M*A*S*H: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of M*A*S*H Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Fade Out, Fade In
Sep 20, 1977 · 50 min
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 offic
Fallen Idol
Sep 27, 1977 · 25 min
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. Pa
Last Laugh
Oct 4, 1977 · 25 min
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 send
War of Nerves
Oct 11, 1977 · 25 min
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 injuri
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 hi
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 whic
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
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. K
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
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 team
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
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.
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 ev
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 C
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 Pie
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 pe
Potter's Retirement
Feb 20, 1978 · 25 min
When bad reports are filed at headquarters, Col. Potter contemplates retirement.
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".
Major Topper
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.