The Lieutenant (1963)
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.
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Episode 1 - A Million Miles From Clary
Release Date: 1963-09-14Stew 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.
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Episode 2 - Cool of the Evening
Release Date: 1963-09-21 -
Episode 3 - The Proud and the Angry
Release Date: 1963-09-28 -
Episode 4 - Two-Star Giant
Release Date: 1963-10-05 -
Episode 5 - A Very Private Affair
Release Date: 1963-10-12 -
Episode 6 - To Take Up Serpents
Release Date: 1963-10-19 -
Episode 7 - A Touching of Hands
Release Date: 1963-10-26 -
Episode 8 - Captain Thomson
Release Date: 1963-11-02 -
Episode 9 - Instant Wedding
Release Date: 1963-11-09Rice 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.
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Episode 10 - A Troubled Image
Release Date: 1963-11-16 -
Episode 11 - Fall From A White Horse
Release Date: 1963-11-30 -
Episode 12 - Alert
Release Date: 1963-12-14 -
Episode 13 - The Art of Discipline
Release Date: 1963-12-21 -
Episode 14 - The Alien
Release Date: 1963-12-28 -
Episode 15 - O'Rourke
Release Date: 1964-01-04An 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.
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Episode 16 - Gone the Sun
Release Date: 1964-01-18Rice 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.
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Episode 17 - Between Music and Laughter
Release Date: 1964-01-25 -
Episode 18 - Interlude
Release Date: 1964-02-01 -
Episode 19 - Capp's Lady
Release Date: 1964-02-08 -
Episode 20 - Green Water Green Flag
Release Date: 1964-02-15 -
Episode 21 - To Set It Right
Release Date: 1964-02-22 -
Episode 22 - In the Highest Tradition
Release Date: 1964-02-29 -
Episode 23 - Tour of Duty
Release Date: 1964-03-07 -
Episode 24 - Lament for a Dead Goldbrick
Release Date: 1964-03-14 -
Episode 25 - Man with an Edge
Release Date: 1964-03-21 -
Episode 26 - Operation: Actress
Release Date: 1964-03-28 -
Episode 27 - Mother Enemy
Release Date: 1964-04-04A 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.
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Episode 28 - The War Called Peace
Release Date: 1964-04-11 -
Episode 29 - To Kill a Man
Release Date: 1964-04-18