The best episodes of M*A*S*H Season 2
Season 2 only — ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Henry's on trial on charges that Frank and Margaret brought against him. So that Hawkeye and Trapper can't help Henry, the Majors put them under house arrest.
- 02
Henry's orders to the 4077th to be on their best behavior when General Clayton sends a psychiatrist to evaluate them meet with mixed results. Will the team be broken up and sent to other units?
- 03
In gratitude for Hawkeye and Trapper saving his son, a general donates an officer's club to the 4077th. Hawkeye and Trapper work to allow everyone access to the club.
- 04
The 4077th deals with more than the usual mayhem when a sniper opens fire on the camp.
- 05
Hawkeye and Trapper desperately try to acquire an incubator for the camp. Captain Sloan, the Quartermaster, turns them down. A colonel with three incubators won't let them have one, and they cause an uproar at a general's press conference.
- 06
Radar reports on the comedies and tragedies of a typical 4077th week while Majors Houlihan and Burns try to get Cpl. Klinger transferred and Hawkeye falls hard for a nurse.
- 07
A helicopter crash introduces the 4077 to Colonel Sam Flagg, the well-built (says Hotlips) paranoid with a broken arm who refuses all painkillers. Colonel Flagg (who can also be identified as Major Brooks, Lt. Carter, Ensign Troy and Capt. Louise Klein) is CIA.
- 08
A decorated GI confides to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own unit for being gay but Frank Burns is outraged when he finds out from another source and tries to have the soldier dishonorably discharged.
- 09
When enemy action cuts the supply lines to the 4077th in the middle of a freezing Korean winter, the unit struggles with a shortage of supplies and heating fuel.
- 10
An inept bomber targets the 4077th for attack, but the results are more comical than deadly.
- 11
Hawkeye writes a letter to his father, telling him some of the wacky goings-on at the 4077th.
- 12
Radar hits a local with a jeep and a GI suffers from battle fatigue while Pierce and McIntyre clash with Frank Burns and the CID all during a poker game disguised as an officer's conference.
- 13
A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.
- 14
A Korean family claims that the 4077th is set up on their farm and wants the unit to move; a Korean girl names Radar as the father of her child.
- 15
Mail call yields goodies like photos and cookies (Trapper) and a huge knitted sweater (Hawkeye) but Henry gets only canceled checks. Frank's stock portfolio doubled since the war began but when he tells the guys they are less than thrilled. Margaret takes it as a near proposal of marriage. Klinger's father is dying for the 18th time; his file is full of familial death and pregnancy.
- 16
A wounded Korean boy captures the hearts of the 4077th especially Trapper who wants to adopt him.
- 17
L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)
Hawkeye helps a soon-to-be-discharged enlisted man who wants to marry a Korean girl and take her and their child back to the U.S.
- 18
Family man Henry falls in love with 20-year-old ex-cheerleader Nancy Sue Parker, who is less than half his age. Nancy visits Henry at the camp and comes on to Hawkeye while Henry is in surgery.
- 19
All the surgeons except for Hawkeye, and most of the support staff except for Margaret, Radar, and Mulcahey come down with the flu. In this Korea-wide epidemic, they can't even find someone to come in and help with casualties.
- 20
After months of waiting, Hawkeye finds that it may take more than a requisition form to get a new pair of boots.
- 21
Hawkeye and Trapper boost a young G.I.'s self-image by getting him a nose job.
- 22
The team delivers a baby, handles casualties and operates on Frank Burns' hernia during a power outage while Radar tries to divert friendly mortar fire falling too close to the camp.
- 23
Hawkeye and Trapper discover that a nearby town has been shelled by U.S. forces. When they pursue the issue, the army resists accepting responsibility.
- 24
After Hawkeye is kept awake in surgery for 3 days straight he decides to find out who started the war.
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