M*A*S*H TV Season 6
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The first episode of Season 6 of M*A*S*H, Fade Out, Fade In, Part 1 aired 20 September 1977; the final episode, Major Topper aired 27 March 1978.
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Major events
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- Charles Emerson Winchester III is permanently assigned to the 4077th after Frank Burns goes crazy in Tokyo and is transferred back to the states (where he is later promoted to Lt. Colonel). (episodes: Fade Out, Fade In, Part 1 and Fade Out, Fade In, Part 2
- Corporal Klinger gets divorced from his wife Laverne Esposito (episode: Mail Call Three)
- Hawkeye Pierce and Margaret Houlihan have a brief love affair in Comrades in Arms, Part 1 (TV series episode) and Comrades in Arms, Part 2 (TV series episode)
MiscellanyEdit
Season 6: 1977-1978 Edit
List of Episodes (in broadcast order)Edit
| Date aired | Episode title | Production No. | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 20, 1977 | Fade Out, Fade In, Part 1 | Y-301 | Frank Burns goes crazy in Tokyo where Margaret Houlihan is on a honeymoon with her new husband Donald Penobscott, leaving the 4077th short a surgeon, so Colonel Potter recruits the help from Major Charles Emerson Winchester III from Tokyo General. |
| September 20, 1977 | Fade Out, Fade In, Part 2 | Y-302 | Frank is arrested in Tokyo, but the charges against him are not only dropped, he is transferred to a veteran's hospital in Indiana, and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel; meanwhile Major Winchester is now permanently assigned to the 4077th, much to his unpleasant dismay. |
| September 27, 1977 | Fallen Idol | Y-104 | Radar O'Reilly wants to be a hot lover, so Hawkeye Pierce sends him to Tokyo to find a nice girl and let nature takes it's coarse, only later to find Radar has been wounded and all eyes turn to him. |
| October 4, 1977 | Last Laugh | Y-103 | B.J. Hunnicutt's old pal Leo Bardonaro (who is a practical joker) pays him a visit at the 4077th to say goodbye as he is being discharged back to the states; B.J. later finds himself being arrested for disturbing the peace in Seoul the night before. |
| October 11, 1977 | War of Nerves | Y-106 | Sidney Freedman arrives at the 4077th as a casualty around the same time most (if not all) of the staff goes crazy. |
| October 18, 1977 | The Winchester Tapes | Y-107 | Charles tells the story of the 4077th through his eyes in a tape to his parents back home. |
| November 1, 1977 | The Light That Failed | Y-108 | While the camp is short on light bulbs, B.J. receives a mystery novel, The Rooster Crowed at Midnight in the mail, only to discover that the last page of the novel is missing, and they camp is unable to find out who committed the murders in the book. |
| November 8, 1977 | In Love and War | Y-112 | Hawkeye has to take care of the mother of an aristocratic south Korean woman, who he later falls in love with. |
| November 15, 1977 | Change Day | Y-113 | Scrip exchange is being made (red for blue) when Hawkeye discovers that $400 than has been intrusted to him has been stolen, meanwhile Charles tries to make a deal with the locals so he can exchange more blue from red scrip. |
| November 22, 1977 | Images | Y-105 | After seeing a corporal in the O.R. covered in tattoos, Radar decides he wants to get a tattoo as well, but can't decide on what kind of tattoo to get; meanwhile Margaret secretly cares for a stray puppy. |
| November 29, 1977 | The M*A*S*H Olympics | Y-110 | Feeling that the entire camp is lazy and out of shape, Colonel Potter holds the first annual M*A*S*H Olympics: Hawkeye and B.J. are named team captains, and each team will compete against each other for a three days of R&R. |
| December 6, 1977 | Comrades in Arms, Part 1 | Y-116 | Hawkeye and Margaret are sent to the 8063rd to demonstrate new surgical techniques, but they soon discover the 8063rd had to sudden bug-out, their jeep breaks down and is stolen by a band of North Koreans, and then seek shelter in a bomb-out hut. |
| December 13, 1977 | Comrades in Arms, Part 2 | Y-117 | Hawkeye comforts Margaret during a night of non-stop shelling in an abandoned hut, but the next day Margaret is a little too nice to Hawkeye that he can't stand her. |
| December 20, 1977 | The Merchant of Korea | Y-118 | B.J. borrows $200 from Charles so he can send Peg Hunnicutt a down-payment for some property in Mill Valley, and soon finds himself having to return SEVERAL favors to Charles. |
| January 3, 1978 | The Smell of Music | Y-115 | Hawkeye and B.J. cannot stand Charles's french-horn playing, so until he gives it up, they give up bathing. |
| January 10, 1978 | Patient 4077 | Y-114 | The surgeons of the 4077th need a special kind of instrument to perform a difficult operation on a casualty, and soon produce the new vascular clamp; meanwhile Corporal Klinger works hard to find Margaret's missing wedding ring after he accidentally throws it away. |
| January 17, 1978 | Tea and Empathy | Y-109 | In one sub-plot, B.J. has to deal with a junky of a patient who's hooked on morphine; in another the 4077th is low on penicillin and Klinger and Father Francis Mulcahy go out hunting for some that has been stolen from them; in another sub-plot, Hawkeye deals with tough British Major Major Derrick Ross who seems to want to march his troops right out of post-op. |
| January 24, 1978 | Your Hit Parade | Y-124 | The 4077th are over-run with casualties, so to help ease the tension, Radar runs his own "radio station" from his office. |
| January 30, 1978 | What's Up Doc? | Y-119 | Margaret suspects she's pregnant, but in order to be sure, a pregnancy test must be performed, but in order for the test to be done, they need the ovaries of Radar's female rabbit Fluffy; meanwhile a disgruntled patient holds Charles hostage until they can get him back to Ohio. |
| February 6, 1978 | Mail Call Three | Y-121 | After three weeks, a load of mail arrives for the staff members: Radar discovers his mother now has a new boy friend, Colonel Potter receives new snaps shots of his grand-son Cory Potter, Klinger learns his wife fell in love with another man and wants a divorce, B.J. finds out a neighbor has been hitting on Peggy, and Hawkeye has been receiving love-letters meant for different Benjamin Pierce. |
| February 13, 1978 | Temporary Duty | Y-125 | While Hawkeye and Nurse Bigelow are temporarily assigned to the 8063rd, the 4077th have to deal with a loud happy-go-lucky cowboy Captain Roy Dupree and a smart, but very open old girlfriend of Margaret's Lorraine Anderson. |
| February 20, 1978 | Potter's Retirement | Y-120 | Outraged at hearing complaints coming from inside the camp about his abilities as a commanding officer, Colonel Potter decides to put in for retirement. |
| February 27, 1978 | Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde | Y-122 | Radar puts his mouse, Daisy up against the Marine's Sluggo is a mouse-race; meanwhile Charles slowly becomes addicted to pep-pills. |
| March 27, 1978 | Major Topper | Y-123 | Klinger breaks in a new guard, Corporal 'Boots' Miller, who turns out to be a bigger nut than Klinger. Meanwhile Colonel Potter and the rest of the staff try to figure out how to deal with the excessive pain the casualties are experiencing in post-op. |
