"Albyssinia, Henry" Original Air Date: March 18, 1975

     "Albyssinia, Henry"  originally aired on March 18, 1975.

     Just four months past 22 years later, it was named to the list of the
100 best telivision episodes, published in the June 28 T.V. Guide.

     Here, in it's entirety, is the article that appeared concerning the
episode.

March 18, 1975

     If war is hell, the staff of the M*A*S*H 4077th unit was in the 
inferno's innermost circle.  In "Abyssinia, Henry," the hospital's 
beloved commander, Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), is going home to his
family in Illinois. After a night of wine, wontons and song, and a touching good-bye 
with his surrogate son, Radar (Gary Burghoff) Henry takes off on
a plane  that is shot down over the Sea of Japan. When Radar
stumbles into the operating theater with the news, it is a shattering
moment - a measure of just how precious these charecters had become
to us.