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| 901 | "The Best of Enemies" | November 17 | On his way to some R&R in Tokyo, Hawkeye is forced by a North Korean soldier to perform an emergency roadside operation on his buddy. Charles, Colonel Potter, B.J., and Margaret compete against each other in a bridge tournament with frequently-rotating partners.
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| 902 | "Letters" | November 24 | The 4077th receives a load of letters from a 4th grade class from Hawkeye's hometown in Maine, and they decide to answer the letters and tell the kids back home about life in Korea.
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| 903 | "Cementing Relationships" | December 1 | The staff struggle to install a more sanitary cement floor for their operationing room despite the fact that no one is experienced at the job. An Italian soldier, recently dumped by his girlfriend back home, becomes infatuated with Margaret.
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| 904 | "Father's Day" | December 8 | Margaret's father, the famous Colonel Alvin "Howitzer Al" Houlihan comes to the camp, but both daughter and father do not get along as well as they would like. Meanwhile, Hawkeye receives a stolen frozen side of beef from a grateful patient, and the camp must eat it before the MPs find it.
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| 905 | "Death Takes a Holiday" | December 15 | During Christmastime, Father Mulcahy takes up a collection to feed the local orphanage, to which Major Winchester donates little. Everybody thinks he's a scrooge, but in reality he made a very generous donation of chocolates to the orphanage. Winchester goes out of his way to keep the entire donation a secret, only to be upset when it's sold on the black market (though he later finds out it was in order to buy a month's worth of food). Meanwhile, Hawkeye, BJ and Margaret try to prolonge the life a mortally wounded patient on Christmas so his family "won't have to remember Christmas as the day their Daddy died".
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| 906 | "A War For All Seasons" | December 29 | On New Year's Eve 1951, the camp reflects on events that took place since the previous New Year's Eve.
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| 907 | "Your Retention Please" | January 5 | Klinger, heartbroken when he finds out that his ex-wife is marrying his best friend, is approached by a Retention Sergeant who does the unthinkable and convinces an irrational Klinger to re-enlist in the Army for six more years. Meanwhile, a corpsman is irate that sexist Army policies kept him from automatically becoming an officer when he was drafted, as he is a male nurse and thus he couldn't become an army nurse when drafted.
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| 908 | "Tell it To the Marines" | January 12 | While under the temporary command of Major Winchester, a Dutch immigrant Marine who passes through the 4077th is in desperate need of a hardship discharge because of his mother's imminent deportation. The Marines have no sympathy for his plight, so the doctors try to help him out.
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| 909 | "Taking the Fifth" | January 19 | Hawkeye gets a bottle of very rare and fine French wine he hopes to use to seduce nurses, while Colonel Potter, irate that a useful anaesthetic has been banned by the Army for little reason, trades supplies with a Canadian medical unit for a supply of it.
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| 910 | "Operation Friendship" | January 26 | Klinger saves Major Winchesters life from a freak accident with an autoclave, although BJ is seriously injured in the accident. Winchester helps Klinger out of gratitude (which Klinger is quick to take advantage of), while Hawkeye has a clash of egos with the specialist who is called in to evaluate BJ's injuries and temporarily replace him in the operating room.
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| 911 | "No Sweat" | February 2 | In a particularly powerful heat wave, everybody is trying to keep cool, despite problems ranging from Margaret's prickly-heat rash to Winchester's tax problems.
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| 912 | "Depressing News" | February 9 | When 500,000 tongue depressors are delivered by mistake to the 4077th, Hawkeye decides to use them to build a monument to Army stupidity, which Klinger covers in the camp newspaper he's starting. The army hears about this and wants to display his monument as a propaganda tool.
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| 913 | "No Laughing Matter" | February 16 | Hawkeye makes a bet with BJ that he can go 24 hours without making a joke, while Major Winchester has a confrontation with the Colonel who had him sent to Korea, and both must practice extreme self control.
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| 914 | "Oh, How We Danced" | February 23 | B.J. is upset as his wedding anniversary is coming up while he is thousands of miles away, so the camp gets a home movie shipped in from his wife. The camp also takes care of an injured Korean child and Major Winchester grudgingly performs a hygiene inspection on a front-line unit.
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| 915 | "Bottoms Up" | March 2 | While almost everybody at the 4077th drinks, it becomes a serious problem to one nurse, who is becoming an alcoholic. Meanwhile, Hawkeye's practical joke against Major Winchester goes too far, and he becomes very unpopular with the camp after his attempt at saving face is sabotaged by BJ.
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| 916 | "The Red/White Blues" | March 9 | With Colonel Potter suffering from stress related hypertension, the camp decides to try to make life easier on their beloved leader. Unfortunately, their attempts to calm him down and make his life easier backfire, giving him even more stress. Klinger, accused of goldbricking, is in fact suffering a negative reaction to malaria medication due to a rare genetic defect.
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| 917 | "Bless You, Hawkeye" | March 16 | Hawkeye has a serious sneezing problem that appears to be psychological in nature, so Dr. Sidney Freedman arrives to find out what has him sneezing around the clock.
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| 918 | "Blood Brothers" | April 6 | A dying GI cares less for his own health than for the health of his comrade, while Father Mulcahy must prepare for an inspection from a particularly strict Cardinal.
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| 919 | "The Foresight Saga" | April 13 | Klinger accidentally breaks Colonel Potter's eyeglasses, just as a deceivingly positive letter from Radar O'Reilly arrives. Margaret obsesses with aging and losing her eyesight.
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| 920 | "The Life You Save" | May 4 | After nearly dying, Major Winchester becomes unusually introspective, polite, and obsessed with death.
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