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The Best Episodes of China Beach Season 2

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The Best Episodes of China Beach Season 2

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...

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  1. 8.6/10(48 votes)

    #1 - Vets

    S2:E12

    The accounts of life in Vietnam by real vets are intercut with scenes from old episodes showing how closely the show has mirrored reality.

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  2. 8.6/10(45 votes)

    #2 - The World (1)

    S2:E16

    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.

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  3. 8.6/10(46 votes)

    #3 - The World (2)

    S2:E17

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

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  4. 8.3/10(42 votes)

    #4 - Twilight

    S2:E13

    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.

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  5. 8.2/10(44 votes)

    #5 - Lost and Found (2)

    S2:E2

    Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds a badly injured Dodger.

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  6. 8.2/10(44 votes)

    #6 - Women in White

    S2:E5

    McMurphy fights jealousy, envy and fear when a confident woman doctor comes in from the States and takes over Dr. Richard and Dodger's case. Wayloo Marie tries to win a position as a armed forces tv reporter with a report on the war from a woman's point of view. Frankie debuts as a disk jockey

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  8. 8.2/10(47 votes)

    #7 - Tet '68

    S2:E7

    Wayloo Marie tries to keep reporting, McMurphy and KC are trapped in an officer's restroom, Beckett is held prisoner by Mai's brother and Dr. Richard and the wounded Dodger prepare to defend the hospital during the fierce fighting of the 1968 Tet offensive. Cherry comforts another Red Cross volunteer at a firebase.

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    Director:Steve Dubin
    Writer:John Wells
  9. 8.1/10(42 votes)

    #8 - Lost and Found (1)

    S2:E1

    Lila takes over command of China Beach and orders KC off the base. McMurphy finally lets herself admit how much she cares for Natch when she receives some disturbing news about him. Wayloo Marie Holmes, former Saigon weather girl, arrives at China Beach to handle her first journalism assignment, extolling the recreational facilities at the base.

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  10. 8.1/10(45 votes)

    #9 - X-Mas Chnbch VN '67

    S2:E4

    Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.

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    Director:Mimi Leder
    Writer:John Wells
  11. 8.1/10(44 votes)

    #10 - Cherry

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Director:Mimi Leder
    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.1/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Where the Boys Are

    S2:E11

    As McMurphy's enforced R&R continues with the help of an 18-year-old medic, Boonie tries to recreate a combination spring beach frolic and senior prom. KC warns Boonie that Wayloo Marie has learned part of his story. A chopper pilot shows Frankie that joys of flying.

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  13. 7.8/10(40 votes)

    #12 - Limbo

    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:Dan Lerner
  14. 7.8/10(39 votes)

    #13 - All About E.E.V.

    S2:E6

    A dashing lieutenant colonel parachutes into China Beach for some R&R and disrupts the lives of Lila, KC and Wayloo Marie. Dr. Richard and McMurphy play a game of sexual brinksmanship. Frankie falls for a GI who thinks he's Chuck Berry.

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  15. 7.8/10(39 votes)

    #14 - Psywars

    S2:E10

    An Army psychiatrist visits the Five and Dime and touches off McMurphy's inability to deal with Natch's death. Wayloo Marie learns something about Boonie's past service in Vietnam.

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    Director:Fred Gerber
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.8/10(40 votes)

    #15 - After Burner

    S2:E14

    McMurphy goes through the emotional wringer when Natch Austen returns to China Beach after six months as an MIA. Lila cares for the ""pet"" of a wounded G.I. Boonie and KC have trouble with the on-the-make hustler who's now in command of the Jet Set.

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    Director:N/A
  17. 7.8/10(38 votes)

    #16 - Promised Land

    S2:E15

    Beckett faces going home when his tour ends in April 1968, as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr polarizes black-white relations in the nation and at China Beach.

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  18. 7.6/10(36 votes)

    #17 - Crossing the Great Water

    S2:E9

    Dr. Richard throws himself into helping a Vietnamese orphanage when his wife Beth Ann serves him with divorce papers. McMurphy tries to reconcile Dodger and herself to his uncertain future after his stay in Japan.

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    Director:Mimi Leder

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Vets" is the best rated episode of "China Beach" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by John Sacret Young and written by John Wells, John Sacret Young, it aired on 3/15/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The World (1)".