China Beach

Season 2 (17 Episodes)

4 Seasons 1988 TV-14 2h 00m 8.2

The trials of a weary nurse, her friends and colleagues in a Vietnam War field hospital.

Dateline: November 1967, within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach. This is the 'Nam, filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen Mc Murphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, in the forms of nurses, warriors, Donut Dollies, lifeguards, politicians, USO entertainers, Chopper Chicks, doctors, officers and enlisted men, brothers and sisters, Kool-Aid Kids, orderlies, medics, morticians, Army brass and one hostile prostitute named K.C. try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Lost and Found

1. Lost and Found

Aired: Nov 29, 1988

An effort to both promote and clean up China Beach results in the arrival of ...

Episode 3 Limbo

3. Limbo

Aired: Dec 13, 1988

McMurphy maintains a bedside vigil for Dodger while smuggled crates of penici...

Episode 5 Women in White

5. Women in White

Aired: Jan 3, 1989

Dodger is turned out to be paralyzed by a shell fragment in his spine and vis...

Episode 6 All About E.E.V.

6. All About E.E.V.

Aired: Jan 10, 1989

A legendary war hero, named Colonel Edward E. Vincent, parachutes into China ...

Episode 7 Tet '68

7. Tet '68

Aired: Jan 24, 1989

January 30-31, 1968. During the first night of the Tet Offensive, Beckett bec...

Episode 8 Cherry

8. Cherry

Aired: Jan 31, 1989

In the aftermath of Cherry's death, Wayloo becomes intimidated by the war as ...

Episode 10 Psywars

10. Psywars

Aired: Feb 28, 1989

McMurphy is on a short fuse when an army psychiatrist comes to China Beach to...

Episode 11 Where the Boys Are

11. Where the Boys Are

Aired: Mar 7, 1989

McMurphy, overworking herself into exhaustion and on the verge of a nervous b...

Episode 12 Vets

12. Vets

Aired: Mar 14, 1989

This episode features anecdotes of actual Vietnam Veterans telling their wart...

Episode 13 Twilight

13. Twilight

Aired: Mar 21, 1989

Boonie's story comes out after Wayloo presses to get him awarded a medal for ...

Episode 14 Afterburner

14. Afterburner

Aired: Apr 5, 1989

After McMurphy manages to deal with the death of Natch, he suddenly shows up ...

Episode 15 Promised Land

15. Promised Land

Aired: Apr 12, 1989

April, 1968. Beckett's tour of duty ends, but he finds it difficult to leave ...

Episode 16 The World: Part 1

16. The World: Part 1

Aired: Apr 26, 1989

Wayloo's tour of duty ends and she goes home to a newscasting job in New York...

Episode 17 The World: Part 2

17. The World: Part 2

Aired: May 3, 1989

After her father's funeral, McMurphy finds the decision to go back to China B...

Info about China Beach

Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Production Country: United States

Genres: Drama, War, History