Plot A: Charles returns from Tokyo with an alcoholic blank about his activities, and then is notified that "Mrs. Charles Emerson Winchester III" is arriving forthwith.
Plot B: 'Tis the season for Korean Hemorrhagic Fever, and the doctors have been forbidden to use sodium in their treatments, which leaves the patients at risk of dying from the loss of sodium and potassium.

In this episode we see Hawkeye reading a book or medical journal to learn more about Korean Hemorrhagic Fever. This further indicates the 4077th maintains a camp library.

It's interesting to see Hawkeye and B.J. consult with Charles about the Fever. It's hard - no impossible - to imagine the Captains consulting Frank Burns on a medical problem. This helps to prove that despite differences in personalities, Pierce and Hunnicut saw Winchester as a medical equal.

What I find interesting is that the Army has such a hard and fast rule for dealing with Korean Hemorrhagic fever. In "Soldier of the Month" (season 4)they were not sure what they were even dealing with. (They came a up with a name in some old writings, and then there was no treatment.

If the timeline that is discussed elsewhere that Henry commanded the 4077th for 2 years, and Potter commanded for 8 months of the Korean War, it seems strange that they even know that it is again the season for Hemorrhagic Fever, much less have a solid treatment that they could get in major military legal trouble for breaking.

"...Potter commanded for 8 months of the Korean War..." - stevegoad

That was a looong eight month stretch, doncha think?

Actually, Potter commanded the 4077th some 11 months. He took command of the base in September of 1952 and remained the C.O. of the MASH unit until the war's end in August of 1953.

Actually, wouldn't Charles be Dr. Who?

>Actually, Potter commanded the 4077th some 11 months. He took command of the base in September of 1952 and remained the C.O. of the MASH unit until the war's end in August of 1953.<

But wasn't he there for more than one Christmas? I seem to remember an episode that went through an entire year, starting and ending with a New Year's get together.

That's "A War for All Season" margie. The episode is one colossal nit in that it shows Potter in command of the 4077th at the beginning of 1952. This flat out contradicts the date given in "Change of Command" as the start of Potter's tenure as the camp's C.O.

Potter actually appears in two Christmas episodes, "Death Takes a Holiday" and "'Twas the Day After Christmas". Three if you count "A War for All Seasons", which aired immediately after "The Day After".

Pardon me about the number of months... but even if it was 11 months, (or maybe 13 months if Potter was there for 2 New Year's celebrations), it seems strange about the knowledge about the fever.

So, is the 4077th going to keep their valuable revelation about the less-than 1% saline solution to themselves, or are they going to risk court martial and pass the information around the other medical units to help save additional lives?

And the opening theme still has the "Also starring Gary Burghoff as Radar" credit. I hope they have that corrected by the next season.

As Father Mulcahy approaches Corporal Shaw to talk about reading the Bible, Shaw has one hand at the bottom of the book, the other one holding a pencil at the top of the book. In the next shot, one hand covers the other over the Bible.

After Hawkeye, B.J. and Charles finish talking to Shaw, you can see B.J. turn to leave the bed twice in two different shots.

When the doctors are talking to Shaw, who has just started Phase Three of his bout with Korean Hemorrhagic Fever, the position of the pencil in the corporal's hand changes with each shot.

Klinger brings into the Swamp, the pictures from Charles' stay in Tokyo. When Klinger shows Hawk and Beej the first picture, Charles has a hand on his forehead. In the very next shot, the hand is no longer there.

One question: Who took those pictures of Charles in Tokyo?

When Charles tells his "wife" that there was only one other night that he was as drunk as he was in Tokyo, his head is in one position and another one when "Mrs. Winchester" asks, "When was that?"

We see Charles turn his head twice in the two shots where Donna, his "wife" asks if he got married the other time Winchester got really loaded.

If your DVD player has a zoom function, zoom in on Donna Marie Parker's (Mrs. Chuck Winchester's) glass. You can see the reflections of one of the film crew and three of the stagelights in the glass.

I'm not sure, but I think the comic book B.J. is using at the un-wedding is an issue of Sad Sack. I do know that comic was used as a prop earlier this season, I think in "Too Many Cooks". Interestingly, both times it was used, it was opened to the same page.

"I'm so conservative, I make you look like a New Dealer."