European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Television dirty dozen gets jump on China Beach on an by Sarah Bottorff in .1 Way ill Ems a Little unfair dirty dozen. Ihn uld i it on television for us just As Touro duty k wrapping up and China Beach is starting unfair in dirty Dunten that is. Dirty Omen is .1 Fine Serif s about War loosely based on the i9b7 movie about a world War ii team of Mii fils. Vou la like it it s Ful of action the plot s smart the characters Are interesting. Bui it s no tour of duty no Claustrophobic trip i through the vietnamese Jungle Mil the lire Camps with .1 handful of men who Art partly sick to death of c ii h other and partly so devoted to other that they want to re up. And it s no China Beach an equally Claustrophobic world of hideously wounded soldiers and Beautiful sunsets where it Iii i fresh from the tar High school proms try and _ fail to gel used to War iliac in Raj boat i Pilot movie comes March-10 to an a week Ufler dirty dozen which a is r in to . 9 4a in Ihu United kingdom la s Worth waiting for for scenes like an Rencounter Between a 19-year-old.wide-eyed red Cross doughnut Dolly fresh off the plane from the status and a monstrous almost Corpse like Soldier is if he s seen everything awful about War Thuro is to see. He ii turns out is. 19 too -. Nurse Colleen Mcmurphy Dana is inc main Ili in ii r. Likes Risje. To Runce Knox Lin tour to of tits she s in a ritual Hin h beyond her ability to Iii i and she s in Ping any Way she tells a Friend Hal ohm of the Hardi so parts of being it at China Beach is tin Joni 1 Tinh she fills so " Lype altogether insubordinate stubborn and nearly always right Brave Ami Irue his men and one woman Are Brave and Noble too and if you re gelling the idea that this series is a pretty romanticized look at ,iii4. But it s Worth watching if you re around a to set Friday night China Beach is Worth gutting yourself around a to. Set a week from dirty dozen Sergei itself after the Pilot film will have a regular b 7 in the . Time Slot on sundays starting March 2. China Beach will air -.--. Regularly on Friday s Al 8 30 . 7 30 a the .taking tour of out place. Southern european broadcasting gels dirty dozen the week of april 24-30, and China Beach the first week of May. No word yet on whether armed forces radio and television system will get the second year of tour of duty. But an people say once arts gels the first chunk of a series it almost invariably gels the rights to air the future years. No brain food some to shows Are mild to be watched from behind an ironing Board or while you pretend to listen to someone on i he phone you know shows Don t require much concentration. Out of this wow Issach a show the Abc offering is one of those sitcoms pairing spacemen Lille girl robots and other science fiction silliness with an Ordinary to f, y. Nihls. Case. Ordinary to mom Donna Pescow marries Man from outer space and produces apparently Ordinary to teen Maureen Flannigan who in the opener is ust discovering that she can Stop time and. Do other nifty things yes it Isa Little like slim. Fri Only in this Case the alien has gone Back to wherever he came from and Speaks to his drug her through a plastic Box. This is not Brilliant stuff the Beil line of the opener for example is mom s attempt to explain papa is yes he s an astronaut dear she tells Little tie but no one of ours if you Don t find thai it All Unn skip this show. On thu other hand what going to do while you re ironing your Dusi it airs Friday at b. . On of n 7 in the u. luring i he week of april 24-30 on from be v Yoi pc Well limps. An and seb Are How gelling live. Direct via satellite rather than by videotape from the status. And the bi.-, starting saturday neg he shows thai Are Only six Days rather than six months old. When it comes on the show six months old is old a int of you May have noted so this is cause for Celebration the reason Throy Don i air the show live they.". Explain is that the satellite beams it Over in our pre Dawn hours sunday which i a Peculiar time to show. Saturday night. So they save it for the next saturday. Fat Man s Back just after Lake Ami the fat Man started up on an late Lasi week lbs announced. That it s resurrecting the series in the slates Starling the Middle of this month. In the new incarnation the associated press reported feb. 24, . Fat Man my Colbe William Conrad has retired to Hawaii where he still gels involved Iri crimes and teams up with special investigator Lake styles Doe Penny. Blew ii if you wondered what happened to Best Little whorehouse in Texas anr.1 Thi Letson meet the flan Slones on seb last weekend As promised in last week s column Well i Messud up in elites. The la be Oil this weekend honest. Also coming up on seb rage of Angels the Iarj Parl with Allyn Smith somewhat cast As a lawyer in wednesday Ami thursday nights at 9 20. And also on an Gary of diff vol strokes is a shoe Shine boy a he a Lalehz for picking horses in the 1901 film on Tini Rint Fork monday. Nights in s life show. And Thiol familiar monster strewn Arkansas landscape is Hack on return la Boggy Creek on thursday night s Iati univ. Our House airs As usual sunday afternoon it 4 30 3 30 in the . And then moves to its now Lime Slot thursday at 7 . It in he .i.surah Bottorff a news rec sir it if ii i i it rink Over Wendy Bourland s tale Yuan Tii Binm Tail week. Bout Stintl hits returned to the 5mfos. A i Linic Kikui. Dirty divert s key i r is it Danko. Ben Murphy time it Alan sri Lith Mil ones. He s another tour of duty adds 2 women characters to cast by Diane Haithman los angles times Lam Spring Abc Spicl is vision series cd few Hitachi Ltd Inu a instant hit by exploring the lives of inc women behind the line in Ifie Vit ,," a Lusky a Iid. I or Liermore Braun a my Tutor of duty s portrayal Tif women and the War in will be Moru i Ilis icily in Abc s dipl Iii by my i Fine but ii has very Little to do Milt tit we Nam War air Iun women Are a inn to be real women not just set pieces. Not just devices to gel our Guys into bed William Broyles a. A Vietnam Veteran and the co Crealor of China Beach Wilh Ohn secret Young defends the realism of his serifs. Our women Are much More real is characters than the men of tour of duty lie said. And As far As our technical details go i would put Iju a ,i5, anything on to or the tour of duly producers readily that the lbs drama is Brin in in women to fight for ratings As Well As historical accuracy the series which began the 19b7 season at Al Tel gave viewers a violent brutally accurate View of an unpopular War. Flaunting Alliv conventions a few major characters actually died. The result Praise from Vietnam vets critical acclaim Mil abysmal ratings 74lh out of 105 prime time programs that season. China Beach which aired Lasi Spring after the end of the official season ranked 37lh. Our chief b0 1 so a Rake to show More r acce Isoble to women Braun said. We realized that Wirtl year some of the Content was pretty inning Hie cast is Kim Delaney As an american reporter covering the War and Betsy Brantley As government psychologist. Also new is Dan Gauthier portraying a Young helicopter Pilot. Bratin wit that letters from Vietnam veterans Many of whom avidly follow of tour or duty have scoffed Al Chin Beach for its focus on human relationships rather than combat they be told us Don t sell us out Man " he said. We Are going to keep what we be got we Are not going to betray the Confidence of these men tour of duly will however make one Concession to China Beach he said because one of China. Beach s strongest character is nurse Colleen Mcmurphy Dana Delany no of latin to tour actress Kim Delane Toti Rul it thy unlikely to bring in army nurses to add women to i in. Ranks. Other female characters who in ear he Nutt a include prostitutes pad isl quakers tourists and Young red Cross volunteers. Beach already features
