Promised Land

 

 
 Bravo are out on a joint patrol with Lt. Sherman Douglas's squad ,a tough officer who's men think he's to hard and by the book. Johnson finds a recently put out fire and the two squads move forward to give chase. Gunfire opens up and the VC run , attempting to draw the Americans into a trap. Douglas and his squad flank the VC and a grenade to thrown.
 
 
 Sgt.Art Binion ( a friend of Zeke's) throws himself onto the grenade to protect his men. 
 
  .

 
 
 Sgt. Binion dies and a VC is captured Lt Douglas's men want to take revenge on him for the loss of Binion,
 but he stops them. Tension is running high.
 
 Back at base Taylor and Johnson are watching the TV and Martin Luther King Jr. is giving a speak, then it cuts to a
news reader who announces that Martin Luther King has been assassinated.
 
   
 ,
 
 
Zeke has been asked to accompany Art Binion's body back to the USA for the funeral.
 
 
 Art's brother tells Zeke that he isn't wanted at the funeral , but Selma , Art's wife, says that he is welcome.
 ,
 
  .
 
 The two squads go back out on a joint patrol and they are ordered to go down a trail something which all the soldiers know not to do.
 Lt. Sherman Douglas orders the troops to follow him, even Lt.Goldman tells him its a bad idea. Eventually the radio message comes through to halt and go a different way. But not before he tells the men he will have them up an charges.
 
 
 Someone tries to "Frag" Lt. Douglas , he has a rethink and sets out to be a new leader.
 
 
 

Director: Helaine Head     Writer: Steven Phillip Smith
The songs used in the original airing
 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

 


Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Otis Redding
Wade In Water
Ramsey Lewis Trio


Have You Ever Seen The Rain 
Creedence Clearwater Revival

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John Tolesbey

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Sami Chester ?
Richard Brestoff  Major Darling
L.Scott Caldwell Selma Binion
Jay Arlen Jones
Arnold Turner Sgt. Art Binion
Randy Brooks Lt. Sherman Douglas
Tom Millar  Newsman
Ed Cambridge Preacher
Mark Albert Uncredited Soldier
Terry Lockett Uncreditited Lieutenant Christie
Greg Travis Love
Tony M. Gillan Westfall

 

This episode first aired on April 4 1989, the 21st anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s death.

 

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