• Air date: 12 Sep '75 24 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. Welcome to Korea

      12 Sep '75
      Trapper is shipped home while Hawkeye is on R&R. Hawkeye speeds to Kimpo with Radar to catch Trapper's plane, but they just miss him. While they are there, they pick up BJ Hunnicut and take him back to camp. On the way back, BJ is introduced to the Korean War.
    • 2. Change of Command

      19 Sep '75
      Frank settles in as commanding officer, only to have a new one appointed over his head, one that, to his chagrin, fits in very well.
    • 3. It Happened One Night

      26 Sep '75
      A freezing night, an artillery barrage that's coming too close, a patient going downhill, and Frank's searching Hot Lips' tent for his letters.
    • 4. The Late Captain Pierce

      03 Oct '75
      When Hawkeye's father is notified that he's dead, he finds it's no easy matter either to get word to him or to establish otherwise.
    • 5. Hey, Doc

      10 Oct '75
      Its quid pro quo at the 4077th: two bottles of Scotch for secret surgery, and a tank to scare off snipers for an unauthorized shot of penicillin.
    • 6. The Bus

      17 Oct '75
      Radar is driving Hawk, B.J., Sherman, and Frank in a bus back from a "medical conference" when they get lost. They stop to see if they can find anything they recognize. When they decide to turn around, they find that the bus does not want to start. Radar goes off in the middle of the night for the latrine, and does not immediately return. Stricken, Hawkeye wants to set out to find him, only to be stopped by Sherman. An injured Korean surrenders to get medical help from Hawk and B.J.. Upon
    • 7. Dear Mildred

      24 Oct '75
      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.
    • 8. The Kids

      31 Oct '75
      The 4077th plays host to kids bombed out of their orphanage, and at the same time has to deliver a baby and care for battle casualties.
    • 9. Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler

      07 Nov '75
      Intelligence officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapples over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who claims to be Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most poignant scene is when Radar asks Chandler to bless his teddy bear.
    • 10. Dear Peggy

      11 Nov '75
      B.J. writes home to his wife, Peg, reporting Klinger's escape attempts, the visit of a formidable chaplain, and one of Frank's goof-ups.
    • 11. Of Moose and Men

      21 Nov '75
      Hawkeye tangles with a tough Army colonel, Colonel Spiker, B.J. helps Zale, who's received a "Dear John" letter, and Frank looks endlessly for Korean saboteurs.
    • 12. Soldier of the Month

      28 Nov '75
      Frank has a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
    • 13. The Gun

      02 Dec '75
      A wounded colonel's gun, a showpiece, disappears, and Hawkeye and B.J. play a hunch and bluff Frank, who has it, into returning it.
    • 14. Mail Call, Again

      09 Dec '75
      Mail brings a letter to Frank saying his wife is divorcing him, and one to Potter telling him he's going to be a grandfather.
    • 15. The Price of Tomato Juice

      16 Dec '75
      Radar gets the help of Hawkeye and B.J. to procure something Colonel Potter says he's fond of, but that's hard to come by - tomato juice.
    • 16. Dear Ma

      23 Dec '75
      Radar writes home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.
    • 17. Der Tag

      06 Jan '76
      Potter decides Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
    • 18. Hawkeye

      13 Jan '76
      Hawkeye is injured in a jeep accident and, aware he has a concussion, babbles to a Korean family to keep himself awake.
    • 19. Some 38th Parallels

      20 Jan '76
      Frank tries to distinguish himself by selling the camp garbage, but it's Hawkeye who finds a use for it: he dumps it on a troublesome Colonel Coner.
    • 20. The Novocaine Mutiny

      27 Jan '76
      Frank has Hawkeye up on charges of mutiny, for usurping his authority when Potter was away on leave, and Frank was the C.O. The Judge Advocate, Colonel Carmichael, tries the case; BJ, Potter, and Radar are in attendance of the preliminary hearing to offer support for Hawkeye. There are several versions of what happened: according to Frank, he was trying to hold the 4077th together during heavy casualties when everyone else was falling apart; according to The Eye Of The Hawk, BJ and Radar, it was
    • 21. Smilin' Jack

      03 Feb '76
      The 4077th turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.
    • 22. The More I See You

      10 Feb '76
      Hawkeye is reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.
    • 23. Deluge

      17 Feb '76
      A sudden deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm which makes matters difficult for the staff.
    • 24. The Interview

      24 Feb '76
      Clete Roberts introduces this segment as his show; he's arrived at Korea to interview the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital because of its high 97% efficiency rating. In Roberts' interviews with Hawkeye, BJ, Frank, Radar, Klinger, Mulcahy and Potter, they talk about how they cope with their situation, what they miss about home, how they feel about who they work with, and whether they see any good in coming from war.