MAS*H: Season 6

1977 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 6 of MAS*H

Season 6 of M*A*S*H Has 24 episodes and premiered on September 20, 1977. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Sep 20, 1977premiered

Mar 27, 1978Latest episode

10.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Fade Out, Fade In
Sep 20, 1977 · 50 min · ★ 7.4
Frank Burns cracks up over Margaret's marriage while on R&R in Tokyo, and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III is sent to the 4077th as a replacement by a vindictive superior officer.
Directed by: Hy Averback · Written by: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring: Rick Hurst, Raymond Singer, Robert Symonds, Tom Stovall
6x02 Fallen Idol
Sep 27, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
Radar has always looked up to Hawkeye and admired him as his hero. But after suffering a Jeep accident en route to R&R at Hawkeye's behest. Radar questions his own hero worship. Particularly when he and his hero have a falling out.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Alan Alda · Starring: Michael Talbott, Robin Riker, Patricia Stevens
6x03 Last Laugh
Oct 4, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 7.6
Madness strikes as B.J. and his old friend Bardonaro play a series of practical jokes on each other, just as Bardonaro is about to leave Korea. Hawkeye gets the last laugh. He sends Bardonaro off without his traveling papers, and in a jeep with too little gas.
Directed by: Don Weis · Written by: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring: James Cromwell, Robert Karnes, John Ashton
6x04 War of Nerves
Oct 11, 1977 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
The 4077th, caught up in tension and nerves, creates a bonfire to release their pressure. Meanwhile, Sidney Freedman is depressed over a young soldier who blames him for his injuries, because Freedman had sent him back into combat.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Alan Alda · Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Johnny Haymer, Peter Riegert, Allan Arbus
6x05 The Winchester Tapes
Oct 18, 1977 · 25 min
Hawkeye tries unsuccessfully to get to Seoul, to see Nurse Gilmore for the weekend. Meanwhile, Winchester has taped a letter home, asking for his influential parents to help get him back to the States. To get even, Hawkeye and B.J. switch Winchester's clothes, causing Winchester to alter his eating patterns.
Directed by: Burt Metcalfe · Written by: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell · Starring: Thomas Carter
6x06 The Light That Failed
Oct 25, 1977 · 25 min
With supplies low, the 4077th gets a truckload of ice cream churns and salt tablets. But what it needs are light bulbs, and in the dimly lit post-op Charles makes an error for which he draws the ultimate wrath of his two surgeon bunkmates. Meanwhile, B.J. receives a mystery novel that everyone in camp reads in turn. The last page is missing and the solution to the mystery is undiscovered until B.J. calls the author by long distance.
Directed by: Charles S. Dubin · Written by: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Philip Baker Hall
6x07 In Love and War
Nov 1, 1977 · 25 min
Hawkeye falls in love with Kyong Soon, a Korean woman who is caring for her sick mother and orphaned children. But all hope is lost as Kyong takes her possessions and the children to the south after her mother has died.
Directed by: Alan Alda · Written by: Alan Alda · Starring: Susan Krebs
6x08 Change Day
Nov 8, 1977 · 25 min
Charles plans a scheme to get rich when he discovers that blue scrip is going to be exchanged for red. Hawkeye and B.J. outsmart him, and he is left holding the worthless scrip. Klinger tries to get into West Point so that he can get out of Korea.
Directing: Don Weis · Writing: Laurence Marks · Starring: Philip Ahn, Johnny Haymer, Noel Toy, Peter Riegert
6x09 Images
Nov 15, 1977 · 25 min
Radar notices a number of tattoos on one of the wounded, and convinces himself that with a tattoo he will be irresistible to women. Everyone tries to discourage him, and he admits to having received a tattoo that will wash off. Meanwhile, Margaret is frustrated with a new nurse who keeps getting upset at the sight of combat injuries.
Directed by: Burt Metcalfe · Written by: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Susan Blanchard, Larry Block, Rebecca Taylor, Judy Farrell
6x10 The M*A*S*H Olympics
Nov 22, 1977 · 25 min
Colonel Potter, deciding that the camp is out of shape, enforces a calisthenics course. When nobody is enjoying it, he makes it fun by splitting the camp into two teams. These teams compete for three day R&R passes. Klinger tries to get out of the army by getting fat.
Directed by: Don Weis · Starring: Mike Henry
6x11 The Grim Reaper
Nov 29, 1977 · 25 min
Colonel Bloodworth threatens to press court-martial charges against Hawkeye, who shoved him in the bar. But then he becomes a patient and witnesses Hawkeye's skills. Klinger bonds with a patient from his hometown.
Directing: George Tyne · Writing: Burt Prelutsky · Starring: Charles Aidman, Jerry Houser
6x12 Comrades in Arms: Part 1
Dec 6, 1977 · 25 min
Lost behind enemy lines, Hawkeye and Margaret form a personal truce and seek shelter in a roadside hut.
Directing: Burt Metcalfe · Writing: Alan Alda · Starring: James Saito, Johnny Yune
6x13 Comrades in Arms: Part 2
Dec 13, 1977 · 25 min
B.J. disobeys orders and goes out to find Hawkeye and Margret, who are still missing in action. Meanwhile, their romantic relationship quickly goes up in flames, and they become even more hostile toward each other.
Directing: Alan Alda · Writing: Alan Alda · Starring: James Saito, Johnny Yune
6x14 The Merchant of Korea
Dec 20, 1977 · 25 min
After Charles hands B.J. two hundred dollars, he begins to take advantage. Everyone gets together and persuades Charles to play poker. He has incredible beginner's luck until Radar discovers that Charles whistles loudly when he bluffs. They all win back their money and then some.
Directed by: William B. Jurgensen · Written by: Ken Levine, David Isaacs · Starring: Johnny Haymer
6x15 The Smell of Music
Jan 3, 1978 · 25 min
Hawkeye and B.J. refuse to shower until Charles stops playing his French horn, and Colonel Potter deals with a patient who wants to kill himself because he is now disfigured.
Directed by: Stuart Millar · Written by: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: Jordan Clarke
6x16 Patent 4077
Jan 10, 1978 · 25 min
In need of a special surgical clamp, Hawkeye and B.J. hire Mr. Shin, a local jewelry dealer, to make it. Days later the clamp is used to save the leg of a wounded soldier. Mr. Shin goes into the surgical supply business.
Directed by: Harry Morgan · Starring: Keye Luke, Johnny Haymer, Patricia Stevens
6x17 Tea and Empathy
Jan 17, 1978 · 25 min
With British and American casualties heavy, the 4077th's supply of penicillin has been stolen. Father Mulcahy discovers, from Corporal Bryant, the location of some penicillin, and he and Klinger go out in search of it. They are shot at, but safely return with the drug and save the day.
Directed by: Don Weis · Starring: Bernard Fox, Sal Viscuso, Chris Mulkey
6x18 Your Hit Parade
Jan 24, 1978 · 25 min
With the arrival of a shipment of records, Radar plays the part of a disc jockey and helps to get everyone through the incredibly long deluge of wounded.
Directed by: George Tyne · Written by: Ronny Graham · Starring: Ken Michelman, Johnny Haymer, Patricia Stevens, Ronny Graham
6x19 What's Up, Doc?
Jan 30, 1978 · 25 min
Hot Lips, believing herself to be pregnant, asks Hawkeye to test her. The only rabbit available to use for the test is Radar's pet, Fluffy. Meanwhile, Martinson, a patient, holds Charles at gunpoint, demanding he be sent back to Ohio.
Directing: George Tyne · Starring: Charles Frank
6x20 Mail Call Three
Feb 6, 1978 · 25 min
After a delay of three weeks, five sacks of mail arrive, and everyone in camp reacts to good and bad news from home. Hawkeye receives love letters addressed to another Benjamin Pierce, another man has approached B.J.'s wife, and Radar's mom has found a boyfriend. Klinger: "I may not have a family in Toledo, but I got one here."
Directing: Charles S. Dubin · Writing: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell · Starring: Oliver Clark
6x21 Temporary Duty
Feb 13, 1978 · 25 min
With a temporary transfer of personnel between the 4077th and the 8063rd, Captain Roy Dupree replaces Hawkeye, whilst Lorraine Anderson makes eyes at Charles. Fearing this to be permanent, Charles and B.J. successfully conspire to have Dupree permanently removed from the 4077th. Charles (to Hawkeye): "God, I missed you!"
Directed by: Burt Metcalfe · Starring: Marcia Rodd, George Lindsey
6x22 Potter's Retirement
Feb 20, 1978 · 25 min
When bad reports are filed at headquarters, Col. Potter contemplates retirement.
Directed by: William B. Jurgensen · Written by: Laurence Marks · Starring: George Wyner, Johnny Haymer, Peter Hobbs
6x23 Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde
Feb 27, 1978 · 25 min
Charles takes amphetamines to keep up his energy level, and even drugs Radar's mouse, "Daisy", so that it will win a race against a Marine's mouse, "Sluggo".
Directed by: Charles S. Dubin · Written by: Ronny Graham, Ken Levine, David Isaacs · Starring: Christopher Murney
6x24 Major Topper Season Finale
Mar 27, 1978 · 25 min
The doctors have to deal with a short supply of morphine and too many patients, while Klinger has to deal with a corporal who may be crazier than he is.
Directing: Charles S. Dubin · Writing: Allyn Freeman · Starring: Paul Linke, Hamilton Camp, John Kirby