M*A*S*H - First Season - 1972 to 1973
Regular
cast:
All first season shows produced by Gene
Reynolds.
M*A*S*H Pilot Episode
Young doctors in an
Army mobile hospital in Korea alternate saving lives with hours of some
notable hijinks.
Guest cast: Karen Phillip, Timothy Brown, Patrick
Adiarte, John Orchard, Linda Meiklejohn, Laura Miller, Odessa Cleveland, G.
Wood, George Morgan, B. Kirby Jr.
Written by: Larry Gelbart
Gene
Reynolds
Henry - Please Come Home
When the 4077th C.O. is
transferred to administrative work in Tokyo, Hawkeye and friends
launch a wild campaign to get him back.
Guest cast: G. Wood, John
Orchard, Patrick Adiarte, Timothy Brown.
Written by: Laurence
Marks
Directed by: William Wiard
To Market, To Market
When black marketeers hijack the
hospital's supply of hydrocortisone, Hawkeye and Trapper bamboozle their
leader to get it back.
Guest cast: G. Wood, Robert Ito, Odessa
Cleveland, Jack Soo, Beulah Quo, John C. Johnson.
Written by: Burt
Styler
Directed by: Michael O'Herlihy
Germ Warfare
Hawkeye borrows a pint of Frank's blood,
then suspects him of hepatitis and works frantically to keep him away from
everyone.
Guest cast: Timothy Brown, Robert Gooden, Patrick Adiarte,
Karen Phillip, Byron Chung, Odessa Cleveland.
Written by: Larry
Gelbart
Directed by: Terry Becker
The Moose
When a sergeant turns up with a Korean girl
he's bought, the young medics spring into action to save her from
slavery.
Guest cast: Timothy Brown, John Orchard, Paul Jenkins,
Patrick Adiarte, Linda Meiklejohn, Virginia Lee.
Written by: Laurence
Marks
Directed by: Hy Averback
I Hate A Mystery
In an epidemic of stealing, Hawkeye
becomes the chief suspect, but he elects himself the detective and
solves the crimes.
Guest cast: Timothy Brown, Linda Meiklejohn,
Odessa Cleveland, Patrick Adiarte, William Christopher, Bonnie
Jones.
Written by: Hal Dresener
Directed by: Hy Averback
Chief Surgeon Who?
When Hawkeye is appointed chief surgeon,
Frank complains, and a general comes and declares the place a
nut farm and
Hawkeye a
genius.
Guest cast: Timothy Brown, Odessa Cleveland, Bob
Gooden, Jamie Farr, Linda Meiklejohn, John Orchard, Sorrell Booke, Jack
Riley.
Written by: Larry Gelbart
Directed by: E.W.
Swackhamer
Requiem For A Lightweight
Trapper, coached by Hawkeye,
enters the inter-camp boxing tournament on a deal to save a beautous nurse
from being transferred.
Guest cast: John Orchard, Marcia Strassman,
Sorrell Booke, William Christopher.
Written by: Bob
Klane
Directed by: Hy Averback
Cowboy
When Henry refuses to let a wounded helicopter
pilot, Cowboy, go home, things around headquarters begin quite literally
popping.
Guest cast: Billy Green Bush, Alicia Bond, John Orchard,
William Christopher, Patrick Adiarte.
Written by: Bob
Klane
Directed by: Don Weis
Yankee Doodle Doctor
When a brigadier general has a
film made on the work of M*A*S*H, the surgeons at the 4077 don't like it
and make their own film.
Guest cast: Ed Flanders, Bert Kramer, Herb
Voland, Marcia Strassman.
Written by: Laurence Marks
Directed
by: Lee Phillips
Bananas, Crackers, And Nuts (After Me, The
Deluge)
when Hawkeye is denied an R&R pass he feels he needs,
he evolves a wild case history for an Army psychiatrist to
study.
Guest cast: Stuart Margolin
Written by: Burt
Styler
Directed by: Bruce Bilson
Edwina
When a robust nurse is lonely and sad, the
other nurses go to some extremes to find a boyfriend for her.
Guest
cast: Arlene Golonka, Linda Meiklejohn, Marcia Strassman.
Written by:
Hal Dresner
Directed by: James Sheldon
Dear Dad
Hawkeye writes to his dad describing Christmas
antics, followed by him, dressed as Santa, flying to a battlefield
emergency.
Guest cast: Odessa Cleveland, Jamie Farr, Lizabeth Deen,
Bonnie Jones, Gary Van Orman.
Written by: Larry Gelbart
Directed
by: Gene Reynolds
Love Story
Radar gets a "Dear John" letter on a record
and the doctors try to come to his assistance with a new girl.
Guest
cast: Marcia Strassman, Kelly Jean Peters, Indira Danks, Barbara Brownwell,
Jerry Harper, Linda Meiklejohn.
Written by: Laurence
Marks
Directed by: Earl Bellamy
Tuttle
Hawkeye and Trapper, with an assist from Radar,
make up a fictitious captain in order to donate his salary to an
orphanage.
Guest cast: Herb Voland, William Christopher, Mary-Robin
Redd, Dennis Simple, Jim Sikking.
Written by: Bruce Shelley and David
Ketchum
Directed by: William Wiard
The Ringbanger
Hawkeye, Trapper and Radar conspire to
retire a colonel stateside for his record of too many casualities in
battle.
Guest cast: Leslie Nielsen, Linda Meiklejohn.
Written
by: Jerry Mayer
Directed by: Jackie Cooper
Dear Dad...Again
Another letter by Hawkeye to Dad tells of
camp capers, a correspondence course for Radar, and a cooling between
Frank and Hot Lips.
Guest cast: Odessa Cleveland, Jamie Farr, Alex
Henteloff, Laura Miller, Gail Bowman.
Written by: Sheldon Keller and
Larry Gelbart
Directed by: Jackie Cooper
Sometimes You Hear The Bullet
Frank throws his back out
and applies for a Purple Heart, while Hawkeye weeps for a dead friend and
sends an underage boy home.
Guest cast: James Callahan, Ronny Howard,
Lynette Mettey.
Written by: Carl Kleinschmitt
William Wiard
The Longjohn Flap
During a cold snap, a pair of
longjohns sent to Hawkeye becomes more valuable and negotiable than coin
of the realm.
Guest cast: Jamie Farr, Kathleen King.
Written
by: Alan Alda
Directed by: William Wiard
Major Fred C. Dobbs
When Frank threatens to leave, Hawkeye
and Trapper find it means double duty for them and invent a way to make
him stay.
Guest cast: Harvey J. Goldenberg, Odessa
Cleveland.
Written by: Sid Dorfman
Directed by: Don Weis
Sticky Wicket
After a bad session in the O.R., Hawkeye
quarrels with Frank over his inadequacies, then finds one of his own
patients sinking.
Guest cast: John Orchard, Lynette Mettey, Wayne
Bryan.
Written by: Laurence Marks and Larry Gelbart
Directed by:
Don Weis
Story by: Richard Baer
The Army-Navy Game
The 4077th settles down to listen to the
Army-Navy game when they're bombarded and left with an unexploded bomb to
defuse.
Guest cast: John Orchard, Jamie Farr, Alan
Manson.
Written by: Sid Dorfman
Directed by: Gene
Reynolds
Story by: McLean Stevenson
Ceasefire
Word of a ceasefire precipitates what proves to
be premature plans for abandoning friends, lovers, and the camp
itself...
Guest cast: Herb Voland, Jamie Farr, Patrick
Adiarte.
Written by: Laurence Marks and Larry Gelbart
Directed
by: Earl Bellamy
Story by: Larry Gelbart
Showtime
While an entertainer does a show from an
improvised stage in the M*A*S*H compound, the comedy and drama of the
doctors' lives go on.
Guest cast: John Orchard, Joey Forman, Harvey
Goldenberg, Stanley Clay, Sheila Lauritsen, Oksun Kim.
Written by:
Robert Klane and Larry Gelbart
Directed by: Jackie Cooper
Story
by: Larry Gelbart