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S8.E1 ∙ Too Many Cooks

Sun, Sep 16, 1979

The 4077 receives a patient who is a bumbler at the front but regular gourmet in the mess tent. The surgical staff try and convince Potter to keep him but he flatly refuses. He has enough trouble as it is, his marriage is in danger.

7.9 /10

S8.E2 ∙ Are You Now, Margaret?

Sun, Sep 23, 1979

A visiting Congressional aide accuses Margaret of being a Communist sympathizer and it could ruin her career. This dovetails with Klinger entering the Stars & Stripes photo contest.

7.7 /10

S8.E3 ∙ Guerilla My Dreams

Sun, Sep 30, 1979

Hawkeye refuses to accept a South Korean officer's warning that a wounded civilian he brought in is a dangerous enemy guerrilla soldier. Charles finds a new chess opponent.

7.3 /10

S8.E4 ∙ Good-Bye Radar: Part 1

Sun, Oct 07, 1979

As Radar returns from leave, the camp struggles with a total loss of electricity due to a malfunctioning generator and a stolen backup.

8.3 /10

S8.E5 ∙ Good-Bye Radar: Part 2

Sun, Oct 14, 1979

Although Radar is granted a hardship discharge, the camp's difficulties make him seriously consider staying. Klinger begins taking over the company clerk job.

8.7 /10

S8.E6 ∙ Period of Adjustment

Sun, Oct 21, 1979

B.J. and Klinger get drunk in despair at being envious of the now departed Radar.

8.2 /10

S8.E7 ∙ Nurse Doctor

Sun, Oct 28, 1979

The senior staff's attempt to help a nurse enter medical school to become a doctor is complicated by her unwanted romantic advances towards Father Mulcahy. Only Charles is unaffected by a drought and water shortage.

7.4 /10

S8.E8 ∙ Private Finance

Sun, Nov 04, 1979

Pierce deals with a dead soldier's ill-gotten gains, while a Korean mama attacks Klinger for dishonoring her daughter.

7.5 /10

S8.E9 ∙ Mr. and Mrs. Who?

Sun, Nov 11, 1979

After a drunken trip to Tokyo, Winchester is visited by his new wife. Meanwhile, the camp is hit with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever that they don't know how to deal with.

7.9 /10

S8.E10 ∙ The Yalu Brick Road

Sun, Nov 18, 1979

Hawkeye and BJ get lost in enemy territory while Klinger's Thanksgiving turkey sickens most of the camp with salmonella.

8.2 /10

S8.E11 ∙ Life Time

Sun, Nov 25, 1979

When one soldier, George, needs an aorta within 20 minutes to avoid paralysis and another soldier, Harold, arrives brain dead but with a beating heart, BJ must decide if he should remove Harold's aorta to save George's life.

8.8 /10

S8.E12 ∙ Dear Uncle Abdul

Sun, Dec 02, 1979

Resigned to staying for his term of service, Klinger writes home about his job, which includes appeasing the officers' eccentricities. A home-bound patient says goodbye to the slow-witted buddy who saved his life in battle.

7.7 /10

S8.E13 ∙ Captains Outrageous

Sun, Dec 09, 1979

While the 4077th staff substitute for Rosie after she's injured in a brawl at her bar, Father Mulcahy is at the end of his patience when he is passed over for promotion yet again.

7.2 /10

S8.E14 ∙ Stars and Stripes

Sun, Dec 16, 1979

During a lull in casualties, friction occurs when Charles and B.J. try to write an article for a prestigious journal on a procedure they'd performed. Margaret discovers more about herself through a visit from Scully.

7.2 /10

S8.E15 ∙ Yessir, That's Our Baby

Sun, Dec 30, 1979

When the 4077th staff find an abandoned Amerasian baby, their efforts to help her prove a frustrating struggle.

7.8 /10

S8.E16 ∙ Bottle Fatigue

Sun, Jan 06, 1980

Hawkeye goes on the wagon and drives everyone crazy. When Winchester hears that his sister is going to marry an Italian, he goes nuts, doing everything in his power to stop the marriage.

7.5 /10

S8.E17 ∙ Heal Thyself

Sun, Jan 13, 1980

When Potter and Charles are quarantined with mumps and get on each others' nerves, a replacement surgeon from Tokyo is brought in.

8.3 /10

S8.E18 ∙ Old Soldiers

Sun, Jan 20, 1980

When Potter visits a sick friend in Tokyo, Hawkeye is in charge and the 4077th treats a group of refugee orphans.

8.4 /10

S8.E19 ∙ Morale Victory

Sun, Jan 27, 1980

While Hawkeye and BJ struggle as morale officers of the disgruntled camp, Winchester tries to help a patient whose pianist career seems ruined due to a crippled hand.

8.3 /10

S8.E20 ∙ Lend a Hand

Sun, Feb 03, 1980

Everyone at the 4077 is so cranky, cold and bored, BJ decides the only way to uplift spirits is to "borrow" Hawkeye's birthday. Hawkeye is not amused. Captain Anthony Borelli (Robert Alda) visits the 4077 to lecture about peripheral nerve grafting to replace entire segments of skin. Borelli has always really annoyed Hawkeye. When the surgeon is injured at the Battalion Aid Station, Hawkeye rushes to volunteer for duty, just to avoid Borelli. But Borelli insists on accompanying him--so Hawkeye "borrows" BJ's wedding anniversary to substitute for his birthday. After riding to the BAS, the medic, Cpl. Jarvis (Antony Alda) is practically forced to throw water on the battling surgeons and he tells them to knock it off. By surgery's end, Dr. Left and Dr. Right are just a little too happy and annoying enough for one to pause and realize where the good looks in the Alda family went (Antony).

7.3 /10

S8.E21 ∙ Goodbye, Cruel World

Sun, Feb 10, 1980

When Klinger's attempt to redecorate his office is rejected, he decides to desert while Hawkeye has a homebound war hero patient who attempts suicide.

7.5 /10

S8.E22 ∙ Dreams

Sun, Feb 17, 1980

During a hectic non-stop rush of wounded that is overcrowding the camp, the staff's brief naps have disturbing dreams in which the war is an never-ending intrusion.

7.9 /10

S8.E23 ∙ War Co-Respondent

Sun, Mar 02, 1980

B.J. feels torn when he and visiting war correspondent Aggie O'Shea fall for each other.

7.3 /10

S8.E24 ∙ Back Pay

Sun, Mar 09, 1980

Pierce is upset by the fact that civilian doctors are making a lot of money off the war, and decides to bill the army for all his work. Meanwhile, Winchester is reluctantly showing 3 Korean doctors American medical techniques, putting them down all the while, until he is on the receiving end of their expertise.

7.5 /10

S8.E25 ∙ April Fools

Sun, Mar 23, 1980

Spit and polish Colonel Tucker visits the camp at the worst time during April Fool's Day. Klinger, egged on by Sergeant Rizzo, uses reverse psychology to try to get out of the Army.

8.6 /10