Sometimes You Hear the Bullet [SEP] series
Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
"Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" is episode #17 of the first season of the TV series "M*A*S*H", originally airing on January 28, 1973. This is the first episode in which the medical staff failed to save a wounded soldier, and one of the first episodes of the series showing a member of the hospital staff truly affected by death.
Writer Carl Kleinschmitt was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for this episode.
Plot.
Frank Burns throws his back out
was never seen living in "The Swamp" and there was no fifth bunk, though it was the only quarters for subordinate male officers ever seen. In the episode "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", Hawkeye says that he shares a tent with three other doctors. The script was likely written before Spearchucker was dropped and the writers presumably overlooked editing that line of dialogue. However, Ugly John was still a recurring character, and may have been one of the "three other doctors."
John Orchard later returned