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First Aired: April 26th, 1988

Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Summary: Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

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Season 4

Episode 1: History: Part I: The Big Bang

Air Date: September 29th, 1990

Summary: In 1985, a reunion between Boonie and Dr. Richard stirs up memories of their first meeting in Vietnam in 1966. It also brings up questions for Boonie's 18-year-old adopted daughter, Karen.

Episode 2: History Part II-She Sells More Than Sea Shells

Air Date: October 6th, 1990

Summary: Still in 1985, Karen learns how her natural mother, KC, coped with her pregnancy by turning to Boonie for help.

Episode 3: You, Babe

Air Date: October 13rd, 1990

Summary: In Saigon in 1967, KC gives birth with McMurphy's help and gives the baby over to a foster mother.

Episode 4: Escape

Air Date: October 27th, 1990

Summary: While attending his father's funeral in 1985, Beckett reflects on his childhood and his tour of duty in Vietnam with the Graves Registration Unit.

Episode 5: Fever

Air Date: November 3rd, 1990

Summary: In 1970, McMurphy returns home to Lawrence, Kansas to make peace with her mother and try to settle down into civilian life, but finds both goals beyond her grasp.

Episode 6: Juice

Air Date: November 10th, 1990

Summary: In 1972, Dr. Richard and his nurse take a romantic trip to Florida, where they run across a hard-livng McMurphy working at an orange-juice factory.

Episode 7: One Giant Leap

Air Date: November 17th, 1990

Summary: In 1969, China Beach watches from afar as the first men land on the moon. McMurphy simmers jealously as Dr. Richard falls for a new nurse. Beckett entertains a group of USO singers in his G.R.U. hut. A disturbed Boonie meets with a tragic accident.

Episode 8: One Small Step

Air Date: December 1st, 1990

Summary: Suddenly back home and missing one leg, Boonie begins a slow and painful re-entry into civilian life with the comfort of a loving nurse.

Episode 9: The Call

Air Date: December 8th, 1990

Summary: Frankie returns to Chicago in 1969 to try her hand at being a standup comic but runs into the tragically funny trial of the infamous Chicago Seven. Back in Vietnam, McMurphy tries to help Dodger convince some Montagnard tribes people to evacuate their homes.

Episode 10: I Could Have Danced All Night ... But Didn't

Air Date: June 4th, 1991

Summary: McMurphy meets a sympathetic drummer at a 1983 wedding and recalls the 1969 wedding of Lila and Sarge Pepper, as well as the end of her relationship with Dr. Richard.

Episode 11: 100 Klicks Out

Air Date: June 11st, 1991

Summary: The imminent fall of Saigon reunites KC with her daughter as she struggles to get the little girl out of Vietnam and safely to America and a waiting Boonie. In the 1980s, a cynical McMurphy tries to prevent further child abuse in New Mexico.

Episode 12: The Always Goodbye

Air Date: June 18th, 1991

Summary: The arrival in Bangkok in 1969 of a hard-drinking McMurphy and a young private disrupts KC's carefully developed new life and brings back unwanted memories.

Episode 13: Quest

Air Date: June 25th, 1991

Summary: In 1976, McMurphy helps KC re-enter the country and find her daughter before heading out to Montana to visit Dodger, who's coping with a disabled father and raising his son Archie alone.

Episode 14: Rewind

Air Date: July 9th, 1991

Summary: In 1985, Karen begins a videotape project interviewing China Beach veterans about their experiences in Vietnam and their memories of her natural mother.

Episode 15: Through and Through

Air Date: July 16th, 1991

Summary: In 1985, an increasingly angry Colleen torments herself and her husband until she discovers she's suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome and seeks help to deal with the memories of her final weeks in Vietnam.

Episode 16: Hello, Goodbye (1)

Air Date: July 22nd, 1991

Summary: McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam, and travels to Washington DC with the others to visit the Vietnam Memorial. Karen comes to terms with the ghost of her absent mother, KC.

Episode 17: Hello, Goodbye (2)

Air Date: July 22nd, 1991

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