M*A*S*H (TV Series) Out of Gas (1978) User Reviews

This One Could Have Almost Put Me to Sleep

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 9 April 2015]

Once again it is cold. Everyone is suffering. But more important is the fact that the unit is out of sodium pentathol, the anesthetic they use for serious operations. Radar tries everything he can because there is a major offensive and casualties begin to come in droves. Mulcahy has a solution. To go to black marketeers. They hit Winchester for his wine, but he insists on going along as they approach these bad guys because he feels he has an investment. Mulcahy is worried about how things will go. Of course, Winchester is totally incompetent when it comes to dealing with this riff-raff. When push comes to shove, the Major nearly gets Mulcany and himself killed. This is a good episode.

Father Mulcahy saves the day!

[safenoe · 8/10 · 14 September 2020]

Good to see Father Mulcahy's character grow as the series progressed. Here he saves the day by securing some important medicines on the black market, with Winchester kind of helping with his expensive French wine.

The Long Surge!!

[ellisel · 10/10 · 4 October 2007]

The opening clip of "Out Of Gas" started with everyone playing poker in the mess tent. Colonel Potter comes inside and tells them the surgery session will be a test of endurance and agility. The first wave would start within two hours. The second wave started with an obvious counteroffensive upon the conclusion of the first wave in about twelve hours. Major Houlihan tells Corporal Klinger to look for the two cases of sodium pentathol for surgery. He did so despite Sergeant Zale making a deal with the 121st unit.

Colonel Potter and Major Houilhan had to supply the pentathol to patients with serious injuries in surgery. They used ether for the more simpler cases on the patients in surgery. Corporal O'Reilly talked to the other units of making arrangements of obtaining pentathol -- without any success. After no success, First Lieutenant Mulcahy started making deals with the black market ... much to Colonel Potter's disapproval ... in order to obtain the sodium pentathol.

Major Winchester travels along with Father Mulcahy. He did away with his nap in order to trade the French wine for the (five boxes of) pentathol. Both Winchester and Mulcahy came back to the site in trading the jeep for the truck (containing the medicine) -- thus returning back to the 4077th. Father Mulcahy ended up being the hero for sacrificing the jeep for the truck. Major Winchester ended up receiving a scolding for leaving camp. The end result: A Fat 16!!