
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.

Two days without sleep produce strange dreams.

Happily married B.J. falls for a war correspondent (Susan Saint James).

Angered by the way civilian doctors are profiting from the war, Hawkeye presents the Army with a bill for his medical services.

When Frank threatens to leave, Hawkeye and Trapper find it means double duty for them and invent a way to make him stay.