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
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