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| 701 | "Commander Pierce" | September 18 | Hawkeye discovers it's no picnic to be in command of the unit after Colonel Potter goes to Seoul and leaves him in charge of the 4077.
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| 702 | "Peace on Us" | September 25 | With the peace talks broken down yet again and his tour of duty lengthened again Hawkeye is fed up with the diplomatic impasse and decides to go to Panmunjon himself to try to force an end to the war. Margaret finds out that her husband had himself transferred to San Francisco to avoid discussing problems with their marriage, and decides to file for divorce. BJ grows a mustache, which he'll wear the rest of the series.
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| 703 | "Lil" | October 2 | A visiting nursing Colonel provides Colonel Potter with some company, and some temptation to break his vows with Mrs. Potter, much to protective Radar's dismay. Hawkeye tries to figure out what the B.J. in B.J. Hunnicut stands for.
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| 704 | "Our Finest Hour" | October 9 | Another two-part episode, this is a clip show framed as another Clete Roberts "documentary" with new links filmed in black and white interspersed with color clips from previous episodes.
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| 705 | "The Billfold Syndrome" | October 16 | Major Winchester suffers a setback to his civilian career, and vows to never speak to Hawkeye or B.J. again (a promise they naturally try to get him to break), while Dr. Freedman shows up to treat a medic who has lost his memory.
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| 706 | "None Like It Hot" | October 23 | When temperatures soar over 100 degrees, Hawkeye and B.J. come up with the perfect remedy - a mail-order canvas bathtub from Abercrombie & Fitch. However, their private refuge soon becomes public. Radar has his tonsils removed, and Hawkeye and B.J. trade the bathtub to get Radar ice cream.
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| 707 | "They Call the Wind Korea" | October 30 | While high winds prevent the arrival of incoming wounded, Charles decides to go to Seoul to some R&R. But his plans take an unexpected detour after Klinger volunteers to drive. The wind knocks over the camp water tower, injuring a nurse with whom Hawkeye had a date and whom Margaret feels guilty for sending out to work on securing it.
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| 708 | "Major Ego" | November 6 | After reviving a dying patient by performing a heart massage, Charles makes a call to Stars & Stripes so the paper can print an article about his heroics. However, his bragging distracts him and he risks the health of another patient when he performs substandard surgery. Margaret, frustrated with her husband's complicating the divorce proceedings, spends a night with the visiting Stars & Stripes reporter to release her tension.
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| 709 | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | November 13 | When the temperatures falls to 13 Fahrenheit, Charles becomes very unpopular as he flaunts his fully winterized polar suit in front of the freezing staff and patients.
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| 710 | "Point of View" | November 20 | This unique episode is told entirely in first-person, through the eyes of a soldier is wounded in battle (including throat wounds to eliminate any dialog coming from the narrator), and tells the story of a typical GI's visit to a M*A*S*H.
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| 711 | "Dear Comrade" | November 27 | Major Winchester's new houseboy is actually a North Korean spy (unbeknownst to anybody in the camp), sent to check on reports that the 4077th is an extremely effective outfit. The spy also turns out to be the only person who knows a folk remedy for a rash that modern medicine has proven unable to cure. The utter lack of military bearing and discipline lead him to the conclusion that while the reports of their efficiency are true, they are also utterly unreproducible by North Korea.
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| 712 | "Out of Gas" | December 4 | When the camp runs out of sodium pentothal, Father Mulcahy comes through and manages to obtain some on the black market when nobody else could.
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| 713 | "An Eye for a Tooth" | December 11 | Angry to be passed over for a promotion once again, Father Mulcahy boldly takes matters into his own hands with near disastrous results. Hawkeye and B.J. embark on a war of practical jokes against Margaret, with Winchester playing both sides.
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| 714 | "Dear Sis" | December 18 | Father Mulcahy sends his sister a Christmas letter bemoaning his feelings of uselessness and his desperate desire to provide more comfort for the troops.
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| 715 | "B.J. Papa San" | January 1 | B.J. becomes a surrogate father to an impoverished Korean family, but he spends so much time worrying about them that Hawkeye begins to worry about his friend.
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| 716 | "Inga" | January 8 | Dr. Inga Helversen (Mariette Hartley), a stunningly beautiful Swedish surgeon visits the camp, and Hawkeye finds himself having to deal with a woman who is as skilled a surgeon as he is, and with his chauvanistic attitudes towards female personnel.
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| 717 | "The Price" | January 15 | Colonel Potter tries to find where his beloved horse Sophie has disappeared to, while Klinger tries to buy his way out of the army, and Hawkeye and B.J. try to help a Korean draft dodger.
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| 718 | "The Young and the Restless" | January 22 | A hotshot medical demonstrator stationed in Tokyo has strange effects on the docs of the 4077 after he shows up to demonstrate the latest medical techniques.
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| 719 | "Hot Lips is Back in Town" | January 29 | While Radar takes advice from Hawkeye on how to deal with a cute new nurse, Margaret celebrates her divorce and new self-confidence.
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| 720 | "C*A*V*E" | February 5 | Under heavy artillery fire, the 4077th must evacuate into a network of nearby caves. Unfortunately Hawkeye is seriously claustrophobic, and entering the cave gives him a panic attack.
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| 721 | "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys" | February 14 | Colonel Flagg returns to the camp, this time trying to recruit Major Winchester to spy for him against Hawkeye. However, Winchester proves to be far more cunning than Flagg gave him credit for and outwits the spy.
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| 722 | "Preventive Medicine" | February 19 | Hawkeye is willing to seriously bend, or break, medical ethics to keep a dangerous colonel from endangering his troops any further.
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| 723 | "A Night at Rosie's" | February 26 | One by one, the staff take refuge from the war at Rosie's Bar and try to forget the war that surrounds them for just one night.
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| 724 | "Ain't Love Grand" | March 5 | Major Winchester finds himself falling for a "working girl," while an upper-class nurse from a neighbouring M*A*S*H is attracted to Klinger.
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| 725 | "The Party" | March 12 | Hoping for a soon end to the war, the staff begin talking about a reunion after the war. Instead, they decide to have their stateside families meet up while they are still in Korea. The plans are on pause, however, when they have to bug out in the face of a new Chinese offensive.
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