M*A*S*H: It Happened One Night

M*A*S*H: It Happened One Night
CBS
September 26, 1975
Dramedy
DVD
C+

This is a Gelbart & Muntner script, so a pretty good episode has to be marred by the last few minutes.  I will say that it seems odd that suddenly it's winter again, or at least really cold, since the previous episode was set at the end of summer/ beginning of autumn.  Things I like about this episode:

• BJ realizing that sometimes you have to re-open a patient even when you think your job is finished
• Hawkeye and Margaret bonding over taking care of a patient with PTSD (not that it was called that then), and over a can of 1943 surplus beans exploding on them
• Klinger volunteering to donate blood, B positive
• Radar looking on admiringly at how confidently Potter handles himself on the phone, quite a contrast to Blake of course

As for those last few minutes, Hawkeye suggests he and BJ escort Margaret to her tent from the OR.  She says she'll be fine.  BJ says, "What if you get hit on the head and taken advantage of?"  Hawkeye says, "Let's wait till we get inside first."  And then when she gets to her tent, she finds that Frank has ransacked it, trying to find the love notes that she told him she keeps.  She's understandably upset, but the episode ends there, with no real consequences, and I'm sure that next week they'll be back to their usual relationship, despite his betrayal of trust.

This incidentally is the 75th episode and aired in '75.