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| M*A*S*H Season 5 : |
| The fifth season of M*A*S*H aired Tuesdays at 9:00-9:30 pm on CBS. |
| Episode 1 - [Bug Out] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gene Reynolds | |
| Air Date : Sep. 21, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Margaret's Engagement] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gene Reynolds | Director : Alan Alda | Writer : Gary Markowitz | |
| Air Date : Sep. 28, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Out Of Sight Out Of Mind] |
| Details : Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Alan Alda | Writer : Gary Markowitz | |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Lt Radar O'reilly] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Johnny Haymer as Sergeant Zale | Sandy Kenyon | Jeff Maxwell as Igor | Director : Alan Rafkin | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [The Nurses] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Jo Catlett | Linda Kelsey | Gregory Harrison | Writer : Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | Director : Joan Darling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [The Abduction Of Margaret Houlihan] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Edward Winter as Colonel Samuel Flagg | Director : Gene Reynolds | |
| Air Date : Oct. 26, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [Dear Sigmund] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bart Braverman | Sal Viscuso | Allan Arbus as Dr. Sidney Freedman | Charles Frank | Director : Alan Alda | Writer : Alan Alda | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1976 |
| Episode 8 - [Mulcahy's War] |
| Details : Father Mulcahy troubled by his lack of experience at the front insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ric Mancini | Director : George Tyne | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [The Korean Surgeon] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Ito | Soon-Tek Oh | Director : Gene Reynolds | |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [Hawkeye Get Your Gun] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mako | Writer : Jay Folb | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [The Colonel's Horse] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Everett Greenbaum | Director : Burt Metcalfe | Writer : Jim Fritzell | |
| Air Date : Dec. 07, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [Exorcism] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Ahn | Director : Alan Alda | |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Hawk's Nightmare] |
| Details : Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his war against the war. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Patricia Stevens | Allan Arbus as Dr. Sidney Freedman | Writer : Burt Prelutsky | Director : Burt Metcalfe | |
| Air Date : Dec. 21, 1976 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [The Most Unforgettable Characters] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Maxwell as Igor | Director : Burt Metcalfe | Writer : David Isaacs | Writer : Ken Levine | |
| Air Date : Jan. 04, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [38 Across] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Everett Greenbaum | Director : Burt Metcalfe | Writer : Jim Fritzell | |
| Air Date : Jan. 11, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Ping Pong] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dick O'Neill as The Admiral | Oliver Clark as Lt. Brooks | Writer : Sid Dorfman | Director : William K. Jurgensen | |
| Air Date : Jan. 18, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [End Run] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Johnny Haymer as Sergeant Zale | Director : Harry Morgan | Writer : John D. Hess | |
| Air Date : Jan. 25, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Hanky Panky] |
| Details : 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? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Gene Reynolds | Writer : Gene Reynolds | |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [Hepatitis] |
| Details : The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Alan Alda | Writer : Alan Alda | |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 1977 |
| Episode 20 - [The General's Practitioner] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Leonard Stone | Larry Wilcox | Edward Binns | Writer : Burt Prelutsky | Director : Alan Rafkin | |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 1977 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Movie Tonight] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jeffrey Kramer | Odessa Cleveland as Ginger Bayliss | Judy Farrell | Director : Burt Metcalfe | |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 1977 |
| Episode 22 - [Souvenirs] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Burt Prelutsky | Director : Joshua Shelley | |
| Air Date : Mar. 01, 1977 |
| Episode 23 - [Post Op] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Bell as Willie Stratton | Brian Dennehy as MP Ernie Conners | Director : Gene Reynolds | |
| Air Date : Mar. 08, 1977 |
| Episode 24 - [Margaret's Marriage] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Patricia Stevens | Odessa Cleveland as Ginger Bayliss | Judy Farrell | Beeson Carroll | Director : Gene Reynolds | Writer : Everett Greenbaum | Writer : Jim Fritzell | |
| Air Date : Mar. 15, 1977 |