M*A*S*H, season 2

FOUR STAR
-Five O'clock Charlie
An enemy prop plane hand-drops one small bomb each day, trying to hit the new ammo dump. The camp has a running pool on how wide the miss will be. Frank lobbies to get an anti-aircraft gun. The exchange between Hawk and Radar, as they count off for Trapper's MacArthur, features perhaps the funniest M*A*S*H exchange ever - "Are you 1?" "Yes, are you?" Madcap mayhem, with a dash of anarchy.
-The Trial of Henry Blake
A rollicking good time. Henry is court-martialed for aiding and abetting the enemy (giving supplies to a hill clinic that helps South and North Korean women). Gen. Mitchell (Robert Simon) is crustily perfect. McLean's sportscasting of the gurney race is one of the show's seminal moments.
-Dear Dad...Three
Hawk and Trap play a prank on a soldier (Mills Watson, LOBO) worried about getting the "wrong color" blood. Henry shows home movies.
-The Incubator
Hawk and Trap go on a quest to get an incubator. The meeting with Captain Sloan (Eldon Quick), that paragon of military gobbledygook, produces one of the series' most classic lines -
SLOAN: Inhalator, indicator, innoculator, infusilator...here it is, 437 stroke R2, incubator.
HENRY: Thar' she blows!!
-Deal Me Out
Frank antagonizes a shell-shocked soldier (John Ritter), Hawk and Trap defy regulations to save a CID man's life, and "Whiplash" Hwang blackmails Radar, all while the weekly poker game goes on. Pat Morita is puckishly acerbic wonderfulness, Sidney Freedman has found his first name, and Col. Flagg (Edward Winter) makes his debut...or his proto-character Halloran does, only one layer of paranoia off the mark. The poker dialogue would make Neil Simon proud. This cup runneth over.
-Hot Lips and Empty Arms
A letter from a happily-married friend causes Margaret to lament her life, and request a transfer. She gets rip-roaring drunk. A coming-out episode for Loretta; she gets to try a different style of comedy, and nails it. Also take note of the scene where Henry orders the boys to sober her up. The actors start laughing, and it's them, not the characters. Heart-warming.
-Officers Only
In gratitude for saving his son, a general (the lovely Robert Simon) builds an officer's club for the unit. Hawk and Trap plot to allow enlisted men. The bartender Kwang (Clyde Kusatsu) is every bit as dry as his martinis.
-Henry in Love
Henry falls for a perky ex-cheerleader (the winning Katherine Baumann) who is half his age. He ponders what to do about his marriage, until she makes a pass at Hawkeye. The mawkish attitude toward monogamy makes you wince, but otherwise... Look for the under-the-radar unerring performance of Wayne Rogers.
-As You Were
Iconic moments in gorilla suits, plus Trap and a nurse realizing that two ten-minute breaks equal twenty.
NOTEWORTHY
-Radar's Report ***
The darling, droll debut of Alan Arbus as Sidney (er, Milton) Freedman, a psychiatrist sent to classify Klinger. Hawkeye's romance of a willing nurse (Joan Van Ark) who wants nothing to do with his dreams of marriage, is also adorable.
-L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel) ***
Burt Young (ROCKY) is a truculent lieutenant the Swamp rats bribe into okaying a marriage between an enlisted man and a local.
-The Sniper ***
The camp is pinned down. Hawk romances a silly nurse (the silly Terri Garr). The first male nudity in television history, compliments of Gary Burghoff's ass.
-Operation Noselift **
This must have been resonant for Alan, whose parents both came home with new noses when he was a child. Let's not talk about Loretta.
-George ***
A nuanced, unaffected performance by Richard Ely as a homosexual soldier beaten by his own comrades.