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China Beach Season 3 |
| Episode 1 - [The Unquiet Earth] |
| Details : McMurphy and K.C. are kidnapped by the Viet Cong and taken underground into a warren of tunnels where their captors expect McMurphy to operate on their wounded leader. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Vince Vaughn | Writer : Alan Brennert | Director : Michael Ray Rhodes | |
| Air Date : Sep. 20, 1989 |
| Episode 2 - [Skin Deep] |
| Details : McMurphy uses a little guilt and a little blackmail to get a reluctant K.C. to visit a wounded soldier whose face has been badly disfigured. Holly the new doughnut dolly challenges the nurses on behalf of the Red Cross Volunteers to compete in a Miss China Beach beauty pageant. Frankie is assigned to the motor pool and runs into Sarge Pepper who's not very eager to have her there. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carlos Gómez | Kimber Sissons | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Sep. 27, 1989 |
| Episode 3 - [Dear China Beach] |
| Details : Dodger is left with an Amerasian baby that is supposedly his son; McMurphy makes a poor patient when she comes down with dysentery; and Holly badgers everyone into answering the letters sent by seventh-graders from Colorado. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Roger Hewlett | Writer : John Wells | Director : Michael Ray Rhodes | |
| Air Date : Oct. 04, 1989 |
| Episode 4 - [Who's Happy Now] |
| Details : Dr. Richard worries over a craniotomy that has permanently altered a patient's mental capacity; Lila faces an inspection that will determine if she gets a key promotion; Sarge Pepper asks for some advice about courting Lila and K.C. finds herself in a very awkward position when a senior officer goes AWOL on her permanently. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | R. Lee Ermey | Writer : Lydia Woodward | Director : Fred Gerber | |
| Air Date : Oct. 11, 1989 |
| Episode 5 - [Independence Day] |
| Details : China Beach celebrates a soggy Independence Day with Boonie and Holly trying to keep everyone's spirits up McMurphy dealing with a love struck private as she tries to sort out her feelings for Dr. Bernard Lila and the Sarge discussing the future and Beckett and K.C. quarreling over registering the dead to vote. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Elizabeth Sung | Tom Sizemore | Kyle Chandler as Grunt | Director : Mimi Leder | |
| Air Date : Oct. 25, 1989 |
| Episode 6 - [Ghosts] |
| Details : K.C. avoids dealing with unpleasant memories of her father stirred up by a trunk of his belongings; Dr. Richard faces his ex-wife's remarriage with a black wedding; Beckett ends his relationship with Mai; and McMurphy learns more about Dr. Bernard's life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Tom Sizemore | Writer : Toni Graphia | Director : Michael Fresco | |
| Air Date : Nov. 08, 1989 |
| Episode 7 - [With A Little Help From My Friends] |
| Details : Holly is shaken when it appears that Hang is connected to the VC and has been using their friendship to gain information; Frankie is seriously injured by a booby trap; and McMurphy aids Dr. Bernard at a civilian clinic. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Tom Sizemore | Director : Michael Toshiyuki Uno | Writer : Josef Anderson | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Nov. 15, 1989 |
| Episode 8 - [China Men] |
| Details : Dodger and Hyers square off after a battlefield incident; McMurphy spends an uncomfortable evening with Dr. Bernard's sophisticated civilian friends; and Boonie gets a surprise from the sexy Asian singer all the men in camp are longing for. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Tom Sizemore | Kayla Blake | Lydie Denier | Writer : Josef Anderson | |
| Air Date : Nov. 22, 1989 |
| Episode 9 - [How To Stay Alive In Vietnam Part 1] |
| Details : Beckett and a civilian photographer temporarily join Dodger's patrol; McMurphy gets to know a wounded POW. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lisa Banes | Haing S. Ngor | Robert LaSardo | Dorian Harewood | Vonte Sweet | Director : Fred Gerber | |
| Air Date : Nov. 29, 1989 |
| Episode 10 - [How To Stay Alive In Vietnam Part 2] |
| Details : The wounded Cambodian POW befriended by McMurphy is taken away by the South Vietnamese for interrogation as the photographer Cat pursues the story of his defection and a new commander arrives to take over the base leaving Lila and K.C. unsure of their positions. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lisa Banes | Derek de Lint | Haing S. Ngor | Robert LaSardo | Dorian Harewood | |
| Air Date : Dec. 06, 1989 |
| Episode 11 - [Magic] |
| Details : McMurphy finds herself caught up in a triangle affair with Dr. Bernard and Vinnie; Holly tells Boonie how she feels about him; and Lila copes with the disappointment of losing command of China Beach to Otis. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Derek de Lint | Tom Sizemore | Roger Hewlett | Lydie Denier | Dorian Harewood | Ramsay Midwood | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Jan. 03, 1990 |
| Episode 12 - [Nightfall] |
| Details : K.C. feels responsible for the death of a Vietnamese prostitute she sent out and takes things into her own hands when Otis refuses to investigate the matter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dorian Harewood | Writer : Lydia Woodward | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1990 |
| Episode 13 - [Souvenirs] |
| Details : Dodger reaches the limit of his endurance and decides to leave Vietnam and faces a mountain of paperwork as he tries to get permission to take his Amerasian son home with him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lanei Chapman | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : John Sacret Young | |
| Air Date : Jan. 17, 1990 |
| Episode 14 - [Holly's Choice] |
| Details : Holly has had an abortion and as her friends at China Beach try to deal with it the circumstances that led up to it are gradually revealed. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Hong | Lexie Bigham | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Jan. 30, 1990 |
| Episode 15 - [The Rumor Of Peace] |
| Details : China Beach reacts to the rumors of peace floated by Beckett and Frankie during their pirate radio broadcast. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert LaSardo | Writer : Josef Anderson | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1990 |
| Episode 16 - [Warriors] |
| Details : McMurphy is in an emotional and ethical turmoil when she delivers Vinnie's buddy from death but he falls into a terminal coma; and Frankie finds herself in charge of a squad of grizzled grunts. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Don Cheadle | Tom Sizemore | Ron Taylor | Tommy Hinkley | Robert LaSardo | Writer : Neal Baer | Director : David Soul | |
| Air Date : Feb. 14, 1990 |
| Episode 17 - [The Thanks Of A Grateful Nation] |
| Details : Dodger tries to reintegrate his life as a civilian but finds himself drifting as he tries to make sense of his experiences in Vietnam. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Penelope Windust | Robert Knepper | Doug Savant | Helen Hunt | Bobby Hosea | Director : Mimi Leder | Writer : John Wells | |
| Air Date : Feb. 28, 1990 |
| Episode 18 - [Skylark] |
| Details : A pair of ballroom dancers bring a note of grace and harmony to the uneasy relationship between McMurphy and Dr. Richard while completing a mysterious mission of their own. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Seneca | Ruby Dee | Robert LaSardo | Writer : Lydia Woodward | Director : Fred Gerber | |
| Air Date : Mar. 14, 1990 |
| Episode 19 - [Phoenix] |
| Details : K.C. finds herself in the middle of a C.I.A. assassination plot and dependent on McMurphy to vouch for her innocence. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Aki Aleong | Kevin Kilner | Writer : Toni Graphia | Director : Mimi Leder | |
| Air Date : Mar. 21, 1990 |
| Episode 20 - [F n g] |
| Details : In November 1966 fairly new guys Colleen McMurphy and Dr. Richard find themselves learning the ropes when they arrive at China Beach. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Wings Hauser | Daniel Quinn | Bobby Hosea | Director : John Sacret Young | Writer : Carol Flint | |
| Air Date : Apr. 16, 1990 |
| Episode 21 - [The Gift] |
| Details : McMurphy finds herself under suspicion when a wounded G.I. she doesn't remember names her as his beneficiary. Lila has mixed feelings about an old friend who now outranks her and has arrived at China Beach to do a recruiting film about Army nurses. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gerrit Graham | Barbara Babcock | Director : Michael Katleman | Writer : Josef Anderson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 23, 1990 |
| Episode 22 - [Strange Brew] |
| Details : With everyone else away for a distant USO show K.C. and McMurphy indulge in an alcoholic binge that takes them to a dreamy landscape where a Native American guide tries to help them heal past and present wounds. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gary Farmer | Penny Fuller | Clancy Brown | Director : Michael Fresco | |
| Air Date : Apr. 30, 1990 |