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Season released 21st Sep, 1976Rated TV-PG49 episodes

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M*A*S*H season 5 is streaming in Australia on Foxtel Now (subscription), Binge (subscription) and Disney+ (subscription, listed for the whole show). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $24.99. Season 5 was released on 21 September 1976.

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M*A*S*H Season 5 episodes

  1. S05 E01

    Bug Out

    25 mins · Tue, 21 Sep 1976

    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.

  2. S05 E01

    Bug Out

    24 mins · Tue, 21 Sep 1976

    A rumour that the 4077th is going to be relocated becomes grossly exaggerated, until it is believed the entire Chinese army is attacking the camp.

  3. S05 E02

    Margaret's Engagement

    25 mins · Tue, 28 Sep 1976

    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.

  4. S05 E02

    Bug Out

    24 mins · Tue, 21 Sep 1976

    A rumour that the 4077th is going to be relocated becomes grossly exaggerated, until it is believed the entire Chinese army is attacking the camp.

  5. S05 E03

    Margaret's Engagement

    23 mins · Tue, 28 Sep 1976

    When Hot Lips phones from Tokyo to say there is big news, Frank assumes it is his expected promotion.

  6. S05 E03

    Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    25 mins · Tue, 5 Oct 1976

    Hawkeye is temporarily blinded while trying to fix the nurses' furnace, and Frank finds a sure-fire way to win bets on baseball games.

  7. S05 E04

    Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    24 mins · Tue, 5 Oct 1976

    Hawkeye's face is badly burnt when a stove he is trying to fix explodes.

  8. S05 E04

    Lt. Radar O'Reilly

    25 mins · Tue, 12 Oct 1976

    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.

  9. S05 E05

    The Nurses

    25 mins · Tue, 19 Oct 1976

    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.

  10. S05 E05

    Lt. Radar O'Reilly

    23 mins · Tue, 12 Oct 1976

    Radar's sudden promotion to lieutenant stuns everyone except Hawkeye and BJ, who were responsible for it.

  11. S05 E06

    The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan

    25 mins · Tue, 26 Oct 1976

    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.

  12. S05 E06

    The Nurses

    24 mins · Tue, 19 Oct 1976

    The long-smouldering feud between Hot Lips and the nurses in her command comes to a head when she confines one of them to her tent.

  13. S05 E07

    The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan

    23 mins · Tue, 26 Oct 1976

    Hot Lips' mysterious disappearance so disturbs Frank that he shoots BJ while preparing to search for her.

  14. S05 E07

    Dear Sigmund

    25 mins · Tue, 9 Nov 1976

    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.

  15. S05 E08

    Dear Sigmund

    24 mins · Tue, 9 Nov 1976

    Psychiatrist Maj Freedman visits the 4077th to clear his head, finding release in its unique form of insanity.

  16. S05 E08

    Mulcahy's War

    25 mins · Tue, 16 Nov 1976

    Father Mulcahy, troubled by his lack of experience at the front, insists on accompanying Radar for an errand there.

  17. S05 E09

    Mulcahy's War

    23 mins · Tue, 16 Nov 1976

    An embittered private refuses to heed Father Mulcahy's counsel, because the priest has never experienced frontline duty.

  18. S05 E09

    The Korean Surgeon

    25 mins · Tue, 23 Nov 1976

    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.

  19. S05 E10

    The Korean Surgeon

    24 mins · Tue, 23 Nov 1976

    Frank is antagonistic toward a wounded North Korean officer, who describes his own injury and correctly diagnoses the wounds of other patients.

  20. S05 E10

    Hawkeye Get Your Gun

    25 mins · Tue, 30 Nov 1976

    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.

  21. S05 E11

    Hawkeye Get Your Gun

    24 mins · Tue, 30 Nov 1976

    Exhausted from 24 hours of duty, Hawkeye and Col Potter respond to a desperate call from a Korean army hospital requesting surgeons.

  22. S05 E11

    The Colonel's Horse

    25 mins · Tue, 7 Dec 1976

    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.

  23. S05 E12

    The Colonel's Horse

    23 mins · Tue, 7 Dec 1976

    Sudden symptoms of illness in Hot Lips and in Col Potter's favourite mare cause concern in the 4077th.

  24. S05 E12

    Exorcism

    25 mins · Tue, 14 Dec 1976

    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.

  25. S05 E13

    Hawk's Nightmare

    25 mins · Tue, 21 Dec 1976

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

  26. S05 E13

    Exorcism

    24 mins · Tue, 14 Dec 1976

    Mysterious happenings in the 4077th seem to confirm the Korean belief in an unseen world of demons and ancestral spirits.

  27. S05 E14

    The Most Unforgettable Characters

    25 mins · Tue, 4 Jan 1977

    Radar becomes an aspiring writer after ordering a flier from a comic book, and Hawkeye and B.J. give Frank a surprise birthday present that only he will appreciate.

  28. S05 E14

    Hawk's Nightmare

    23 mins · Tue, 21 Dec 1976

    Hawkeye's extreme exhaustion manifests itself in the form of nocturnal basketball games and frightening nightmares.

  29. S05 E15

    38 Across

    25 mins · Tue, 11 Jan 1977

    A fouled radio call for help on a crossword puzzle leads to a senior officer coming to the 4077th to help with a supposed serious medical problem.

  30. S05 E15

    The Most Unforgettable Characters

    24 mins · Tue, 4 Jan 1977

    Radar is accepted to the Famous Las Vegas Writers School and begins recording his impressions of the 4077th.

  31. S05 E16

    Ping Pong

    25 mins · Tue, 18 Jan 1977

    The 4077th hosts a traditional Korean wedding, much to Frank's objections. And Colonel Potter runs into an old friend who has put his troops in jeopardy so that he could receive a promotion.

  32. S05 E16

    38 Across

    23 mins · Tue, 11 Jan 1977

    Stumped by a crossword puzzle, Hawkeye radios a Navy buddy for help, but his call is interpreted as a medical emergency.

  33. S05 E17

    End Run

    25 mins · Tue, 25 Jan 1977

    A former star college football player suffers a severe leg injury in combat and must deal with the consequences, and Major Burns goes behind Colonel Potter's back to set up a boxing match between Klinger and Zale.

  34. S05 E17

    Ping Pong

    23 mins · Tue, 18 Jan 1977

    The company's young Korean table tennis champion persuades Hawkeye and BJ to lend him money for an engagement ring.

  35. S05 E18

    Hanky Panky

    25 mins · Tue, 1 Feb 1977

    B.J. falls off the fidelity wagon while trying to provide consolation to a nurse whose marriage has just ended. But will he confess his infidelity to his wife?

  36. S05 E18

    End Run

    24 mins · Tue, 25 Jan 1977

    A football hero creates a perplexing psychological problem for Hawkeye and BJ when he suffers a wound that will end his career.

  37. S05 E19

    Hepatitis

    25 mins · Tue, 8 Feb 1977

    The 4077th has an outbreak of hepatitis and Hawkeye needs to inoculate the reluctant staff while dealing with back pain.

  38. S05 E19

    Hanky Panky

    24 mins · Tue, 1 Feb 1977

    When BJ attempts to comfort a nurse who has marriage troubles, he discovers a romantic problem of his own.

  39. S05 E20

    Hepatitis

    23 mins · Tue, 8 Feb 1977

    Father Mulcahy comes down with infectious hepatitis, and Hawkeye has to give the whole camp antibiotics, while dealing with a psychosomatic back pain.

  40. S05 E20

    The General's Practitioner

    25 mins · Tue, 15 Feb 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.

  41. S05 E21

    The General's Practitioner

    23 mins · Tue, 15 Feb 1977

    Hawkeye is picked to be the personal physician for a corps commander, until he gives the general a physical.

  42. S05 E21

    Movie Tonight

    25 mins · Tue, 22 Feb 1977

    Colonel Potter hopes a Western will be the cure for the 4077th's morale problem. But during the show, the staff of the camp is forced to make its own entertainment during the frequent film breakages.

  43. S05 E22

    Movie Tonight

    24 mins · Tue, 22 Feb 1977

    Col Potter plans to show his all-time favourite western as a pick-me-up for the company's badly sagging morale.

  44. S05 E22

    Souvenirs

    25 mins · Tue, 1 Mar 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.

  45. S05 E23

    Souvenirs

    24 mins · Tue, 1 Mar 1977

    Hawkeye and BJ decide to do something about a helicopter pilot who uses locals to gather battlefield bric-a-brac to sell as war souvenirs.

  46. S05 E23

    Post Op

    25 mins · Tue, 8 Mar 1977

    The 4077th is deluged with patients and their individual medical histories. Then they run out of blood and everyone is donating at 48-hour intervals.

  47. S05 E24

    Margaret's Marriage

    25 mins · Tue, 15 Mar 1977

    Pressured by Frank, Margaret decides to marry Colonel Donald Penobscott at the 4077th. When Donald arrives in camp, he is treated to a bachelor party and a practical joke while the nurses give Margaret a bridal shower.

  48. S05 E24

    Post Op

    23 mins · Tue, 8 Mar 1977

    The surgical teams must somehow cope with a critical shortage of blood during a gruelling 18-hour operating session.

  49. S05 E25

    Margaret's Marriage

    23 mins · Tue, 15 Mar 1977

    Major Houlihan's fiance arrives at the 4077th and shocks Frank by asking him to be his best man.

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