Crisis (M*A*S*H) Crisis (M*A*S*H) Crisis was the 45th episode of M*A*S*H, and the 21st episode of the second series. It was first transmitted on February 9, 1974. When the supply lines are cut, Henry Blake declares a state of emergency and delegates various tasks to the officers in an effort to keep the camp running. As heating fuel and toilet paper run low, the members of the 4077th are forced to operate in the cold, scrounge every bit of spare paper in the camp and double up in sleeping quarters. The surgeons, along with Radar, Klinger and Father Mulcahy, spend restless nights
Alan Alda was scheduled to guest star on "", portraying former police and naval officer John Winters, the father of the former main character . It is unknown whether he filmed his role before the series was redesigned and Rex Winters written off. After the release of his movie "Tower Heist", Alda was devastated when on December 7, 2011, his decades-long friend Harry Morgan from "M*A*S*H" died. Alda returned to Broadway in November 2014, playing the role of Andrew Makepeace in the revival of "Love Letters" at the Brooks Atkinson Theater alongside Candice Bergen. In 2016, Alda appeared in Louis C.K.'s web-based