NBC airs the fourth episode of the military drama The Lieutenant, created and produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and starring Gary Lockwood (2001: a space odyssey) and Robert Vaughn (The Man From UNCLE). Greg Morris (Mission: Impossible) and Rip Torn (Men In Black) guest star in an episode directed by Richard Donner. 
Lt. Rice is given an unusual undercover assignment: he is given a Private’s uniform and reassigned to a platoon of fresh recruits. The platoon’s drill instructor, Sgt. Kastan, is a decorated military man but now faces charges of employing brutality against his recruits. “Private” Rice’s orders are simple: disprove the charges, or sink Kastan’s Marine career. In order to determine if the rumors of brutality are true, Rice has to go against his own training and mess up in every way possible, thereby drawing Kastan’s attention (and potentially, his fury). While Kastan subjects Rice to plenty of humiliation, Rice doesn’t find that Kastan is overstepping the usual bounds of a DI. Others in Rice’s new platoon feel differently, however – and some of them are willing to take unusually bold steps to land Kastan in hot water. With his superiors unaware and seemingly uninterested that more is going on than meets the eye, how can Rice get to the bottom of what’s happening without revealing his true rank and identity?
written by Beirne Lay Jr.
directed by Richard Donner
music by Jeff AlexanderCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Richard Anderson (Col. Clinton Hiland), Neville Brand (General Ira Stone), Carl Crow (Lt. Gary Barnhart), Jim Drum (Sgt. Major), Linda Evans (Nan Hiland), Harold Gould (Lt. Col. Raleigh Wade), Sherwood Keith (Police Chief McElwaine), Frank Leo (Mess Steward), Greg Morris (Crew Chief), Don Penny (Lt. Stanley Harris), Eddie Peterson (Lt. Olden), Ed Prentiss (Gen. Sean McCrary), Sheila Rogers (Mrs. Ira Stone), Yale Summers (Lt. Barry Everest), Joan Thompkins (Mrs. Mae Wade)
Notes: Just prior to her first big break as a regular on The Big Valley, future Dynasty star Linda Evans guest stars in one of her earliest TV roles here. Also appearing here before becoming a weekly TV fixture was Neville Brand (1920-1992), who had been racking up TV and film credits since the 1940s; after The Lieutenant and guest roles on the likes of The Twilight Zone, Rawhide, Wagon Train, and Combat!, he became a regular on Laredo. Richard Donner, already a rising TV director with such credits as Route 66, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Have Gun, Will Travel, and Combat! behind him, directs the first of two episodes of The Lieutenant here. He would continue directing TV episodes and TV movies through the 1970s, at which point the film The Omen launched him into the A-list, where projects such as Superman, Ladyhawke, The Goonies, and the Lethal Weapon movies awaited him.
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