NBC airs the third 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. 
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
written by Sheldon Stark
directed by Robert Gist
music by Arthur MortonCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Chris Connelly (Private Derek Russell), Bob Davis (LCDR. Farley Crosse), Mike Fedderson (Private First Class), Gilbert Green (Col. Timothy MacAdams), Barnaby Hale (Capt. Earl Cook), James Henaghan (Second Private), Hap Holmwood (Sgt. Peter Franklin), Miranda Jones (Nancy Kasten), Jamie Joseph (First Private), Terry Kovak (Lt. Wesley Stauffer), Greg Morris (Sgt. Perc Linden), Mark Patrick (Corpsman), Richard Rust (Pvt. Steven Grace), Rip Torn (Sgt. Karl Kasten)
Notes: Guest star Greg Morris (1933-1996) would appear again in The Lieutenant (though not as the same character), before going on to fame as a regular on Star Trek’s Desilu Studios stablemate, Mission: Impossible, as Barney Collier. He was one of only three actors to stay with the wildly popular spy-fi show for its entire run, and returned as a recurring character in the short-lived 1980s revival. For one of the first times in the show’s brief history, a character references “the news” and points out that young American men may find themselves back on the front line at any time – a tacit, if vague, acknowledgement of the growing conflict in Vietnam, something which both NBC and the Department of Defense (which provided authentic military hardware and advisors at the cost of having power of approval over the show’s depiction of the Marine Corps) objected to more and more as the series continued.
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