The BEST episodes of China Beach

#1 - Hello, Goodbye (1)

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/22/1991

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.

#2 - Hello, Goodbye (2)

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/22/1991

#3 - Juice

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1990

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.

#4 - Warriors

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1990

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.

#5 - I Could Have Danced All Night... But Didn't

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/4/1991

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.

#6 - Fever

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1990

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.

#7 - 100 Klicks Out

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/11/1991

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.

#8 - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam, Part I

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1989

Beckett and a civilian photographer temporarily join Dodger's patrol; McMurphy gets to know a wounded POW.

#9 - You, Babe

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1990

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

#10 - Twilight

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/22/1989

Wayloo Marie's digging results in a medal ceremony for Boonie and an unwelcome investigation into his lost jungle patrol. McMurphy sees Dodger again as he prepares to go back into action. Frankie befriends a captured deserter.

#11 - Skin Deep

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1989

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.

#12 - Through and Through

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/16/1991

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.

#13 - Dear China Beach

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1989

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.

#14 - Limbo

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/1988

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.

#15 - One Giant Leap

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1990

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.

#16 - The Call

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1990

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.

#17 - The World, Part I

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/26/1989

Wayloo Marie prepares to return the world and a new job at BBC news. She's unexpectedly joined by McMurphy, who's returning to her unsettled family in Kansas following her father's heart attack.

#18 - The Always Goodbye

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/18/1991

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.

#19 - The World, Part II

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/1989

McMurphy reassesses her life as she tries to decide whether or not to return to Vietnam following her father's death.

#20 - The Unquiet Earth

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1989

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.

#21 - Independence Day

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1989

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.

#22 - F.N.G.

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1990

In November 1966, fairly new guys Colleen McMurphy and Dr. Richard find themselves learning the ropes when they arrive at China Beach.

#23 - Quest

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/25/1991

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.

#24 - Rewind

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/9/1991

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

#25 - Cherry

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/1/1989

Wayloo Marie becomes intimidated by the war as its reality sinks in following Cherry's death. McMurphy tries to fight the bureaucracy to keep Dodger from going to Japan for more medical help. KC fights her heroin habit as she tries to locate Cherry's brother and prepares to accompany her body home to Iowa for burial.