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Season 9 Episode Guide
Episode 9x01: The Best Of Enemies (Nov/17/1980)
Hawkeye gets as pass to Seoul for some R&R, while all poor B.J. wants is some uninterrupted sleep. But Hawkeye gets shanghaied by a North Korean who wants his medical skills, and B.J. gets dragooned into a bridge match that pits he and Margaret against the formidable pairing of Charles and the colonel!
Episode 9x02: Letters (Nov/24/1980)
A friend of Hawkeye's who is a school teacher sends a package of letters to the 4077th. Hawkeye distributes them with the rule that no letter may be swapped - each recipient must answer the letter he got. Each member of the MASH unit faces challenges answering these letters, ranging from remembering patients they couldn't save, to dealing with a young boy's misery at his brother's death
Episode 9x03: Cementing Relationships (Dec/01/1980)
Discovering a staph infection in a post-operative patient, the latest in a number of such infections, Hawkeye sets out to discover the cause. And he does - cracks in the wooden floor harbor bacteria. He and Klinger set out to replace the operating room floor with concrete. Meanwhile, an Italian soldier who receives a Dear John letter sets his sights on Hot Lips.
Episode 9x04: Father's Day (Dec/08/1980)
Margaret's father "Howitzer" Houlihan tells her he'll be coming to the came for a visit. She struggles to impress him without much success. The attire and attitudes of Hawkeye and B.J. make that task much harder; they're trying to hide a whole frozen cow diverted to them by a grateful patient from its rightful owner.
Episode 9x05: Death Takes A Holiday (Dec/15/1980)
It is Christmastime and there is a cease-fire in effect. But there will be no Christmas dinner, for the supply lines have been cut. The worst victims will be the children from the orphanage who were to share the meal. Elsewhere, B.J. struggles to keep a sniper's victim alive - at least until midnight, so that his children will not remember Christmas as the day their father died.
Episode 9x06: A War For All Seasons (Dec/29/1980)
It's almost the New Year, and Colonel Potter, dressed as Father Time, toasts the departing year and the arriving year, as the doctors and nurses remember some of 1951, including a bet over which baseball team would win the pennant and Hawkeye's Quixotic quest to build a kidney dialysis machine.
Episode 9x07: Your Retention Please (Jan/05/1981)
Klinger receives a letter from his ex-wife Laverne, and learns she will marry his best friend Gus! Upset, he's an easy mark for the "Retention Officer" whose job is to convince men to re-enlist. Meanwhile, Charles crows about his successful nerve repair without giving proper credit to the tech who helped him.
Episode 9x08: Tell It To The Marines (Jan/12/1981)
Potter leaves to visit with some friends, and leaves Hawkeye in charge. That's bad news for Charles, who doesn't want Hawkeye in charge of anything! But when Charles backs into command, it goes to his head. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and B.J. try to get a soldier from Holland home a week early so he can see his mother before she's deported - and get into hot water over the methods they use.
Episode 9x09: Taking The Fifth (Jan/19/1981)
Surgeries take longer because the Army has forbidden the use of curare, necessary for complete muscle relaxation. When B.J. cannot even get a patient completely under, Potter goes livid, and then he and Klinger go to a Canadian camp for some of the drug. Hawkeye, meanwhile, plans to wine and dine one lucky nurse who wins a special contest!
Episode 9x10: Operation Friendship (Jan/26/1981)
While in the midst of a tongue-lashing, Klinger manages to save Charles's life, and Winchester's attitude toward the enlisted man does an about face - he's waiting on Klinger hand and foot. The same explosion injured B.J.'s arm, but he's reluctant to have it treated. Fortunately, Potter knows what to do about that.
Episode 9x11: No Sweat (Feb/02/1981)
In the midst of miserable heat, the various members of the 4077th all have different problems: Margaret develops prickly heat, Charles has to deal with three years of tax records prepared by a crooked accountant, Colonel Potter is half out of it from a sleeping pill, and B.J. is upset because Peg wrote him that the gutters of their house need cleaning!
Episode 9x12: Depressing News (Feb/09/1981)
The army sends Potter a truckload of tongue depressors, not the box he ordered. That inspires Hawkeye to construct a copy of the Washington monument from them, with each one bearing the name of a patient. Thanks to Klinger's new newspaper, this comes to the attention of the army, who wants to use it to recruit new soldiers! Hawkeye, infuriated that his creation has been so misinterpreted, takes action...
Episode 9x13: No Laughing Matter (Feb/16/1981)
A magazine article about insecurity eventually leads to Hawkeye trying to go a whole day without a single wisecrack. And Charles must deal with Colonel Baldwin, the man who exiled him to the 4077th rather than pay the $600 he owed Charles. A complex chain of circumstances leaves Charles to choose between a nice, easy job in Tokyo and ruining Margaret's career!
Episode 9x14: Oh, How We Danced (Feb/23/1981)
It is time again for the sanitation inspect of a front line unit, and this time Charles can't evade the duty! But when he gives the unit a horrific report, the commander comes to the 4077th and punches him! That leads him to learn karate. Meanwhile, Hawkeye records B.J. talking about his memories of home as part of a suprise anniversary party.
Episode 9x15: Bottoms Up (Mar/02/1981)
Hawkeye and B.J. pull a prank on Charles that gets Hawkeye in hot water when everyone starts to think he's mean! And when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse - until he figures out who's really being pranked! Margaret learns that one of her nurses has a drinking problem, and must figure out how to handle it.
Episode 9x16: The Red/White Blues (Mar/09/1981)
Colonel Potter's blood pressure is up, and that's bad, because he'll lose his command if the chief surgeon finds out. He asks for two weeks to get it under control, and Hawkeye agrees. But the word soon gets around, and Potter gets angrier at the people who are trying to keep him calm! Well, except for Klinger, whose problems running the Colonel's office might be incompetence... or something else.
Episode 9x17: Bless You, Hawkeye (Mar/16/1981)
After some wounded arrive in the middle of the night, Hawkeye begins to sneeze. Various folks try various remedies without success, so they finally call in Sidney Friedman. Sidney talks to Hawkeye and discovers the real reason for Hawkeye's constant sneezing.
Episode 9x18: Blood Brothers (Apr/06/1981)
Hawkeye's patient may still be bleeding inside but he cannot operate because of an infection, so Hawkeye lets the man's friend Sturgis stay with him. Elsewhere in the camp, Father Mulcahy has learned that Cardinal Reardon will soon visit, so he launches a "sin patrol" to clean up the camp. When Sturgis's friend needs blood, Sturgis volunteers his, leading Hawkeye and Mulcahy to different disturbing realizations.
Episode 9x19: The Foresight Saga (Apr/13/1981)
The 4077th receives an optimistic letter from Radar! They also receive some fresh vegetables from a family they helped - a family whose son is later orphaned. Hawkeye and B.J., much to Charles's ire, allow the lad to stay in the Swamp. Meanwhile, something about the letter bothers Colonel Potter so he calls Radar at home in Iowa, and discovers things aren't going well. But he might just have an answer...
Episode 9x20: The Life You Save (May/04/1981)
When Charles is almost killed by sniper fire, he begins to develop a philosophical obsession with death. Colonel Potter assigns everyone in the unit supervisory tasks they can't do well but must learn. Hawkeye's in charge of the food, B.J. the laundry, Charles the motor pool and Margaret is in charge of morale!
Source: TVRage
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