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Season 9 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 20
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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M*A*S*H Season 9 (1980-1981)

M*A*S*H The Best of Enemies 9x01 The Best of Enemies
Hawkeye gets as pass to Seoul for some R&R, while all poor B.J. wants is some uninterrupted sleep. But Hawkeye gets shanghaied by a North Korean who wants his medical skills, and B.J. ...		 Nov. 17, 1980
M*A*S*H Letters 9x02 Letters
A friend of Hawkeye's who is a school teacher sends a package of letters to the 4077th. Hawkeye distributes them with the rule that no letter may be swapped - each recipient must answer ...		 Nov. 24, 1980
M*A*S*H Cementing Relationships 9x03 Cementing Relationships
Discovering a staph infection in a post-operative patient, the latest in a number of such infections, Hawkeye sets out to discover the cause. And he does - cracks in the wooden floor ...		 Dec. 01, 1980
M*A*S*H Father's Day 9x04 Father's Day
Margaret's father "Howitzer" Houlihan tells her he'll be coming to the came for a visit. She struggles to impress him without much success. The attire and attitudes of Hawkeye and B.J. ...		 Dec. 08, 1980
M*A*S*H Death Takes a Holiday 9x05 Death Takes a Holiday
It is Christmastime and there is a cease-fire in effect. But there will be no Christmas dinner, for the supply lines have been cut. The worst victims will be the children from the orphanage ...		 Dec. 15, 1980
M*A*S*H A War for all Seasons 9x06 A War for all Seasons
It's almost the New Year, and Colonel Potter, dressed as Father Time, toasts the departing year and the arriving year, as the doctors and nurses remember some of 1951, including a bet ...		 Dec. 29, 1980
M*A*S*H Your Retention Please 9x07 Your Retention Please
Klinger receives a letter from his ex-wife Laverne, and learns she will marry his best friend Gus! Upset, he's an easy mark for the "Retention Officer" whose job is to convince men ...		 Jan. 05, 1981
M*A*S*H Tell it To the Marines 9x08 Tell it To the Marines
Potter leaves to visit with some friends, and leaves Hawkeye in charge. That's bad news for Charles, who doesn't want Hawkeye in charge of anything! But when Charles backs into command, ...		 Jan. 12, 1981
M*A*S*H Taking the Fifth 9x09 Taking the Fifth
Surgeries take longer because the Army has forbidden the use of curare, necessary for complete muscle relaxation. When B.J. cannot even get a patient completely under, Potter goes livid, ...		 Jan. 19, 1981
M*A*S*H Operation Friendship 9x10 Operation Friendship
While in the midst of a tongue-lashing, Klinger manages to save Charles's life, and Winchester's attitude toward the enlisted man does an about face - he's waiting on Klinger hand and ...		 Jan. 26, 1981
M*A*S*H No Sweat 9x11 No Sweat
In the midst of miserable heat, the various members of the 4077th all have different problems: Margaret develops prickly heat, Charles has to deal with three years of tax records prepared ...		 Feb. 02, 1981
M*A*S*H Depressing News 9x12 Depressing News
The army sends Potter a truckload of tongue depressors, not the box he ordered. That inspires Hawkeye to construct a copy of the Washington monument from them, with each one bearing ...		 Feb. 09, 1981
M*A*S*H No Laughing Matter 9x13 No Laughing Matter
A magazine article about insecurity eventually leads to Hawkeye trying to go a whole day without a single wisecrack. And Charles must deal with Colonel Baldwin, the man who exiled him ...		 Feb. 16, 1981
M*A*S*H Oh, How We Danced 9x14 Oh, How We Danced
It is time again for the sanitation inspect of a front line unit, and this time Charles can't evade the duty! But when he gives the unit a horrific report, the commander comes to the ...		 Feb. 23, 1981
M*A*S*H Bottoms Up 9x15 Bottoms Up
Hawkeye and B.J. pull a prank on Charles that gets Hawkeye in hot water when everyone starts to think he's mean! And when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse - until he figures ...		 Mar. 02, 1981
M*A*S*H The Red/White Blues 9x16 The Red/White Blues
Colonel Potter's blood pressure is up, and that's bad, because he'll lose his command if the chief surgeon finds out. He asks for two weeks to get it under control, and Hawkeye agrees. ...		 Mar. 09, 1981
M*A*S*H Bless You, Hawkeye 9x17 Bless You, Hawkeye
After some wounded arrive in the middle of the night, Hawkeye begins to sneeze. Various folks try various remedies without success, so they finally call in Sidney Friedman. Sidney talks ...		 Mar. 16, 1981
M*A*S*H Blood Brothers 9x18 Blood Brothers
Hawkeye's patient may still be bleeding inside but he cannot operate because of an infection, so Hawkeye lets the man's friend Sturgis stay with him. Elsewhere in the camp, Father Mulcahy ...		 Apr. 06, 1981
M*A*S*H The Foresight Saga 9x19 The Foresight Saga
The 4077th receives an optimistic letter from Radar! They also receive some fresh vegetables from a family they helped - a family whose son is later orphaned. Hawkeye and B.J., much ...		 Apr. 13, 1981
M*A*S*H The Life You Save 9x20 The Life You Save
When Charles is almost killed by sniper fire, he begins to develop a philosophical obsession with death. Colonel Potter assigns everyone in the unit supervisory tasks they can't do ...		 May. 04, 1981
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Season 9 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
Nurse played by Laurie Bates
Nurse Shari played by Shari Saba
Sergeant Luther Rizzo played by G.W. Bailey
Driver played by Perren Page
Roy Goldman played by Roy Goldman (II)
Patient played by Carl Freed (II)
Rosie played by Eileen Saki
Nurse Able played by Judy Farrell
Corpsman played by Bill Snider
Dennis played by Dennis Troy
Nurse Jo Ann played by Jo Ann Thompson
M.D. played by Tim O'Connor
Capt. Bill Bainbridge played by Richard Paul
Li Han played by Mako

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Season 9 Videos

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Season 9 Quotes

09x13 - No Laughing Matter Season 9 / Episode 13: - No Laughing Matter

Col. Potter: When the major hears about this, he's going to sneeze a brick!
09x20 - The Life You Save Season 9 / Episode 20: - The Life You Save

Charles: [In a Jeep] Start you fool! START!
Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Major, what are you doing?
Charles: Why won't this idiotic engine turn over?
Sgt. Luther Rizzo: 'Cause, I tucked it into bed on that sheet over there like you told me.
Charles: Well I must have transportation immediately. What's available? Do any of these work?
Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Only the ambulance...


Sgt. Luther Rizzo: But that's off limits except in a medical emergency!
Charles: [Climbs in] This IS a medical emergency.
Sgt. Luther Rizzo: Where are you going?
Charles: Battalion Aid!
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Season 9 Trivia

  • Episode 06 - The title is based on the movie A Man for All Seasons.
  • Episode 03 - Goof (continuity error): You can clearly see Klinger wearing a big earring. In the next shot the ear ring is gone. Then, a short time later the ear ring is back.
  • Episode 20 - The title comes from safety posters - "The life you save could be your own."
  • Episode 16 - Goof (anachronisms): During Colonel Potter's physical, Hawkeye removes a blood pressure cuff that has Velcro. The first patent for Velcro wasn't granted until 1955 in Switzerland. It wasn't even mentioned in the media until 1958. It's first noted use was by NASA; and it didn't come into broad u
  • Episode 07 - Goof (boom mic visible): In the scene where Col Potter is giving Hawkeye and the rest of the officers the pep talk about how good the Army is, you can see the shadow of the mic behind Father Mulcahey.

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