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Goodbye, Adieu and Amen is a tv movie that served every bit the final episode of the K*A*S*H television series. Endmost out the series' 11th season, the two½-60 minutes episode get-go aired on CBS on February 28, 1983. Written past a large number of collaborators, including series star Alan Alda, who also directed, the finale surpassed the unmarried-episode ratings record that had been set past the Dallas episode that resolved the "Who Shot J.R.?" cliffhanger.

From 1983 until 2010, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" remained the well-nigh watched television broadcast in American history, passed in total viewership (but non in Ratings or Share) in February 2010 by Super Basin XLIV. The episode drew 121.half dozen million American viewers, more than both that twelvemonth's Super Basin and the famed Roots miniseries, and remains the near watched finale of whatsoever goggle box series. While the M*A*S*H serial concluded with this episode, three of the series' chief characters (Sherman Potter, Maxwell Klinger, and Male parent Mulcahy) would subsequently reunite in the 1983–1985 sequel series AfterMASH.

The episode's plot chronicles the last days of the Korean War at the 4077th Mash and features several story lines intended to show the war'southward effects on the individual personnel of the unit, and to bring closure to the serial. After the terminate burn goes into outcome, the members of the 4077th throw a good day party earlier breaking army camp for the last time.

A echo of GFA on September 19, 1983 was appropriately the last official telecast ofM*A*South*H to air on CBS; the finale was rebroadcast over again September 16, 1984. The episode was added to the syndication package for the series in 1993.

Plot Synopsis [ ]

With the war finally ending, nobody is left unaffected by their experiences in Korea, particularly Hawkeye.

Total Episode Summary [ ]

The Korean War is finally nearing an stop, and Hawkeye, having had some kind of mental breakdown, is in Seoul beingness treated by Sidney Freedman. Hawkeye's memories of what led to his breakup accept go repressed or contradistinct, and every bit he and Sidney draw them out, Eagle initially remembers the details inaccurately.

In his beginning recollection, Hawkeye and almost of the rest of the camp went to the beach at Incheon to gloat the Fourth of July. On their merry way back to campsite, Hawkeye sarcastically called for a liquor bottle to be passed back to a sullen soldier who "can't expect"; later, he is able to remember that the soldier who couldn't await was actually wounded, and that the bottle Hawkeye needed was an IV bottle. When asked where the soldier came from, Hawkeye remembers that on the way dorsum from the embankment, the bus stopped to pick upwards some South Korean refugees, and then some wounded soldiers who had information nigh an enemy patrol on the motility nearby. The bus pulled off the road into a grove of bushes, and everyone is told to stay completely placidity to avoid being spotted past the NK. One local adult female carried a alive chicken that began clucking loudly, prompting Hawkeye to angrily admonish her (in a hushed voice) to "go on that damned chicken quiet!"; moments afterwards, the dissonance abruptly stopped.

With Sidney's prompting, Eagle begins to recall the correct details of what happened: It turned out that it was not a clucking craven, but a crying babe; unable to keep it quiet, the woman fabricated the ad hoc decision to smother her own kid to silence it and save the lives of herself and the others on the omnibus. Eagle was so inwardly traumatized past this that he suppressed the memory of what actually occurred.  After they returned to military camp, he attempted to operate on a patient without anesthesia, while accusing the gas passer of trying to smother the patient with the mask.  Just it was a later incident-- driving a jeep through the wall of the Officers' Club and uncharacteristically ordering a double bourbon-- that caused Hawkeye to be committed to the mental hospital.

When he accurately recalled the horror that happened on the motorcoach, Hawkeye broke down in sobs saying, "I didn't mean for her to impale it! I simply wanted information technology to exist quiet!" He and so rebuked Sidney for making him remember what actually happened, to which Sidney replied, "Yous had to go it out in the open. Now we're halfway dwelling house".

Now, with the true memory of the events on the jitney now restored to his consciousness, Hawkeye acknowledges the fact that he has suffered a nervous breakup, and is writing his begetter to inform him that he might be coming home soon equally he doubts the Ground forces will let a surgeon operate "whose cheese has slipped off his cracker". Just Sidney, deciding that he is ready to be released, sends a dubious Eagle back to the 4077th, promising to check upwards on him periodically.

Back at the 4077th, an out-of-command tank runs over the campsite latrine, forcing Charles to go to a temporary facility in a ravine downwardly the road to relieve himself. Encountering a rag-tag group of five Chinese soldiers on a motorcycle, he is surprised when they "surrender", and shocked when they reveal that they're actually musicians. Playing "Oh Susanna" on the style, the five Chinese follow a chagrined Charles back to military camp. B.J. then takes possession of the motorcycle and later on annoys Charles by painting it yellow.

Frustrated that he is almost to miss his chance to win a coveted position at a hospital in Boston, Charles consoles himself past conducting the Chinese musicians in rehearsals of one of his favorite Mozart pieces (the first movement of the Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581). On the surface, he is irritated with them over their disability to play the piece correctly, but inwardly he is bonding with and growing quite fond of them. Margaret learns of his situation back dwelling house and puts in a good word with the Boston hospital's board, only her efforts just illicit Charles' wrath when he finds out.

With the crashed tank yet in the camp and Potter under orders to leave it be for the time beingness, enemy forces begin desultory mortar assaults against the 4077th; they fire off three shells earlier rapidly moving to another position. During one avalanche, Father Mulcahy runs exterior to open a makeshift prisoners' pen in the compound where several POWs are beingness held. A mortar round explodes nearby, knocking Mulcahy unconscious; B.J. later examines him and finds his hearing is damaged, but Mulcahy swears him to secrecy, every bit it would probable result in his existence sent habitation, unable to assist the local orphans.

Shortly before Hawkeye returns from the mental infirmary, B.J. receives his discharge papers and joyously runs through the military camp. Showing the papers to Potter in the Mess Tent, Potter is taken aback as he had no prior knowledge of the orders, only he is likewise put off by the fact that B.J.'south difference will leave the 4077th badly understaffed with only two available surgeons. B.J. begs Potter to telephone call in for a replacement, which Potter reluctantly agrees to, and B.J. is well on his way habitation. Later on, just as the chopper takes off, Klinger informs Potter that B.J.'s travel orders has been rescinded, but Potter cannot (by option) hear Klinger over the chopper.

The shorthanded OR staff are soon swamped with wounded, and Potter, while in surgery, over again calls I-Corps to angrily demand they expedite a replacement. Hawkeye, returning just after B.J.'s departure, is upset that he left without maxim goodbye, pointing out to Margaret that Trapper John left in the exact same way.  Before long afterward, during another avalanche of enemy shelling, Hawkeye decides to have matters in his ain hands and drives the crashed tank through the newly-built latrine and into the military camp'south remote garbage dump, far enough from the camp where the shelling won't hurt anyone. Most of the army camp is relieved that they are now out of harm'southward style, but when Mulcahy wonders aloud if Eagle might accept been released likewise early, Potter agrees and puts in a call to Sidney.

Meanwhile, Soon-Lee, a Korean refugee from a previous episode, is notwithstanding in camp and trying to observe her missing family. Klinger becomes worried when he learns that she has gone off on her ain to detect them; when he catches up with her, they both realize that they have feelings for one another. After, Klinger proposes to her, and she accepts; Klinger regales her with stories almost Toledo, but much to his frustration, Before long-Lee refuses to leave Korea until she finds her family.

A salvo of incendiary bombs has ignited a major burn down in a nearby forest, and the 4077th is forced to bug out. As before long as the camp is prepare up in its new location, the new replacement surgeon arrives, and it turns out to be B.J. himself, who only got as far as Guam earlier finding out well-nigh his rescinded travel orders. Reuniting with Hawkeye, B.J. apologetically explains that everything happened then fast that he had no fourth dimension to get out a note. Longing to be home in time for his girl Erin's second birthday, B.J. discusses with Father Mulcahy virtually inviting the orphanage to a big party, during which Potter, Mulcahy, and Margaret decide to have a "birthday by proxy", finding an orphan girl shut to Erin'south age and declaring the day to be her birthday as well, causing B.J. to remark, "What better birthday nowadays to get than your own altogether".

Seeing all the children at the political party, an uneasy Eagle becomes withdrawn and tries to slip away, but Sidney, who shows upward during the festivities, catches up with him. Hawkeye tells him about moving the tank and taking everyone else out of danger, and Sidney replies that Hawkeye did the right thing. Eagle then opens up about the thought of losing a patient under his care, which never bothered him and so much earlier; Freedman says information technology may make him an even ameliorate doctor than he already is.

Charles eventually has to part means with the Chinese musicians as they are to be used in a Pw exchange. As they are driven abroad, they finally play the Mozart piece correctly for him. At that moment, the PA announces the news that the armistice has finally been signed, and a stop-burn down will go into effect at 2200 hours that dark, officially ending the war. A loud cheer goes upwardly in the army camp, but the celebration is very short-lived every bit more wounded arrive, and Potter announces to anybody that I-Corps wants them back in Uijeongbu right away, then but the patients that cannot wait get commencement priority earlier they return.

Back at their former site, anybody takes a long and sobering look at all the fire damage before they go dorsum to work; much of the equipment left behind was destroyed, but somehow the infirmary building was undamaged. The campsite over again sets upwardly store and gets to work on the remaining wounded they brought back.

With less than six hours left earlier the ceasefire takes effect, Eagle and B.J. have a break in the Mess Tent and talk near many of the things they're not going to miss, merely and then their word comes around to what they will miss: each other. B.J. tries to reassure Hawkeye that they will nonetheless get to see 1 another back home, just with each of them living on an reverse coast, Hawkeye doesn't run into how and becomes convinced that in one case they go home they'll never come across i another again. B.J., still, refuses to accept that finality.

More wounded arrive in camp, and Charles goes to do triage. But to his horror, the first casualty is i of the musicians, mortally wounded afterward the truck carrying the POWs was hitting by shellfire. Later he is informed that none of the others survived, a visibly shaken Charles retires to the Swamp, where he plays a record of the Mozart piece they were rehearsing, only this only intensifies his pain, and he angrily yanks the record from the turntable and smashes it to pieces.

In the OR, Hawkeye's next patient is brought in: an eight-year-sometime daughter. Hawkeye is hesitant at kickoff, but when Potter offers to switch patients with him, he declines and goes to piece of work, indicating that his recovery is complete. Sidney, his piece of work at present finished, leaves the 4077th with the same departing line he used during one of his earliest visits: "Ladies and gentlemen, accept my communication: pull downwards your pants and slide on the ice."

The staff continues operating throughout the evening, stopping just briefly to take notation when 2200 hours comes, and they hear the guns autumn silent during a radio newscast piped over the loudspeaker, with reporter Robert Pierpoint accenting the ceasefire with the words:

"There it is...That'due south the sound of peace."

Once all the wounded have been cared for, the staff throw a concluding party in the mess tent, with many members commenting on their future plans:

• Potter looks forward to rejoining his wife in Missouri and becoming a "semi-retired country doctor", but even more so becoming "Mrs. Potter's Mister Potter".
• Later on several overseas offers, Margaret, after taking a furlough, plans to work at a hospital in the U.s.a..
• Father Mulcahy decides to exit parish work and begin working with the deaf, and while he admits he will miss hearing confession, he feels that "afterward listening to y'all people for so long, I think I've only about heard it all!"
• Kellye has put in to exist assigned to Tripler Ground forces Hospital in Honolulu to be with her family.
• Rizzo is going back home to Louisiana to breed frogs for French restaurants.
• Hawkeye wants to "take it easy for awhile", going into private practice dorsum home in Crabapple Cove, where he can get to know his patients ameliorate.
• Igor is going to be a pig farmer (which earns a remark from Rizzo: "Whaddaya mean, gonna be??").
• B.J. jokes about running off with a woman he met in Guam during his travel delay, but then admits he was only kidding.
• Charles, having gotten the position he sought at Boston Mercy, says, "My life will keep as expected... with one exception: For me, music has always been a refuge from this miserable feel. And at present it will e'er exist a... reminder".
• The biggest surprise of all comes from Klinger who, after announcing he and Soon-Lee are getting married, reveals that he is staying in Korea to help her find her family unit. He then asks Potter to exist his best man, which he humbly accepts and then proposes a toast to Klinger and Soon Lee.

The next morning, Klinger and Before long-Lee are married past Father Mulcahy, with Potter as best homo, and Margaret as matron of honor. After the ceremony, Klinger is the kickoff to say his goodbyes, especially to Potter, then boards an ox cart with Soon-Lee; every bit the newlyweds ride away, the nurses shout at Shortly-Lee to throw her boutonniere, which she does, and Margaret catches it. As military camp is beingness permanently dismantled, Rizzo gives a boarding call for the 8063rd, and equally they make their fashion to the bus, Kellye decides she wants the 'Honolulu' sign off of the fingerpost for a keepsake, and anybody else grabs most of the balance of the signs. Most of the staff, including all of the nurses, lath the passenger vehicle and ride out from camp for the last time.

Hawkeye sees BJ'south message.

Charles and Margaret planned to ride together to the 8063rd on the way dorsum dwelling house, but Charles cannot find room in Margaret's jeep, so he sends Rizzo to get him some other ride; Charles then makes peace with Margaret and allows her to keep a treasured book she borrowed from him. Just before leaving the military camp, Margaret receives hugs from various members of the unit and then engages in a long, passionate good day kiss with Hawkeye. Afterward Margaret leaves, the Swamp is dismantled as its former occupants gleefully laugh at its demise. The last available vehicle Rizzo has is a garbage truck, which is all too appropriate for Charles, who remarks, "What better mode to leave a garbage dump"; later on thanking Eagle and B.J., for helping him "realize what going dwelling is all about", Charles gives his colleagues one concluding acknowledgment ("Gentleme-due east-en...") earlier riding out for Boston.

Potter plans to accept one last ride on his honey equus caballus Sophie before he donates her to the local orphanage, and accept a jeep from there. He tells Hawkeye and B.J. "it will be hard to call what we've been through fun but I'm sure glad we went through it together." He reflects on how Hawkeye and B.J. e'er managed to give him a adept laugh when he needed it most, recalling when they dropped Charles' pants in Bottoms Up, albeit that he was only pretending to be angry while inwardly "laughing to beat all hell." Every bit Potter mounts, Hawkeye and B.J. offer him a small token souvenir from the center: a formal military salute, which Potter emotionally returns before he rides off.

With everyone else now gone, Hawkeye and B.J. are finding information technology all the more difficult to part. As they reminisce over their fourth dimension together, Eagle tries to hold with B.J. that they might come across one another once again, but in case they don't, Hawkeye tells B.J. how much he has meant to him, to which B.J. responds, "I tin't imagine what this place would have been like if I hadn't found you here." The two exchange a long brotherly embrace before Eagle boards a chopper. Right before B.J. leaves on his motorcycle, he shouts to Hawkeye a promise that they volition see each other dorsum habitation, simply he left Hawkeye a annotation just in case. As Hawkeye'due south chopper lifts off, a grin grows on his confront as he finally sees B.J.'south note:  the word " Farewell " spelled out in stones on the ground.

Contented, Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, looks out over the at present abandoned 4077th as the helicopter rises. He then sits back to begin his own devoutly-wished and long-awaited journey domicile.

Recurring Cast/Guest stars [ ]

• Rosalind Chao equally Soon-Lee
• Allan Arbus equally Major Sidney Freedman
• Kellye Nakahara every bit Lieutenant Kellye Yamoto
• John Otrin as Ambulance Driver
• Jeff Maxwell equally Igor Straminsky
• Roy Goldman as Individual Roy Goldman
• Jim Lau as Chinese Musician
• Jan Jorden as Lieutenant Bakery
• Jo Ann Thompson as Nurse Jo Ann
• Enid Kent equally Nurse Bigelow
• Judy Farrell as Nurse Able
• Gwen Farrell equally Nurse Gwen
• G.West. Bailey as Sgt. Luthor Rizzo

Trivia [ ]

• "Bye, Farewell And Amen" was originally sponsored past Chevrolet.
• Every bit the nurses and others leave camp for the final time, Kellye suddenly gets the urge to grab the 'Honolulu' sign off of the fingerpost almost the Swamp equally a souvenir. Most of the others accept the rest of the signs, including B.J. who naturally takes the 'San Francisco' sign. Fittingly, the only signs left on the post are for Tokyo and Seoul. Strangely, the 'Boston' sign--hung at the top of the post by Charles after his inflow--is missing, but manifestly doesn't get home with him.
• For the third time in the whole series the 4077th bugs out. In fact, the footage of the camp bugging out was taken from the season 5 episode "Bug Out." It was wisely edited to not show Hawkeye, Radar, and Klinger in a dress, since by that betoken he had stopped. New music was also added, along with some new dubbed voices to make it seem fresh.
• Hawkeye and Margaret's cheerio kiss lasts 33 seconds.
• This is the merely episode of the series to feature the episode title superimposed on-screen.
• Alan Alda and Loretta Swit are the only regulars to appear in both the 1972 pilot episode and 1983 series finale. However, Alda is the just series regular to be in each and every episode of the series (251 episodes spanning 11 years). Swit appeared in all but 11 episodes of the serial.
• Klinger reveals to take an Uncle Jameel, referencing Jamie Farr'due south birth name: Jameel Joseph Farah.
• Ironically, the idea to accept Klinger voluntarily stay in Korea in the final episode was suggested by Jamie Farr himself.
• This has the most writers credited for a single episode in the entire series' run: eight.
• This is the only time opening theme vocal "Suicide is Painless" is then played in its entirety throughout the closing credit sequence instead of the standard closing theme.
• The wildfire story line was written into the show after an actual wildfire destroyed most of the outdoor set in October 1982. The scene was filmed less than 12 hours after the fire had ravaged the set. In November 2018, the Woolsey Burn over again swept through the surface area, now a Land Park.
• David Ogden Stiers, who played Charles, was ever a little detached from the remainder of the cast. Different the others, nobody on the cast or crew had his direct phone number, so if and when he had to be reached, it was through a bulletin with his agent. In one of the key scenes of Charles' farewell, he gives Margaret the volume of poetry they argued nearly earlier and he has signed it - the inscription is actually to his co-star Loretta Swit, and it includes his phone number. Her reaction is genuine.
• There is an episode of the Japanese Goggle box serial, Monkey, called "Mothers" from 1980 that has a similar storyline where a mother smothers her child (in this case, accidentally) to save herself and several others who are hiding.

External links [ ]

Goodbye, Adieu, and Amen (Boob tube series episode) commodity at Wikipedia

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