The gang in the swamp are awakened by the sound of a baby crying. It turns out that a a little girl infant has been abandoned by its mother, given to the doctors to raise. The problem is that it is a mixed race baby, the product of an American soldier and a Korean mother. It turns out that these children are often considered anathema, even being killed or sold into prostitution. The sad fact is that no matter who the camp members go to, their is no one to help them. Even the children in the orphanage will eventually turn on her. Hawkeye and Charles even go to the U.S. Embassy. They get caught up in the nets of bureaucracy and indifference. This episode is one of the more real ones in the MASH canon.
6 Reviews
Sad yet very realistic episode
erichanson-3993831 January 2019
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The camp finds an abandoned baby. The baby is half American, half Korean. Efforts to find the baby a home prove extremely difficult because of its mixed descent. One of the more sad and realistic Mash episodes. There is a bit of humor when Major Charles Winnchestor gets into it with an high ranking authority figure, something he rarely does.
Conflicting issues
buckndi21 August 2021
Sad episode
kellielulu2 October 2022
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Maybe the saddest. Charles finds an abandoned baby girl outside the swamp. The entire camp falls for her of course. Due to being mixed race she will likely be shunned and mistreated. Charles provides some humor as does Klinger but it's an emotional episode. It's particularly touching to see Charles care for the baby girl so much . They try a number of things to get her a loving home nothing works. The solution is one Father Mulcahy recommended but it isn't the happy ending we would want . I do agree it's probably more realistic than much of what happened on the show.
It's a sensitive topic and not one with easy solutions .
It's a sensitive topic and not one with easy solutions .
Maybe the best of all the later episodes
mts4327 September 2023
By Season 8, the quality of the scripts had noticeably declined. This episode was an exception, and ranks among the best in the history of the series. It took a very serious subject and treated it with the respect that it deserved. The subject is one of which I imagine that most viewers were not even aware of. It was a disgrace that Americans should be ashamed that it was ever allowed to occur. Americans too frequently refuse to take responsibility for their actions, and this is a prime example. At the same time, other U. N. nations who participated in the "Police Action" acknowledged that they had a responsibility when a similar situation arose with their personnel.
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