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China Beach: Season 2 (1988)
IMDb Rating 8.2
Actor Crew
Michael J. Henderson Beetle
Elizabeth Lindsey Mai
Marg Helgenberger
Robert Picardo
Dana Delany
Ricki Lake
Chloe Webb
Brian Wimmer
Michael Boatman
Jeff Kober
Megan Gallagher
Tim Ryan
Concetta Tomei
Troy Evans
Nancy Giles
Producer John Wells; John Sacret Young
Cinematography John J. Connor
Musician Paul Chihara
Plot
Welcome to China Beach. Part EVAC hospital, part USO entertainment center—this outpost of craziness and compassion introduces us to the Vietnam War through the eyes of the women who served there.Created by William Broyles, Jr., and Executive Producer John Sacret Young, the series captures an extraordinary group of charactersin this unique, exotic place where so many things came together—horror and laughter, heroism and sacrifice, and unforgettable and iconic music.Season 2 welcomes journalist wannabe Wayloo Marie Holmes (Megan Gallagher), who embarrassingly quickly finds her derrière dotted with shrapnel, and Private Frankie Bunsen (Nancy Giles), who, just like all the other characters, has to discover the surreal China Beach reality, and deal with the loss of one of their own."Vets," a groundbreaking episode in television history and a centerpiece of the series, highlights the season by offering moving interviews of real-life veterans intercut with scenes from the show.Season 2 concludes with nurse Colleen McMurphy (Dana Delany) going back to "The World," Home. Parents, brothers, friends, and a swirl of contradictory emotions. She has changed. How can she go back to war? Yet how can she not.
Movie Details
Genre Television; Drama; War
Studio
Warner Bros. Television
Sacret
Series China Beach
Movie Release Date 1988
Country   USA
Language English
Audience Rating NR
Running Time 832
Color Color
Episodes Features
Disc 1:
Features Commentary
Making Of...
Episode Commentary by series co-creator and executive producer John Sacret Young, story editor Carol Flint, and executive script consultant Lydia Woodward. Recorded 11/2003 Featurette: Vocies of War: The Real "China Beach" Interviews: Michale Boatman Marg Helgenberger Robert Picardo
Episode 1 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 cares for Natch when she receives some disturbing news about him. Wayloo Marie Holmes, former Saigon weather girl, arrives at China Beach to handle her first journalism assignment, extolling the recreational facilities at the base.
Episode 2 Lost and Found (2)
Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds a badly injured Dodger.
Episode 3 Limbo
McMurphy continues her vigil by Dodger's bedside as he stays in a coma. KC agrees to get Boonie some black market penicillin for a native hospital in exchange for his help in building her a beauty salon on base.
Episode 4 X-Mas Chnbch VN '67
Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.
Episode 5 Women in White
McMurphy fights jealousy, envy and fear when a confident woman doctor comes in from the States and takes over Dr. Richard and Dodger's case. Wayloo Marie tries to win a position as a armed forces tv reporter with a report on the war from a woman's point of view. Frankie debuts as a disk jockey
Episode 6 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 Marie. Dr. Richard and McMurphy play a game of sexual brinksmanship. Frankie falls for a GI who thinks he's Chuck Berry.
Episode 7 Tet '68
Wayloo Marie tries to keep reporting, McMurphy and KC are trapped in an officer's restroom, Beckett is held prisoner by Mai's brother and Dr. Richard and the wounded Dodger prepare to defend the hospital during the fierce fighting of the 1968 Tet offensive. Cherry comforts another Red Cross volunteer at a firebase.
Episode 8 Cherry
Wayloo Marie becomes intimidated by the war as its reality sinks in following Cherry's death. McMurphy tries to fight the bureaucracy to keep Dodger from going to Japan for more medical help. KC fights her heroin habit as she tries to locate Cherry's brother and prepares to accompany her body home to Iowa for burial.
Episode 9 Crossing the Great Water
Dr. Richard throws himself into helping a Vietnamese orphanage when his wife Beth Ann serves him with divorce papers. McMurphy tries to reconcile Dodger and herself to his uncertain future after his stay in Japan.
Episode 10 Psywars
An Army psychiatrist visits the Five and Dime and touches off McMurphy's inability to deal with Natch's death. Wayloo Marie learns something about Boonie's past service in Vietnam.
Episode 11 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 spring beach frolic and senior prom. KC warns Boonie that Wayloo Marie has learned part of his story. A chopper pilot shows Frankie that joys of flying.
Episode 12 Vets
The accounts of life in Vietnam by real vets are intercut with scenes from old episodes showing how closely the show has mirrored reality.
Episode 13 Twilight
Wayloo Marie's digging results in a medal ceremony for Boonie and an unwelcome investigation into his lost jungle patrol. McMurphy sees Dodger again as he prepares to go back into action. Frankie befriends a captured deserter.
Episode 14 After Burner
McMurphy goes through the emotional wringer when Natch Austen returns to China Beach after six months as an MIA. Lila cares for the ""pet"" of a wounded G.I. Boonie and KC have trouble with the on-the-make hustler who's now in command of the Jet Set.
Episode 15 Promised Land
Beckett faces going home when his tour ends in April 1968, as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr polarizes black-white relations in the nation and at China Beach.
Episode 16 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 returning to her unsettled family in Kansas following her father's heart attack.
Episode 17 The World (2)
McMurphy reassesses her life as she tries to decide whether or not to return to Vietnam following her father's death.
Edition Details
Region
1
Screen Ratio 1.33
Format DVD
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
Barcode 610583451399
Release Date 4/15/2013
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital
Commentary Dolby Digital
No. of Discs/Tapes 5
Personal Details
Seen It No
Index 1834
Collection Status In Collection
Purchase Date 6/13/2014
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