Episode 1
Aired Sep 24, 1987
Pilot
Anderson goes to division headquarters to make a report and recruit replacements, who are soon under fire.
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Episode 2
Aired Oct 1, 1987
Notes From the Underground
To rescue Taylor from the North Vietnamese, B Company volunteers must infiltrate their complex tunnel system.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 8, 1987
Dislocations
Bravo Co. is ordered to escort a group of villagers to a new location in a demonstration of U.S. technology helping the Vietnamese.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 15, 1987
Sitting Ducks
An overzealous sergeant's enthusiasm for a dangerous mission endangers B Company.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 29, 1987
War Lover
After several successful ambushes on them, the men of B Company suspect their Vietnamese scout of spying.
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Episode 6
Aired Nov 5, 1987
Burn, Baby, Burn
During race riots at home, platoon conflicts climax with a racist soldier's murder, for which Johnson stands accused.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 12, 1987
Brothers, Fathers and Sons
Shot down in enemy territory, Anderson, Johnson and Baker find the sole survivor of a devastated village, a woman in labor.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 19, 1987
The Good, the Bad and the Dead
Anderson soon regrets saving a boozing buddy (Tim Thomerson) from court-martial by getting him sent to B Company.
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Episode 9
Aired Dec 10, 1987
Battling Baker Brothers
Baker's twin visits for their birthday and competes with his sibling for a local girl.
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Episode 10
Aired Dec 17, 1987
Nowhere to Run
Percell goes AWOL after shooting a Vietnamese youth; Goldman meets a former lover, a nurse.
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Episode 11
Aired Jan 7, 1988
Roadrunner
Anderson shows signs of battle fatigue after receiving a letter from the young daughter he has never met.
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Episode 12
Aired Jan 14, 1988
Pushin' Too Hard
A TV news team accompanies B Company; Wallace continues a dangerous mission over the men's protests.
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Episode 13
Aired Jan 21, 1988
USO Down
Bravo Co. finds a USO band whose helicopter has been shot down and struggles to return the civilians to safety.
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Episode 14
Aired Feb 11, 1988
Under Siege
A new commander's (Kristoffer Tabori) gung-ho strategy leaves the firebase ill-prepared to withstand an enemy siege.
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Episode 15
Aired Feb 18, 1988
Soldiers
On leave in Hawaii, Percell, Taylor and Ruiz are shocked to see civilians' cold attitudes toward soldiers.
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Episode 16
Aired Feb 25, 1988
Gray-Brown Odyssey
Blinded in an attack, Lt. Goldman must place his fate in the hands of a young Vietcong woman prisoner who wants him dead.
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Episode 17
Aired Mar 12, 1988
Blood Brothers
A visit by Goldman's father (Jon Cypher), a decorated Army major general, coincides with the discovery of drug-dealing.
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Episode 18
Aired Mar 19, 1988
The Short Timer
A brutal ambush and a tenacious recruiting sergeant highlight homeward-bound Taylor's last days of combat.
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Episode 19
Aired Mar 26, 1988
Paradise Lost
A bitter American lives among local tribesmen who saved the platoon from ambush.
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Episode 20
Aired Apr 9, 1988
Angel of Mercy
Goldman and his men capture an important North Vietnamese colonel shortly before the Tet offensive.
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Episode 21
Aired Apr 29, 1988
The Hill
Morale plummets when the platoon repeatedly gets orders to take, then abandon, the same insignificant hilltop.
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