
Members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital care for the injured during the Korean War and use humor to escape from the horror and depression of the situation. Among the 4077's people are Capts. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Trapper John" McIntire, Majs. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan and Frank Burns, and Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly.

To raise money to send his Korean houseboy to medical school, Hawkeye raffles off a weekend in Tokyo with a nurse.

Radar tries to get some tomato juice for Col. Potter and winds up involving the general of Corps Headquarters.

Radar writes home to his mother while Hawkeye carries on foot inspection and Col. Potter gets shot in the backside.

Hawkeye and B.J.'s efforts to be nice to Frank backfire when they invite him to join their poker game, and he cleans them out.