Tour of Duty was a CBS network drama series created by Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark.
The show aired from September 24, 1987 to April 28, 1990, lasting for three seasons & 58 episodes. It was produced by Braun Entertainment Group and New World Television.
Plot[]
The series followed an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War.
Cast[]
- Stephen Caffrey as Myron Goldman
- Terence Knox as Clayton Ezekiel "Zeke" Anderson
- Kim Delaney as Alex Devlin
- Tony Becker as Daniel "Danny" Percell
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Marcus Taylor
- Ramón Franco as Alberto Ruiz
- Stan Foster as Marvin Johnson
Accolades[]
"Tour of Duty" won an Emmy Award in 1988 for "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series" and was nominated again in 1989 & 1990.
Emmy Award nominations
- 1989: Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series (for "I Wish it Could Rain")
- 1990: Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series (for "And Make Death Proud to Take Us")
Eddie Award nominations
- 1988: Best Edited Episode from a Television Series (for the pilot episode)
Episode lists[]
Season 1[]
- Pilot
- Notes from the Underground
- Dislocations
- War Lover
- Sitting Ducks
- Burn, Baby, Burn
- Brothers, Fathers and Sons
- The Good, the Bad and the Dead
- Battling Baker Brothers
- Nowhere to Run
- Roadrunner
- Pushin' Too Hard
- USO Down
- Under Siege
- Soldiers
- Gray-Brown Odyssey
- Blood Brothers
- The Short Timer
- Paradise Lost
- Angel of Mercy
- The Hill
Season 2[]
- Saigon part 1
- Saigon part 2
- For What It's Worth
- True Grit
- Non-Essential Personnel
- Sleeping Dogs
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Popular Forces
- Terms of Enlistment
- Nightmare
- Promised Land
- Lonesome Cowboy Blues
- Sins of the Fathers
- Sealed with a Kiss
- Hard Stripe
- The Volunteer
Season 3[]
- The Luck
- Doc Hock
- The Ties That Bind
- Lonely at the Top
- A Bodyguard of Lies
- A Necessary End
- Cloud Nine
- Thanks for the Memories
- I Am What I Am
- World in Changes
- Green Christmas
- Odd Man Out
- And Make Death Proud to Take Us
- Dead Man Tales
- Road to Long Binh
- Acceptable Losses
- Vietnam Rag
- War is a Contact Sport
- Three Cheers for the Orange, White & Blue
- The Raid
- Payback