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Hawkeye reflects on the Christmas season in Korea by writing a letter home, while Radar sends a jeep back to the States in pieces. Henry delivers his usual monthly lecture on sex using anatomical figures, Trapper assists in delivering a calf, and Klinger gets into a fight with Frank, which Father Mulcahy helps resolve. Hawkeye and Trapper play a prank on Margaret, and Hawkeye later flies to the front line dressed as Santa to assist a wounded soldier.
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Alan Alda
as Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Wayne Rogers
as Capt. 'Trapper John' McIntyre
Mclean Stevenson
as Lt. Col. Henry Blake
Loretta Swit
as Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan
Larry Linville
as Maj. Frank Burns
Gary Burghoff
as Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
Jamie Farr
as Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher
as Father Francis Mulcahy
Buck Young
as M.P.
Odessa Cleveland
as Lt. Ginger Bayliss, RN
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