Gene Roddenberry
Director
The Lieutenant (1963)
Season 1
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.
Released Sept. 14, 1963
Episode 60 min
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Genres: Drama
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Production Companies: MGM Television, Arena Productions
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - A Million Miles From Clary
Stew 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.
Sept. 14, 1963, midnight
S1E2 - Cool of the Evening
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Sept. 21, 1963, midnight
S1E3 - The Proud and the Angry
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Sept. 28, 1963, midnight
S1E4 - Two-Star Giant
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Oct. 5, 1963, midnight
S1E5 - A Very Private Affair
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Oct. 12, 1963, midnight
S1E6 - To Take Up Serpents
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Oct. 19, 1963, midnight
S1E7 - A Touching of Hands
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Oct. 26, 1963, midnight
S1E8 - Captain Thomson
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Nov. 2, 1963, midnight
S1E9 - Instant Wedding
Rice 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.
Nov. 9, 1963, midnight
S1E10 - A Troubled Image
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Nov. 16, 1963, midnight
S1E11 - Fall From A White Horse
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Nov. 30, 1963, midnight
S1E12 - Alert
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Dec. 14, 1963, midnight
S1E13 - The Art of Discipline
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Dec. 21, 1963, midnight
S1E14 - The Alien
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Dec. 28, 1963, midnight
S1E15 - O'Rourke
An 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.
Jan. 4, 1964, midnight
S1E16 - Gone the Sun
Rice 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.
Jan. 18, 1964, midnight
S1E17 - Between Music and Laughter
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Jan. 25, 1964, midnight
S1E18 - Interlude
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Feb. 1, 1964, midnight
S1E19 - Capp's Lady
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Feb. 8, 1964, midnight
S1E20 - Green Water Green Flag
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Feb. 15, 1964, midnight
S1E21 - To Set It Right
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Feb. 22, 1964, midnight
S1E22 - In the Highest Tradition
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Feb. 29, 1964, midnight
S1E23 - Tour of Duty
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March 7, 1964, midnight
S1E24 - Lament for a Dead Goldbrick
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March 14, 1964, midnight
S1E25 - Man with an Edge
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March 21, 1964, midnight
S1E26 - Operation: Actress
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March 28, 1964, midnight
S1E27 - Mother Enemy
A 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.
April 4, 1964, midnight
S1E28 - The War Called Peace
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April 11, 1964, midnight
S1E29 - To Kill a Man
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April 18, 1964, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1740 min.
Released: Sept. 14, 1963
Last Air Date: April 18, 1964, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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