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China Beach

Season 1

8 listed hours · 1988–1991 · ABC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality

Vietnam without the gung-ho filter: Dana Delany's nurse McMurphy, Marg Helgenberger's K.C., and an evacuation-hospital ensemble that treats trauma, R&R, and memory as the same weather. Late-80s quality drama with music cues that ache. Ratings never matched the Emmys; the women's-war vantage is still rarer than it should be.

TV Flash files Season 1 of China Beach (1988–1991) on ABC as the first listed season of 4 — 8 listed hours, 1988-04-26–1988-06-08 from “China Beach (1)” (S01E01) to “Chao Ong” (S01E08). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 China Beach (1)

    China Beach (1) is the women's-war contract: Delany, Helgenberger, trauma and R&R as the same weather, music cues already aching.

  1. S01E01

    China Beach (1)

    China Beach (1) — Season 1, Episode 1 of China Beach. Aired 1988-04-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S01E02

    China Beach (2)

    China Beach (2) — Season 1, Episode 2 of China Beach. Aired 1988-04-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S01E03

    Home

    Home — Season 1, Episode 3 of China Beach. Aired 1988-04-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S01E04

    Hot Spell

    Hot Spell — Season 1, Episode 4 of China Beach. Aired 1988-05-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S01E05

    Somewhere Over the Radio

    Somewhere Over the Radio — Season 1, Episode 5 of China Beach. Aired 1988-05-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  6. S01E06

    Waiting for Beckett

    Waiting for Beckett — Season 1, Episode 6 of China Beach. Aired 1988-05-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S01E07

    Brothers

    Brothers — Season 1, Episode 7 of China Beach. Aired 1988-06-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S01E08

    Chao Ong

    Chao Ong — Season 1, Episode 8 of China Beach. Aired 1988-06-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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