Period of Adjustment (M*A*S*H) still and, in celebration, give Klinger the first "belt", but Klinger recoils from the taste. 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
M*A*S*H (TV series) Larry Linville, Wayne Rogers and Gary Burghoff. Series co-creator and joke writer Larry Gelbart departed after Season 4, the first featuring Mike Farrell and Harry Morgan. This resulted in Farrell and Morgan having only a single season reading scripts featuring Gelbart's masterful comic timing, which defined the feel and rhythm of Seasons 1–4 featuring predecessors Rogers and Stevenson, respectively. Larry Linville (the show's comic foil) and Executive Producer Gene Reynolds both departed at the conclusion of Season 5 in 1977, resulting in "M*A*S*H" being fully stripped of its original tight comedic foundation by the beginning of Season 6 — the