Tour of Duty - The Complete First Season with Terence Knox: DVD Cover

    Tour of Duty - The Complete First Season Cast: Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey, Kevin Conroy, Tony Becker

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/08/2004
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 13,411

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    Tour of Duty, television's first gritty drama about the Vietnam War, came to the airwaves in September 1987, six months after Oliver Stone's Platoon claimed the Academy Award for Best Picture. During its three-season run, the show offered a harrowing look at what an infantryman went through during a Southeast Asian "tour." Set in South Vietnam in 1967 at the fictional Firebase Ladybird, Tour follows the operations of multiethnic Bravo Company, led by the fresh-faced Lt. Myron Goldman (Stephen Caffrey) and his second-in-command, battle-hardened veteran Sgt. Zeke Anderson (the amazing Terence Knox). Each week's episode consists of different, invariably dangerous missions against the North Vietnamese Army, a fact hammered home when major players die during the course of a season -- a gambit still beyond the pale in television drama. The first season included in this DVD set introduces the men of Bravo Company and opens with Lt. Goldman, who has just come "in-country" from the States, butting heads with the more experienced Sgt. Anderson during a firefight. The episode "Notes from the Underground" -- a showcase for actor Miguel Nunez Jr. as Pvt. Marcus Taylor -- finds Taylor captured by the NVA and befriending an "enemy" doctor. Racial tensions flare in "Burn, Baby, Burn," an episode that touches on the many problems, in addition to opposing forces, that faced black and Hispanic soldiers in Vietnam. In "Nowhere to Run," Pvt. Danny Purcell (Tony Becker) is devastated when he accidentally kills an eight-year-old while pursuing a Vietcong soldier. Knox really shines in "Roadrunner," in which Anderson finally connects with the emotions he hides under his tough-guy exterior, after receiving an unsettling letter from home. Although short-lived, Tour of Duty ranks with TV's very best dramatizations of war: hard-hitting and at times bloody, the series provides such a connection to the characters that you can't look away. Christina Urban, Barnes & Noble

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    Bad music kills the plotby Anonymous

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    September 01, 2009: I was extremely disappointed when I watched this DVD set and donated it to the public library.

    The original TV-series had great music from the 60s and early 70s that fit perfectly into the Vietnam era (Painted Black from the Rolling Stones is the great intro song). But this set has replaced the original music with a techno soundtrack that completely destroys the atmosphere of the show.

    The series has a great plot and characters and should be a must see for anybody interested in the Vietnam war. Many aspects of the war (good and bad) get covered in different episodes and the characters develop over time (if they survive).

    Really great dramaby Miss_Anthrope

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    October 09, 2008: Terence Knox (as Sgt. Zeke Anderson) absolutely makes this series. The show didn't last very long and many of the main characters from Season 1 don't make it through the following seasons, but that's the reality of a Vietnam War drama.


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