The BEST episodes of AfterMASH
Every episode of AfterMASH ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of AfterMASH!
"After M*A*S*H" was a spinoff of M*A*S*H which depicted the lives of some of the characters after they returned from the Korean War. Sherman Potter, Father Mulcahy and Maxwell Klinger each work at General Pershing, a Veteran's Hospital in Missouri. In the series we see Soon-Lee, Klinger's wife, again. We also meet Mildred, Potter's wife, for the first time. Besides these familiar characters, we meet many new characters. Mike D'Angelo is the administrative head of the hospital. Alma Cox is his assistant. She does a lot of work for Mike D'Angelo out of a secret love for him; however, he still seems to have feelings for his ex-wife. Bonnie Hornbeck is Alma's secretary. Dr. Gene Pfieffer is a resident at the hospital. Running only from 1983 to 1985, "After M*A*S*H" was a short-lived series with 30 episodes. Gary Burghoff guest-starred in two episodes, "Yours Truly, Max Klinger" and "It Had To Be You," reprising his role of Walter O'Reilly. In "It Had To Be You" Walter gets married. Edward Winter also reprised his role of Colonel Flagg in "Trials." None of the other actors from M*A*S*H appeared in "After M*A*S*H." The series has been rerun rarely since its first run. The final episode was never aired.
#1 - Yours Truly, Max Klinger
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1984
Klinger cites examples of how "things are always jumping" in a letter to Radar.
#2 - Up and Down Payments
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/12/1984
When Klinger goes house hunting, he winds up getting trapped by an agent.
#3 - Fallout
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1983
Potter and Pfeiffer are thinking of leaving, but the discovery that a patient's leukemia may be linked to A-Bomb tests gives them both pause.
#4 - Night Shift
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1983
Myraid crises call Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy to night duty at the hospital.
#5 - Snap, Crackle, Plop
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1983
Klinger has a day to prepare for a civil-service exam.
#6 - Bladder Day Saints
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1983
Pfeiffer gets the needle from an obnoxious paitent with a face that Pfeiffer says "only a proctologist could love".
#7 - C.Y.A.
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1984
Mulcahy gets entangled in red tape trying to get the VA to pay for his ear operation. A woman claims the hospital lost her son.
#8 - All About Christmas Eve
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1983
Santa sprinkles surprises among his gifts to the staff and patients at the hospital.
#9 - Thanksgiving of '53
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1983
The Potters plan their first family Thanksgiving in a dozen years -- but the guest list keeps on growing.
#10 - Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1983
Visitors' day attracts a group that includes a car-selling faith healer, a man dying too be admitted as a patient and an acrophobe whose brother is on the third floor.
#11 - Little Broadcast of '53
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1983
Klinger plays disc jockey on the PA system; a new nurse is being hazed; and Father Mulcahy has to contend with one patient who won't talk and another who won't stop.
#12 - Klinger vs. Klinger
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1983
Soon-Lee wants to bring her family to America; a semiconscious patient is brought in without proper papers.
#13 - September of '53
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1983
Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy find that adjusting to civilian life isn't easy. Potter, not wanting to mark time in retirement, applies for a job at a VA hospital. Klinger spends time in jail before being offered a job by Potter. Father Mulcahy despairs over his hearing loss suffered in the M*A*S*H finale.
#14 - Shall We Dance
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1983
In a campaign against depravity, Alma bans From Here to Eternity and objects to a dance for the patients.
#15 - Chief of Staff
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1984
Potter seems to be having more than his usual load of problems at the hospital.
#16 - By the Book
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1984
Klinger and Potter go prospecting: Klinger for uranium, and Potter for an antibiotic not approved by the VA.
#17 - Wet Feet
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/1984
A Missouri thunderstorm leads Alma to practice her role as the hospital Civil Defense officer, the doctors to take refuge at a supply room poker game, and a mental patient to lock himself in the hospital fallout shelter after mistaking the storm for nuclear war.
#18 - Saturday's Heroes
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/1984
Wally bans passes just as Klinger is preparing to spend a weekend with his family.
#19 - Ward Is Hell
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/1984
Klinger runs a lottery. The acerbic Dr. Boyer becomes a patient.
#20 - The Recovery Room
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1984
Klinger tries to pick-up some extra money by filing for disability. Colonel Potter and Mildred have a tiff, and the Colonel walks out of the house. A new doctor, Andy Caldwell, is fearful of Dr. Boyer's hot flashes. Dr. Dudziak convinces Boyer to share a group therapy session with her and a few other veterans. Potter and Mildred make up and go off to a motel to spend the night together. Father Mulcahey does an early morning religion TV show.
#21 - Madness to His Method
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1984
Potter writes to his old M*A*S*H colleague Sidney Freedman for advice after Klinger is sentenced to the mental ward.
#22 - Trials
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1984
The prosecution recount Klinger's wartime high jinks. Wally forces Boyer to perform an operation he feels he cannot do.
#23 - Strangers and Other Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1984
Potter is horrified to find himself stuck with Alma as his new secretary. The fugitive Klinger can't find a place to spend a chilly night.
#24 - Calling Doctor Habibi
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1984
A new administrator arrives to take stock of the hospital. Klinger poses as doctor to avoid the police.
#25 - Less Miserables
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1984
Klinger is in jail for socking a shady real estate salesman. Soon-Lee is in labor. A stranger is poking around at the hospital.