The Kids (M*A*S*H) The Kids (M*A*S*H) "The Kids" was the 81st episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the ninth of season four. The episode aired on October 31, 1975. Nurse Cratty's orphanage is evacuated due to shelling, and Cratty and the children stay with the 4077th. Arriving at the camp, the children, in groups of two or three, are billeted in the tents alongside the 4077th staff. Frank Burns is not happy with the disruption, fearing for the security of his Purple Heart, awarded after he received a 'shell fragment' in his eye (an eggshell fragment from a boiled egg rather than
Life Time (M*A*S*H) Life Time (M*A*S*H) "Life Time" is the 11th episode in the eighth season of the CBS television series "M*A*S*H". It originally aired on November 26, 1979, it was directed by Alan Alda and was co-written by Alan Alda and Dr. Walter D. Dishell, M.D., the latter of whom was the show's medical consultant, along with phantom assistance from authors W.C. Heinz, Ring Lardner, Jr., who had written the script for the film "MASH," and even Richard Hooker, himself a former U.S. Army MASH unit surgeon, and author of the 1968 novel "," from which the film and series both drew