MAS*H: Season 5

1976 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 5 of MAS*H

The season opens at the 4077 mobile army surgical hospital in Uijeongbu, just behind the front lines of the Korean War. Surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper McIntyre hold the team together with their friendship as they treat wounded soldiers who must survive. The daily pressure eases with the hunt for tobacco, liquor or chocolate, dates with the nurses, and football games against other camps. Margaret's engagement to Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott tenses the atmosphere, and Frank Burns responds with hostility. The episodes mix humor with the toll of living so close to the war.

24episodes

Sep 21, 1976premiered

Mar 15, 1977Latest episode

10.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Bug Out
Sep 21, 1976 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
When a rumor for a camp relocation turns out to be real, Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar volunteer to stay behind for a patient who cannot be moved.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: Richard Lee-Sung, Frances Fong, Don Eitner, Barry Cahill
5x02 Margaret's Engagement
Sep 28, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Margaret, calling from Tokyo, holds the camp in suspense until she returns with the news of her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Frank Burns takes the news hard and arrests a Korean family as spies.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Gary Markowitz
5x03 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Oct 5, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Ken Levine, David Isaacs · Starring: Kellye Nakahara, Tom Sullivan, Judy Farrell, Enid Kent
5x04 Lt. Radar O'Reilly
Oct 12, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.3
Following an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.
Directing: Alan Rafkin · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: Johnny Haymer, Sandy Kenyon, Jeff Maxwell, Raymond Chao
5x05 The Nurses
Oct 19, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.
Directing: Joan Darling · Writing: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason · Starring: Mary Jo Catlett, Linda Kelsey, Gregory Harrison, Carol Lawson Locatell
5x06 The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan
Oct 26, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
Margaret takes off in the middle of the night to help deliver a Korean baby. Nobody knows of her whereabouts, and Colonel Flagg is brought in to help investigate her disappearance.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Don Reo, Allan Katz · Starring: Edward Winter, Lynne Marie Stewart, Susan Bredhoff, June Kim
5x07 Dear Sigmund
Nov 9, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 8.2
Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman composes a letter to Sigmund Freud during a visit to the 4077, while the rest of the camp endures the hijinks of a mystery prankster.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Alan Alda · Starring: Bart Braverman, Sal Viscuso, Allan Arbus, Charles Frank
5x08 Mulcahy's War
Nov 16, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: Richard Cogan · Starring: Ric Mancini, Brian Byers, Richard Foronjy
5x09 The Korean Surgeon
Nov 23, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Bill Idelson · Starring: Robert Ito, Soon-Tek Oh, Larry Hama
5x10 Hawkeye Get Your Gun
Nov 30, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.6
Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers.
Directing: William B. Jurgensen · Writing: Jay Folb · Starring: Mako, Jeff Maxwell, Richard Doyle, Thomas Botosan
5x11 The Colonel's Horse
Dec 7, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
Everybody pitches in to save Colonel Potter's horse, who becomes sick while Potter is away in Tokyo. And Margaret asks Hawkeye, not Frank, to operate on her appendix.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
5x12 Exorcism
Dec 14, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Jay Folb · Starring: Virginia Ann Lee, Philip Ahn, Johnny Yune
5x13 Hawk's Nightmare
Dec 21, 1976 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Patricia Stevens, Allan Arbus
5x14 The Most Unforgettable Characters
Jan 4, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
Radar becomes an aspiring writer after ordering a flier from a comic book, and Hawkeye and B.J. give Frank a surprise birthday present that only he will appreciate.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Ken Levine, David Isaacs · Starring: Jeff Maxwell
5x15 38 Across
Jan 11, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
A fouled radio call for help on a crossword puzzle leads to a senior officer coming to the 4077th to help with a supposed serious medical problem.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
5x16 Ping Pong
Jan 18, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
The 4077th hosts a traditional Korean wedding, much to Frank's objections. And Colonel Potter runs into an old friend who has put his troops in jeopardy so that he could receive a promotion.
Directing: William B. Jurgensen · Writing: Sid Dorfman · Starring: Dick O'Neill, Oliver Clark
5x17 End Run
Jan 25, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
A former star college football player suffers a severe leg injury in combat and must deal with the consequences, and Major Burns goes behind Colonel Potter's back to set up a boxing match between Klinger and Zale.
Directing: Harry Morgan · Writing: John D. Hess · Starring: Johnny Haymer, Greg Mabrey
5x18 Hanky Panky
Feb 1, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.3
B.J. falls off the fidelity wagon while trying to provide consolation to a nurse whose marriage has just ended. But will he confess his infidelity to his wife?
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Gene Reynolds
5x19 Hepatitis
Feb 8, 1977 · 25 min
The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Alan Alda
5x20 The General's Practitioner
Feb 15, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.
Directing: Alan Rafkin · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Leonard Stone, Larry Wilcox, Edward Binns, Susie Elene
5x21 Movie Tonight
Feb 22, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Don Reo · Starring: Jeffrey Kramer, Odessa Cleveland, Enid Kent, Carmine Scelza
5x22 Souvenirs
Mar 1, 1977 · 25 min
Hawkeye and BJ try to stop a chopper pilot from selling souvenirs derived from war materials derived from locals facing danger getting them, and Klinger becomes a pole-sitter in his latest attempt to get a Section Eight.
Directing: Joshua Shelley · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Michael Bell, Brian Dennehy, Scott Mulhern, June Kyoto Lu
5x23 Post Op
Mar 8, 1977 · 25 min
The 4077th is deluged with patients and their individual medical histories. Then they run out of blood and everyone is donating at 48-hour intervals.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: David Isaacs, Ken Levine · Starring: Hilly Hicks, Andy Romano, Sal Viscuso, Alan McRae
5x24 Margaret's Marriage Season Finale
Mar 15, 1977 · 25 min
Pressured by Frank, Margaret decides to marry Colonel Donald Penobscott at the 4077th. When Donald arrives in camp, he is treated to a bachelor party and a practical joke while the nurses give Margaret a bridal shower.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: Patricia Stevens, Odessa Cleveland, Beeson Carroll, Lynne Marie Stewart