The Best Episodes Written By Burt Prelutsky

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(6 votes)

   #1 - The General's Practitioner

   S5:E202/15/1977

   General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.

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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler

   S4:E911/7/1975

   Intelligence officer Colonel Flagg, and psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, grapples over the fate of a wounded officer, Captain Chandler, who claims to be Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most poignant scene is when Radar asks Chandler to bless his teddy bear.

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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #3 - The Novocaine Mutiny

   S4:E201/27/1976

   Frank has Hawkeye up on charges of mutiny, for usurping his authority when Potter was away on leave, and Frank was the C.O. The Judge Advocate, Colonel Carmichael, tries the case; BJ, Potter, and Radar are in attendance of the preliminary hearing to offer support for Hawkeye. There are several versions of what happened: according to Frank, he was trying to hold the 4077th together during heavy casualties when everyone else was falling apart; according to The Eye Of The Hawk, BJ and Radar, it was Frank who was out of control with his regimen. Finding no evidence of the alleged mutiny, the judge drops all charges against Hawkeye and puts Frank in his place (but will he stay there?!).

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Images

   S6:E911/15/1977

   Radar notices a number of tattoos on one of the wounded, and convinces himself that with a tattoo he will be irresistible to women. Everyone tries to discourage him, and he admits to having received a tattoo that will wash off. Meanwhile, Margaret is frustrated with a new nurse who keeps getting upset at the sight of combat injuries.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Souvenirs

   S5:E223/1/1977

   Hawkeye and BJ try to stop a chopper pilot from selling souvenirs derived from war materials derived from locals facing danger getting them, and Klinger becomes a pole-sitter in his latest attempt to get a Section Eight.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - The Light That Failed

   S6:E610/25/1977

   With supplies low, the 4077th gets a truckload of ice cream churns and salt tablets. But what it needs are light bulbs, and in the dimly lit post-op Charles makes an error for which he draws the ultimate wrath of his two surgeon bunkmates. Meanwhile, B.J. receives a mystery novel that everyone in camp reads in turn. The last page is missing and the solution to the mystery is undiscovered until B.J. calls the author by long distance.

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   7.2/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Hawk's Nightmare

   S5:E1312/21/1976

   Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - The Grim Reaper

   S6:E1111/29/1977

   Colonel Bloodworth threatens to press court-martial charges against Hawkeye, who shoved him in the bar. But then he becomes a patient and witnesses Hawkeye's skills. Klinger bonds with a patient from his hometown.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Being of Sound Mind

   S8:E163/2/2001

   Dr. Sloan tries to save Jesse and Amanda from a murderer who is out to kill them in order to obtain a multi-million dollar inheritance.

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   Writer:Burt Prelutsky

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