Forced to pull off the road to avoid an enemy patrol, Hawkeye remembers telling a refugee to keep her chicken quiet, causing her to smother it.
Charles Winchester leaves camp to perform his ablutions and meets five Chinese soldiers on a motorcycle-sidecar combination eager to surrender.
Houlihan is offered an Army administrative post while Winchester is disappointed to find his absence from Boston has left a less talented colleague as the front-runner for a coveted chief surgeon spot.
Winchester eventually receives a letter confirming his appointment to the position, but becomes angry after learning from Klinger that Margaret had intervened in the selection process by having a relative pull strings.
Klinger falls in love with a refugee named Soon-Lee Han, who wants to return to the combat zone to find her missing parents.
to secrecy about the nature of his injury, afraid the Army will return him home, away from the local orphans he has tended throughout his time in Korea.
Hawkeye is unable to watch the party due to his experiences, and discusses his postwar future with Sidney, fearing he can no longer be around children without being reminded of his recent trauma.
Charles's musicians leave camp as part of a prisoner exchange, playing Mozart Clarinet Quintet as they depart.
Winchester is shocked to find the body of one of the musicians among the wounded - he had died en route to the camp, and the others had been killed outright.
Hawkeye doesn't understand until the helicopter gains altitude and he sees the word GOODBYE spelled out with rocks on the ground below.
After a wildfire through Malibu Creek State Park on October 9 destroyed much of the set,[2] two additional scenes were written to incorporate a fire into the story.
Harry Morgan and Kellye Nakahara returned to the set on October 15 to film a short scene among the still smoldering ruins.
Interest from advertisers prompted CBS, the network broadcasting M*A*S*H, to sell 30-second commercial blocks for US$450,000 each (equivalent to $1.38 million in 2023) – costlier than even NBC's airing of the Super Bowl of that year.
From 1983 until 2010, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" remained the most watched television broadcast in American history,[4] passed only in total viewership (but not in ratings or share) in February 2010 by Super Bowl XLIV.
[7][9] As M*A*S*H was one of the most successful shows in TV history, in order not to lose the franchise completely, CBS quickly created a new series, AfterMASH, that followed the postwar adventures of Colonel Potter, Max Klinger, and Father Mulcahy in a stateside veterans hospital.
Despite wide popularity in its premiere episodes, script problems and constant character changes led to a sharp decline in viewers, and the show was canceled by CBS after only two seasons.