From: tdwood@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Troy D Wood)
Date: 5 Mar 93 19:45:11 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mash
Subject: Episode Summaries (Season One)

Gang,

Thanks for the positive responses about episode summaries!  Eva will also
be posting many of these summaries.  Thanks also to Doug Krause who sent
me his list of episodes.

For today, I'll only post season one summaries.

Season 1  (1972 - 1973)
Regular Cast - Alan Alda, Gary Burghoff, Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers,
McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit

1. M*A*S*H -- The Pilot Episode
   Written by Larry Gelbart
   Directed by Gene Reynolds

   The Swamp's Korean houseboy, Ho John, is accepted to attend school at
Hawkeye's alma mater.  The camp raises $2000 to send Ho John to Maine by
raffling a weekend in Tokyo with a nurse, much to the chagrin of Hot Lips
and Burns.  The winner?  Father Mulcahy!

2. Henry, Please Come Home
   Written by Laurence Marks
   Directed by William Wiard

   Due to the great success rate of the 4077th, Henry is transferred to
administrative duty in Tokyo.  Hawkeye and Trapper convince Radar to fake
an illness to get Henry to return.

3. To Market, To Market
   Written by Burt Styler
   Directed by Michael O'Herlihy

   After the 4077th supply of hydrocortisone is hijacked by black marketeers,
Hawkeye and Trapper concoct a deal with a local black marketeer (Jack Soo)
to get some more.  The catch:  Henry's antique oak desk, which is whisked
away by chopper as Henry watches in disbelief.

4. Germ Warfare
   Written by Larry Gelbart
   Directed by Terry Becker

   Hawkeye plays Dracula when he steals a pint of Frank's blood.  When he
suspects Frank of hepatitis, he works frantically (with Radar and Trapper)
to keep him away from everyone, including Hot Lips.

5. The Moose
   Written by Laurence Marks
   Directed by Hy Averback

   Hawkeye ends up winning a Korean girl as servant from the sergeant who
purchased her.  The girl, unfortunately, has a hard time understanding
Hawkeye when he attempts to set her free.

6. I Hate a Mystery
   Written by Hal Dressner
   Directed by Hy Averback

   Hawkeye plays detective when he becomes the chief suspect in a stealing
epidemic.  His sleuthful work leads him to the guilty party, none other than
Ho John (who still hasn't left for Maine).

7.  Chief Surgeon Who?
    Written by Larry Gelbart
    Directed by E. W. Swackhamer

    Frank and Hot Lips fume when Hawkeye is named chief surgeon over Frank.
They call up a general (Sorell Booke) who arrives in camp only to encounter
Klinger (his first appearance of the series), declares the camp nuts and
Hawkeye a genius.

8.  Requiem for a Lightweight
    Written by Bob Klane
    Directed by Hy Averback

    Trapper enters the intercamp boxing tournament to save a beautiful nurse
(Marcia Strassman) from being transferred out by Henry, at Hot Lips' request.

9.  Cowboy
    Written by Bob Klane
    Directed by Don Weis

    Henry refuses to let a chopper pilot go home, and the pilot feels there
is no alternative but to kill Henry.

10. Yankee Doodle Doctor
    Written by Laurence Marks
    Directed by Lee Philips

    The camp makes a film in response to one made about the 4077th at
the request of a brigadier general.  Guest appearance by Ed Flanders.

11. Bananas, Crackers, and Nuts (After Me, the Deluge)
    Written by Burt Styler
    Directed by Bruce Bilson

    After being denied R&R, Hawkeye fakes insanity, causing many problems
for the psychiatrist (Stuart Margolin) sent to study him.

12.  Edwina
     Written by Hal Dresner
     Directed by James Sheldon

     The nurses go to extremes to find a date of Nurse Eddie (Edwina)--they
won't go out with anyone until Eddie gets a date.  The men draw straws, and
Hawkeye is the big loser, especially after Eddie nearly kills him in a
scene resembling teenage "mating" rituals. :)

13.  Dear Dad
     Written by Larry Gelbart
     Directed by Gene Reynolds

     Hawkeye writes his dad, describing the antics of the 4077th--including
Mulcahy convincing Klinger not to kill himself.  For the finale, Hawkeye goes
to the front dressed as Santa to help save a wounded soldier.

14.  Love Story
     Written by Laurence Marks
     Directed by Earl Bellamy

     Radar gets a "Dear John" letter.  To help cheer him up, Hawkeye and
Trapper try to help him with a new nurse who's into classical literature and
music.  Radar's "Ahhhh, Bach!" and "That's highly significant," quotes win him
a friend in the nurse.

15.  Tuttle
     Written by Bruce Shelly and David Ketchum
     Directed by William Wiard

     Hawkeye and Trapper, with Radar's help, invent a fictitious Capt. Tuttle
so that his salary can be donated to help a local orphanage.  Almost caught
by James B. Sikking of Hill St. and Doogie Howser fame, Hawkeye must
sorrowfully tell the camp of Tuttle's fate to the whole camp--he leaped from
a chopper without a parachute.

16.  The Ringbanger
     Written by Jerry Mayer
     Directed by Jackie Cooper

     A colonel (Leslie Nielsen) with a high casualty record in the object of
the attention of Hawkeye, Trapper, and Radar, who conspire send him home
before he gets anyone else killed.

17.  Dear Dad...Again
     Written by Sheldon Keller and Larry Gelbart
     Directed by Jackie Cooper

     Hawkeye tells his dad of the cooling romance between Frank and Hot Lips
and Radar's correspondance corse.

18.  Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
     Written by Carl Kleinschmitt
     Directed by William Wiard

     Hawkeye is confronted with death when he is unable to save an old
journalist friend (James Callahan) who is killed on the front.  The death
spurs Hawkeye to send an underaged soldier (Ron Howard) home.  Meanwhile,
Frank throws out his back and applies for a Purple Heart.

19.  The Longjohn Flap
     Written by Alan Alda
     Direct by William Wiard

     Hawkeye gets a pair of longjohns from home.  Feeling sorry for Trapper,
who has a cold, he gives him the longjohns, which pass into the hands of most
of the camp before getting back in Hawkeye's hands.


20.  Major Fred C. Dobbs
     Written by Sid Dorfman
     Directed by Don Weis

     A silly episode where Frank, who threatens transfer, is convinced to stay
when hears Hawkeye and Trapper say they discovered gold.  The joke's on
Frank when he finds, amongst other things, a gilded jeep!

21.  Sticky Wicket
     Written by Laurence Marks and Larry Gelbart
     Directed by Don Weis

     Hawkeye and Frank argue over Frank's ability as a surgeon.  Then one
of Hawkeye's patients starts failing, Hawkeye starts reflecting about his
own abilities.

22.  The Army-Navy Game
     Written by Sid Dorfman
     Directed by Gene Reynolds

     The camp tunes-in to the Army-Navy football game, only to get bombed
and left with an unexploded shell in the compound.  When they try to defuse
the CIA bomb,it explodes--with American propaganda leaflets.

23.  Ceasefire
     Written by Laurence Marks
     Directed by Earl Bellamy

     The camp receives word that there's a ceasefire and erupts into
celebration, only to have their hopes shattered when wounded arrive.

24.  Showtime
     Written by Robert Klane and Larry Gelbart
     Directed by Jackie Cooper

     An entertainer performs for the camp in the compound.



Respectfully submitted,

Troy D. Wood
Dept. of Chemistry
The Ohio St. University

