Episode
M*A*S*H: Margaret's Engagement
Overview
Margaret, calling from Tokyo, holds the camp in suspense until she returns with the news of her engagement to Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Frank Burns takes the news hard and arrests a Korean family as spies.
Details
- Series
- M*A*S*H
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1976-09-28
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Margaret's Engagement is Episode 2 in Season 5 of M*A*S*H. It aired on 1976-09-28. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 1: Bug Out
When a rumor for a camp relocation turns out to be real, Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar volunteer to stay behind for a patient who cannot be moved.
Episode 3: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.
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Episode 4: Lt. Radar O'Reilly
Following an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.
Episode 5: The Nurses
The nurses go behind Margaret's back so that a fellow nurse confined to her tent can spend the night with her soldier husband who is paying her a surprise visit.
Episode 6: The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan
Margaret takes off in the middle of the night to help deliver a Korean baby. Nobody knows of her whereabouts, and Colonel Flagg is brought in to help investigate her disappearance.
Episode 7: Dear Sigmund
Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman composes a letter to Sigmund Freud during a visit to the 4077, while the rest of the camp endures the hijinks of a mystery prankster.
Episode 8: Mulcahy's War
Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.
Episode 9: The Korean Surgeon
Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.
Episode 10: Hawkeye Get Your Gun
Hawkeye and Potter provide assistance at a Korean clinic, and run into an enemy attack on the way home. Meanwhile, Klinger begins posing as a Gypsy to help get his discharge papers.
Episode 11: The Colonel's Horse
Everybody pitches in to save Colonel Potter's horse, who becomes sick while Potter is away in Tokyo. And Margaret asks Hawkeye, not Frank, to operate on her appendix.
Episode 12: Exorcism
To save the life of an elderly local who rejects an operation because he believes bad spirits surround the 4077th, Colonel Potter permits a Korean exorcism.
Episode 13: Hawk's Nightmare
Hawkeye starts sleepwalking and having horrific nightmares. He begins to think that he may be starting to lose his "war against the war."