NaN/100 votesLoading...#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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#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.
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.4/1033 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.4/1029 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.5/1031 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.5/1031 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.6/1041 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.6/1033 votesLoading...#9 - Independence Day
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1989
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.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: N/A
7.6/1032 votesLoading...#10 - History Part II-She Sells More Than Sea Shells
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1990
Still in 1985, Karen learns how her natural mother, KC, coped with her pregnancy by turning to Boonie for help.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Carol Flint
7.7/1048 votesLoading...#11 - China Beach (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1988
McMurphy decides that she can't leave China Beach even though she is eligible to go home. Cherry and Laurette arrive- Cherry to look for her brother whom her family lost contact with and Laurette as a USO back up singer who gets promoted to lead when the lead singer can't cope with the war.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: William Broyles Jr., John Sacret Young
7.7/1034 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.7/1033 votesLoading...#13 - Magic
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/3/1990
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.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: John Wells
7.7/1034 votesLoading...#14 - The Rumor of Peace
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1990
China Beach reacts to the rumors of peace floated by Beckett and Frankie during their pirate radio broadcast.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josef Anderson
7.7/1036 votesLoading...#15 - Phoenix
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/1990
K.C. finds herself in the middle of a C.I.A. assassination plot, and dependent on McMurphy to vouch for her innocence.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Toni Graphia
7.7/1034 votesLoading...#16 - History: Part I: The Big Bang
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1990
In 1985, a reunion between Boonie and Dr. Richard stirs up memories of their first meeting in Vietnam in 1966. It also brings up questions for Boonie's 18-year-old adopted daughter, Karen.
Director: John Sacret Young
Writer: John Wells
7.7/1032 votesLoading...#17 - The Always Goodbye
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 6/18/1991
The arrival in Bangkok in 1969 of a hard-drinking McMurphy and a young private disrupts KC's carefully developed new life and brings back unwanted memories.
Director: Gary Sinise
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.8/1044 votesLoading...#18 - Home
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1988
Laurette auditions local entertainers to fill in the act and McMurphy struggles to overcome her feelings when a Viet Cong woman who was responsible for blowing up a friend is brought into the hospital for treatment.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: William Broyles Jr.
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#20 - Dear China Beach
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1989
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.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Writer: John Wells
7.8/1031 votesLoading...#21 - Who's Happy Now?
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1989
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.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Lydia Woodward
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#22 - Ghosts
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1989
K.C. avoids dealing with unpleasant memories of her father stirred up by a trunk of his belongings; Dr. Richard faces his ex-wife's remarriage with a ""black wedding""; Beckett ends his relationship with Mai; and McMurphy learns more about Dr. Bernard's life.
Director: Michael Fresco
Writer: Toni Graphia
7.8/1031 votesLoading...#23 - With a Little Help From My Friends
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1989
Holly is shaken when it appears that Hang is connected to the VC and has been using their friendship to gain information; Frankie is seriously injured by a booby trap; and McMurphy aids Dr. Bernard at a civilian clinic.
Director: Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Writer: Carol Flint, Josef Anderson
7.9/1040 votesLoading...#24 - Somewhere Over the Radio
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1988
Lila, Cherry and Laurette find themselves pinned down with a combat squad whose leader is not dealing with reality. Back at China Beach, KC and a frightened Boonie prepare to mount a rescue mission. Dr. Richard is injured just before he's scheduled to leave for R&R in Hawaii with Beth Ann.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Ann Donahue
7.9/1038 votesLoading...#25 - 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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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
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".