Most announcements were done by either Todd Susman or Sal Viscuso. Both actors also guest-starred as different soldiers in various episodes as seen in these pictures.
| Sal Viscuso | Todd Susman |
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| "Dear Sigmund" | "Operation Noselift" |
All announcements were made by one of the regular PA announcers unless otherwise noted in green. NA means no announcements were made during that episode. This is a partial list. I hope to add the announcements from every show eventually, but that will take time. Several of them do have sound clips and more will follow.
| Season 1 |
Attention all personnel. Both day and night shifts will be confined to duty in the admitting ward tomorrow night. All other activities are canceled. There will be no exceptions by order of the acting commanding officer, Major Frank Burns.
Attention all personnel. Report immediately to admitting ward and operating room.
Attention. Attention. The following personnel are assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, G. Wood, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, Karen Phillip, George Morgan, Patrick Adiarte, Timothy Brown, Odessa Cleveland.
2 To Market, To Market
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3 Requiem for a Lightweight
Attention, all personnel. All shifts report to operating room. All shifts. On the double. Attention, all personnel. All shifts report to operating room. All shifts. On the double.
4 Chief Surgeon Who?
5 The Moose
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6 Yankee Doodle Doctor
Attention all personnel. Attention all personnel. Casualties in the compound.
All personnel report on the double.
7 Bananas, Crackers, and Nuts
Attention all personnel. Incoming
casualties. Report immediately to admitting ward and operating room on
the double!
8 Cowboy
Attention. Attention. Casualties arriving on the pad. We've got another delivery from the Cowboy.
9 Henry, Please Come Home
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10 I Hate a Mystery
11 Germ Warfare
12 Dear Dad
The glee club meets in the mess
tent at o-eight hundred hours. The first number on tonight's schedule is,
uh, Father Mulcahy's solo "I'm confessin That I Love You."
Due to the number of people bored last Sunday, next Sunday will be canceled.
The following men have volunteered for this afternoon's ten mile physical fitness hike.
Attention all personnel. When filling out GI insurance forms, be sure to state your age and sex at the time of your last birthday.
A reminder that the 4077th Christmas party for the Korean children in the area will be held today at fourteen hundred hours. So everyone turn out to meet the kids. Santa will be there too; we can only hope he's sober.
13 Edwina
14 Love Story
15 Tuttle
16 The Ringbanger
17 Sometimes You Hear The Bullet
Captain Pierce, Captain McIntyre,
report to surgery!
Attention. Attention. All personnel, all medical personnel. Report to admitting ward and operating room. Report to admitting ward and operating room.
18 Dear Dad...Again
Attention all personnel. Incoming
choppers with wounded. Report to the hospital, all personnel.
19 The Longjohn Flap
(Radar)
Attention. Attention. Here's the announcement you've all been waiting for.
Lt. Col. Henry Blake is the proud father of a bouncing baby appendix; Henry's
doing fine. And the underwear's been saved!
20 The Army-Navy Game
Attention. The final score: Navy
42, Army 36. And the winner of the football pool is Father Mulcahy.
21 Sticky Wicket
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22 Major Fred C. Dobbs
23 Ceasefire
24 Showtime
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| Season 2 |
Attention please. Immediately following Mass this Sunday, Yom Kippur services will be held for all Jewish personnel of the Hebrew faith.
Attention. Be sure to follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines. Operating as bombs...operating as bombs and bullets burst around them. Snatching laughs and love between amputations and penicillin. Follow Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John MacIntyre, Henry Blake, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and Corporal Klinger.
26 5 O'Clock Charlie
Attention all personnel. Attention. Three minutes to Charlie. Repeat. Three minutes to Charlie.
Won't be long now, folks. Stand by for Charlie.
Attention. Attention. One minute to Charlie. The betting book is now closed.
And now direct from North Korea, here he is for the sixth hit week, 5 O'clock Charlie, his airplane, and his astigmatism!
And that concludes 5 O'clock Charlie for today, folks. Hope you enjoyed him as much as North Korea enjoyed bringing him to ya. Results of the pool will be announced in just a few minutes. Join us tomorrow same time. Until then, have a nice war.
Attention. Five minutes to Charlie. Five minutes.
One minute to Charlie. One minute.
And here he is for your wartime pleasure, the one and only, 5 O'Clock Charlie!
Attention. Two minutes to Charlie. Two minutes to Charlie.
So as he flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say 'aloha, 5 O'clock Charlie' and return to our duties. Let me remind you the hospital is open 24 hours for your dining and dancing pleasure.
27 Radar's Report
Attention. Major Houlihan, your
chest x-rays are ready and they really came out beautiful.
Don't panic, folks, it's just the generator again.
Captain Pierce, report to O.R. immediately. Captain Pierce to O.R. on the double.
28 For the Good of the Outfit
Attention all personnel. Due to
circumstances beyond our control, lunch will be served today.
Attention. PFC Lester Pascale will pay five dollars for a hot letter from home.
29 Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde
(Radar)
Attention. No wounded are expected for 24 hours. Surgical personnel are
now on conditional stand down.
(Radar) At thirteen hundred hours Colonel Blake will lecture on the dangers of acne in combat.
30 Kim
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31 L.I.P.
Attention all personnel. Tomorrow
night's movie will be "Flying Leathernecks" starring John Wayne, Ward Bond,
and Maureen O'Hara. Be sure to see this one with a marine you love.
32 The Trial of Henry Blake
Attention all personnel. By order
of Major Frank Burns, lights out in ten minutes sharp. Anyone not in their
own beds at that time will have to spend the night wherever they are.
The following people have volunteered to go on a ten mile hike.
Attention all personnel! Let's all turn out to greet very our own Colonel Blake. Everybody in the compound. Everybody in the compound.
33 Dear Dad...Three
34 The Sniper
35 Carry On, Hawkeye
Attention all personnel. Because
of the epidemic, tonight's broken film which has not arrived yet is cancelled.
A reminder from Colonel Blake, due to the flu kindly refrain from kissing
anyone unless absolutely necessary.
Attention all O.R. personnel. Attention. Incoming casualties. Report to surgery. Report to surgery on the double.
Attention all personnel. Here is the latest news from Armed Forces Radio: Stockholm, Dr. Ralphonz has just won the Noble Peace Prize. Moscow: Josef Stalin announced he has been unanimously reelected ruler of Russia. Paris: the French Army today predicted it would bring a swift end to the Vietnamese War. Detroit: the automobile industry reached its production target of 6.5 million cars. Korea: ammunition and material shortages continue to hinder the Allied war effort.
36 The Incubator
37 Deal Me Out
Will doctors Pierce and McIntyre
kindly return to the conference. They need your money.
38 Hot Lips and Empty Arms
39 Officers Only
40 Henry in Love
41 For Want of a Boot
Attention. Captain Alvin Mercer
leaves for a honeymoon in Tokyo at oh-nine hundred hours. Any nurse wishing
to be the bride please contact the captain. No experience necessary.
42 Operation Noselift
43 The Chosen People
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44 As You Were
Attention all personnel. Since
there are no casualties again today, tonight's midnight movie will be seen
at nine o'clock this morning. Also, midnight will be cancelled.
Attention all personnel. Attention. Incoming wounded. Incoming wounded. Both shifts report to surgery on the double.
All O.R. personnel stand by. Ambulance drivers report to their stations.
Attention. Due to continuing heavy incoming casualties, the mess tent will remain open all night.
Attention. Attention all personnel. No casualties expected for indefinite period. AFRS announces the release of Nazi war criminal Alfred Krupp. Everybody's going home but us.
45 Crisis
Attention. Senior surgical staff and Father Mulcahy report to Colonel Blake's office on the double. Shake it, sirs.
Attention. Due to shortage of oil and wood tonight's movie will be burned at 1800 hours.
All personnel must begin sleeping together tonight. Check bulletin board to determine the sex of your tent.
Attention, all personnel. Incoming wounded. Heavy casualties expected inside the hour. All personnel on full alert.
Attention, all surgical personnel. Electrical power will be cut by ten percent. And please use whole blood only when absolutely necessary.
46 George
47 Mail Call
48 A Smattering of Intelligence
| Season 3 |
50 Rainbow Bridge
51 Officer of the Day
52 Iron Guts Kelly
53 O.R.
Attention all surgical personnel.
Report to operating room. Incoming casualties arriving by chopper, ambulance,
and jeep. It's gonna be a big one, folks.
Attention all personnel. Over 3000 tons of scrap paper fell on General MacArthur in his homecoming parade in New York City.
Attention. Attention. All personnel may stand down. Armed Forces Radio reports that General Mark W. Clark has just been appointed commander of the U.N. forces in Korea. General Clark succeeds General Ridgeway who succeeded General MacArthur. And that's the news generally speaking. No one's succeeding us at all.
54 Springtime
55 Check-Up
(Radar)
Testing, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 testing. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I got a gal in
Kalamazoo...
(Henry) Attention. Attention please. May I have the attention of each and every personnel please. This is your commanding officer, Colonel Blake. Now, uh...it's required that uh.. everyone be given a routine medical check-up. This according to a new Army regulation which is uh..your uh...R P 7 8 stroke 8 0 double 7, 8 J...uh blah blah blah. Now accordingly, enlisted men will fall into the mess tent to receive their physicals. Officers will examine themselves and vice versa in private. (Is there anything else I should tell them, Radar? Okay.) Tonight's movie is a double feature: "Godzilla and the Bobbiesoxer" plus "Ma and Pa Kettle Have a Baby."
56 Life With Father
57 Alcoholics Unanimous
Attention all personnel. Seoul
HQ reports that rain is expected this evening.
Attention. Father Mulcahy's temperance lecture is scheduled for thirteen hundred hours. No personnel will be excepted by order of Major Frank Burns, temporary commander and surgeon.
58 There is Nothing Like a Nurse
Attention all nurses, please be prepared to leave in 1 hour. 1 hour til the nurses go.
Attention. Attention all personnel. Incoming. Incoming wounded arriving by vehicle plus choppers on both upper and lower pads. All available personnel will report to the O.R. to help with nursing chores. We need lots of hands.
59 Adam's Rib
Attention all personnel. Due to
conditions beyond our control, we regret to announce that lunch is now
being served.
Nurse Chetzburger, please contact the Red Cross representative. Nurse Chetzburger, please contact the Red Cross representative.
Attention all personnel. Attention. Ambulances in the lower compound. Choppers on the upper pad. Incoming wounded! Repeat, incoming wounded! All O.R. personnel report on the double. Repeat, ambulances in the lower compound. Choppers on the upper pad.
60 A Full Rich Day
Captains Pierce and McIntyre report
to O.R. immediately! Move it...sirs.
Attention. All available personnel will assemble in the compound for a memorial tribute personally conducted by Colonel Henry Blake.
The national anthem of Luxembourg.
61 Mad Dogs and Servicemen
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62 Private Charles Lamb
Attention, all personnel. Incoming wounded. Both surgical shifts report to the operating room. Both shifts please.
Attention, all personnel. Our Greek allies have invited us to join them in their Easter celebration. There will be music, dancing, and a specially barbecued lamb. That's tomorrow night at the mess tent 2200 hours. And now back to the Korean War because you asked for it.
Sergeant Chintzen, please report to the dentist's tent. Your uppers have been waiting a week.
Attention, all personnel. Please contact Colonel Blake if anyone knows the whereabouts of tonight's entree. In the meantime be on the lookout for a white Caucasian lamb. It is reported to be unarmed and considered to be delicious. That is all.
63 Bombed
All personnel, stay clear of the
compound! All personnel!
Attention! By order of Colonel Blake, all personnel will prepare a survival pack in case we have to evacuate.
Second shift to surgery, please, second shift.
(Radar) Testing, tes...1,2,3. Testing, 1, 2. Radar here, uh..there's nobody on the radio now except 'Seoul City' Sue so I figured I'd keep you entertained by reading you a letter from my mom. Here it goes. Dear Son, I got your lovely letter. You certainly asked a lot of questions. About the car, you may. About Jennifer next door, yes. About Eleanor Simon, she did once or twice but not too much. About your uncle Albert, uh no on drinking, yes on AA. About the dog Leon, three times in the bedroom, once under the washer, and twice on the cat. Testing, testing. About the cat, we don't have one anymore. About your cousin Ernie, he's in the...(explosion) Oh! Oh! Here we go again! Watch out!
64 Bulletin Board
Attention all personnel. See the
bulletin board for details on the payroll savings plan. Buy a bond for
25, 50, or 100. Bet America to win, place, or show.
The morale officer would like to remind all personnel not to be negilgent...uh negligent about writing to the folks back home. Remember, you gotta write 'em to get 'em.
Attention all personnel. Tonight's movie is a holdover from last week and will be shown right after supper, which is also a holdover from last week.
Attention! For all personnel too busy in the O.R. here is the latest from the bulletin board. Armed Forces Radio announces that Clark Gable is divorcing Lady Sylvia Ashley and Sergeant Murray Mandel announces he is divorcing his Sylvia. In Washington, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower said if he's elected, he'll go to Korea. HQ in Seoul announces that the ammunition shortage continues to be very severe. Heavy fighting will go on in our sector and we can expect casualties for the next 72 hours.
65 The Consultant
66 House Arrest
67 Aid Station
68 Love and Marriage
69 Big Mac
Attention all personnel! General MacArthur has just passed Checkpoint Able. He'll be here in
seconds! This is not a rehearsal! This is a real emergency!
70 Payday
Attention all personnel. Attention.
The eagle screams today. It's payday. All personnel will kindly form an
orderly stampede.
Attention all personnel. Due to
the incredible mediocrity of last night's movie, it will be shown again
tonight at twenty-one hundred hours.
71 White Gold
72 Abyssinia, Henry
74 Change of Command
75 It Happened One Night
76 The Late Captain Pierce
77 Hey, Doc
78 The Bus
79 Dear Mildred
Attention. Here's a bulletin from
the truce talks at Panmunjon: after six weeks of negotiation, the U.N.
and North Korea have agreed that flagpoles in the peace compound are to
be thirty-two feet, six and one quarter inches high. World leaders hail
this agreement as an important step toward lasting peace.
Attention all personnel! Incoming
wounded! Both shifts to O.R. on the double! Incoming wounded!
80 The Kids
81 Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?
82 Dear Peggy
83 Of Moose and Men
84 Soldier of the Month
85 The Gun
86 Mail Call Again
87 The Price of Tomato Juice
88 Dear Ma
89 Der Tag
90 Hawkeye
91 Some 38th Parallels
92 The Novocaine Mutiny
93 Smilin' Jack
94 The More I See You
95 Deluge
96 The Interview
98 Margaret's Engagement
99 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
100 Lt. Radar O'Reilly
101 The Nurses
102 The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan
103 Dear Sigmund
104 Mulcahy's War
105 The Korean Surgeon
106 Hawkeye Get Your Gun
107 The Colonel's Horse
108 Exorcism
109 Hawk's Nightmare
110 The Most Unforgettable Characters
111 38 Across
112 Ping Pong
113 End Run
114 Hanky Panky
115 Hepatitis
116 The General's Practitioner
117 Movie Tonight
118 Souvenirs
119 Post Op
120 Margaret's Marriage
Attention all personnel. All those
with body lice report for dusting at 13:30 hours, dysentery at 14:20 hours,
toe fungus at 15:00.
Attention all personnel. M*A*S*H
8063 is overloaded. Their casualties are on the way.
122 Fallen Idol
123 Last Laugh
124 War of Nerves
125 The Winchester Tapes
126 The Light That Failed
127 In Love and War
128 Change Day
129 Images
130 The M*A*S*H Olympics
131 The Grim Reaper
132 Comrades in Arms (Part 1)
133 Comrades in Arms (Part 2)
134 The Merchant of Korea
135 The Smell of Music
136 Patent 4077
137 Tea and Empathy
138 Your Hit Parade
139 What's Up, Doc?
140 Mail Call Three
141 Temporary Duty
142 Potter's Retirement
143 Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde
144 Major Topper
Attention. A jeep with single patient
wants to meet single doctor on the double.
146 Peace On Us
147 Lil
148 Our Finest Hour
149 The Billfold Syndrome
150 None Like it Hot
151 They Call the Wind Korea
152 Major Ego
153 Baby, It's Cold Outside
154 Point of View
155 Dear Comrade
156 Out of Gas
157 An Eye for a Tooth
158 Dear Sis
159 B.J. Papa San
160 Inga
161 The Price
162 The Young and Restless
163 Hot Lips is Back in Town
164 C*A*V*E
165 Rally Round the Flagg, Boys
166 Preventative Medicine
167 A Night at Rosie's
168 Ain't Love Grand
169 The Party
171 Are You Now, Margaret
172 Guerilla My Dreams
173 Good-Bye Radar (Part 1)
174 Good-Bye Radar (Part 2)
175 Period of Adjustment
176 Nurse Doctor
177 Private Finance
178 Mr. and Mrs. Who?
179 The Yalu Brick Road
180 Life Time
181 Dear Uncle Abdul
182 Captains Outrageous
183 Stars and Stripe
184 Yessir, That's Our Baby
185 Bottle Fatigue
186 Heal Thyself
187 Old Soldiers
188 Morale Victory
189 Lend a Hand
190 Goodbye, Cruel World
191 Dreams
192 War Co-Respondent
193 Back Pay
194 April Fools
196 Letters
197 Cementing Relationships
198 Father's Day
199 Death Takes a Holiday
200 A War for all Seasons
201 Your Retention Please
202 Tell it to the Marines
203 Taking the Fifth
204 Operation Friendship
(Klinger) Paging Charles Emerson Winchester the living. This is your
saviour speaking. You are wanted in the reading room. So for the last time I say, 'Chop chop. Chuck Chuck.'
205 No Sweat
206 Depressing News
207 No Laughing Matter
208 Oh, How We Danced
209 Bottoms Up
210 The Red/White Blues
211 Bless You, Hawkeye
212 Blood Brothers
213 The Foresight Saga
214 The Life You Save
216 Identity Crisis
217 Rumor at the Top
218 Give 'Em Hell, Hawkeye
219 Wheelers and Dealers
220 Communication Breakdown
221 Snap Judgment
222 Snappier Judgment
223 'Twas the Day After Xmas
224 Follies of the Living - Concerns
of the Dead
225 The Birthday Girls
226 Blood and Guts
227 A Holy Mess
228 The Tooth Shall Set You Free
229 Pressure Points
230 Where There's a Will, There's
a War
231 Promotion Commotion
232 Heroes
233 Sons and Bowlers
235 That Darn Kid
236 Hey, Look Me Over
237 Trick or Treatment
238 Foreign Affairs
239 The Joker is Wild
240 Who Knew?
241 Bombshells
242 Settling Debts
243 The Moon is Not Blue
244 Run for the Money
245 U.N., the Night and the Music
246 Strange Bedfellows
247 Say No More
Attention, Major Houlihan, you have a telephone call from a Dr. Steven Chesler in Seoul. Please hurry, I can't tie up the phone long.
248 Friends and Enemies
249 Give and Take
250 As Time Goes By
251 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
73 Welcome to Korea
Season 4
Attention. Attention please. The
following personnel are permanently assigned to the M*A*S*H 4077: Alan
Alda as Hawkeye, Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicutt, Loretta Swit as Hot Lips
Houlihan, Larry Linville as Frank Burns, Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly,
William Christopher as Father Mulcahy, Jamie Farr as Corporal Klinger,
and reporting for duty as new commanding officer at 1600 hours 19th September
1952, Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter, Regular Army. God help us all.
(Radar) Sorry, camp. Attention! By command of the new commanding officer, all officers report
to the commanding officer's office, sirs.
Attention! Sniper activity in the
compound. Attention all personnel! Inside's your best bet.
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Incoming chopper. No wounded. Repeat,
no wounded. Just mail for a few luckies.
Attention all surgical staff. Heavy
night patrol action. Stand by for incoming wounded.
Attention Captain Hunnicutt. Captain Hunnicutt please report to the hospital.
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97 Bug Out
Season 5
Attention. All doctor personnel
are to personally report to the mess tent.
Attention. Incoming casualties. All personnel report to pre-op immediately.
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Attention, all personnel. Incoming. Incoming. Welcoming committee to the helipad.
There will be a slight lull in our lull.
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121 Fade Out, Fade In
Season 6
Attention. Corporal Klinger report
to Col. Potter's office on the double and bring your lawyer.
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145 Commander Pierce
Season 7
Attention all personnel. Incoming
wounded. Choppers and ambulances loaded.
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Attention. Attention all personnel. The 9th Evac bus leaves for Seoul in one minute. Immediate seating
in the club car. All aboard.
Choppers! All hands report to the
pad.
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170 Too Many Cooks
Season 8
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Attention everybody. Incoming wounded.
Get yours while they last. Tell your friends.
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Attention. Attention. Attention
all personnel. Incoming wounded. Report to O.R. on the double. Sorry, folks,
that's it for the movie.
195 The Best of Enemies
Season 9
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(Klinger) Attention Major Houlihan. Last call for Major Houlihan. You have a phone call.
Oh by the way, it's your father!
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Attention all personnel. Attention all personnel. We've got people coming in, folks,
with more wounded than their pride. Let's go! As in now!
215 That's Show Biz
Season 10
Attention all personnel. Quit your dreaming, it's time for the nightmare.
234 Picture This
Season 11
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Sorry, folks, but we're having a surprise medical convention in the compound on the double!
