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The Lieutenant

1963 · 1 season · 29 episodes · Ended · NBC

Drama

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Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.

Episodes

  • S01E01A Million Miles From Clary1963-09-1460m

    Stew Sallaway, champion goldbrick at Clary High, could always depend on his buddy Bill Rice to get him out of a jam. Now Stew is a Marine private, and his ailing father asks Rice to have the boy to his platoon.

  • S01E02Cool of the Evening1963-09-2160m
  • S01E03The Proud and the Angry1963-09-2860m
  • S01E04Two-Star Giant1963-10-0560m
  • S01E05A Very Private Affair1963-10-1260m
  • S01E06To Take Up Serpents1963-10-1960m
  • S01E07A Touching of Hands1963-10-2660m
  • S01E08Captain Thomson1963-11-0260m
  • S01E09Instant Wedding1963-11-0960m

    Rice is pressed upon by a friend to look after his girl in advance of a year-long posting in the far east without leave. She demands they marry right away, and it falls on Rice to quickly put together a formal Marine wedding ceremony.

  • S01E10A Troubled Image1963-11-1660m
  • S01E11Fall From A White Horse1963-11-3060m
  • S01E12Alert1963-12-1460m
  • S01E13The Art of Discipline1963-12-2160m
  • S01E14The Alien1963-12-2860m
  • S01E15O'Rourke1964-01-0460m

    An ex Marine who is also a journalist is assigned to Rice's unit to do an article on the modern Marine core. Rice quickly discovers not is all as it should be in the situation.

  • S01E16Gone the Sun1964-01-1860m

    Rice returns to his home town to aid in the burial of a Marine killed in a training accident. He has to deal with the grieving family of the boy as well as the changes that have occurred since he has been away.

  • S01E17Between Music and Laughter1964-01-2560m
  • S01E18Interlude1964-02-0160m
  • S01E19Capp's Lady1964-02-0860m
  • S01E20Green Water Green Flag1964-02-1560m
  • S01E21To Set It Right1964-02-2260m
  • S01E22In the Highest Tradition1964-02-2960m
  • S01E23Tour of Duty1964-03-0760m
  • S01E24Lament for a Dead Goldbrick1964-03-1460m
  • S01E25Man with an Edge1964-03-2160m

    Rice loses his girlfriend to a Naval Academy football All-American, who also happens to be the nephew of the colonel.

  • S01E26Operation: Actress1964-03-2860m
  • S01E27Mother Enemy1964-04-0460m

    A young sergeant is being evaluated for officer training, but unexpectedly it's revealed that his mother is a communist agent and she's in town to pitch a rabble-rousing speech at a rally where she will denounce the Marine Corps for not immediately elevating his rank, against his wishes. It falls on Rice to determine what will be done with the sergeant.

  • S01E28The War Called Peace1964-04-1160m
  • S01E29To Kill a Man1964-04-1860m

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