Tour of Duty

Tour of Duty is an American drama series on the Viet Nam war that aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990. The title song was from the second episode "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones.

The series consists of three seasons. In the first season, beginning in the second part of the peloton, belongs to the 1967 "196th Light Infantry Brigade" with the Chu Lai base camp. The Pack is back to find only few times in Chu Lai and is largely seen on "Firebase Ladybird" or in the jungle.

The second season began in January 1968 where we now see the peloton as part of MACV (Military Assistence Command Viet Nam), Tân Sơn Nhứt air baseto be stationed, Saigon. Here they perform various tasks which range from monitoring missions to the typical "Search and Destroy missions". Also play in this season with multiple female characters so as to attract more female viewers. This meant the end of the series according to the makers, although it also caused by programming against other popular series on other channels.

The third season brings the peloton to "Camp Barnett", a "Special Forces Camp" where they are because of a shortage of troops to support be added to the "Special Forces Group". Eventually, the main characters included in the ' Studies and Observations Group (SOG) called as Team-Viking that both operates in Viet Nam as Cambodia. To the end of season three SOG operations halted and the peloton is reformed.

The series was innovative because they unlike many other films and series also regularly showed serious injuries and deaths. Also social problems such as racism, suicide, terrorism, war crimes and drug use to bid. ==Cast[ Edit] == ==Episodes[ Edit] ==