"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.
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.