Wham Episode / M*A*S*H

• Season 1's "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", the first hint that the show was not just a light comedy.
• The season 3 finale, which killed off original company CO Henry Blake just as he was discharged and headed back to the States. The urban legend that the cast was not told of the character's death beforehand is false. They weren't told until just before the scene so that the reactions would seem authentic. A lot of the supporting cast and crew didn't know, though, and the first take of the scene was actually ruined by the crew gasping in reaction to the news. The instrument someone dropped was an actual reaction from the actor.
• To cement the above, the season 4 opener sent Trapper home and introduced B.J. as his replacement, followed an episode later by the introduction of new CO Sherman Potter.
• “Hawk’s Nightmare” ends up being a halfway point for Hawkeye’s sanity slippage, as sleep issues continue to plague him, Radar notices him hugging the teddy bear, more characters realise he’s going to have a bad end (which is one of his fears, that people will realise he’s crazy and pity him) and he has to take The Mad Hatter mask off, and the uncaring reactions of friends back home serves as foreshadowing for “Bless You Hawkeye”.
• The season 6 opener got rid of Frank and replaced him with Winchester, marking an end to the zanier antics between the Swamp-mates.
• Season 7's "The Billfold Syndrome": a promising young field medic suddenly comes down with a case of amnesia, despite having no apparent head injuries. After Sidney Freedman hypnotizes him to just before the last thing he remembers, we learn that his kid brother was killed by incoming shelling and never made it out of his bunker —and to make matters worse, he made the promise to his mother to watch out for him.
  "I promised Mom... she's counting on me... I'm the oldest... she said it's my job... I'm sorry, Mom... I'm sorry..."
• The season 8 2-part episode "Goodbye Radar" had the death of Uncle Ed and the departure of Radar.
• Season 9 "Bless You Hawkeye" was the confirmation after increasing foreshadowing that Hawkeye's Sanity Slippage started long before Korea.
• The final episode "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", which covered the end of the Korean War and locked the lead character in a mental hospital, also qualifies.

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