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| 201 | "Divided We Stand" | September 15 | This episode reintroduces the characters as General Clayton, considering breaking up the 4077th, sends Captain Hildebrand, a psychiatrist, to investigate the camp. Henry's attempts to make everyone get along, and thereby prevent the dissolution of his unit, are met with humorous results.
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| 202 | "5 O'Clock Charlie" | September 22 | An inept North Korean pilot in an obsolete plane attempts (and fails) to bomb the ammunition dump placed near the 4077th every day at exactly 5 O'clock by dropping a grenade from his plane. Major Burns decides a serious reaction is in order, so he requisitions an anti-aircraft gun and attempts to shoot the plane out of the sky, with predictable results.
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| 203 | "Radar's Report" | September 29 | Radar files a daily report to the Army detailing the events of the past day, including treating a Chinese soldier and the death of a soldier from infection after a fight in the OR involving the Chinese soldier. Trapper tries to control his anger at the Chinese soldier, who lies recovering in post-op while his patient is being sent home in a box. Frank, frustrated with Klinger's antics, tries to get his insanity discharge approved by they army. This episode is Sidney Freedman6's first appearance.
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| 204 | "For the Good of the Outfit" | October 6 | Hawkeye and Trapper John discover that the United States accidentally destroyed a nearby village due to errant artillery and are now trying to cover it up and rebuild the village as a gesture of goodwill.
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| 205 | "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde" | October 18 | After being sleep deprived for days, Hawkeye begins to act even more erratic than normal. After Hawkeye sends a terse telegram to Harry Truman, asking "Who's responsible?", General Clayton comes to the camp to investigate. Unfortunately, he arrives just as Hawkeye launches his insane plan to bring peace by sending the camp latrine to North Korea.
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| 206 | "Kim" | October 20 | A young Korean boy, apparently an orphan, arrives as a patient at the hospital and Trapper John wants to adopt him and send him to the United States. After he and a helicopter pilot rescue the boy from the middle of the camp's minefield, a nun from the nearby orphanage arrives with the boy's mother.
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| 207 | "L.I.P." | October 27 | A Korean woman and an American soldier want to get married, which normally is highly impossible due to bigoted bureaucrats who must approve the union. Hawkeye decides to step in and help by blackmailing the bureaucrat in charge of the case. On the same night, he finds out that the nurse he is dating opposes interracial marriage.
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| 208 | "The Trial of Henry Blake" | November 3 | Henry Blake is accused of aiding the enemy, and to prevent Hawkeye and Trapper John from getting evidence to exonerate him, Major Burns (in temporary command) confines them to quarters. Trapper and Hawkeye escape and go to the courtroom with proof that the North Koreans that Henry is accused of aiding were refugees and children at a civilian clinic near the border. Frank refuses to drop their charges, so Hawkeye and Trapper use what they know best to change his mind: blackmail.
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| 209 | "Dear Dad... Three" | November 10 | Hawkeye writes another letter home talking about recent events, including operating on a soldier with an unexploded grenade embedded in him, and a tolerance lesson they taught to a bigoted soldier who does not wish to receive the 'wrong color' blood.
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| 210 | "The Sniper" | November 17 | The camp is under fire from a sniper in the nearby hills, and everybody tries to survive and stay sane while they can't fight back. Hawkeye has to prevent Frank from letting his mock heroics get himself killed.
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| 211 | "Carry On Hawkeye" | November 24 | During a flu epidemic that is incapacitating everyone, Hawkeye and Margaret find themselves among the few personnel uninfected and able to keep working. Matters are complicated when Hawkeye catches the flu as well, but must continue operating.
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| 212 | "The Incubator" | December 1 | Hawkeye and Trapper John decide they need an incubator to help diagnose infections, and have to fight the bureaucracy of the army to get one.
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| 213 | "Deal me out" | December 8 | As everybody gathers for the regular poker game (including visiting senior officers), a wounded intelligence agent is brought in to the operating room and Hawkeye must choose between standing orders against treating him (for fear the agent will divulge secrets under anaesthesia) or saving his life. Radar accidentally runs over "Whiplash Hwang," a Korean who makes a career of faking injuries and filing personal injury lawsuits. This episode sees the first appearance of Colonel Flagg, albeit under a different identity (possibly a pseudonym).
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| 214 | "Hot Lips and Empty Arms" | December 15 | Fed up with her affair with Frank Burns and the lack of discipline and professionalism at the 4077th, Major Margaret Houlihan requests a transfer. The night before she is scheduled to leave, she becomes very drunk and says what she really thinks of some of her comrades (that she really likes them deep down) and realizes she should stay.
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| 215 | "Officers Only" | December 22 | In gratitude for saving his son's life, a General gives the 4077th a prefabricated Officers Club. Normal military protocol says it's restricted to officers only, much to the consternation of most camp personnel. Hawkeye and Trapper launch a plan to get the camp opened up to everybody.
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| 216 | "Henry in Love" | January 5 | Henry returns from Tokyo, having fallen in love with a woman half his age, and is seriously tempted to end his marriage.
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| 217 | "For Want of a Boot" | January 12 | Unable to obtain a replacement boot by any other means, Hawkeye launches an incredibly complex plan to get a new one by filling the requests of the camp dentist, supply sergeant, Corporal Klinger, Frank Burns, Radar, and a nurse.
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| 218 | "Operation Noselift" | January 19 | A soldier with severe morale problems due to his very large nose wants a nose job, in violation of army regulations. Not known to pay attention to regulations, Hawkeye and Trapper launch a huge scheme to bring an esteemed plastic surgeon to the camp to give the nose job, while simultaneously deceiving Frank Burns and Major Houlihan.
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| 219 | "The Chosen People" | January 26 | A Korean woman shows up with a baby she insists is Radar's, which surprises everybody, especially Radar. A Korean family moves into the compound, claiming that the land is their farm.
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| 220 | "As You Were" | February 2 | During a lull in the action, Frank Burns has to ask Hawkeye and Trapper John to fix his hernia.
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| 221 | "Crisis" | February 9 | The supply lines of the 4077th have been cut, and they begin to run short of food, medical supplies and fuel, trying to make do until a new shipment can arrive.
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| 222 | "George" | February 16 | A decorated soldier arrives at the 4077th as the result of a fight and confides to Hawkeye that he is homosexual. Hawkeye and Trapper try to preserve his secret and prevent him from receiving a dishonorable discharge, courtesy of Frank.
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| 223 | "Mail Call" | February 23 | At the camp's regular mail call, people react to various letters and packages they receive from home. Frank Burns is tricked into investing in a fictitious aviation company, proving that he reads other people's mail, while Trapper John contemplates desertion after reading his letter from home.
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| 224 | "A Smattering of Intelligence" | March 2 | Two different American intelligence agents arrive at the camp (one being the infamous Colonel Flagg), and both appear to be trying to thwart each other and score federal funding for their rival espionage organizations.
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