Fade Out, Fade In
September 20, 1977
Written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum
Directed by Hy Averback
Guest Stars: James Lough, Raymond Singer, Tom Stovall, Rick Hurst, Robert Symonds, William Flatley, Joseph Burns, Barbara James

After Margaret leaves for her honeymoon, Frank becomes very distraught, so Potter sends him on R R. All throughout a deluge of casualties, the 4077th receives reports of a Frank Burns gone berserk. Potter calls Tokyo and requests a replacement surgeon. Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) is assigned to the 4077th. Frank Burns is apprehended, promoted, and transferred to a VA hospital in Indiana. Winchester is made a permanent part of the 4077th staff. (one hour show)

At Hawkeye's suggestion, Radar goes to Seoul to find a woman at the Pink Pagoda. Radar never gets there because of shelling along the way, and is flown to the 4077th. Hawkeye, feeling tremendous guilt, is unable to perform an operation to save Radar, and is replaced by Winchester. Hawkeye and Radar have a falling out as they lose respect for each other's actions. All is well in the end as Hawkeye pins a Purple Heart on Radar after he has recuperated.

Madness strikes as B.J. and his old friend Bardonaro (James Cromwell) play a series of practical jokes on each other as Bardonaro is about to leave Korea.

The 4077th, caught up in tension and nerves, creates a bonfire to release their pressure. Meanwhile Sidney Freedman is depressed by a soldier (Peter Riegert) who blames him for his injuries because Freedman had sent him back into combat.

Hawkeye tries unsuccessfully to get to Seoul to see a Nurse Gilmore for the weekend. Meanwhile, Winchester has taped a letter home asking for his influential parents to help get him back to the States. To get even, Hawkeye and B.J. switch Winchester's clothes, causing Winchester to alter his eating patterns.

With supplies low, the 4077th gets a truckload of ice cream churns and salt tablets. B.J. receives a mystery novel that everyone in camp reads in turn. The last pate is missing and the solution to the mystery is undiscovered until B.J. calls the author by long distance.

Hawkeye falls in love with Kyong Soon (Kieu Chinh), a Korean woman who is caring for her sick mother and orphaned children. All hope is lost as Kyong takes her possessions and the children to the south after her mother has died.

Charles plots a scheme to get rich when he discovers that blue scrip is going to be exchanged for red scrip. Hawkeye and B.J. outsmart him, and he is left holding the worthless scrip.

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.

Realizing how out of shape the 4077th is, Potter decides to hold a camp Olympic competition. The winning team gets a three-day pass, so everyone is excited. Donald Penobscot (Mike Henry) arrives and is allowed to substitute for an ailing Klinger. Hawkeye's team wins, and B.J. must then chauffeur Hawkeye around in a wheelchair for a week.

Colonel Victor Bloodworth (Charles Aidman) predicts that 280 wounded will arrive at the 4077th. Hawkeye is antagonized by Bloodworth and shoves him against a wall. Bloodworth presses for a court martial until he becomes one of the wounded and watches Hawkeye saving a soldier's (Jerry Houser) life. Realizing Hawkeye's value as a doctor, Bloodworth drops all charges.

Guest Stars: Jon Yune, James Saito Lost behind enemy lines, Hawkeye and Margaret form a personal truce and seek shelter in a roadside hut.

Margaret and Hawkeye seek solace from enemy fire in each other's arms and end up, briefly, as lovers.

After Charles hands B.J. two hundred dollars, he begins to take advantage. Everyone gets together and persuades Charles to play poker. He has incredible beginner's luck until Radar discovers that Charles whistles loudly when he bluffs. They all win back their money and then some.

Charles plays a French horn and drives Hawkeye and B.J. crazy. They refuse to bathe until the French horn playing is stopped. Meanwhile Potter saves the life of a suicidal patient (Jordan Clarke). The camp collectively hoses down Hawkeye and B.J. while Margaret has a soldier run over the French horn with a jeep.

In need of a special surgical clamp, Hawkeye and B.J. hire Mr. Shin (Keye Luke), a local jewelry dealer, to make the clamp. Days later the clamp is used to save the leg of a wounded soldier.

With British and American casualties heavy, the 4077th's supply of penicillin has been stolen. Father Mulcahy discovers the location of some penicillin, and he and Klinger go out in search of it. They are shot at, but safely return with the drug and save the day.

With the arrival of a shipment of records, Radar plays the part of a disc jockey and helps to get everyone through the incredibly long deluge of wounded.

Hot Lips, believing herself to be pregnant, asks Hawkeye to test her. The only rabbit available is Radar's pet Fluffy. Hawkeye promises not to kill the rabbit while performing the test. Meanwhile, Greenleigh (Charles Frank), a patient, holds Charles and B.J. at gunpoint, demanding to be sent back to Ohio. Greenleigh collapses from loss of blood, and Hot Lips isn't pregnant.

After a delay of three weeks, five sacks of mail arrive, and everyone in camp reacts to good and bad news from home. Hawkeye receives love letters addressed to Benjamin Pierce (Oliver Clark), B.J.'s wife has been approached by another man, and Radar's mom has found a boyfriend.

With a temporary transfer of personnel between the 4077th and the 8063rd, Hawkeye is replaced by Captain Roy Dupree (George Lindsey). Fear- ing this to be permanent, Charles and B.J. successfully conspire to have Dupree permanently removed from the 4077th.

Potter is upset when General Kent informs him that people in the 4077th are complaining about his leadership. Potter returns to camp and discovers that the complaints are coming from a Corporal Joe Benson (Peter Hobbs) sent by a disturbed Colonel Frank Webster (George Wyner) who has been wounded some months earlier.

Charles takes amphetamines to keep up his energy level, and even drugs Radar's mouse so that it will win a race against a Marine's mouse.

With the possibility of contaminated morphine, the doctors at the 4077th administer placebos to the patients which seem to work. Meanwhile, a new soldier (Hamilton Camp) is released on a Section Eight.