Tour of Duty (TV series)
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Tour of Duty is an American military drama television series based on events in the Vietnam War, broadcast on CBS. The series ran for three seasons, from September 24, 1987, to April 28, 1990, for a total of 58 one-hour episodes. The show was created by Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark and produced by Zev Braun.
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Genre | Military drama |
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Music by | Joseph Conlan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 58 |
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Executive producers | Steve Duncan L. Travis Clark Ronald L. Schwary |
Producer | Zev Braun |
Running time | 47–49 minutes |
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Network | CBS |
Release | September 24, 1987 (1987-09-24) – April 28, 1990 (1990-04-28) |
The show follows an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. It was the first television series to regularly show Americans in combat in South Vietnam and was one of several similarly themed series to be produced in the wake of the acclaimed Oliver Stone film Platoon (1986).
The series won an Emmy Award in 1988 for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, and it was nominated again in 1989 and 1990.[1]