Dear Dad mostly through letters. Dear Dad "Dear Dad" was the 12th episode of the first season of the TV series "M*A*S*H". It originally aired on December 17, 1972 and was repeated on May 20, 1973. This was the first episode to use an epistle as part of the narrative, a device that would be used in later episodes. Hawkeye writes home to his father during the Christmas season, relating a number of amusing and personal anecdotes including Radar's effort to mail home a jeep piece-by-piece, the monthly morality lecture, Trapper's local medical philanthropy, and the ongoing non-secret relationship between Frank and
Private Pike 1, Pike does show some mild romantic attraction to Janet King, Mainwaring's secretary when he talks to her about his guard duties. In War Dance, Pike becomes engaged to an Army girl called Violet Gibbons who works in a fish and chip shop, but it gets called off. Later on, Pike starts seeing a young cinema girl called Ivy, who speaks so quietly, nobody can ever hear her say anything. He briefly develops a crush on Hodges's niece Sylvia, but that quickly fizzles out. In The Royal Train, it is revealed that Pike can drive a steam locomotive, having learned