M*A*S*H

10 Best Episodes of M*A*S*H - Season 5

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

Written by Sophie and last updated on feb 04, 2023.

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M*A*S*H - S5E10

#15 - Hawkeye Get Your Gun (Season 5 - Episode 10)

After 24 hours of surgery, Hawkeye and Potter venture off to a Korean hospital to lend a hand. Hawkeye is appalled to learn that he must carry a gun. After helping the Koreans, they are shelled on the way back. They scramble from the jeep before it is shelled, and Potter urges Hawkeye to shoot in self-defense, against Hawkeye's will, and he does...into the air.

The episode was rated 7.89 from 186 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E21

#14 - Movie Tonight (Season 5 - Episode 21)

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As a cure for the increased tension at the 4077th, Potter obtains a copy of his favorite film, "My Darling Clementine", and makes a social event out of it. As the film continues to break, tensions rise, until Mulcahy plays the piano, Radar does his impersonations, and everyone acts out scenes from the film.

The episode was rated 7.90 from 151 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E15

#13 - 38 Across (Season 5 - Episode 15)

Befuddled by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye persuades his old friend Tippy Brooks, a whiz at puzzles, brought to camp. Tippy arrives with his commanding officer Admiral Prescot, thinking it's a medical emergency. Having scrubbed up and helped out with the wounded they provided the needed solution to the puzzle.

The episode was rated 7.91 from 164 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E20

#12 - The General's Practitioner (Season 5 - Episode 20)

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In the midst of Hawkeye being considered, much to his distaste, for the position of a general's personal physician, Radar becomes a surrogate father to a Korean woman and her baby, until the baby's GI father returns.

The episode was rated 7.97 from 146 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E2

#11 - Margaret's Engagement (Season 5 - Episode 2)

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.

The episode was rated 7.97 from 181 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E24

#10 - Margaret's Marriage (Season 5 - Episode 24)

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Prompted by pressure from Frank, Hot Lips sets a date for marriage with Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. When Donald arrives in camp for the wedding, a bridal shower and bachelor party are given. When he has passed out drunk, Hawkeye and B.J. place Donald in a body cast and convince him that he has broken his leg. The ceremony is performed and Donald and Hot Lips leave for a week's honeymoon in Tokyo.

The episode was rated 7.98 from 144 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E13

#9 - Hawk's Nightmare (Season 5 - Episode 13)

After Hawkeye bemoans the young age of the wounded, he appears to develop problems. Sleepwalking and bad dreams, according to Sidney Freedman, are taking Hawkeye back to a simple time, but the horrors of war continue to intrude. After Sidney's assurances that he is as sane as can be, Hawkeye's life once again seems to settle down.

The episode was rated 7.99 from 169 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E11

#8 - The Colonel's Horse (Season 5 - Episode 11)

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While Colonel Potter goes to Tokyo on R&R, his horse develops colic. Klinger becomes chronically depressed, and Hot Lips gets appendicitis. The horse is flushed out with a hose, Hawkeye and B.J. perform an appendectomy on Hot Lips, and all are well when Potter returns, except Klinger. Potter offers Klinger a discharge for severe depression, and Klinger gets very excited, which loses him the discharge.

The episode was rated 8.00 from 184 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E5

#7 - The Nurses (Season 5 - Episode 5)

When Hot Lips confines Nurse Baker to her quarters, little does she know that Baker's husband has arrived in the camp. Hawkeye and B.J. put them together in Hot Lips' tent, telling everyone that a quarantined patient has been placed there. When Hot Lips discovers what has happened, she breaks down and refuses to press charges.

The episode was rated 8.00 from 182 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E9

#6 - The Korean Surgeon (Season 5 - Episode 9)

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When Dr. Syn Paik, a North Korean surgeon, arrives with some wounded, he is passed off as a South Korean by Hawkeye and B.J., but to no avail. Hot Lips and Frank try to convince Potter that Paik is a spy. Paik, Hawkeye, and B.J. agree that it would be in the interest of all for Syn to leave.

The episode was rated 8.02 from 180 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E1

#5 - Bug Out (Season 5 - Episode 1)

A rumour that there's going to be a practive bug-out causes anxiety. When Potter assembles the unit in an attempt to squelch the rumor, the call comes in to bug out, and the rumour suddenly comes to life! Meanwhile, Hawkeye begins surgery on a patient with a spinal injury. The bug-out proceeds without him, Hot Lips and Radar, and they quickly learn after the unit departs that they're in the midst of the front. When Potter, Mulcahy, BJ, Frank and the others arrive at the buildings which had been scouted by helicopter, they find the house full of "business girls," and Potter gives them Klinger's dresses to persuade them to leave the house. A helicopter comes to evacuate the spinal injury patient, and just as the three get ready to go to the new location, they find the 4077 is already returning, and eventually everyone reunites back at the camp, what with the Chinese being repulsed.

The episode was rated 8.02 from 204 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E8

#4 - Mulcahy's War (Season 5 - Episode 8)

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After Frank discovers that Danny Fitzsimmons has shot himself to get out of combat, Father Mulcahy is called in. Realizing his lack of understanding of the fighting, Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station, where they encounter the real war at first hand. Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheotomy, guided by Hawkeye over the radio.

The episode was rated 8.03 from 173 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E6

#3 - The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan (Season 5 - Episode 6)

After hearing that North Korean prisoners have been released in the area, everyone is upset when Margaret disappears. Colonel Flagg is called in to investigate, and bungles things in his usual manner. Finally Hot Lips returns, after helping in the birth of a Korean baby.

The episode was rated 8.06 from 194 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E3

#2 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Season 5 - Episode 3)

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While fixing a stove that explodes, Hawkeye's face is badly burned. His eyes are bandaged, and it is not known if he will ever see again. Meanwhile Frank bets on the outcome of a baseball game, which he has already heard on the radio. After much tension in the camp the bandages come off, and happily, Hawkeye can see again.

The episode was rated 8.18 from 189 votes.

M*A*S*H - S5E7

#1 - Dear Sigmund (Season 5 - Episode 7)

Sidney Freedman, feeling depressed, visits the 4077th to observe how they fare under the pressures of war. He begins a letter to Sigmund Freud as a form of self-therapy, and releases his tension in the form of a practical joke with B.J., aimed at Frank Burns.

The episode was rated 8.23 from 196 votes.

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