China Beach (1988) · WatchGuide

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19884 Seasons42m episodes7.4

Drama, War & Politics

TMDB7.4

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Runtime: 42m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

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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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Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 26, 1988
Network: ABC

Time to finish

45 hrs

64 episodes. About 7 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Dana Delany

Colleen McMurphy

Marg Helgenberger

KC Koloski

Michael Boatman

Samuel Beckett

Troy Evans

Bob Pepper

Nancy Giles

Frankie Bunsen

Jeff Kober

Dodger Winslow

Robert Picardo

Dick Richard

Concetta Tomei

Lila Garreau

Brian Wimmer

Boonie Lanier

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SERIES

19884 Seasons42m episodes7.4

Drama, War & Politics

TMDB7.4

Votes36

Your rating

Runtime: 42m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

About

Reflections of the way life used to be.

Where to watch

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Buy

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

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E1 · Airs Apr 26, 1988 · 54m · ★ 10.0
China Beach (1)
It's November 1967 and nurse Colleen McMurphy faces the last week of her tour of duty in Vietnam, dealing as usual with the dying boys, primitive conditions, and the sexual pressure from pilot Natch Austin. USO singers Georgia Lee and Laurette Barber arrive to entertain the troops in the base's new R&R center. Brand new Red Cross volunteer Cherry White also arrives, determined to find her brother, a marine no one can locate.
E2 · Airs Apr 26, 1988
China Beach (2)
McMurphy decides that she can't leave China Beach even though she is eligible to go home. Cherry and Laurette arrive- Cherry to look for her brother whom her family lost contact with and Laurette as a USO back up singer who gets promoted to lead when the lead singer can't cope with the war.
E3 · Airs Apr 27, 1988
Home
Laurette auditions local entertainers to fill in the act and McMurphy struggles to overcome her feelings when a Viet Cong woman who was responsible for blowing up a friend is brought into the hospital for treatment.
E4 · Airs May 4, 1988
Hot Spell
KC agrees to ask about Cherry's brother as she sets up a deal to buy an antique vase. Laurette prepares to perform for visiting brass. Lila, KC, Laurette, McMurphy and Cherry share confidences as they wait out a mortar attack together.
E5 · Airs May 11, 1988
Somewhere Over the Radio
Lila, Cherry and Laurette find themselves pinned down with a combat squad whose leader is not dealing with reality. Back at China Beach, KC and a frightened Boonie prepare to mount a rescue mission. Dr. Richard is injured just before he's scheduled to leave for R&R in Hawaii with Beth Ann.
E6 · Airs May 18, 1988
Waiting for Beckett
Cherry is taken in by a deserter who claims to know her brother, and who is pursued by a determined office from the CID. Laurette and Boonie try to help a stressed out Beckett get some sleep.
E7 · Airs Jun 1, 1988
Brothers
Laurette faces an important audition with laryngitis. Beckett battles the pressure of racial prejudice and financial coercion when he discovers someone has been using the body bags in his GRU. Dr. Richard returns from R&R in Hawaii disillusioned by the perceived changes in his wife. Dodger finally finds Rick, Cherry's long-lost brother.
E8 · Airs Jun 8, 1988
Chao Ong
Despite distractions, McMurphy and Natch finally get together. Laurette gets a chance to join another, bigger USO tour. McMurphy gets blamed for a body that disappears on her shift.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 26, 1988
Network: ABC

Time to finish

45 hrs

64 episodes. About 7 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Dana Delany

Colleen McMurphy

Marg Helgenberger

KC Koloski

Michael Boatman

Samuel Beckett

Troy Evans

Bob Pepper

Nancy Giles

Frankie Bunsen

Jeff Kober

Dodger Winslow

Robert Picardo

Dick Richard

Concetta Tomei

Lila Garreau

Brian Wimmer

Boonie Lanier

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