
Tour of Duty(1987)
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.


“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.

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
China Beach is a drama, war & politics series that first aired in 1988 exploring themes of vietnam war, us army, hospital, doctor, military, military hospital. Created by John Sacret Young, it stars Dana Delany, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Boatman. 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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