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China Beach

Dateline: November 1967, within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach. This is the 'Nam, filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen Mc Murphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, in the forms of nurses, warriors, Donut Dollies, lifeguards, politicians, USO entertainers, Chopper Chicks, doctors, officers and enlisted men, brothers and sisters, Kool-Aid Kids, orderlies, medics, morticians, Army brass and one hostile prostitute named K.C. try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

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Dana Delany
Colleen McMurphy
Marg Helgenberger
K.C. Kolowski
Brian Wimmer
Cpl. Boonie Lanier

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Episode 1

The Big Bang

Sat, Sep 29, 199047 mins

Boston, Massachusetts, 1985. A one-legged Boonie, his wife Linda and their three children, visit Dr. Richard and his wife, Colleen Flaherty, which sparks Dr. Richard's memories of the first manic days with McMurphy at China Beach in 1966 when they became more acquainted with one another, McMurphy meeting Boonie and Dodger for the first time, and ending at party celebrating Dr. Singer's going home and Nurse Wyatt's transfer to be with him, and Dr. Richard to be promoted to head surgeon at China Beach.

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Awards

  • 1990 - Golden Globe - Best Television Series - Drama - winner
  • 1990 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama - nominated
  • 1991 - Golden Globe - Best Television Series - Drama - nominated
  • 1991 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama - nominated

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