China Beach - Season 1 - Eps 1: 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.
About China Beach
Title: China Beach
First Air Date: 1988-04-26
Last Air Date: 1991-07-22
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 32 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 64
Network: ABC
Genres: Drama, War & Politics
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
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.
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