MAS*H: Season 3

1974 · 24 episodes · ★ 6.5

What Season 3 of MAS*H

Season 3 of M*A*S*H Has 24 episodes and premiered on September 10, 1974. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Sep 10, 1974premiered

Mar 18, 1975Latest episode

10 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The General Flipped at Dawn
Sep 10, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.8
The MASH 4077 is visted by General Steele. He wishes to move the camp 5 miles down the road. Hawkeye and Henry are charged with mutiny. And Hawkeye is also charged with impersonating a reporter.
Directed by Larry Gelbart · Written by Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Harry Morgan, Dennis Erdman
3x02 Rainbow Bridge
Sep 17, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.9
As Hawkeye and Trapper are planning to leave for Tokyo, an unusual offer to swap POW patients between the Chinese and the 4077th comes in. Henry, after much debate, agrees to send Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Radar, and Klinger into enemy territory. Frank almost botches the swap when he brings a squirt gun to the exchange. Fortunately, the Chinese Dr. Lin Tam has a sense of humor; he went to the University of Illinois, after all.
Directing: Hy Averback · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Mako, Loudon Wainwright III
3x03 Officer of the Day
Sep 24, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.6
While Henry is away in Seoul, Burns and Houlihan are in charge, and Hawkeye is the officer of the day. His refusal to release a wounded Korean soldier, wanted by US Intelligence, leads to a confrontation with Colonel Flagg.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Laurence Marks · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Edward Winter, Jeff Maxwell
3x04 Iron Guts Kelly
Oct 1, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 7.0
General 'Iron Guts' Kelly arrives for an inspection, and ends up dying in Margaret's tent. Hawkeye and Trapper help the General's aide smuggle him out of camp. The next day he is reported killed at the front, as that is where he would have wanted to die.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Sid Dorfman, Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Keene Curtis, Jeff Maxwell, James Gregory
3x05 O.R.
Oct 8, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.8
The OR is filled with more wounded than the unit can handle. Hawkeye does heart massage on a soldier, which saves his life, but he dies four hours later. Sidney Freedman drops in during the deluge, and is dragged into the fray by Hawkeye.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Odessa Cleveland, Allan Arbus
3x06 Springtime
Oct 15, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.4
When spring arrives, Klinger gets word from home that his sweetheart back in Toledo wants to marry him. Henry arranges for Father Mulcahy to do this over short wave radio. Radar falls in love with a nurse, while a grateful patient won't leave Hawkeye alone, and even threatens Major Burns.
Directed by Don Weis · Written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Mary Kay Place · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Alex Karras, Patricia Stevens
3x07 Check-Up
Oct 22, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
Trapper gets an ulcer and a ticket home. Unfortunately, his going-away party is spoiled by a new Army regulation, which forces him to stay.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Laurence Marks · Starring: Jamie Farr, Patricia Stevens
3x08 Life With Father
Oct 29, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
Mail from home worries Henry that Lorraine may be seeing other men. Father Mulcahy presides over a Jewish circumcision ceremony for the Korean-born son of a US GI.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring William Christopher, Patricia Stevens
3x09 Alcoholics Unanimous
Nov 12, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.5
Henry's departure to Tokyo leaves Major Burns in charge of the 4077th. He declares total prohibition of alcohol, which leads to a near riot amongst the camp, especially from Hawkeye and Trapper.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Bobbie Mitchell
3x10 There is Nothing Like a Nurse
Nov 19, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
The nurses are evacuated when the threat of an enemy parachute drop arises. Hawkeye and Trapper try to enliven everyone's spirits whilst they are gone. Hawkeye: "The plot thins. Watch the cake sue for malpractice when Frank cuts into it."
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Larry Gelbart · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Loudon Wainwright III, Bobbie Mitchell
3x11 Adam's Ribs
Nov 26, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.4
Sick and tired of having liver and fish for an 11-day stretch, Hawkeye, driven near to insanity, starts a riot in the mess tent. He and Trapper then orders spare ribs and sauce from the best place he ever had them, in Chicago. Trapper calls a woman he spent a weekend with to pick up the ribs, and then they get choppered in. Unfortunately, right as they're sitting down to eat, wounded arrive, and Hawkeye is forced to postpone sinking his teeth into his beloved ribs.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Laurence Marks · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Jeff Maxwell, Basil Hoffman
3x12 A Full Rich Day
Dec 3, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.2
Hawkeye records a letter to his dad, detailing the exploits of a mad Turkish soldier who calls Hawkeye a "damn good Joe," the unfortunate loss of the corpse of a Luxembourg soldier (who turns out not to be dead), Lt. Henri-Batiste LeClerc, and of a gun-happy officer.
Directed by Gene Reynolds · Written by John D. Hess · Starring Jamie Farr, Curt Lowens, William Watson, Michael Keller
3x13 Mad Dogs and Servicemen
Dec 10, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
A local dog bites Radar, and the camp conducts a search to find the pooch, so that Radar doesn't have to undergo a series of painful rabies vaccinations. Hawkeye defies Frank, to take care of a GI who's suffering from a case of hysterical paralysis.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Mary Kay Place · Starring Michael O'Keefe, Jeff Maxwell, Shizuko Hoshi, Bobbie Mitchell
3x14 Private Charles Lamb
Dec 31, 1974 · 25 min · ★ 6.6
A Greek Colonel thanks the 4077th by giving them food and drink for an Easter celebration. But the feast is foiled when softhearted Radar saves the main course from the spit - a lamb, which Radar tricks Henry into giving a medical discharge and sends home to Ottumwa, Iowa. Thus, Hawkeye and Trapper invent the famed Spam Lamb! Meanwhile, a soldier who had shot himself to get out of the army confesses to Frank, thinking he is Father Mulcahy.
Directing: Hy Averback · Writing: Sid Dorfman · Starring: Jamie Farr, Ted Eccles, Titos Vandis
3x15 Bombed
Jan 7, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.7
The camp is under fire and is swamped with wounded. They are being attacked by their own artillery in a frightening "friendly fire" incident. Trapper and Margaret get trapped in the Supply Tent together. Frank's jealousy of Trapper drives him to propose to Margaret.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Louisa Moritz, Edward Marshall
3x16 Bulletin Board
Jan 14, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.2
Camp activities include Henry's nervous delivery of a sex lecture, with Hawkeye's and Trapper's heckling, a Shirley Temple movie, and a cookout.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Larry Gelbart · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Johnny Haymer, Patricia Stevens
3x17 The Consultant
Jan 21, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 5.8
Dr. Borelli visits the 4077th to demonstrate his artery transplant technique. Unfortunately, being so close to the front at the 4077th causes Borelli's drinking problem to interfere at the worst time - when a patient needs the transplant.
Directed by Gene Reynolds · Written by Robert Klane · Starring William Christopher, Robert Alda, Joseph Maher, Tad Horino
3x18 House Arrest
Feb 4, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.2
Hawkeye is accused of hitting Frank and is placed under house arrest pending a court-martial. Meanwhile. Margaret is nervous about a visit from a meticulous female colonel.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Mary Wickes, Jeff Maxwell
3x19 Aid Station
Feb 11, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.6
Hawkeye, Houlihan, and Klinger go to an aid station at the front. Working closely together under heavy fire and unsanitary medical conditions, the three return to camp with new found respect for one another.
Directing: William B. Jurgensen · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher
3x20 Love and Marriage
Feb 18, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
Hawkeye and Trapper prevent a GI from marrying a call girl who has TB, whilst trying to help a Korean soldier join his pregnant wife. Radar, of course, provides his usual invaluable help.
Directed by Lee Philips · Written by Arthur Julian · Starring William Christopher, Johnny Haymer, Soon-Tek Oh, Dennis Dugan
3x21 Big Mac
Feb 25, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.8
The camp prepares for a visit from General MacArthur. Klinger dresses as the Statue of Liberty as the General's jeep drives through the camp. MacArthur is so impressed, he salutes!
Directed by Don Weis · Written by Laurence Marks · Starring Jamie Farr, Loudon Wainwright III, Graham Jarvis
3x22 Payday
Mar 4, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
Frank buys two sets of pearls, one for Margaret and one for his wife. After some talk, Radar gets Hawkeye $3,000 in lost earnings, Hawkeye gives it to Mulcahy for the orphans, but then the army wants the money back. Trapper wins big at poker after using Hawkeye's watch as a stake, so Hawkeye takes his winnings to avoid a stay in the honeymoon suite of The Stockade Hilton.
Directed by Hy Averback · Written by Gary Markowitz · Starring Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Johnny Haymer, Eldon Quick
3x23 White Gold
Mar 11, 1975 · 25 min
Colonel Flagg blows into camp trying to obtain penicillin to barter for information. But Flagg comes down with appendicitis, and the only penicillin he gets is in the keister.
Directing: Hy Averback · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Edward Winter, Stafford Repp
3x24 Abyssinia, Henry Season Finale
Mar 18, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 9.1
Everyone is happy when Henry finds out that he is being discharged and sent home, and Hawkeye and Trapper decide to literally send him off in style...
Directing: Larry Gelbart · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring: Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Virginia Ann Lee