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China Beach Season 1 |
| Episode 1 - [China Beach Part 1] |
| Details : 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 RAndR center. Brand new Red Cross volunteer Cherry White also arrives determined to find her brother a marine no one can locate. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Christopher Allport | Amy Yasbeck | Gail O'Grady | James Cromwell | Christopher Michael Moore | Rick Najera | Richard Green | Bobby Hosea | Joe D'Angerio | Writer : William Broyles Jr. | Director : Rod Holcomb | Writer : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Apr. 26, 1988 |
| Episode 2 - [China Beach Part 2] |
| Details : McMurphy decides that she can't leave China Beach even though she is eligible to go home. Cherry and Laurette arrive- Cherry to look for her brother whom her family lost contact with and Laurette as a USO back up singer who gets promoted to lead when the lead singer can't cope with the war. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Christopher Allport | Amy Yasbeck | Gail O'Grady | James Cromwell | Christopher Michael Moore | Rick Najera | Richard Green | Bobby Hosea | Joe D'Angerio | Writer : William Broyles Jr. | Director : Rod Holcomb | Writer : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Apr. 26, 1988 |
| Episode 3 - [Home] |
| Details : Laurette auditions local entertainers to fill in the act and McMurphy struggles to overcome her feelings when a Viet Cong woman who was responsible for blowing up a friend is brought into the hospital for treatment. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jason Graae | Charles Cyphers | Carlos Lacámara | Ned Vaughn | Writer : William Broyles Jr. | Director : Rod Holcomb | |
| Air Date : Apr. 27, 1988 |
| Episode 4 - [Hot Spell] |
| Details : KC agrees to ask about Cherry's brother as she sets up a deal to buy an antique vase. Laurette prepares to perform for visiting brass. Lila KC Laurette McMurphy and Cherry share confidences as they wait out a mortar attack together. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : George Cheung | |
| Air Date : May. 04, 1988 |
| Episode 5 - [Somewhere Over The Radio] |
| Details : Lila Cherry and Laurette find themselves pinned down with a combat squad whose leader is not dealing with reality. Back at China Beach KC and a frightened Boonie prepare to mount a rescue mission. Dr. Richard is injured just before he's scheduled to leave for RAndR in Hawaii with Beth Ann. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David Marciano | David Reynolds as Pilot #1 | Writer : Ann Donahue | Director : Rod Holcomb | |
| Air Date : May. 11, 1988 |
| Episode 6 - [Waiting For Beckett] |
| Details : Cherry is taken in by a deserter who claims to know her brother and who is pursued by a determined office from the CID. Laurette and Boonie try to help a stressed out Beckett get some sleep. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Pickett | Director : Kevin Hooks | |
| Air Date : May. 18, 1988 |
| Episode 7 - [Brothers] |
| Details : Laurette faces an important audition with laryngitis. Beckett battles the pressure of racial prejudice and financial coercion when he discovers someone has been using the body bags in his GRU. Dr. Richard returns from RAndR in Hawaii disillusioned by the perceived changes in his wife. Dodger finally finds Rick Cherry's long-lost brother. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Marshall Jones | Glenn Plummer | Fredric Lehne | Marc Gilpin as Sammy Coy | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Jun. 01, 1988 |
| Episode 8 - [Chao Ong] |
| Details : Despite distractions McMurphy and Natch finally get together. Laurette gets a chance to join another bigger USO tour. McMurphy gets blamed for a body that disappears on her shift. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Johnny Grant | Nancy Sinatra | Aaron Lustig | Gail O'Grady | John Mariano | Writer : William Broyles Jr. | Director : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Jun. 08, 1988 |