Colonel Potter returns from Korea and becomes the Chief of Staff and Surgery for the General Pershing Veterans Hospital. Klinger returns as his clerk and Father Mulcahy becomes a chaplain with the hospital.
Soon Lee wants to get a job so she can bring her family to America. Father Mulcahy scrambles to finish his monthly report. Colonel Potter tries to find information about a vet who came in without identification.
Klinger runs a radio style program over the PA system. New nurse Caldwell struggles to learn the ropes at General General. Father Mulcahey tries to get one patient to open up and can't get another to respect his time.
Thanksgiving at the Potter's includes their daughter's family, the Klingers, Father Mulcahey and his camera plus assorted visitors from General General.
Drs. Pfieffer and Potter both consider leaving the VA, but an urgent case involving exposure to A-bomb radiation, together with their sense of dedication to medicine and to the patients, keeps them at the hospital.
Pfeiffer is annoyed by a nagging patient named Kraus who may be faking his back injury. He finally snaps at Kraus when one of his patients dies. Klinger becomes hostile towards a war buddy when he realizes that the man had lost a leg.
A mother seeks her son at General General as the staff each convince another staff member that it is their dropped responsibility to know the son's whereabouts... the truth is rather shocking.
Klinger writes a letter to Radar about life working at the VA hospital with Potter and Father Mulcahy. Dr. Boyer, a good surgeon with a bad reputation and attitude -- and a prosthetic leg -- starts at the VA hospital.
Dr. Boyer gets a dose of realism and Klinger almost gets swindled by a real estate agent but his solution has the worst possible consequences at the worst time.
