Tour of Duty

19871h 0m / epWar & Politics · Drama · Action & Adventure

First aired

September 24, 1987

8.1

TMDB Score

81% match · 187 votes

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S01 · E16

Gray-Brown Odyssey

Season 1 · Feb 25, 1988 · 1h 0m

Goldman, Horn, Calhoun, and Pointer are retruning to the base after spending two days int he rear. Their jeep hits a mine, wounding Calhoun and Pointer. Goldman is blinded when a fire extinguisher blows up in his face. A squad of VC arrive and open fire. Calhoun and Pointer are killed by the attack, Goldman is blinded. In the end Horn chases after the sole surviving VC only to find that she's a woman. He captures her and takes her back to the hut where's he's left the blinded Goldman. Horn then, after much argument, goes after help for Goldman. The woman manages to signal to other villagers for help and so Goldman, blinded, must rig his rifle to her head, marching her off into his ""blind landscape"" so that they can escape the VC that she has called on to help her. As they escape they run into a great deal of trouble, starving families, groups of VC and even a group of Americans who fire on them. In the end, by the time Horn finds them, the woman has died in Goldman's arms, leaving Myro

About the Series

Tour of Duty poster
War & PoliticsDramaAction & Adventure

Synopsis

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.

CreatorsL. Travis Clark, Steve Duncan

First aired
September 24, 1987
Last aired
April 28, 1990
Seasons
3 seasons · 58 episodes
Status
Ended
Original language
English
Network
CBS

Top Billed Cast

Terence Knox

Terence Knox

Clayton 'Zeke' Anderson

Stephen Caffrey

Stephen Caffrey

Myron Goldman

Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Marcus Taylor

Tony Becker

Tony Becker

Danny Percell

SF

Stan Foster

Marvin Johnson

Ramón Franco

Ramón Franco

Alberto Ruiz

Dan Gauthier

Dan Gauthier

John McKay

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