“Tour of Duty” is moving through a late-series stretch that showcases both the show’s Vietnam-era storytelling focus and a measurable audience snapshot captured episode-by-episode on Wikipedia’s series episode listing. The most recently highlighted portion of the run spans multiple named installments dated between early 1988 and spring 1989, with each entry accompanied by production credits and audience ratings indicators. The sequence of episodes suggests a continued emphasis on character-driven drama—while also reflecting how television programming performance was tracked at the time. In the current record, the listing includes episodes such as “Roadrunner,” “Pushin’ Too Hard,” “USO Down,” “Nowhere to Run,” “Sleeping Dogs,” “Non-Essential Personnel,” “Sins of the Fathers,” “Sealed With a Kiss,” and “Lonesome Cowboy Blues,” among others.
Among the earlier items shown in the excerpt is “Roadrunner,” dated January 7, 1988 (1988-01-07). The entry credits Jim Johnston as director and assigns Robert Burns Clark as the story credit, pairing a named creative team with a performance metric marked as 12.5/18. The listing style reflects a structured approach to cataloging both authorship and viewership signals—two elements that help contextualize an episode within the broader season cadence.
Immediately following in the excerpt’s timeline is “Pushin’ Too Hard,” dated January 14, 1988 (1988-01-14). The credits list Bill L. Norton as director, with a story attributed to David Hume Kennerly and Dennis Foley. The teleplay is credited to Steven Phillip Smith, and the episode is again accompanied by a ratings figure of 11.7/17. The combination of credited story and teleplay contributors indicates a multi-stage writing pipeline, and the presence of a consistent denominator-style rating measurement underscores that the episode’s reception was being quantified in the same format as neighboring entries.
Next, “USO Down” appears with a January 21, 1988 (1988-01-21) air date. The director is listed as Ronald L. Schwary, and the story contributor credited is Jim Beaver. The audience metric shown for this installment is 11.5/17. Taken together, these three early-1988 episodes—“Roadrunner,” “Pushin’ Too Hard,” and “USO Down”—build a picture of a run in mid-season territory, where the creative credits rotate while the listing continues to record a uniform measurement system.
Further into the excerpt, the list also points to “Nowhere to Run,” credited with director Rick Husky and story by Randy Roberts, dated December 17, 1987 (1987-12-17). The audience measurement is shown as 10.7/17. Although this date sits earlier than the 1988 entries, its placement within the excerpt indicates that the Wikipedia listing is capturing an interconnected portion of the series’ episode metadata rather than a perfectly linear chronology within the snippet itself.
Moving forward, “Sleeping Dogs” is dated February 7, 1989 (1989-02-07). The director is listed as Jerry Patrick Brown, while Stephen L. Posey is credited as the writer. The audience figure appears as 15.3 with a 10.0/15 listing. The higher primary number in this excerpt compared with several earlier ratings suggests that “Sleeping Dogs” may have drawn comparatively stronger measurable attention within the same cataloging frame.
In the same broader 1989 stretch, “Non-Essential Personnel” is dated January 31, 1989 (1989-01-31). Jim Johnston is credited as director, and Elia Katz is credited for the teleplay. The entry shows an audience metric of 13.0 with 8.4/13. The presence of both a director credit and a specific writer-credit role helps demonstrate the show’s documented production structure, in which creative responsibilities are attributed separately.
By April 1989, the excerpt highlights “Sins of the Fathers,” dated April 25, 1989 (1989-04-25). The director is listed as Jim Johnston, and Rick Husky is credited for the teleplay. This episode’s audience metric is shown as 14.8 with 10.4/18. The jump to later winter and spring dates in the listing indicates the series’ continued output beyond the initial early-1989 entries.
Late in the same April–May window, “Lonesome Cowboy Blues” is dated April 11, 1989 (1989-04-11). The director is given as Charles Correll, and W.K. Scott Meyer appears in the writer credit column. The metrics listed for this episode show 14.0 with 9.6/15. The entry reinforces the recurring pattern: each named installment is paired with both creative authorship and a quantifiable audience indicator.
Shortly after, “Sealed With a Kiss” is dated May 2, 1989 (1989-05-02). Stephen L. Posey is credited as writer, while Dennis Cooper and Elia Katz are credited for the story, and Elia Katz is credited again for the teleplay. The rating field shows 11.6 with 7.7/12. The structure of the credits here is more complex—splitting story authorship from teleplay—yet the listing retains the same standardized performance metric formatting.
Interspersed within the excerpt is another high-attention entry: “True Grit,” dated January 24, 1989 (1989-01-24). Ed Sherin is listed as director, and Steven Phillip Smith as the teleplay contributor. The audience metric is recorded as 15.5 with 10.2/15. With figures above 15 appearing in multiple entries, the excerpt suggests that “Tour of Duty” episodes around early 1989 could register strong measurable performance compared with some neighboring entries.
Overall, the compiled entries in this portion of the Wikipedia episode listing provide a compact but revealing view of how “Tour of Duty” documented its late-1980s and early-1989 episodes: consistent crediting for direction, story, and teleplay; standardized air dates; and repeatable audience metric formats such as values expressed like “x/y.” For readers tracking the series, the names of directors and writers—ranging from Jim Johnston and Stephen L. Posey to Elia Katz, Rick Husky, and Steven Phillip Smith—offer a roadmap for understanding who shaped particular stories during this stretch. For viewers looking to connect narrative tone to production authorship, these credits create a navigable context within the broadcast schedule.
For reference and further episode-level detail, the credited air dates, writer and director attributions, and the metrics cited here are drawn from the Wikipedia episode listing for Tour of Duty (TV series).
Outside of the series listing itself, the provided verified sources list also contains unrelated information—such as an Android app-builder site describing free app creation and optional premium upgrades at AppsGeyser, and a resort overview at Marriott. Those sources do not contribute episode-specific facts to this “Tour of Duty” report, but their presence underscores that the only directly relevant evidence for the episode lineup and ratings metrics comes from the “Tour of Duty” listing.
In sum, the late-1987 through May 1989 slice highlighted in the excerpt maps a period of ongoing production where episode credits cycle among established creative contributors while audience indicators vary across installments. Episodes such as “Sleeping Dogs,” “True Grit,” and “Sins of the Fathers” stand out in the snapshot for their comparatively elevated metrics within the excerpt’s standardized reporting format, while other episodes like “Sealed With a Kiss” show lower figures in the same system. Together, these documented data points help frame “Tour of Duty” not just as a television drama, but as a measured broadcast product whose episodes were tracked, credited, and dated—allowing modern readers to reconstruct the series’ momentum across the Vietnam-era drama arc.
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