M*A*S*H: Kim

M*A*S*H: Kim
CBS
October 20, 1973
Dramedy
DVD
B

This story by Marc Mandel, Larry Gelbart, and Laurence Marks is about how Trapper wants to adopt a seemingly orphaned five-year-old Korean boy.  His wife Louise supports him and his two daughters Becky and Kathy (one of whom is also five) are excited.  (Blake claims to also have two kids.  Did one die?  Or is this set before his wife gave birth to their son?)  The whole camp in a sense adopts the boy while they're waiting, with nice moments like Margaret reading aloud to him, Klinger teaching him baseball, and Radar snuggling with him (but taking back the teddy he's as attached to as Mr. Howell was to his).  But then Kim's mother (Momo Yashima in her first of three M*A*S*H roles) finds him.  The episode couldn't really end any other way, but it's good to see other, softer, sides of the characters.

Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky), Kellye Nakahara (Yamato), and Leslie Mitchell (her last M*A*S*H role, as Nurse Mitchell) return.