M*A*S*H: Where There's a Will, There's a War

M*A*S*H: Where There's a Will, There's a War
CBS
February 22, 1982
Dramedy
DVD
B

And then there are Pollock & Davis stories like this.  Alda directed this episode where Hawkeye is working at the dangerous battle aid station, replacing a doctor who died there.  He decides to write a will, having flashbacks to each recipient, and they're not clips from earlier episodes, but newly filmed moments, going back at least as far as Potter's first month at the 4077th.  That's my favorite, although I also like Margaret being punchy and silly one late night while they take inventory.  There's no flashback to BJ, but the two make their bromantic feelings clear.  (BJ, who was afraid that Hawkeye was the doctor who died, is thrilled to find out otherwise, and he wants to kiss Hawkeye when Hawk returns.  And Hawkeye makes a list for little Erin of every soldier her father treated at the unit.)  Note that the issue of Life with the photos of Maine is from February '51, but maybe it took awhile for Klinger to get ahold of it.

Dennis Flood makes his first of two M*A*S*H appearances, as a Driver, while Larry Ward does his first of two as Gen. Kratzer.  James Emery (this time as a Corpsman), Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky), Kellye Nakahara (Yamato), and Frank Pettinger (Corpsman) return.