in a roadside hut.

133-Comrades in Arms - Part 2
While behind enemy lines, Hawkeye and Margaret form an emotional bond and make peace with one another.

Factoid: Although Burt Metcalfe directed the first half of this one-hour broadcast, Alan Alda directed the second half. This is highly unusual. Typically, the extended episodes would be shot as an hour and then edited into half hours.

134-The Merchant of Korea
Charles learns to play poker and finds that he has remarkable beginner's luck. In short order, he takes everyone's money. Then Radar notices a tell: Charles whistles when he bluffs. As a result, everyone wins back their money. Did you know? David Ogden Stiers has proven himself versatile enough to be a member of the Houseman Acting Company and to perform in Lilo and Stich, his fifth animated Disney film.

135-The Smell of Music
Charles drives Hawkeye and B.J. bonkers with his French horn. To protest his playing, they go on a bath strike: they refuse to clean themselves until he stops blowing. Neither side is willing to give in.

136-Patient 4077
In desperate need of a specific surgical clamp, Hawkeye and B.J. teach a local jewelry dealer to craft the tool. Within days, they use the clamp to save a soldier's leg. The jewelry dealer decides to enter the business of surgical supplies.

137-Tea and Empathy
The unlikeliest of duos, Klinger and Mulcahy, go on a dangerous search and recover mission to secure some much-needed penicillin. Despite heavy pressure and heavy fire, the camp kook and man of the cloth come through.

138-Your Hit Parade
The 4077th is entertained by the velvet tones of its own silky-smooth deejay - Radar. As hordes and hordes of wounded arrive, Radar gets everyone through the crisis by spinning just the right tunes from a shipment of records that arrives at camp.

Factoid: Guest-Star Ronny Graham portrays a drunken blood donor in this episode.

139-What's Up, Doc?
Hawkeye has to perform the "rabbit test" to confirm that Hot Lips is pregnant. Radar objects because it's his rabbit, Fluffy. Meanwhile, a patient demands a discharge - at gunpoint.

140-Mail Call Three
When the mail finally arrives after a three-week delay, it is literally a mixed bag: Hawkeye receives love letters (intended for another Benjamin Pierce); another man makes moves on B.J.'s wife; and Radar's mom has found true love.

141-Temporary Duty
A personnel swap between two M*A*S*H units lands Hawkeye in the 8063rd and Capt. Roy Dupree, as well as Lorraine Anderson, in the 4077th. When Lorraine sees Charles, she likes what she sees. Charles does not return the affection. In fact, he and B.J. work together to get the transfers reversed.

142-Potter's Retirement
Potter's leadership is called into question when the higher-ups get complaints from the 4077th. As it turns out, the criticism is coming from a corporal who was sent to the unit by a disturbed colonel who had been wounded months earlier.

143-Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde
Charles finds two expedient uses for amphetamines. He drugs himself to maintain his energy in the operating room. And he gives a dose to Radar's mouse, Daisy, so she can out-run a Marine's mouse, Sluggo.

144- Major Topper
When their morphine appears to be contaminated, the doctors relieve patients' pains with placebos. Amazingly, it works.