8.1/1040 votes#1 - Lost and Found (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/1988
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.
Director: John Sacret Young
Writer: William Broyles Jr., John Sacret Young
8.2/1042 votes#2 - Lost and Found (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/1988
Wayloo Marie becomes a casualty as she shoots her assignment. Frankie Bunsen arrives for temporary duty. McMurphy finds a badly injured Dodger.
Director: John Sacret Young
Writer: William Broyles Jr., John Sacret Young
7.9/1038 votes#3 - 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.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: Carol Flint
8.1/1043 votes#4 - X-Mas Chnbch VN '67
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/1988
Christmas '67 brings a steady supply of casualties and a crazed Santa to China Beach.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
8.2/1042 votes#5 - Women in White
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/4/1989
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
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: Patricia Green
7.9/1037 votes#6 - All About E.E.V.
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/1989
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.
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: Lydia Woodward
8.2/1044 votes#7 - Tet '68
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/25/1989
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.
Director: Steve Dubin
Writer: John Wells
8.1/1042 votes#8 - 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.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: N/A
7.7/1034 votes#9 - Crossing the Great Water
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/8/1989
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.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Carol Flint
7.9/1037 votes#10 - Psywars
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/1/1989
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.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: N/A
8.0/1039 votes#11 - Where the Boys Are
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/8/1989
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.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: Alan Brennert
8.6/1046 votes#12 - Vets
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/15/1989
The accounts of life in Vietnam by real vets are intercut with scenes from old episodes showing how closely the show has mirrored reality.
Director: John Sacret Young
Writer: John Sacret Young, John Wells
8.2/1040 votes#13 - 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.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.9/1038 votes#14 - After Burner
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Carol Flint
7.8/1036 votes#15 - Promised Land
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/1989
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.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: Patricia Green
8.5/1044 votes#16 - The World (1)
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.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Sacret Young
8.5/1043 votes#17 - The World (2)
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.
Director: John Wells
Writer: John Sacret Young
The Best Episodes of China Beach Season 2
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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...
Genres:DramaWar & Politics
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Lost and Found (1)" is the best rated episode of "China Beach" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by John Sacret Young and written by William Broyles Jr., John Sacret Young, it aired on 11/30/1988. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Lost and Found (2)".