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Season 8 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 25
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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M*A*S*H Season 8 (1979-1980)

M*A*S*H Too Many Cooks 8x01 Too Many Cooks
Colenel Potter is grumpy after he receives an angry letter from home. While this is happening, Hawkeye and BJ discover a wonderful cook.		 Sep. 17, 1979
M*A*S*H Are You Now, Margaret? 8x02 Are You Now, Margaret?
A Congressional Aide is sent to the 4077 to inquire as to whether or not Margaret is a communist sympathizer after an old boyfriend of hers is accused of being a commie. He is later ...		 Sep. 24, 1979
M*A*S*H Guerilla My Dreams 8x03 Guerilla My Dreams
When a wounded civilian is accused of being a guerilla, Hawkeye and BJ try to protect her from a Korean lieutenant known to torture his prisoners.		 Oct. 01, 1979
M*A*S*H Good-Bye Radar (Part 1) 8x04 Good-Bye Radar (Part 1)
Radar is on his way back to the 4077th after a rotten time at R&R. While awaiting a flight back to Korea, he meets up with a young woman and hit it off well. Meanwhile back at camp, ...		 Oct. 08, 1979
M*A*S*H Good-Bye Radar (Part 2) 8x05 Good-Bye Radar (Part 2)
Colonel Potter grants Radar a discharge to go back home and take over the family farm after the death of his beloved Uncle Ed. But for some reason Radar is not in too much of a hurry ...		 Oct. 15, 1979
M*A*S*H Period of Adjustment 8x06 Period of Adjustment
Klinger is having trouble learning the company clerks job and has everyone coming down on him. Meanwhile, a letter from Radar leaves B.J. homesick for Peg and his daughter. A night ...		 Oct. 22, 1979
M*A*S*H Nurse Doctor 8x07 Nurse Doctor
A young nurse is encouraged by Father Mulcahy when she decides to study to become a doctor. Meanwhile, a water shortage has everyone scrambling to find any source of the liquid.		 Oct. 29, 1979
M*A*S*H Private Finance 8x08 Private Finance
Hawkeye is saddled with a moral problem when he promises a dying soldier that all his money would be sent to his parents if he died. When checking the amount of the loot, he discovers ...		 Nov. 05, 1979
M*A*S*H Mr. and Mrs. Who? 8x09 Mr. and Mrs. Who?
Charles returns from Tokyo with a hangover and no recollection of what went on while there. Meanwhile, the doctors struggle with a number of patients who have a type of fever that no ...		 Nov. 12, 1979
M*A*S*H The Yalu Brick Road 8x10 The Yalu Brick Road
B.J. and Hawk are followed by a North Korean who apparently is willing to surrender, when they walk back to camp after having an accident with their jeep. Meanwhile, Klinger makes a ...		 Nov. 19, 1979
M*A*S*H Life Time 8x11 Life Time
Hawkeye and BJ work frantically to find a piece of Aorta they can graft onto a patient in order to save his life within the 20-minute window they have set.		 Nov. 26, 1979
M*A*S*H Dear Uncle Abdul 8x12 Dear Uncle Abdul
A letter from Klinger to his Uncle Abdul describes his new duties as the company clerk for the 4077th, which includes acting as a hunting dog and finding a foot locker for an outraged ...		 Dec. 03, 1979
M*A*S*H Captain's Outrageous 8x13 Captain's Outrageous
When the staff at the 4077th cause a fight at Rosie's, which leads to Rosie herself being injured, the doctors are ordered to run her saloon while she recovers. Charles has a run in ...		 Dec. 10, 1979
M*A*S*H Stars and Stripes 8x14 Stars and Stripes
After a successful operation performed by B.J. and Charles creates an opportunity for them to write a paper for a medical journal, the boys can't seem to agree on any of the details...most ...		 Dec. 17, 1979
M*A*S*H Yessir, That's Our Baby 8x15 Yessir, That's Our Baby
An abandoned baby born to an American father and a Korean mother is left at the 4077th. The hopes of finding her a home in the states enrages the doctors when they run into nothing ...		 Dec. 31, 1979
M*A*S*H Bottle Fatigue 8x16 Bottle Fatigue
A humongous bar tab shocks Hawkeye and scares him a bit as he vows to give up drinking for a week. Meanwhile, Charles is upset over the announcement that his sister Honoria is engaged...to ...		 Jan. 07, 1980
M*A*S*H Heal Thyself 8x17 Heal Thyself
A replacement surgeon steps in nicely when Colonel Potter and Maj. Winchester are forced to share a tent when they both come down with the mumps. But can their two personalities get ...		 Jan. 14, 1980
M*A*S*H Old Soldiers 8x18 Old Soldiers
When Colonel Potter is called away to Tokyo, Hawkeye is left in charge of the camp. But while the colonel is away the 4077th is overrun with children in need of medical help. making ...		 Jan. 21, 1980
M*A*S*H Morale Victory 8x19 Morale Victory
Hawkeye and BJ are assigned as the new morale officers after they make one complaint too many to Colonel Potter. Their idea is for Klinger to bring back crabs from Tokyo for a clambake ...		 Jan. 28, 1980
M*A*S*H Lend a Hand 8x20 Lend a Hand
As a means to spark some excitement around the camp, BJ announces that Hawkeye's birthday is upcoming. To avoid the phony ceremony, Hawk volunteers to treat a patient at another camp. ...		 Feb. 04, 1980
M*A*S*H Goodbye, Cruel World 8x21 Goodbye, Cruel World
Klinger is laughed at when he redecorates the company clerk's office with some homey touches. This humiliation is the last straw for him as he now has a chance to forge discharge papers ...		 Feb. 11, 1980
M*A*S*H Dreams 8x22 Dreams
Sleep is usually the only way to escape the war, but the two begin to merge at the 4077th when the staff start having nightmares.		 Feb. 18, 1980
M*A*S*H War Co-Respondent 8x23 War Co-Respondent
Aggie O'Shea, a beautiful war correspondent arrives at the 4077th and catches the eye of B.J., a thoroughly faithful spouse who "falls off the fidelity wagon for one night."		 Mar. 03, 1980
M*A*S*H Back Pay 8x24 Back Pay
Hawkeye sends the Army a bill for his services after seeing an article about how much the doctors back in the states make for the same duties. Charles is given the duty of explaining ...		 Mar. 10, 1980
M*A*S*H April Fools 8x25 April Fools
Colonel Potter has had enough of the recent rash of practical jokes that have been occurring around the camp and puts a halt to anymore shenanigans, especially with the imminent arrival ...		 Mar. 24, 1980
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Season 8 Characters

Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce played by Alan Alda
Captain B.J. Hunnicut played by Mike Farrell
Colonel Sherman T. Potter played by Harry Morgan
Major Margaret Houlihan played by Loretta Swit
Major Charles Winchester played by David Ogden Stiers
Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger played by Jamie Farr
Father Francis Mulcahy played by William Christopher
Lieutenant Kellye Yamato played by Kellye Nakahara
Igor Straminsky played by Jeff Maxwell
Roy Goldman played by Roy Goldman (II)
Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly played by Gary Burghoff
Sergeant Luther Rizzo played by G.W. Bailey
Nurse Connie played by Connie Izay
Rosie played by Eileen Saki
Nurse Shari played by Shari Saba
Nurse played by Jennifer Davis Westmore
Nurse Jo Ann played by Jo Ann Thompson
Major Ted Spector played by Howard Platt
Eddie played by Richard Lineback
Private David Sheridan played by James Stephens
Capt. Steven J. Newsome played by Edward Herrmann
Pvt. Jack Scully played by Joshua Bryant
Capt. Bill Snyder played by Richard Herd

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Season 8 Videos

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Season 8 Quotes

08x25 - April Fools Season 8 / Episode 25: - April Fools

Charles: [after snakes pop out of the praline can] The truly cruel thing about this joke is that there are no pralines.
08x02 - Are You Now, Margaret? Season 8 / Episode 2: - Are You Now, Margaret?

Cpl.: [snapping a picture of Margaret's dinner] Still life on a shingle.
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Season 8 Trivia

  • Episode 21 - Goof (crew or equipment visible): Boom mic visible when nurse Kellye says "You can talk..." to Sidney Freedman in post-op. DVD time 14:40.
  • Episode 04 - Johnny Haymer makes his final appearance on the series as Sgt. Zale.
  • Episode 21 - Goof (anachronisms): While dismissing television as a passing fad, Winchester describes turning a set on and being "confronted with a smiling, singing seltzer pill named Speedy". The "Speedy Alka-Seltzer" character wasn't introduced to television until March 1953, by which time Winchester w
  • Episode 01 - Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Conway meets Gen. Haggerty he salutes the general indoors. This is not done. When indoors a subordinate comes to attention, but does not salute when indoors.
  • Episode 02 - Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the Congressional aide first visits the swamp, while BJ is lying in his cot you can clearly see where the tent is cut away to allow for the cameras, the sky is visible in the top right corner.

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