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The Worst Episodes of China Beach

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Every episode of China Beach ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of China Beach!

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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  • Brothers
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    #1 - Brothers

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 6/1/1988

    Laurette faces an important audition with laryngitis. Beckett battles the pressure of racial prejudice and financial coercion when he discovers someone has been using the body bags in his GRU. Dr. Richard returns from R&R in Hawaii disillusioned by the perceived changes in his wife. Dodger finally finds Rick, Cherry's long-lost brother.

    Director: John Sacret Young

    Writer: Carol Flint

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  • Chao Ong
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    #2 - Chao Ong

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 6/8/1988

    Despite distractions, McMurphy and Natch finally get together. Laurette gets a chance to join another, bigger USO tour. McMurphy gets blamed for a body that disappears on her shift.

    Director: John Sacret Young

    Writer: William Broyles Jr.

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  • Lost and Found (1)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Lost and Found (2)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Limbo
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    #5 - 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

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  • X-Mas Chnbch VN '67
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    #6 - 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

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  • Women in White
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    #7 - 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

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  • All About E.E.V.
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    #8 - 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

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  • Tet '68
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    #9 - 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

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  • Cherry
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    #10 - 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

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  • Crossing the Great Water
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    #11 - 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

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  • Psywars
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    #12 - 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

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  • Where the Boys Are
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    #13 - 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

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  • Vets
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    #14 - 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

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  • Twilight
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    #15 - 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

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  • After Burner
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    #16 - 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

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  • Promised Land
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    #17 - 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

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  • The World (1)
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    #18 - 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

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  • The World (2)
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    #19 - 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

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  • Hello, Goodbye (2)
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    #20 - Hello, Goodbye (2)

    Season 4 Episode 17

    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.

    Director: John Sacret Young

    Writer: John Wells

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  • The Call
    7.4/10(30)

    #21 - 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.

    Director: Robert Ginty

    Writer: N/A

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  • How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (2)
    7.5/10(34)

    #22 - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (2)

    Season 3 Episode 10

    Aired 12/6/1989

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Strange Brew
    7.5/10(32)

    #23 - Strange Brew

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 4/30/1990

    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.

    Director: Michael Fresco

    Writer: N/A

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  • Escape
    7.5/10(32)

    #24 - Escape

    Season 4 Episode 4

    Aired 10/27/1990

    While attending his father's funeral in 1985, Beckett reflects on his childhood and his tour of duty in Vietnam with the Graves Registration Unit.

    Director: John Sacret Young, John Wells

    Writer: N/A

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  • Hot Spell
    7.6/10(42)

    #25 - Hot Spell

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 5/4/1988

    KC agrees to ask about Cherry's brother as she sets up a deal to buy an antique vase. Laurette prepares to perform for visiting brass. Lila, KC, Laurette, McMurphy and Cherry share confidences as they wait out a mortar attack together.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Brothers" is the worst rated episode of "China Beach". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Sacret Young and written by Carol Flint, it aired on 6/1/1988. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chao Ong".