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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 26, 2012 1:28:18 GMT -5
Quest: Season 4, Episode 13. It’s nice that McMurphy got to see K.C. at least one more time after their Always Goodbye. Much of the episode has Colleen spending time with Dodger and I like hearing the Always On My Mind song even though it wasn’t the Elvis version.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 27, 2012 19:50:51 GMT -5
Rewind: Antepenultimate story. All of this episode takes place in 1985 as Karen, K.C.’s daughter is making a video about Vietnam as she interviews the former China Beach personnel but this does not include K.C. herself as Karen is still not able to track her down. Dana as Colleen only appears briefly here. Odd that Boonie remembers the loss of Hyer but not Cherry and also odd that Frankie does not seem to remember K.C. Even though she did not find K.C. it was still quite a heartwarming personal journey for Karen to take. The last line has Karen saying that it isn't finished yet. Then came the end credits. While this mark the end of the episode it wasn't quite the end of the series.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 27, 2012 23:43:49 GMT -5
Through and Through: Penultimate story. Takes place in 1985 as Colleen is suffering from PTSD as she remembers what happened when she last saw Hyers (Ned Vaughn returning here to reprise him) not long before he was killed in How To Stay Alive In Vietnam. It is quite remarkable how beer saved Colleen’s life back then and quite a powerful story for her in her later years.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 29, 2012 18:53:36 GMT -5
Hello Goodbye Part 1: First part of the series finale. The title I think is an emulation in name of the M*A*S*H finale Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. One thing that seems that both the final stories of China Beach & M*A*S*H have in common is that both featured an out of control tank. The setting for Hello Goodbye is in 1988 with the China Beach reunion. Quite unexpectedly Megan Gallagher is back as Wayloo. Incorporated into this story are clips from past episodes. What I have seen so far from this first part is that of a mix of the bittersweet and the depressing aspects of life on China Beach.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 30, 2012 22:22:56 GMT -5
Hello Goodbye Part 2: Conclusion of the series finale. Cherry and Laurette managed to be represented here from a clip from season 1. There is an inconsistency here when Colleen says in her last days on China Beach that she was going home and then shows a clip of her at home but it was from when she was home before when she came to see her sick and then dead father in the final story of season 2 The World. It’s good that Karen finally got to see K.C. after a lengthy period. Bittersweet moment the last we see of Colleen as the episode and the series ends.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 31, 2012 0:16:05 GMT -5
After Hello Goodbye, Colleen later divorced her husband and then sometime later on met a younger Chinese man, fell in love and eventually got married.
Colleen and her Chinese husband have fantastic sex together.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 31, 2012 21:22:48 GMT -5
As Colleen McMurphy, Dana played a nurse in China Beach. Dana in her current show Body of Proof is again in the medical profession, as she is acting-wise, a nurse who made the transition to doctor as she plays Dr Megan Hunt introduced as a disgraced surgeon who became a medical examiner. Dana as Dr Megan Hunt shows compassion to dead people she was examining just like she did with the patients she cared for as Nurse Colleen McMurphy.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Mar 29, 2013 19:18:57 GMT -5
Recently saw the movie Automatic and it featured two China Beach alums Jeff Kober and Troy Evans.
Automatic was released in 1995, four years after the end of China Beach in 1991.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Apr 10, 2013 22:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Aug 24, 2013 17:47:48 GMT -5
Last week saw the 1998 TV movie The Patron Saint of Liars starring Dana Delany and Clancy Brown. The curious thing about this casting is that both were working on Superman: The Animated Series (1996-2000) at the same time they were working together on The Patron Saint of Liars. In the animated Superman series Dana Delany voiced Lois Lane and Brown voiced Lex Luthor. In The Patron Saint of Liars their characters gets married to each other. Oh dear, Lois Lane being married to Lex Luthor! Brown had also earlier worked with Dana when she was the lead actor in China Beach and him making a guest stint in the season 3 finale Strange Brew.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Oct 29, 2013 15:24:54 GMT -5
China Beach 3.19 Phoenix guest starred Francois Chou. Recently he was reunited with Dana when he guest starred in her show Body of Proof in 3.9 Disappearing Act.
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