Seasons & Episodes
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
China Beach (2)
McMurphy decides that she can't leave China Beach even though she is eligible to go home. Cherry and Laurette arrive- Ch
Home
Laurette auditions local entertainers to fill in the act and McMurphy struggles to overcome her feelings when a Viet Con
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 v
Somewhere Over the Radio
Lila, Cherry and Laurette find themselves pinned down with a combat squad whose leader is not dealing with reality. Back
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.
Brothers
Laurette faces an important audition with laryngitis. Beckett battles the pressure of racial prejudice and financial coe
Chao Ong
Despite distractions, McMurphy and Natch finally get together. Laurette gets a chance to join another, bigger USO tour.
Lost and Found (1)
Lila takes over command of China Beach and orders KC off the base. McMurphy finally lets herself admit how much she care
Lost and Found (2)
Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds
Limbo
McMurphy continues her vigil by Dodger's bedside as he stays in a coma. KC agrees to get Boonie some black market penici
X-Mas Chnbch VN '67
Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.
Women in White
McMurphy fights jealousy, envy and fear when a confident woman doctor comes in from the States and takes over Dr. Richar
All About E.E.V.
A dashing lieutenant colonel parachutes into China Beach for some R&R and disrupts the lives of Lila, KC and Wayloo Mari
Tet '68
Wayloo Marie tries to keep reporting, McMurphy and KC are trapped in an officer's restroom, Beckett is held prisoner by
Cherry
Wayloo Marie becomes intimidated by the war as its reality sinks in following Cherry's death. McMurphy tries to fight th
Crossing the Great Water
Dr. Richard throws himself into helping a Vietnamese orphanage when his wife Beth Ann serves him with divorce papers. Mc
Psywars
An Army psychiatrist visits the Five and Dime and touches off McMurphy's inability to deal with Natch's death. Wayloo Ma
Where the Boys Are
As McMurphy's enforced R&R continues with the help of an 18-year-old medic, Boonie tries to recreate a combination sprin
Vets
The accounts of life in Vietnam by real vets are intercut with scenes from old episodes showing how closely the show has
Twilight
Wayloo Marie's digging results in a medal ceremony for Boonie and an unwelcome investigation into his lost jungle patrol
After Burner
McMurphy goes through the emotional wringer when Natch Austen returns to China Beach after six months as an MIA. Lila ca
Promised Land
Beckett faces going home when his tour ends in April 1968, as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr polarizes blac
The World (1)
Wayloo Marie prepares to return the world and a new job at BBC news. She's unexpectedly joined by McMurphy, who's return
The World (2)
McMurphy reassesses her life as she tries to decide whether or not to return to Vietnam following her father's death.
The Unquiet Earth
McMurphy and K.C. are kidnapped by the Viet Cong and taken underground into a warren of tunnels, where their captors exp
Skin Deep
McMurphy uses a little guilt and a little blackmail to get a reluctant K.C. to visit a wounded soldier whose face has be
Dear China Beach
Dodger is left with an Amerasian baby that is supposedly his son; McMurphy makes a poor patient when she comes down with
Who's Happy Now?
Dr. Richard worries over a craniotomy that has permanently altered a patient's mental capacity; Lila faces an inspection
Independence Day
China Beach celebrates a soggy Independence Day with Boonie and Holly trying to keep everyone's spirits up, McMurphy dea
Ghosts
K.C. avoids dealing with unpleasant memories of her father stirred up by a trunk of his belongings; Dr. Richard faces hi
With a Little Help From My Friends
Holly is shaken when it appears that Hang is connected to the VC and has been using their friendship to gain information
China Men
Dodger and Hyers square off after a battlefield incident; McMurphy spends an uncomfortable evening with Dr. Bernard's so
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1)
Beckett and a civilian photographer temporarily join Dodger's patrol; McMurphy gets to know a wounded POW.
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (2)
The wounded Cambodian POW befriended by McMurphy is taken away by the South Vietnamese for interrogation as the photogra
Magic
McMurphy finds herself caught up in a triangle affair with Dr. Bernard and Vinnie; Holly tells Boonie how she feels abou
Nightfall
K.C. feels responsible for the death of a Vietnamese prostitute she sent out and takes things into her own hands when Ot
Souvenirs
Dodger reaches the limit of his endurance and decides to leave Vietnam and faces a mountain of paperwork as he tries to
Holly's Choice
Holly has had an abortion and as her friends at China Beach try to deal with it, the circumstances that led up to it are
The Rumor of Peace
China Beach reacts to the rumors of peace floated by Beckett and Frankie during their pirate radio broadcast.
Warriors
McMurphy is in an emotional and ethical turmoil when she delivers Vinnie's buddy from death but he falls into a terminal
The Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Dodger tries to reintegrate his life as a civilian but finds himself drifting as he tries to make sense of his experienc
Skylark
A pair of ballroom dancers bring a note of grace and harmony to the uneasy relationship between McMurphy and Dr. Richard
Phoenix
K.C. finds herself in the middle of a C.I.A. assassination plot, and dependent on McMurphy to vouch for her innocence.
F.N.G.
In November 1966, fairly new guys Colleen McMurphy and Dr. Richard find themselves learning the ropes when they arrive a
The Gift
McMurphy finds herself under suspicion when a wounded G.I. she doesn't remember names her as his beneficiary. Lila has m
Strange Brew
With everyone else away for a distant USO show, K.C. and McMurphy indulge in an alcoholic binge that takes them to a dre
History: Part I: The Big Bang
In 1985, a reunion between Boonie and Dr. Richard stirs up memories of their first meeting in Vietnam in 1966. It also b
History Part II-She Sells More Than Sea Shells
Still in 1985, Karen learns how her natural mother, KC, coped with her pregnancy by turning to Boonie for help.
You, Babe
In Saigon in 1967, KC gives birth with McMurphy's help and gives the baby over to a foster mother.
Escape
While attending his father's funeral in 1985, Beckett reflects on his childhood and his tour of duty in Vietnam with the
Fever
In 1970, McMurphy returns home to Lawrence, Kansas to make peace with her mother and try to settle down into civilian li
Juice
In 1972, Dr. Richard and his nurse take a romantic trip to Florida, where they run across a hard-livng McMurphy working
One Giant Leap
In 1969, China Beach watches from afar as the first men land on the moon. McMurphy simmers jealously as Dr. Richard fall
One Small Step
Suddenly back home and missing one leg, Boonie begins a slow and painful re-entry into civilian life with the comfort of
The Call
Frankie returns to Chicago in 1969 to try her hand at being a standup comic but runs into the tragically funny trial of
I Could Have Danced All Night ... But Didn't
McMurphy meets a sympathetic drummer at a 1983 wedding and recalls the 1969 wedding of Lila and Sarge Pepper, as well as
100 Klicks Out
The imminent fall of Saigon reunites KC with her daughter as she struggles to get the little girl out of Vietnam and saf
The Always Goodbye
The arrival in Bangkok in 1969 of a hard-drinking McMurphy and a young private disrupts KC's carefully developed new lif
Quest
In 1976, McMurphy helps KC re-enter the country and find her daughter before heading out to Montana to visit Dodger, who
Rewind
In 1985, Karen begins a videotape project interviewing China Beach veterans about their experiences in Vietnam and their
Through and Through
In 1985, an increasingly angry Colleen torments herself and her husband until she discovers she's suffering from post-tr
Hello, Goodbye (1)
McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam, and travels to Wa
Hello, Goodbye (2)
McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam, and travels to Wa
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