China Beach

  • Premiered: Apr 1988
  • Episodes: 64
  • Followers: 20
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Drama History War

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Season 3
3x1
The Unquiet Earth
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1989
McMurphy and K.C. are kidnapped by the Viet Cong and taken underground into a warren of tunnels, where their captors expect McMurphy to operate on their wounded leader.
3x2
Skin Deep
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1989
McMurphy uses a little guilt and a little blackmail to get a reluctant K.C. to visit a wounded soldier whose face has been badly disfigured. Holly, the new doughnut dolly, challenges the .. show full overview
3x3
Dear China Beach
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1989
Dodger is left with an Amerasian baby that is supposedly his son; McMurphy makes a poor patient when she comes down with dysentery; and Holly badgers everyone into answering the letters sent by seventh-graders from Colorado.
3x4
Who's Happy Now?
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1989
Dr. Richard worries over a craniotomy that has permanently altered a patient's mental capacity; Lila faces an inspection that will determine if she gets a key promotion; Sarge Pepper .. show full overview
3x5
Independence Day
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Air date
Oct 25, 1989
China Beach celebrates a soggy Independence Day with Boonie and Holly trying to keep everyone's spirits up, McMurphy dealing with a love struck private as she tries to sort out her .. show full overview
3x6
Ghosts
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Air date
Nov 08, 1989
K.C. avoids dealing with unpleasant memories of her father stirred up by a trunk of his belongings; Dr. Richard faces his ex-wife's remarriage with a ""black wedding""; Beckett ends his .. show full overview
3x7
With a Little Help From My Friends
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 1989
Holly is shaken when it appears that Hang is connected to the VC and has been using their friendship to gain information; Frankie is seriously injured by a booby trap; and McMurphy aids Dr. Bernard at a civilian clinic.
3x8
China Men
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Air date
Nov 22, 1989
Dodger and Hyers square off after a battlefield incident; McMurphy spends an uncomfortable evening with Dr. Bernard's sophisticated civilian friends; and Boonie gets a surprise from the sexy Asian singer all the men in camp are longing for.
3x9
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam, Part I
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Air date
Nov 29, 1989
Beckett and a civilian photographer temporarily join Dodger's patrol; McMurphy gets to know a wounded POW.
3x10
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam, Part II
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Air date
Dec 06, 1989
The wounded Cambodian POW befriended by McMurphy is taken away by the South Vietnamese for interrogation as the photographer Cat pursues the story of his defection and a new commander .. show full overview
3x11
Magic
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1990
McMurphy finds herself caught up in a triangle affair with Dr. Bernard and Vinnie; Holly tells Boonie how she feels about him; and Lila copes with the disappointment of losing command of China Beach to Otis.
3x12
Nightfall
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Air date
Jan 10, 1990
K.C. feels responsible for the death of a Vietnamese prostitute she sent out and takes things into her own hands when Otis refuses to investigate the matter.
3x13
Souvenirs
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Air date
Jan 17, 1990
Dodger reaches the limit of his endurance and decides to leave Vietnam and faces a mountain of paperwork as he tries to get permission to take his Amerasian son home with him.
3x14
Holly's Choice
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 30, 1990
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 gradually revealed.
3x15
A Rumor of Peace
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Air date
Feb 07, 1990
China Beach reacts to the rumors of peace floated by Beckett and Frankie during their pirate radio broadcast.
3x16
Warriors
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Air date
Feb 14, 1990
McMurphy is in an emotional and ethical turmoil when she delivers Vinnie's buddy from death but he falls into a terminal coma; and Frankie finds herself in charge of a squad of grizzled grunts.
3x17
The Thanks of a Grateful Nation
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Air date
Feb 28, 1990
Dodger tries to reintegrate his life as a civilian but finds himself drifting as he tries to make sense of his experiences in Vietnam.
3x18
Skylark
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Air date
Mar 14, 1990
A pair of ballroom dancers bring a note of grace and harmony to the uneasy relationship between McMurphy and Dr. Richard while completing a mysterious mission of their own.
3x19
Phoenix
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Air date
Mar 21, 1990
K.C. finds herself in the middle of a C.I.A. assassination plot, and dependent on McMurphy to vouch for her innocence.
3x20
F.N.G.
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Air date
Apr 16, 1990
In November 1966, fairly new guys Colleen McMurphy and Dr. Richard find themselves learning the ropes when they arrive at China Beach.
3x21
The Gift
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 23, 1990
McMurphy finds herself under suspicion when a wounded G.I. she doesn't remember names her as his beneficiary. Lila has mixed feelings about an old friend who now outranks her and has arrived at China Beach to do a recruiting film about Army nurses.
3x22 Season finale
Strange Brew
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 30, 1990
With everyone else away for a distant USO show, K.C. and McMurphy indulge in an alcoholic binge that takes them to a dreamy landscape where a Native American guide tries to help them heal past and present wounds.

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