Tour of Duty - Season 1 Episode 18 The Short Timer
Bravo company is on another S mission. A new man is on point, and he stops the patrol when he sees some blood, which he follows to a Vietnam booby trap. He's killed. Taylor takes over point, even though he is a short timer. Later, he manages to survive an encounter with an NVA machine gun nest after he destroys it. Taylor must address his mixed emotions about his near return to home. His fear and distaste for Vietnam is equaled only by the darkness of the life waiting for him at home. Taylor, after a ""Dear John"" phone call from home, signs up for another tour.
Year: 1990
Genre: War & Politics, Drama, Action & Adventure
Country: United States of America
Studio: CBS
Director: Steve Duncan, L. Travis Clark
Cast: Stephen Caffrey, Terence Knox, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Tony Becker, Stan Foster, Ramón Franco
Crew: Zev Braun (Producer), Stephen L. Posey (Director of Photography), Michael E. Little (Camera Operator), Joseph Conlan (Original Music Composer), Dorothy Amos (Costume Supervisor), Joseph A. Liuzzi (Location Manager)
First Air Date: Sep 24, 1987
Last Air date: Apr 28, 1990
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 58 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 8.04/10 by 156.00 users
Popularity: 52.778
Language: Vietnamese, English
Episode
Pilot
Notes from the Underground
Dislocations
War Lover
Sitting Ducks
Burn, Baby, Burn
Brothers, Fathers and Sons
The Good, the Bad and the Dead
Battling Baker Brothers
Nowhere to Run
Roadrunner
Pushin' Too Hard
USO Down
Under Siege
Soldiers
Gray-Brown Odyssey
Blood Brothers
The Short Timer
Paradise Lost
Angel of Mercy
The Hill