China Beach (1988)
Reflections of the way life used to be.
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.
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Episodes
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1. Lost and Found (1)1988-11-30Lila takes over command of China Beach and orders KC off the base. McMurphy finally lets herself admit how much she cares for Natch when she receives some disturbing news about him
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2. Lost and Found (2)1988-12-07Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds a badly injured Dodger.
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3. Limbo1988-12-14McMurphy continues her vigil by Dodger's bedside as he stays in a coma. KC agrees to get Boonie some black market penicillin for a native hospital in exchange for his help in build
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4. X-Mas Chnbch VN '671988-12-21Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.
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5. Women in White1989-01-04McMurphy fights jealousy, envy and fear when a confident woman doctor comes in from the States and takes over Dr. Richard and Dodger's case. Wayloo Marie tries to win a position as
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6. All About E.E.V.1989-01-11A dashing lieutenant colonel parachutes into China Beach for some R&R and disrupts the lives of Lila, KC and Wayloo Marie. Dr. Richard and McMurphy play a game of sexual brinksmans
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7. Tet '681989-01-25Wayloo Marie tries to keep reporting, McMurphy and KC are trapped in an officer's restroom, Beckett is held prisoner by Mai's brother and Dr. Richard and the wounded Dodger prepare
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8. Cherry1989-02-01Wayloo Marie becomes intimidated by the war as its reality sinks in following Cherry's death. McMurphy tries to fight the bureaucracy to keep Dodger from going to Japan for more me
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9. Crossing the Great Water1989-02-08Dr. Richard throws himself into helping a Vietnamese orphanage when his wife Beth Ann serves him with divorce papers. McMurphy tries to reconcile Dodger and herself to his uncertai
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10. Psywars1989-03-01An Army psychiatrist visits the Five and Dime and touches off McMurphy's inability to deal with Natch's death. Wayloo Marie learns something about Boonie's past service in Vietnam.
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11. Where the Boys Are1989-03-08As McMurphy's enforced R&R continues with the help of an 18-year-old medic, Boonie tries to recreate a combination spring beach frolic and senior prom. KC warns Boonie that Wayloo
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12. Vets1989-03-15The accounts of life in Vietnam by real vets are intercut with scenes from old episodes showing how closely the show has mirrored reality.
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13. Twilight1989-03-22Wayloo Marie's digging results in a medal ceremony for Boonie and an unwelcome investigation into his lost jungle patrol. McMurphy sees Dodger again as he prepares to go back into
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14. After Burner1989-04-05McMurphy goes through the emotional wringer when Natch Austen returns to China Beach after six months as an MIA. Lila cares for the ""pet"" of a wounded G.I. Boonie and KC have tro
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15. Promised Land1989-04-12Beckett faces going home when his tour ends in April 1968, as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr polarizes black-white relations in the nation and at China Beach.
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16. The World (1)1989-04-26Wayloo Marie prepares to return the world and a new job at BBC news. She's unexpectedly joined by McMurphy, who's returning to her unsettled family in Kansas following her father's
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17. The World (2)1989-05-03McMurphy reassesses her life as she tries to decide whether or not to return to Vietnam following her father's death.
Cast
Dana DelanyColleen McMurphy
Marg HelgenbergerKC Koloski
Michael BoatmanSamuel Beckett
Troy EvansBob Pepper
Nancy GilesFrankie Bunsen
Jeff KoberDodger Winslow
Robert PicardoDick Richard
Concetta TomeiLila Garreau
Brian WimmerBoonie LanierImages
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