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| 301 | "The General Flipped at Dawn" | September 10 | An inspection by the strict Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele7 puts the 4077th on edge. The final straw comes when he orders the unit to move the camp closer to the front, to be more economic and to show that a MASH unit should be mobile. On an inspection tour of the new site, Steele takes along Blake and Burns. After Steele forces Blake to salute him and all three are shot at by snipers, Steele gives Blake & Burns a choice — fight or have lunch!! (Blake and Burns choose lunch) When Hawkeye sends a chopper off with a patient instead of letting the general use it to scout the new site, Steele calls for a court martial for Pierce and Blake. When Steele goes into a song and dance routine (because the helicopter pilot is Africian-American) the Army hurriedly closes the court-martial and Steele gets sent back to the United States — where he is placed in charge of Northeast Asia!
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| 302 | "Rainbow Bridge" | September 17 | China has made an incredible offer, to return a handful of Prisoners of War too wounded for their own medical facilities. Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, and Radar take a bus deep into North Korea to an agreed-upon meeting place called "Rainbow Bridge" to receive the prisoners, but Major Burns decides to be a hero and brings a gun with him, in violation of the agreement.
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| 303 | "Officer of the Day" | September 24 | Hawkeye is named "Officer of the Day", which means he has to tend to various routine matters throughout the camp, including Colonel Flagg wanting a communist prisoner of war patched up so he can be executed.
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| 304 | "Iron Guts Kelly" | October 1 | [In]famous Lieutenant General "Iron Guts" Kelly is visiting the 4077th, but has a heart attack while having a tryst with Hot Lips. The general's aide decides to fake a more memorable and honorable death, in the heat of battle.
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| 305 | "O.R." | October 8 | A series of short sub-plots all focusing around drama in the operating room after a major assault.
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| 306 | "Springtime" | October 15 | It is spring and a lull arises between waves of casualties, so the 4077th takes the opportunity to enjoy the weather, and each other. A Marine who Hawkeye operated on dedicates his life to repaying the debt, Klinger gets married over ham radio to his girlfriend back home, and Radar falls for a nurse whom he believes doesn't know he exists, but soon finds out the opposite is true. A shell shocked soldier reluctantly gives up a cat to Hawkeye-and then nearly breaks Hawkeye's neck until Hawkeye's Marine saves Hawkeye's life by immoblizing the patient.
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| 307 | "Check-Up" | October 22 | During a routine medical checkup, Trapper John is diagnosed with an ulcer. He believes it is his ticket to a medical discharge.
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| 308 | "Life With Father" | October 29 | Henry Blake worries that the contents of a letter he just received from his wife means she is committing adultery, Father Mulcahy receives a letter from his sister, a nun, in which she tells him she is considering leaving the convent in order to have a family; Henry and Frank go to each other to tell each other his troubles, and neither one listens to the other. Meanwhile, the infant son of a Korean woman and a Jewish soldier receives a bris with Father Mulcahy standing in for a rabbi and Hawkeye performing the circumcision — to Majors Burns and Houlihan's dismay.
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| 309 | "Alcoholics Unanimous" | November 12 | While temporarily in command of the 4077th, Major Burns bans all alcohol on the post, learning in the process that Hot Lips herself (along with almost the entire camp) drinks to avoid the pains of war and eventually succumbing to temptation.
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| 310 | "There is Nothing Like a Nurse" | November 19 | With a North Korean air raid imminent, and the 4077th being unable to evacuate for tactical reasons, all female personnel (the nurses) are sent further behind the lines temporarily. This makes life hard both within and outside the operating room, and the doctors begin to realize what life without the nurses is like. The "air raid" (in fact an appearance by Five o' Clock Charlie) arrives after a private screening of Frank's wedding film (without Frank's presence) and the nurses return home.
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| 311 | "Adam's Ribs" | November 26 | Sick and tired of being served the same meal (fish or liver and onions) for about a week, Hawkeye throws a fit and hatches a plan to get some ribs and barbecue sauce shipped in from a restaurant in Chicago.
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| 312 | "A Full Rich Day" | December 3 | Hawkeye records an audiotape home on a primitive tape recorder describing the events of the day before, including a berserk soldier from Turkey, losing the body of a dead lieutenant from Luxembourg, and a soldier coming from the frontlines to demand (with his M1 Carbine) that his wounded sergeant be patched up before anybody else. {Note this last incident actually happened-but it was in 1944 during World War II; a paratrooper Sgt had to use a .45 automatic pistol to force an Army doctor to operate on his badly wounded Captain during the battle of Operation Market-Garden and recreated in the movie A Bridge Too Far}.
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| 313 | "Mad Dogs and Servicemen" | December 10 | A stray dog bites Radar and the 4077th must find it soon or he must begin painful and dangerous vaccinations against rabies.
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| 314 | "Private Charles Lamb" | December 31 | A Greek unit celebrates a traditional Easter feast with the 4077th in gratitude for their medical help. Radar cannot stand the idea of the lamb that was shipped in being slaughtered, so he secretly arranges to ship the lamb home to his family in Iowa by filling out a compassionate discharge form with the name "Charles Lamb."
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| 315 | "Bombed" | January 7 | The 4077th is under heavy bombardment, from one of their own artillery units with faulty orders. Everybody tries to survive until the orders are rescinded, but unfortunately the people who can call off the attack are attending a Bob Hope show.
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| 316 | "Bulletin Board" | January 14 | The camp bulletin board announces various activities such as a barbecue, a mandatory sex education lecture and a movie night, which the episode follows.
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| 317 | "The Consultant" | January 21 | A medical consultant8 with a new technique for arterial grafts visits the 4077th. His new technique can prevent the amputation of seriously damaged limbs, but when it comes time for him to demonstrate his new technique on an injured soldier, he is drunk.
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| 318 | "House Arrest" | February 4 | Frank Burns has Hawkeye placed under house arrest after Hawkeye punches him in the hospital changeroom. It takes Frank being falsely accused of rape by a visiting female Colonel to get the charges dropped, and Frank placed under house arrest.
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| 319 | "Aid Station" | February 11 | Hawkeye, Hot Lips, and Klinger are sent to an obliterated Aid Station on the front lines to temporarily fill in for a surgeon killed in action.
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| 320 | "Love and Marriage" | February 18 |
Hawkeye and Trapper John play matchmaker while performing required examinations of soldiers who are asking permission to marry locals. They help a soldier reunite with his pregnant Korean wife, and attempt to stop a young soldier from marrying a tuberculosis-infected prostitute so she can be sent to the United States to find new customers.
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| 321 | "Big Mac" | February 25 | General of the Army Douglas MacArthur has scheduled an inspection of the 4077th because of its outstanding performance, and the camp is busy trying to prepare for its illustrious visitor.
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| 322 | "Payday" | March 4 | Things get crazy at the 4077th when payday comes around, and everybody is spending money and getting into debt with everyone else. {Hot Lips tricks Frank Burns into giving her a real pearl necklace in place of a fake; Klinger tries to bribe Colonel Blake for a discharge-but withdraws the offer when he finds he'll get 20 years in prision; Trapper John "borrows" Hawkeye's watch to bet in a poker game}; Paymaster Hawkeye receives compensation for losing civilian pay, which he donates to Father Mulcahy, but bureaucrat Captain Sloan arrives demanding the money back. After Trapper wins the Poker game with "Hawkeye's" watch-Hawkeye promply takes back his watch and the poker game winnings and pays off his debt to the army.
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| 323 | "White Gold" | March 11 | Thieves are stealing the camp's supply of penicillin, and Colonel Flagg arrives determined to investigate the thefts and steal penicillin himself to use as barter for North Korean informants.
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| 324 | "Abyssinia, Henry" | March 18 | Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake finally receives his discharge from the Army, and the entire 4077th wishes him a fond farewell. In the famous final scene, it is revealed at the end that his transport plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan and he was killed in action.
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