MAS*H: Season 4

1975 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.7

What Season 4 of MAS*H

Season 4 of M*A*S*H Has 24 episodes and premiered on September 12, 1975. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Sep 12, 1975premiered

Feb 24, 1976last episode

10.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Welcome to Korea
Sep 12, 1975 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
Trapper is shipped home while Hawkeye is on R&R. Hawkeye speeds to Kimpo with Radar to catch Trapper's plane, but they just miss him. While they are there, they pick up BJ Hunnicut and take him back to camp. On the way back, BJ is introduced to the Korean War.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell, Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Robert Karnes, Tom Dever, Ted Zeigler
4x02 Change of Command
Sep 19, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Frank settles in as commanding officer, only to have a new one appointed over his head, one that, to his chagrin, fits in very well.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, Jeff Maxwell
4x03 It Happened One Night
Sep 26, 1975 · 25 min
A freezing night, an artillery barrage that's coming too close, a patient going downhill, and Frank's searching Hot Lips' tent for his letters.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: Christopher Allport, Darren O'Connor
4x04 The Late Captain Pierce
Oct 3, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
When Hawkeye's father is notified that he's dead, he finds it's no easy matter either to get word to him or to establish otherwise.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Glen Charles, Les Charles · Starring: Richard Masur, Eldon Quick, Kellye Nakahara, Sherry Steffens
4x05 Hey, Doc
Oct 10, 1975 · 25 min
Its quid pro quo at the 4077th: two bottles of Scotch for secret surgery, and a tank to scare off snipers for an unauthorized shot of penicillin.
Directing: William B. Jurgensen · Writing: Rick Mittleman · Starring: William Christopher, Frank Marth, Bruce Kirby, Ted Hamilton
4x06 The Bus
Oct 17, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Radar is driving Hawk, B.J., Sherman, and Frank in a bus back from a "medical conference" when they get lost. They stop to see if they can find anything they recognize. When they decide to turn around, they find that the bus does not want to start. Radar goes off in the middle of the night for the latrine, and does not immediately return. Stricken, Hawkeye wants to set out to find him, only to be stopped by Sherman. An injured Korean surrenders to get medical help from Hawk and B.J.. Upon Radar return, the Korean helps repair the bus and get them out of danger.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: John D. Hess · Starring: Soon-Tek Oh
4x07 Dear Mildred
Oct 24, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
It's Potter's anniversary. While Potter writes home, Frank and Hot Lips have a wood carving made for him, and Radar rescues a horse and makes him a present of it.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, Buck Young, Patricia Stevens, Richard Lee-Sung
4x08 The Kids
Oct 31, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
The 4077th plays host to kids bombed out of their orphanage, and at the same time has to deliver a baby and care for battle casualties.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, Ann Doran, Kellye Nakahara
4x09 Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler
Nov 7, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 8.2
Intelligence officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapples over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who claims to be Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most poignant scene is when Radar asks Chandler to bless his teddy bear.
Directing: Larry Gelbart · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: William Christopher, Edward Winter, Allan Arbus, Alan Fudge
4x10 Dear Peggy
Nov 11, 1975 · 25 min
B.J. writes home to his wife, Peg, reporting Klinger's escape attempts, the visit of a formidable chaplain, and one of Frank's goof-ups.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, Ned Beatty
4x11 Of Moose and Men
Nov 21, 1975 · 25 min
Hawkeye tangles with a tough Army colonel, Colonel Spiker, B.J. helps Zale, who's received a "Dear John" letter, and Frank looks endlessly for Korean saboteurs.
Directing: John Erman · Writing: Jay Folb · Starring: Johnny Haymer, Jeff Maxwell, Tim O'Connor
4x12 Soldier of the Month
Nov 28, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Frank has a fever and makes a will, leaving all his money to his wife and all his clothes to Hot Lips.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason · Starring: William Christopher, Johnny Haymer
4x13 The Gun
Dec 2, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
A wounded colonel's gun, a showpiece, disappears, and Hawkeye and B.J. play a hunch and bluff Frank, who has it, into returning it.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Warren Stevens
4x14 Mail Call, Again
Dec 9, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 7.3
Mail brings a letter to Frank saying his wife is divorcing him, and one to Potter telling him he's going to be a grandfather.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher
4x15 The Price of Tomato Juice
Dec 16, 1975 · 25 min · ★ 7.5
Radar gets the help of Hawkeye and B.J. to procure something Colonel Potter says he's fond of, but that's hard to come by - tomato juice.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Jeff Maxwell
4x16 Dear Ma
Dec 23, 1975 · 25 min
Radar writes home to his mother, as Hawkeye conducts the camp foot inspection, and Colonel Potter gets some shrapnel in his backside.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, John Fujioka, Rollin Moriyama, Byron Chung
4x17 Der Tag
Jan 6, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
Potter decides Frank would be less of a pain if the others were friendlier to him; they oblige, with some startling results.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: William Christopher, Joe Morton
4x18 Hawkeye
Jan 13, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
Hawkeye is injured in a jeep accident and, aware he has a concussion, babbles to a Korean family to keep himself awake.
Directing: Larry Gelbart · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: Philip Ahn, Shizuko Hoshi, June Kim, Susan Sakimoto
4x19 Some 38th Parallels
Jan 20, 1976 · 25 min
Frank tries to distinguish himself by selling the camp garbage, but it's Hawkeye who finds a use for it: he dumps it on a troublesome Colonel Coner.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Gary Markowitz · Starring: William Christopher, Lynnette Mettey, Kevin Hagen, George O'Hanlon, Jr.
4x20 The Novocaine Mutiny
Jan 27, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Frank has Hawkeye up on charges of mutiny, for usurping his authority when Potter was away on leave, and Frank was the C.O. The Judge Advocate, Colonel Carmichael, tries the case; BJ, Potter, and Radar are in attendance of the preliminary hearing to offer support for Hawkeye. There are several versions of what happened: according to Frank, he was trying to hold the 4077th together during heavy casualties when everyone else was falling apart; according to The Eye Of The Hawk, BJ and Radar, it was Frank who was out of control with his regimen. Finding no evidence of the alleged mutiny, the judge drops all charges against Hawkeye and puts Frank in his place (but will he stay there?!).
Directing: Harry Morgan · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: William Christopher, Johnny Haymer, Patricia Stevens, Ned Wilson
4x21 Smilin' Jack
Feb 3, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
The 4077th turns up a sick helicopter pilot, 'Smilin' Jack, who doesn't want to quit, and a twice-wounded GI who does.
Directing: Charles S. Dubin · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: Robert Hogan, Dennis Kort
4x22 The More I See You
Feb 10, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
Hawkeye is reunited with a woman he thought was out of his life forever, but who never altogether leaves.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Mary Jo Catlett, Blythe Danner
4x23 Deluge
Feb 17, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
A sudden deluge of wounded at the 4077th is followed by a fire and a rainstorm which makes matters difficult for the staff.
Directing: William B. Jurgensen · Writing: Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner · Starring: William Christopher, Albert Hall, Kario Salem, Anthony Palmer
4x24 The Interview Season Finale
Feb 24, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Clete Roberts introduces this segment as his show; he's arrived at Korea to interview the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital because of its high 97% efficiency rating. In Roberts' interviews with Hawkeye, BJ, Frank, Radar, Klinger, Mulcahy and Potter, they talk about how they cope with their situation, what they miss about home, how they feel about who they work with, and whether they see any good in coming from war.
Directing: Larry Gelbart · Writing: Larry Gelbart · Starring: William Christopher, Clete Roberts