"Cowboy" was the eighth episode of the M*A*S*H television series. Originally shown on November 12, 1972 and repeated May 6, 1973, it was written by and directed by Don Weis. It is the only first-season episode listed in TV Guide as a "classic episode". The episode's guest stars are Billy Green Bush as John "Cowboy" Hodges, Patrick Adiarte as Ho-Jon, Timothy Brown as Spearchucker Jones, as the cook, Jean Powell as a nurse, as Goldstein, and John Orchard as Capt. "Ugly John" Black.