The Darkest M*A*S*H Episodes
M*A*S*H was never simply a comedy. This series often went to such depths, especially in its last seasons, to depict the human condition and war's effect on it. Here's all the episodes where M*A*S*H went there...
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- DirectorGene ReynoldsStarsAlan AldaWayne RogersMcLean StevensonDrama, pathos and humor combine when heavy casualties result in a long session in the O.R.
- DirectorHy AverbackStarsAlan AldaWayne RogersMcLean StevensonWhile Radar tries to stop the camp from being shelled by their own artillery, Frank finds a wounded enemy soldier wired to explode, Margaret and Trapper get stuck in a supply shed and Henry and Father Mulcahy get blown up in the latrine.
- DirectorLarry GelbartStarsAlan AldaWayne RogersMcLean StevensonHenry finds out he's been discharged from the army and everyone at the 4077th prepares to say goodbye to him as he heads home.'Abyssinia Henry' is 23 minutes of comedy and about 1 minute of the most devastating long take you've ever seen...
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganDue to a clerical error, Hawkeye has been declared dead. He goes crazy wondering how his dad is taking the news but the phone lines are tied up due to Eisenhower's impending visit.A clerical error accidentally declares Hawkeye dead, which is fun until the "dead man" can't collect his army salary and he has to navigate the mind-numbing process of army bureaucracy to rectify their mistake. Further complicating matters is Hawk can't reach his dad in Crabapple Cove, in the middle of a communication's blackout, to tell him that he's still very much alive.
- DirectorWilliam K. JurgensenStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganThe Chinese Army joins the war, killing any hopes the 4077th has about a speedy resolution and homecoming.Shortages. Working in the almost complete darkness. A rubber glove shortages means Margaret pours alcohol on Hawkeye's hands to sterilize him before working on a patient. Radar, whose glasses are broken, sits in a leaky building talking over the phone with another company clerk, trading film reels for medical supplies.
Images like these shade in details of a war that's gone on a little too long, but the people back home have no realistic concept of such, and that of the army itself who think a few worthless citations make up for the inadequate support of their personnel. - DirectorLarry GelbartStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWar Correspondent Clete Roberts interviews the members of the 4077.
- DirectorBurt MetcalfeStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganHawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."A M*A*S*H episode where the Korean War invades the dormant subconscious of a sleepwalking Hawkeye. This isn't the last time where the war informs the dreams of our characters...
- DirectorGeorge TyneStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen the Army increases the number of points needed for a discharge, Hawkeye gets angry and interrupts official peace talks. Meanwhile, Margaret decides to divorce Donald after he permanently transfers himself stateside.The one of the first episodes on M*A*S*H to indicate that war in Korea has lasted slightly too long...
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganIt's Christmas time in Korea, and everybody's depressed--especially Father Mulcahy, who is concerned that he isn't making a difference to anyone.Father Mulcahy the most indomitable character on M*A*S*H has a crisis of confidence of his effectiveness, compared to the room of doctors he works alongside...
- DirectorTony MordenteStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganHawkeye performs a shocking and sinister stunt to keep a war-obsessed colonel from sending more young victims to a possible early grave, while Klinger tries to use voodoo on Potter to get a discharge.Trapper and Hawkeye once operated on Colonel Flagg and removed his appendix to keep out of commission. Now, years later Hawkeye is prepared to do the same to keep an arrogant colonel from sacrificing troops to capture a hill of minimal strategic value. What was once easy is not so easier anymore and his victim is a mere symptom of a much larger disease...
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganHawkeye 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.Hawkeye and BJ try to aid and treat a North Korean who would easily kill them to escape if she had the chance. One of the few episodes where the show's liberalism confronts the messy reality of war...
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganB.J. and Klinger get drunk in despair at being envious of the now departed Radar.BJ has been gone from home for such a long time that his young daughter thinks Radar is her father...
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen 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.BJ uses the organ of a brain-dead soldier to save another casualty whose newly arrived at the 4077th...
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen the 4077th staff find an abandoned Amerasian baby, their efforts to help her prove a frustrating struggle.A local drops off an Amerasian baby in front of The Swamp and the 4077th show more concern for the child's future than everyone else, including the callous army officials.
Amazingly children born to American servicemen were still second-class citizens until 1989, a full decade latter, when the Amerasian Homecoming Act finally gave such children preferential immigration status. - DirectorMike FarrellStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen Potter and Charles are quarantined with mumps and get on each others' nerves, a replacement surgeon from Tokyo is brought in.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganDuring 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.The Korean War finally infects everyone's dreams at the 4077th during a particular long day of surgery: Literal blood gets on Margaret's wedding dress, Triage and the OR gets in the BJ and Peg's dancing, Charles skilled surgical skills can't literally perform the magic to save a patient's life and Father Mulcahy's cardinal status pales compared to the Messiah soldiers who are crucified on the cross.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen a supply snafu brings too many tongue depressors to camp, Hawkeye uses the extras to erect a monument to the wounded who have passed through camp. Klinger starts his own camp newspaper.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWinchester goes on a spiritual journey after a near-death experience. Hawkeye experiences the problems of being the officer in charge of food services when Potter rotates the duty roster.Every disc must be removed from this Jeep and placed on the sheet in its assigned order.
Don't you understand the power you have here? You can take a Jeep apart and reduce it to an inert pile of junk and whenever you want - at a whim - you can fit it together again and it will roar back to life.
If only we could do that with human beings. They wouldn't die. - DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganFearing for his life at an aid station, Hawkeye writes his will with special bequests for his friends.
- DirectorHarry MorganStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganWhen a nurse that Hawkeye is dating dies, he offers to deliver her eulogy and discovers that he didn't know her. Klinger tries to interest Charles in a business venture.
- DirectorAlan AldaStarsAlan AldaMike FarrellHarry MorganIn the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.As the Korean War comes to its conclusion, it leaves lasting psychological scars on the characters we've loved for 11 seasons...