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Season 1

1. September of '53  

Community Score

7.0 Good
First aired: 9/26/1983    Production Code: 2E01

Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy find that adjusting to civilian life isn't easy. Potter, not wanting to mark time in retirement, applies for a job at a VA hospital. Klinger spends time in jail before being offered a job by Potter. Father Mulcahy despairs over his hearing loss suffered in the M*A*S*H finale.

Writer: Larry Gelbart
Director: Burt Metcalfe

2. Together Again  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 9/26/1983    Production Code: 2E02

After ear surgery, Father Mulcahy goes on R-and-R at General Pershing, where Klinger is battling Alma to find a room for a female patient.

Writer: Larry Gelbart

3. Klinger vs. Klinger  

Community Score

7.4 Good
First aired: 10/3/1983    Production Code: 2E03

Soon-Lee wants to bring her family to America; a semiconscious patient is brought in without proper papers.

4. Snap, Crackle, Plop  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/10/1983    Production Code: 2E04

Klinger has a day to prepare for a civil-service exam.

Writer: Dennis Koenig
Director: Nick Havinga

5. Staph Inspection  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/17/1983    Production Code: 2E07

A flasher and a staph carrier are on the loose just two days before an inspection by VA top brass.

6. Night Shift  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/24/1983    Production Code: 2E06

Myriad crises call Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy to night duty at the hospital.

7. Shall We Dance  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/31/1983    Production Code: 2E05

In a campaign against depravity, Alma bans From Here to Eternity and objects to a dance for the patients.

8. Little Broadcast of '53  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/7/1983    Production Code: 2E08

Klinger plays disc jockey on the PA system; a new nurse is being hazed; and Father Mulcahy has to contend with one patient who won't talk and another who won't stop.

9. Sunday, Cruddy Sunday  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/14/1983    Production Code: 2E09

Visitors' day attracts a group that includes a car-selling faith healer, a man dying to be admitted as a patient, and an acrophobe whose brother is on the third floor.

Writer: Dennis Koenig
Director: Nick Havinga

10. Thanksgiving of '53  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/21/1983    Production Code: 2E10

The Potters plan their first family Thanksgiving in a dozen years -- but the guest list keeps on growing.

11. Fallout  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/5/1983    Production Code: 2E12

Potter and Pfeiffer are thinking of leaving, but the discovery that a patient's leukemia may be linked to A-Bomb tests gives them both pause.

Writer: Larry Gelbart
Director: Larry Gelbart

12. Bladder Day Saints  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/12/1983    Production Code: 2E11

Pfeiffer gets the needle from an obnoxious paitent with a face that Pfeiffer says "only a proctologist could love".

13. All About Christmas Eve  

Community Score

9.5 Superb
First aired: 12/19/1983    Production Code: 2E13

Santa sprinkles surprises among his gifts to the staff and patients at the hospital.

Writer: Dennis Koenig
Director: Burt Metcalfe

14. Chief of Staff  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/2/1984    Production Code: 2E15

Potter seems to be having more than his usual load of problems at the hospital.

15. C.Y.A.  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/9/1984    Production Code: 2E14

Mulcahy gets entangled in red tape trying to get the VA to pay for his ear operation. A woman claims the hospital lost her son.

Writer: Janis Hirsch
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

16. Yours Truly, Max Klinger  

Community Score

7.8 Good
First aired: 1/16/1984    Production Code: 2E16

Klinger cites examples of how "things are always jumping" in a letter to Radar.

17. It Had To Be You  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/23/1984    Production Code: 2E17

About to be married, Radar turns up at the Potters', panicky and determined to call the whole thing off.

18. Odds and Ends  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/30/1984    Production Code: 2E18

Klinger gambles to provide for his unborn child. Scannell goes under the knife to remove migrating shrapnel.

19. Another Saturday Night  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/6/1984    Production Code: 2E19

With Mildred out, Potter plans a quiet dinner, but the evening is interrupted by a stream of friends.

20. Fever Pitch  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/27/1984    Production Code: 2E21

Boyer is steamed because he can't get a cooling blanket for a feverish patient.

Writer: Dennis Koenig
Director: Burt Metcalfe

21. Up and Down Payments  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/12/1984    Production Code: 2E22

When Klinger goes house hunting, he winds up getting trapped by an agent.

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