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Radar's final year didn't mean any less fun for M*A*S*H Season eight was the final year for Radar. His personal life was just taking too much time. It was also harder and harder to explain why he was not on the show anymore. This season had many good episodes, like every other season, to me. Too Many Cooks. - Hawkeye and B.J walk into the mess tent to talk to Klinger about issues at the camp. Klinger puts food in their faces, and they smell it, then taste it. Surprisingly, for M*A*S*H food it's good. Turns out a clumsy soldier is an excellent cook. Potter, though, is having serious issues. He's very angry and snapping at anyone who happens to get close to him. He puts an end to the good food, accusing Hawkeye of tricking him and lying. Are You Now, Margaret? - A congressional aid belies his reasons for being there when he accuses her of being a commie. The main cast work to free her from his grip. Goodbye Radar (Part I)- Two parter that sees Radar returning from R&R to find that there is no generator. No light, no suction means serious problems for everyone. Potter heads into the swamp to tell the swamprats that Radar's Uncle Ed died. This is after Radar couldn't find a generator anywhere. The first half of this two parter has Radar finding out that he's going home. Goodbye Radar (Part II) - No generator means no home for Radar. He feels that if he leaves that the camp would fall apart. Hawkeye and Potter both try to convince him to go home. Klinger gets a generator which convinces Radar that it's time to go home. The planned party is ruined by incoming wounded. This is the last episode in which we get to see Klinger in dresses as part of his main costume. Period of Adjustment - Klinger can't get the hang of the job, and B.J's daughter Erin calls Radar Daddy! B.J just can't get over it, decks Hawkeye, and wrecks the still. Everyone is angry with Klinger for not being able to get the job done. They both decide that it's high time to get wasted. They head to Rosie's and eventually Potter's office. Mulcahy helps Potter see that Klinger is new, and needs time. After Hawkeye finds him nearly passed out in Potter's office, B.J realizes that any soldier could've been called Daddy. It just happened to be Radar. Mr. and Mrs. Who? - Charles comes back from R&R extremely hung-over after a conference in Tokyo. Turns out, while druink, he got married to a perfect stranger. Also, the camp is fighting a deadly fever that is slowly killing patients in Post-Op. Life Line - A very unique show, which has been copied on E.R. The entire show is encapsulated in a half hour of real time. A chopper brings in a wounded patient who's missing part of his aorta. Hawkeye fights to keep him alive while B.J prepares to take a graft from another soldier who's dying. Almost entirely filmed in Pre-op and O.R. No laugh track. Very serious and very good episode. Dear Uncle Absul - Klinger talks of hunting with Charles, and land mines. Margaret has serious foot locker issues. Potter has Klinger sitting on Sophie. He's using him as a model for a self portrait. Mulcahy works on a war dity all through this episode. All of these ar stories found in Klinger's Letter home. Stars and Stripes - Stars and Stripes, the military paper, wants to run a story on a patient that Charles and B.J worked on. Their ego's get the better of them, and the article is nearly scuttled. Scully comes in to visit Margaret, and Hawkeye is out searching for someone to talk to with the paper being written, and Scully with Margaret. Bottle Fatigue - One of my favorite episodes. Hawkeye, who built the still, goes on the wagon after a large bar tab. He becomes even every annoying, getting everyone's ire. Meanwhile, Charles gets humbled when he gets a letter from his sister. Seems that she's become engaged to someone who's not good enough for the Winchester Pedigree. Both characters were changed by this episode, both in a good way. After this one Charles' ego shrinks, and Hawkeye drinks a lot less, and takes the nurses more seriously. Morale Victory - Potter, angry at the constant complaints from B.J and Hawkeye about the camp, it's food, movies, and everything else. He decides to make them morale officers. They work hard on getting everyone's spirit up. Charles, meanwhile, is depressed when he finds that the soldier who's leg he saved, is upset by a permanent hand injury. He's a concert pianist. Charles helps him out, while the other swamp rats save the rest of the camp. Dreams - After a very long session of O.R sleep only adds to everyone's dismay and frustration. Margaret finds love, only to lose him to war. Charles can't operate without grand-standing, and a patient dies. Klinger gets back to Toledo, only to find the O.R in Packo's, with him on a table. Hawkeye looses both his arms. Potter is a child again. and B.J's dance with Peg is intrupted by O.R. Very poinent issue that touched upon nightmares of war intruding into sleep and happy thoughts. April Fools - Probably my favorite episode. Just as everyone is starting in on April fools jokes, Potter finds that a notoriously strict Colonel is on his way. This Colonel drives in to catch B.J, Hawkeye, Charles and Margaret in a pillow fight in front of the swamp. Klinger is everyone's favorite model soldier. Classic episode with one of the classiest endings of the entire run of M*A*S*H, if not any T.V show. MASH was one of the few shows in television history that stayed strong throughout it's long run. 11 years. Every year had great episodes. Season eight is certainly no exception to that.