The BEST episodes written by Alan Alda
#1 - Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
M*A*S*H - Season 11 - Episode 16
Hawkeye is sent to a mental hospital; a freak accident causes Father Mulcahy to lose his hearing; Margaret worries about her post-war plans; Charles run across a band of Chinese musicians; BJ is sent home, much to Hawkeye's dismay; Klinger decides to stay in Korea to marry Soon-Lee; a ceasefire is declared, ending the war.
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#2 - Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde
M*A*S*H - Season 2 - Episode 5
Hawkeye has been in non-stop surgery for 3 straight days without sleep, and the wounded keep coming. He decides to find out who started the war, and sends a telegram to Harry S Truman. After listening to some of Frank's rubbish about the North Koreans wanting better plumbing, he tries to send the officers' latrine to the North Koreans with an offer of peace. Trapper finally manages to sedate him. Trapper (about Hawkeye): "I guess he's just unstable. You see, he took this weird oath as a young man, never to just stand by and watch people die."
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#3 - Fallen Idol
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 2
Radar wants to become a man so Hawkeye recommends he goes to Seoul. On his way there he is hit by a mine. Hawkeye performs surgery on him. After surgery, Hawkeye goes to the Officers Club where he gets hammered. The next day he goes to surgery severely hung over. Radar tells Hawkeye he is disappointed in him. Hawkeye explodes and is then yelled at by Major Houlihan, Colonel Potter and Father Mulcahy. Radar and Hawkeye make up. Radar receives a Purple Heart.
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#5 - Dear Sigmund
M*A*S*H - Season 5 - Episode 7
Sidney Freedman, feeling depressed, visits the 4077th to observe how they fare under the pressures of war. He begins a letter to Sigmund Freud as a form of self-therapy, and releases his tension in the form of a practical joke with B.J., aimed at Frank Burns.
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#6 - The Long-John Flap
M*A*S*H - Season 1 - Episode 19
The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.
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#9 - Dear Sis
M*A*S*H - Season 7 - Episode 14
Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter to his sister, who is a nun. He recounts his frustrations at not being more effective at the 4077th.
#10 - The Party
M*A*S*H - Season 7 - Episode 25
Talk of a post-war reunion gives BJ an idea- planning a present-day stateside gathering of 4077th families. He continues to obsess with the idea even under the duress of bug-out instigated by a Chinese breakthrough. Also, Klinger fears that the party will blow his cover, as his mother doesn't know he's stationed in Korea.
#11 - Life Time
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 11
Hawkeye and BJ race against the clock to save a soldier from paralysis. BJ harvesting an aorta from a dead soldier doesn't sit well with the soldier's friend.
#12 - In Love and War
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 7
Hawkeye falls in love with Kyong Soon, a Korean woman who is caring for her sick mother and orphaned children. But all hope is lost as Kyong takes her possessions and the children to the south after her mother has died.
#13 - Comrades in Arms (Part 2)
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 13
Margaret and Hawkeye seek solace from enemy fire in each other's arms and end up, briefly, as lovers.
#14 - Hepatitis
M*A*S*H - Season 5 - Episode 19
Father Mulcahy comes down with infectious hepatitis, and Hawkeye has to give the whole camp antibiotics, whilst dealing with a psychosomatic back pain. Meanwhile, B.J. has to perform a very difficult operation.
#15 - Inga
M*A*S*H - Season 7 - Episode 16
It's instant attraction for Hawkeye when a beautiful Swedish doctor, called Inga, arrives to observe combat surgery. That is, until she upstages him in the operating room with a superior technique, and his ego is bruised.
#16 - Hey, Look Me Over
M*A*S*H - Season 11 - Episode 1
Margaret and her nursing staff are about to be inspected by Col. Bucholz. Meanwhile, Kellye is offended that Hawkeye is attracted to any nurse except her.
#17 - Lend a Hand
M*A*S*H - Season 8 - Episode 20
Irritated that the 4077th is planning a "surprise" party for him, Hawkeye volunteers to go to the aid of a wounded surgeon at the front. An additional irritant to Hawkeye is the arrival of Dr. Borelli, a wisecracking medical advisor with whom he habitually disagrees.
#18 - Comrades in Arms (Part 1)
M*A*S*H - Season 6 - Episode 12
Lost behind enemy lines, Hawkeye and Margaret form a personal truce and seek shelter in a roadside hut.
#19 - Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead
M*A*S*H - Season 10 - Episode 10
Whilst suffering a fever, Klinger communicates with the spirit of a dead soldier, Private Weston, who stays on to witness his own last rites.