Period of Adjustment (M*A*S*H) Period of Adjustment (M*A*S*H) "Period of Adjustment" was the 179th episode of the "M*A*S*H" television series, and the sixth episode of season eight. The episode aired on October 22, 1979. Radar's departure is revisited in events surrounding B.J. and Klinger. Klinger is still unable to perform the duty of company clerk as efficiently as Radar did and is receiving backlash for it from Colonel Potter, Margaret and Charles. B.J. goes into a deep depression after receiving a letter from his wife Peg: She and their daughter Erin met Radar in San Francisco, and Erin mistakenly called Radar "Daddy". Agonizing over
Fallen Idol (M*A*S*H) Radar's Grape Nehi. The episode closes with another unusually formal event involving Radar and Hawkeye. The Army has decided to award Radar the Purple Heart due to his injury, and Hawkeye presents it to him. After pinning in on him, Hawkeye gives a salute to the company clerk, something he rarely does and jokingly tells him not to get hurt again. Fallen Idol (M*A*S*H) "Fallen Idol" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American situation comedy-series "M*A*S*H" (after the two-part "Fade Out, Fade In") and its 125th overall. The episode aired on CBS on September 27, 1977