![]() ![]() ![]() To a generation that's currently watching Breaking Bad, Justified or Boardwalk Empire, a lot of this show will seem like generic, run-of-the-mill television, but that's kind of the point: China Beach shoehorned the Vietnam experience into the network TV experience and made its subjects seem more like the rest of mainstream America. The producers talk a lot about the cards and letters they got from real Vietnam vets who told them how much the show helped them make sense of their war experience. There are new interviews with the cast and crew reflecting on the legacy of the show, documentary featurettes about the real-life locations and people who originally inspired the series and five audio commentaries on episodes of the show. The box set includes more than ten hours of bonus material in addition to all 62 episodes of the show on 21 DVDs. ![]() (later Captain) Nurse Colleen McMurphy starring Dana Delany in her first big role. Set at the 510th Evacuation Hospital and R&R center (a/k/a the "Five and Dime") in Vietnam, the series was told through the story of First Lt. The show described events that were barely twenty years in the past and it was only a few years after The Ten Thousand Day War documentary that we wrote about a few weeks ago. Here was a (kinda-soapy) mainstream show that humanized the men and women who lived through that experience. Even though Oscar-winning movies like Platoon, The Deer Hunter and Coming Home had tried to make sense of the war, they were both pretty dark and little-seen by middle America. The series was a big deal when it first aired. ![]()
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