Potter, Klinger and Father Mulcahy find that adjusting to civilian life isn't easy. Potter, not wanting to mark time in retirement, applies for a job at a VA hospital. Klinger spends time in jail before being offered a job by Potter. Father Mulcahy despairs over his hearing loss suffered in the M*A*S*H finale.

After ear surgery, Father Mulcahy goes on R-and-R at General Pershing, where Klinger is battling Alma to find a room for a female patient.

Soon-Lee wants to bring her family to America; a semiconscious patient is brought in without proper papers.

Klinger has a day to prepare for a civil-service exam.

A flasher and a staph carrier are on the loose just two days before and inspection by VA top brass.

Myraid crises call Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy to night duty at the hospital.

In a campaign against depravity, Alma bans From Here to Eternity and objects to a dance for the patients.

Klinger plays disc jockey on the PA system; a new nurse is being hazed; and Father Mulcahy has to contend with one patient who won't talk and another who won't stop.

Visitors' day attracts a group that includes a car-selling faith healer, a man dying too be admitted as a patient and an acrophobe whose brother is on the third floor.

The Potters plan their first family Thanksgiving in a dozen years -- but the guest list keeps on growing.

Potter and Pfeiffer are thinking of leaving, but the discovery that a patient's leukemia may be linked to A-Bomb tests gives them both pause.

Pfeiffer gets the needle from an obnoxious paitent with a face that Pfeiffer says ""only a proctologist could love"".

Santa sprinkles surprises among his gifts to the staff and patients at the hospital.

Potter seems to be having more than his usual load of problems at the hospital.

Mulcahy gets entangled in red tape trying to get the VA to pay for his ear operation. A woman claims the hospital lost her son.

About to be married, Radar turns up at the Potters', panicky and determined to call the whole thing off.

Klinger gambles to provide for his unborn child. Scannell goes under the knife to remove migrating shrapnel.

With Mildred out, Potter plans a quiet dinner, but the evening is interrupted by a stream of friends.

Boyer is steamed because he can't get a cooling blanket for a feverish patient.

Klinger and Bob Scannell prospect for uranium; Potter searches for an antibiotic that hasn't been approved by the VA.

When Klinger goes house hunting, he winds up getting trapped by an agent.