Writer:	Larry Gelbart, Simon Muntner
Director:	Charles S. Dubin
Star:	Larry Linville (Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns (Season 1-5)),  Harry Morgan (Colonel Sherman T. Potter (Season 4-11)),  Gary Burghoff (Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (Season 1-8)),  Alan Alda (Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce),  Loretta Swit (Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan),  Mike Farrell (Captain BJ Hunnicut (Season 4-11))
Guest Star:	Robert Hogan (Jack Mitchell),  Dennis Kort (Corporal Howard W. Owens),  Michael A. Salcido (Unknown),  Alba Francesca (Lt. Cathy King)

Klinger does not appear in this episode. (edit) This is the first of 44 episodes directed by Charles S. Dubin. The last is episode 254. (edit)

Radar: We got more casualties comin' in, but the blood donors are all lined up.
Jack: Could you use a pint, extra sweet?
BJ: On the bus! (edit) Jack: I'll send you a box of cigars.
Potter: I got nothin' to trade.
Jack: Just gift wrap a nurse. (edit) Potter: (talking about Jack) If that character manages to get off the ground and bring back four wounded without killing them, him or the chopper, I want him to get a medal. Then I want him locked up. (edit) (Hawkeye is eating a piece of chicken)
BJ: Where'd you get that?
Hawkeye: The Petrified Forest.
BJ: They still open? (edit) Colonel Potter: (to Jack) Where can I get some streptomycin? I'm running low and Supply's still trying to get stuff to Valley Forge. (edit)

Robert Hogan, who played Jack Mitchell, was a friend of Bernard Fein, the co-creator of Hogan's Heroes. Fein named Bob Crane's character after hin. (edit) B.J. tells Corporal Owens that he "hasn't had the pleasure" of being at the front. In "Der Tag", he did go to a Battalion Aid station at the front. (edit) It's interesting that Jack thought that by going one over Dangerous Dans record, he would automatically be "chopper pilot of the year". I would have thought that he would know that DD would get at least one more patient, UNLESS it were the last day of the competition. It should didn't seem to be anywhere near December 31st. (edit)

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