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| 282 of 290 people found the following review helpful  Vietnam seen through the eyes mostly of doctors and nurses!, By This review is from: China Beach (DVD) China Beach well deserves to be released as are so many lesser series on DVD by the season or a Box set including all the episodes. It was a shame it didn't run longer at the time and I don't know what killed it. I remember it had good ratings and a good fan following. China Beach was a wonderful drama that ran from 1988 through 1991. It was about an American base hospital in Vietnam located near China Beach. The beach itself was used for recreation by recooperating wounded soldiers and those on leave from combat. The beach itself offered a stark contrast to the pain and suffering in the hospital on base. It also offered some nice backgrounds for romantic scenes for the nurses and a chance to get some of them occasionally into shorts or bathing suits. However do not think it was some mindless beach movie! This series was a drama that showed the the lives and efforts of doctors and nurses working in a hospital in Vietnam. Unlike Mash that came before it, this was serious drama about... Read more 157 of 161 people found the following review helpful Perhaps the most important show ever on TV, By This review is from: China Beach (DVD) China Beach set new standards for television realism and quality, illuminating the daily life of the many women in-country whose stories had never been told. Created by William Broyles, Jr. and Charles Sacret Young (Broyles is a Vietnam Vet who has written many things, including the film "Apollo 13th" and the recent "Jarhead"), "China Beach" gave us the beautiful but forever damaged nurse Colleen McMurphy (an extraordinarily luminous Dana Delany), K.C. (Marg Helgenberger) a prostitute/businesswoman with a past that has compressed her into a hard, stunning diamond, female soldiers, Red Cross workers, civilians, journalists--all trying to make their mark and do what had never been permitted to them before, and of course lots of men in various states of daily understated acts of bravery (generally called "heroism" by non-soldiers), profound friendship, love, and terrible physical and psychic anguish, all desperately trying to deal with who they were in that place at that time. For those... Read more 119 of 122 people found the following review helpful Wonderful show, By This review is from: China Beach (DVD) I still have old VHS tapes of the show that I recorded over 10 years ago. I sure would like Season sets to replace them.By far, this is one of the best Drama shows ever put on Television. The writing was amazing and the cast was top notch. Why Delaney and Helgenburger didnt become Huge Movies stars after this show, I do not know. Bring on the DVDs and with some commentaries too! |
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