China Beach Screen CapturesThe Emmy Award-winning show China Beach first aired on Apr 26 1988 and ran until July 22, 1991. A drama/comedy mix of experiences in Vietnam. Marg portrayed Karen Charlene Koloski aka K.C.
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1.1 China Beach 26 Apr 88
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 R&R center. Brand new Red Cross volunteer Cherry White also arrives, determined to find her brother, a marine no one can locate.
23 pictures, last one added on May 29, 2005
1.2 China Beach 26 Apr 88
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.
39 pictures, last one added on May 30, 2005
1.3 Home 27 Apr 88
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.
36 pictures, last one added on Feb 27, 2006
1.4 Hot Spell 4 May 88
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.
43 pictures, last one added on May 22, 2005
1.5 Somewhere Over the Radio 11 May 88
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 R&R in Hawaii with Beth Ann.
29 pictures, last one added on May 21, 2005
1.6 Waiting For Beckett 18 May 88
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.
24 pictures, last one added on May 20, 2005
1.8 Chao Ong 8 Jun 88
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.
13 pictures, last one added on May 01, 2005
1.7 Brothers 1 Jun 88
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 R&R in Hawaii disillusioned by the perceived changes in his wife. Dodger finally finds Rick, Cherry's long-lost brother.
13 pictures, last one added on May 21, 2005
2.01 Lost and Found (1) 30 Nov 88
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.
77 pictures, last one added on Mar 12, 2006
2.02 Lost and Found (2) 7 Dec 88
Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds a badly injured Dodger.
22 pictures, last one added on May 14, 2005
2.03 Limbo 14 Dec 88
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.
50 pictures, last one added on May 14, 2005
2.04 X-Mas Chnbch VN '67 21 Dec 88
Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.
