Season 2

24 episodes · 1973

Gen. Clayton sends a psychiatrist to the 4077th to gauge the camp's cohesiveness and fitness as a unit.

An inept, if punctual, bomber pilot provides comic relief for Hawkeye and Trapper, but inspires Frank to call out the heavy artillery.

Radar chronicles the antics of a typical week at the 4077th, which includes Hawkeye falling for a new nurse, a POW going berserk in the OR and Klinger seeking a psychiatric discharge.

Hawkeye and Trapper receive high-level flak when they buck the brass to report the "friendly fire" shelling of a South Korean village.

Hawkeye has been operating so long he just can't quit, and he decides to try to end the war while he's at it.

Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

Hawkeye cuts through red tape to help a GI marry his child's Korean mother, and cuts romantic ties with a bigoted nurse.

Henry's fitness for command is called into question when he's put on trial for charges stemming from the tomfoolery at the 4077th.

Another letter from Hawkeye to his father tells about a bigoted soldier who wants the "right color" blood, a live grenade in the OR and Henry's home movies.

A lone sniper turns the hospital compound into a combat zone, traps Henry and Radar in the showers and forces surgery by candlelight after he knocks out the generator.

A flu epidemic leaves yet-to-be infected Hawkeye and Margaret more overworked than ever.

Hawkeye and Trapper hassle the brass to obtain a vital piece of medical equipment.

The 4077th and friends convene for their weekly “Medical Conference,” A.K.A. Poker while Radar runs over a civilian and Frank is held hostage in the showers by an enlisted man.

Depressed by news from home, Margaret examines her life and decides to request a transfer.

Something smells rank at the 4077th, and it might be the new officers' club--from which enlisted types are barred.

Henry returns from Tokyo in love with a woman half his age, but he seems to have forgotten one thing--he's married.

Hawkeye's quest for new boots turns into a never-ending game of horse trading.

A private with a prominent proboscis pleads for prohibited plastic surgery--but Frank and Margaret smell a rat.

A local farmer claims the 4077th is on his land, and a Korean woman claims Radar is the father of her child.

Frank chooses a lull in the action to ask Hawkeye and Trapper to perform his hernia operation, and that's just when the war returns full tilt.

A wave of conservation hits the 4077th after a vital supply line is cut, creating a variety of shortages.

Hawkeye learns a patient was beaten up in his unit because he's homosexual, and Frank wants the soldier drummed out of the Army.

Mail call inspires Hawkeye and Trapper to play on Frank's greed, and Klinger's letters from home cover everything from death to pregnancy.

Frank is investigated by two crazy intelligence men, one who's convinced he's a communist, the other's certain Frank's a fascist.