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| 801 | "Too Many Cooks" | September 17 | A clumsy and inept soldier turns out to be a gourmet chef (whose request to be made an army cook was denied). The 4077th staff love his cooking and try to get him made an army cook permanently. Colonel Potter is not interested, and is distracted by a letter from his lonely and frustrated wife, begging him to come home.
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| 802 | "Are You Now, Margaret?" | September 24 | A Congressman visiting the 4077th turns out to be a part of McCarthyism and accuses Major Houlihan of being a Communist sympathizer. Her friends must try to save her career and discredit their accuser.
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| 803 | "Guerilla My Dreams" | October 1 | Hawkeye saves the life of a Korean woman, who turns out to be a North Korean saboteur. The South Korean Army wants her turned over immediately for particularly brutal interrogation and possible execution, to Hawkeye's great objection.
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| 804 | "Good-Bye Radar (Part 1)" | October 8 | Radar is on a well deserved leave in Tokyo, leaving Klinger as acting Clerk. The failure of the camp generator and other crises make everyone wish Radar would return home soon. Upon his return back to the 4077th, Radar finds out that his uncle has died and he's due to receive a hardship discharge from the Army.
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| 805 | "Good-Bye Radar (Part 2)" | October 15 | Due to Klinger's poor performance as company clerk. Radar tries to fight his discharge, believing his place is in Korea, but eventually realizes he must go home to help his family and that the camp will survive without him.
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| 806 | "Period of Adjustment" | October 22 | Corporal Klinger must learn how to become the company clerk as B.J. gets a particularly vehement yearning to return home after realizing that his daughter Erin's childhood is passing him by rapidly.
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| 807 | "Nurse Doctor" | October 29 | During a serious water shortage, Father Mulcahy helps a talented young nurse study for her entrance into medical school, although the nurse is more affectionate than the celibate Mulcahy would like. Major Winchester uses bottled water sent to him by his family to stay clean and refreshed.
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| 808 | "Private Finance" | November 5 | Klinger offers financial help to a poor Korean girl he knows, only to have the offer mistaken as a proposal of prostitution by her mother. Hawkeye struggles to keep his promise to a dead soldier.
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| 809 | "Mr. and Mrs. Who?" | November 12 | After a wild weekend in Tokyo, a severely hung over Major Winchester returns home to realize he has apparently gotten married while drunk, and doesn't remember a thing.
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| 810 | "The Yalu Brick Road" | November 19 | After a disaster of food poisoning, Hawkeye and BJ must retrieve some antibiotics from another unit. They become lost in enemy territory and have to deal with a North Korean who repeatedly insists on surrendering. Margaret Houlihan and Major Winchester, the only personnel unaffected by the food poisoning, must care for patients and do housekeeping duties at the same time.
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| 811 | "Life Time" | November 26 | In an episode told in real time, a wounded soldier arrives at the camp with a lacerated aorta, and only 20 minutes to avoid paralysis (at most), and the doctors rush to perform an arterial graft before it is too late.
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| 812 | "Dear Uncle Abdul" | December 3 | Klinger writes a letter home to Toledo talking about his new duties as company clerk, as Hawkeye and B.J. discover that a soldier that has come through their unit is mentally challenged and unfit for duty. Father Mulcahy attempts to write a war song for the Korean conflict and Margaret attempts to have a defective foot locker replaced. {Only by Houilian "borrowing" Winchester's shotgun and shooting the footlocker can it be replaced}.
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| 813 | "Captain's Outrageous" | December 10 | Father Mulcahy is becoming irate over being repeatedly denied promotion to Captain, while the doctors find themselves temporarily running Rosie's Bar when the proprietor is injured in a bar fight.
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| 814 | "Stars and Stripes" | December 17 | Major Houlihan finds that an old lover has been demoted to Private for misconduct, while Major Winchester and B.J. have to collaborate on a medical journal article about an operation they performed.
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| 815 | "Yessir, That's Our Baby" | December 31 | A young baby, the offspring of a Korean girl and an American soldier, is at risk of being shunned by the Korean locals for being mixed race. The 4077th tries to have the child sent to the United States, only to find that no one outside a monastic order is willing to help.
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| 816 | "Bottle Fatigue" | January 7 | After receiving a hefty bar tab, Hawkeye vows to go one week without alcohol. At the same time, Major Winchester is furious that his sister might marry someone from a lower social class.
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| 817 | "Heal Thyself" | January 14 | Colonel Potter and Major Winchester are quarantined with the mumps, while Klinger tries not to catch the disease and suffer one of its side-effects: sterility. Potter and Winchester's temporary replacement, a seasoned army surgeon who last saw action in an incredibly bloody battle, makes fast friends in the camp but soon suffers a nervous breakdown.
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| 818 | "Old Soldiers" | January 21 | Colonel Potter leaves for Tokyo under mysterious circumstances, leaving Hawkeye in charge to deal with a group of refugee children, and to figure out why Potter is acting so strangely upon his return.
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| 819 | "Morale Victory" | January 28 | Hawkeye and BJ are appointed "Morale Officers" by Colonel Potter to deal with the constant whining and complaining in the camp (even though they are responsible for most of it). Major Winchester tries to comfort a depressed virtuoso pianist with a hand permanently damaged by shrapnel.
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| 820 | "Lend a Hand" | February 4 | The arrogant Dr. Anthony Borelli8 returns to camp, irritating Hawkeye. The situation becomes worse when they are forced to cooperate on a difficult operation in the field.
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| 821 | "Goodbye, Cruel World" | February 11 | Hawkeye and Dr. Sidney Freedman realize that a highly decorated Chinese-American war hero is only brave because he is trying to die in battle, and try to deal with his suicidal bravery. Meanwhile, Klinger decorates his quarters with some "chatchkes" from home, but the resulting ridicule drives him to forge Colonel Potter's signature on his own discharge papers and attempt to desert. The baseball team Toledo Mudhens pennet is among the "Chatchkes"
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| 822 | "Dreams" | February 18 | In a highly surreal episode, after a long and stressful medical crisis, the staff begin having strange dreams and nightmares as they fall asleep. A motor pool administrator refuses to send ambulances to the camp to evacuate patients (who are piling up rapidly) because they might be damaged by gunfire. {The ambulances come only after a wounded general at MASH hints that the administrator
escort the ambulances up to the front line personally!}
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| 823 | "War Co-Respondent" | March 3 | B.J. falls in love with a beautiful war correspondent, in a situation reminiscient of an earlier episode in which B.J. slipped in his wedding vows. This war correspondent "Aggie O'Higgins" is based upon real life war correspondent Maggie Higgins but who was only in Korea only from summer to December, 1950.
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| 824 | "Back Pay" | March 10 | Outraged by the profiteering of civilian doctors doing Army contract work in the States, Hawkeye submits a request for "back pay" equal to what he would have been making as a civilian doctor. Major Winchester contemptously tries to demonstrate new medical techniques to Korean doctors whom he refers to as "Larry, Moe, and Curly," then must swallow his pride when he suffers a back injury which the doctors successfully treat with acupuncture.
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| 825 | "April Fools" | March 24 | Everybody is looking forward to April Fools Day as a chance for some pranks, but Colonel Potter tries to prevent any jokes since the unit will be inspected by a notoriously rigid colonel on that day. Naturally, the medical staff cannot resist temptation and put their careers at risk. Klinger tries to convince the visiting colonel that he is insane by acting like a professional soldier, then dressing up as Cleopatra.
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