I think this may have been brought up previously, but a local station ran the New Year's episode not too long ago. I try to catch it every time it comes up because it's a fun episode - especially with the part about the baseball pennant races - but it just doesn't fit in with the timeline of the series.

Col. Blake was there for at least one Christmas, which must have been 1950. Frank Burns was also there. When Potter joined the camp, Burns was still there for quite a while before Winchester arrived. Winchester was there for quite a while (including a couple of Christmases) before that New Year's episode.

More realistically it should have been New Year's Eve 1952 instead of 1950, but then you wouldn't have had that baseball story.

The timeline doesn't really work - but it's still a very good episode.

I think this may have been brought up previously, but a local station ran the New Year's episode not too long ago. I try to catch it every time it comes up because it's a fun episode - especially with the part about the baseball pennant races - but it just doesn't fit in with the timeline of the series.

Col. Blake was there for at least one Christmas, which must have been 1950. Frank Burns was also there. When Potter joined the camp, Burns was still there for quite a while before Winchester arrived. Winchester was there for quite a while (including a couple of Christmases) before that New Year's episode.

More realistically it should have been New Year's Eve 1952 instead of 1950, but then you wouldn't have had that baseball story.

The timeline doesn't really work - but it's still a very good episode.


I just saw the final episode with Blake, Radar gives him a token remembrance with an engraving that reads Korea 1952! In the second episode of season 4 Potter is introduced (along with the rest of the regulars) with the effective date of his assignment to the 4077 as 9/19/52! Now try this on for size, the US officially entered the Korean conflict on June 27, 1950, with the armistice signed July 27, 1953. Either Potter was at 4077 for less than a year, or Blake, Trapper, and Burns were there for just a few months! In a couple of words the timeline is all screwed up, I guess the only way around it is to just not think about it.

I worked it out in my head that each season is one month in real time.