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C4450 (USA, 4/27/1988-7/22/1990) [TV SERIES]

Credits: [] director, ; writer, . Cast: Dana Delaney, , . Summary: War melodrama set chiefly at an R&R center on the beach near Danang and the adjacent 510th Evac Hospital. Follows the lives and loves of the chiefly female personnel at the two facilities focusing on nurse Colleen McMurphy (Delany)

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