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M*A*S*H Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
The Best of Enemies
Mon, Nov 17, 198025 mins
En route to R&R, Hawkeye is flagged down by a North Korean soldier who holds him at gun point, forcing him to treat his wounded comrade. Back in camp, the officers change partners in a bridge tournament.
Episode 2
Letters
Mon, Nov 24, 198025 mins
The staff of the 4077th answer letters from school children from Hawkeye's home town of Crabapple Cove.
Episode 3
Cementing Relationships
Mon, Dec 1, 198025 mins
To fight an ongoing infection in the O.R., the staff decides to remove the old wood floor and make a concrete one. The surgeons do the menial labor while Klinger acts as foreman (he knows cement and it's not that hard); while an Italian soldier falls head-over-heels for Margaret.
Episode 4
Father's Day
Mon, Dec 8, 198025 mins
Margaret's cold-hearted father visits while the gang tries to hide a stolen side of beef that was given to them by an appreciative patient.
Episode 5
Death Takes a Holiday
Mon, Dec 15, 198025 mins
It's Christmas time again. The surgeons and staff are throwing a Christmas party in the mess tent, and the children from the local orphanage are coming to join in the fun. B.J. donates a box of fudge from Peg and Charles donates some smoked oysters. Everybody in camp thinks Charles is a Scrooge, but, under the cover of darkness that night, Charles generously and anonymously donates packages of chocolate bars from home to the orphanage. The Christmas party takes off without a hitch. Colonel Potter dresses as Santa Claus and the children are having fun, but Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret miss out on the festivities when a mortally wounded man lands in pre-op. When learning the man is a husband and loving father, B.J. tries with all his might and skill to delay the man's death so his family won't remember this Christmas as they day their daddy died. Will they succeed? Or will they somehow be able to move the hands of time so the man makes it until after Christmas?
Episode 6
A War for All Seasons
Mon, Dec 29, 198025 mins
As the year 1950 comes to a close, the 4077th staff and surgeons hope 1951 is "a damn sight better" and hopefully they'll be going home. The year 1951 is not uneventful: Klinger makes a bet on a baseball team Charles is sure will lose, Hawkeye and B.J. build a kidney machine, Margaret knits a scarf which soon becomes a bed sheet, and Father Mulcahy plants a garden. By the time New Year's Eve rolls around again, they all hope 1952 will be "a damn sight better" and that they will be returning home.
Episode 7
Your Retention Please
Mon, Jan 5, 198125 mins
When a pushy retention officer comes to the camp to persuade staff to extend their terms of service, Klinger, distraught at his domestic situation, is persuaded to do so.
Episode 8
Tell It to the Marines
Mon, Jan 12, 198125 mins
B.J. and Hawkeye try to get a hardship discharge for an immigrant Marine whose Mom is being deported before he can get home. Winchester becomes C.O. for a few days, using his new position to get himself silk sheets and other "basic necessities of life".
Episode 9
Taking the Fifth
Mon, Jan 19, 198125 mins
Klinger happens upon a bottle of vintage French wine and Hawkeye uses it to lure a nurse into his clutches. Winchester deals with Klinger to get more bottles of the wine. Col. Potter trades with the Canadians for a special anesthetic forbidden by the U.S. Army.
Episode 10
Operation Friendship
Mon, Jan 26, 198124 mins
When the autoclave (instrument sterilizer) explodes in O.R., Klinger pushes Charles out of the line of fire just in time, but B.J. catches part of the blast and has a serious arm injury. For saving his life, Charles declares he is fully indebted to Maxwell Klinger and becomes his personal assistant. But after several days of bowing to Klinger's every command, Charles begins to wish he HAD been killed. Meanwhile, Hawkeye doesn't like the doctor called in to help treat B.J., who refuses to admit there is anything wrong with him.
Episode 11
No Sweat
Mon, Feb 2, 198125 mins
The 4077th deals with a sudden heat wave in their own personal ways: Klinger disassembles the P.A. system, Charles goes through all of his tax returns and bonds, B.J. stresses over a letter from Peg, Margaret develops a severe case of prickly heat, and Colonel Potter can't get a good night's sleep.
Episode 12
Depressing News
Mon, Feb 9, 198125 mins
After placing an order for 5,000 tongue depressors, the 4077th receives 500,000. Hawkeye decides to use every single one of them to erect a monument to Army inefficiency, and dedicate it to all the brave men and women who have passed through, while Klinger presses his luck when he starts a printing press.
Episode 13
No Laughing Matter
Mon, Feb 16, 198125 mins
Hawkeye's challenge to go through a day without telling a joke is complicated by Winchester's amusingly desperate attempt to curry the favor of a hated visiting officer.
Episode 14
Oh, How We Danced
Mon, Feb 23, 198125 mins
When Winchester goes to inspect the sanitary conditions at another camp, the failing mark he gives the commander is met with physical violence. Meanwhile, the gang comes up with a surprise for B.J. on his anniversary.
Episode 15
Bottoms Up
Mon, Mar 2, 198125 mins
Margaret's good friend Captain Helen Whitfield visits the 4077th and it seems like old times again, but what the Major doesn't know is that Whitfield is still a raging closet-alcoholic; Meanwhile, Hawkeye pulls one prank that goes too far when he drops Charles' pants in O.R.
Episode 16
The Red/White Blues
Mon, Mar 9, 198125 mins
Colonel Potter's blood pressure is too high after an annual check up, so Hawkeye tells Klinger, to treat the colonel with "kid gloves" to keep Potter from blowing up, but as a result the entire camp tries pampering the colonel to the point of blowing up from the pampering. Meanwhile, a malaria outbreak forces the camp to take their annual primaquine tablets, but Klinger becomes reacting to the drug and the camp thinks he's pulling a fast one till another orderly Goldman comes down with the same symptoms, then they take him seriously. In the meantime Potter is agitated by the kid gloves and becomes fed up with the camp babying him, and trying to prevent him from seeing the mess in his office after, Klinger and his issues left the office a disaster for Margaret and Winchester to fix, till Potter walks in and blows his top.
Episode 17
Bless You Hawkeye
Mon, Mar 16, 198125 mins
A wounded soldier who has been laying in stagnant water is brought into the Mash O/R. The smell is noticed by Hawkeye and seems to strike a personal chord. Afterwards he starts sneezing uncontrollably day and night. When Sydney Freeman is called, they both discover an intense memory from Hawkeye's past about a childhood accident that he has creatively "re-written' to hide an ugly truth.
Episode 18
Blood Brothers
Mon, Apr 6, 198125 mins
Father Mulcahy is not acting like himself at all. An upcoming visit by his superior, Cardinal Reardon, has the good padre behaving like a petty, competitive child. On the eve of the biggest oration of his career, Hawkeye calls Father Mulcahy away from his sermon writing to the bedside of Pvt. Gary Sturgis (Patrick Swayze). Sturgis wants to remain at the 4077th, to watch over his unconscious buddy; and if compatible, he wants to be a donor for his friend. On Sunday morning, feeling unprepared to deliver his sermon, Father Mulcahy stands up in his bathrobe and quietly, tells a real life parable: the story of two men.
Episode 19
The Foresight Saga
Mon, Apr 13, 198125 mins
Klinger accidentally breaks Potter's eyeglasses, requiring a visit from traveling optometrist Dr. Bud Herzog. The 4077th receives fresh vegetables from a grateful Korean. Potter questions the authenticity of an upbeat letter from Radar.
Episode 20
The Life You Save
Mon, May 4, 198125 mins
After a sniper attack on the 4077th Winchester sees 2 bullet holes in his cap, and goes through a journey searching for meaning in this life, and goes on a search for anything about what happened to the man who came back from death. Meanwhile, the officers had duty rosters switched up, Hawkeye is on kitchen duty, and finds himself in a situation where the mess is missing 50 trays, BJ is in charge of laundry, and Father Mulcahe is garbage officer, and each has their trials with their new found fame.
