China Beach - Season 3

China Beach - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes22
DatesSep 20, 1989 - Apr 30, 1990
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Episodes

The Unquiet Earth
Season 3Episode 160 min

The Unquiet Earth

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.
Sep 20, 1989
Skin Deep
Season 3Episode 260 min

Skin Deep

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.
Sep 27, 1989
Dear China Beach
Season 3Episode 360 min

Dear China Beach

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.
Oct 4, 1989
Who's Happy Now?
Season 3Episode 460 min

Who's Happy Now?

Dr. Richard worries over a craniotomy that has permanently altered a patient's mental capacity; Lila faces an inspection that will determine if she gets a key promotion; Sarge Pepper asks for some advice about courting Lila and K.C. finds herself in a very awkward position when a senior officer goes AWOL on her permanently.
Oct 11, 1989
Independence Day
Season 3Episode 560 min

Independence Day

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.
Oct 25, 1989
Ghosts
Season 3Episode 660 min

Ghosts

In China Beach, everyone has encountered a ghost or two. Dr. Richard is haunted by his ex-wife's plans to get remarried; he holds a ceremony in dishonor of the marriage. Sam Beckett is confronted with losing his girlfriend, as she chooses to relocate with her village. McMurphy continues to search for true love and continues to drown her past sorrows in alcohol. K.C. tries to forget her childhood and her dead father. Dodger spends time at the village orphanage with his infant son. 

Nov 8, 1989
With a Little Help From My Friends
Season 3Episode 760 min

With a Little Help From My Friends

Battle of the Bands is center stage, as Holly (Ricki Lake), Beckett (Michael Boatman), Hyers (Ned Vaughn) and Boonie (Brian Wimmer) a gearing up to perform. A Vietcong spy sets off a bomb in China Beach, Hang is somehow connected to the VC plot. McMurphy and Dr. Bernard become more involved with each other. 

Nov 15, 1989
China Men
Season 3Episode 860 min

China Men

Dodger and Hyers square off after a battlefield incident; McMurphy spends an uncomfortable evening with Dr. Bernard's sophisticated civilian friends; and Boonie gets a surprise from the sexy Asian singer all the men in camp are longing for.
Nov 22, 1989
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1)
Season 3Episode 960 min

How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1)

Beckett and a civilian photographer temporarily join Dodger's patrol; McMurphy gets to know a wounded POW.
Nov 29, 1989
How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (2)
Season 3Episode 1060 min

How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (2)

The wounded Cambodian POW befriended by McMurphy is taken away by the South Vietnamese for interrogation as the photographer Cat pursues the story of his defection and a new commander arrives to take over the base, leaving Lila and K.C. unsure of their positions.
Dec 6, 1989
Magic
Season 3Episode 1160 min

Magic

McMurphy finds herself caught up in a triangle affair with Dr. Bernard and Vinnie; Holly tells Boonie how she feels about him; and Lila copes with the disappointment of losing command of China Beach to Otis.
Jan 3, 1990
Nightfall
Season 3Episode 1260 min

Nightfall

K.C. feels responsible for the death of a Vietnamese prostitute she sent out and takes things into her own hands when Otis refuses to investigate the matter.
Jan 10, 1990
Souvenirs
Season 3Episode 1360 min

Souvenirs

Dodger reaches the limit of his endurance and decides to leave Vietnam and faces a mountain of paperwork as he tries to get permission to take his Amerasian son home with him.
Jan 17, 1990
Holly's Choice
Season 3Episode 1460 min

Holly's Choice

Holly has had an abortion and as her friends at China Beach try to deal with it, the circumstances that led up to it are gradually revealed.
Jan 30, 1990
A Rumor of Peace
Season 3Episode 1560 min

A Rumor of Peace

China Beach reacts to the rumors of peace floated by Beckett and Frankie during their pirate radio broadcast.
Feb 7, 1990
Warriors
Season 3Episode 1660 min

Warriors

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.
Feb 14, 1990
The Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Season 3Episode 1760 min

The Thanks of a Grateful Nation

Dodger tries to reintegrate his life as a civilian but finds himself drifting as he tries to make sense of his experiences in Vietnam.
Feb 28, 1990
Skylark
Season 3Episode 1860 min

Skylark

A pair of ballroom dancers bring a note of grace and harmony to the uneasy relationship between McMurphy and Dr. Richard while completing a mysterious mission of their own.
Mar 14, 1990
Phoenix
Season 3Episode 1960 min

Phoenix

K.C. finds herself in the middle of a C.I.A. assassination plot, and dependent on McMurphy to vouch for her innocence.
Mar 21, 1990
F.N.G.
Season 3Episode 2060 min

F.N.G.

In November 1966, fairly new guys Colleen McMurphy and Dr. Richard find themselves learning the ropes when they arrive at China Beach.
Apr 16, 1990
The Gift
Season 3Episode 2160 min

The Gift

McMurphy finds herself under suspicion when a wounded G.I. she doesn't remember names her as his beneficiary. Lila has mixed feelings about an old friend who now outranks her and has arrived at China Beach to do a recruiting film about Army nurses.
Apr 23, 1990
Strange Brew
Season 3Episode 2260 min

Strange Brew

With everyone else away for a distant USO show, K.C. and McMurphy indulge in an alcoholic binge that takes them to a dreamy landscape where a Native American guide tries to help them heal past and present wounds.
Apr 30, 1990

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