NBC airs the 29th and final 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 James Shigeta guest star in a powerful script written by Roddenberry. 
With no notice to prepare, Lt. Rice is put on a plane to southeast Asia, with classified plans in hand to modify backpack radios into radio jammers to deliver and test on the front lines. He befriends Captain Myang Dee, educated in America but returned to Asia to fight for his people’s freedom, but pleasantries are cut short when the helicopter carrying Rice to the front takes fire, forcing it down. Overnight, foot patrols find the helicopter, and Rice watches as the crew falls, one by one. Using fuel drained from the chopper, Rice burns the classified documents and runs, but not without being hit by a stray bullet. He makes his way to a village and is taken in and put in hiding, and finds that Myang Dee also survived. As they leave the village to head back to where the helicopter landed, Dee seems very interested in what Rice knew about the jamming system, and Rice realizes that his new friend has been leading him in circles.
written by Gene Roddenberry
directed by Vincent McEveety
music by Jeff AlexanderCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Edwin Cook (Contractor), Richard Evans (Co-Pilot), Jerry Fujikawa (Chinese Trader), Lew Gallo (Major Giles Atkins), Barnaby Hale (Marine Captain), Jim Henaghan (Corporal), Linda Ho (Tuyet Lee), Joseph Hoover (Pilot), Frank Leo (Capt. Nicholas Hughes), Paul Mantee (Major Eric Dennis), Greg Morris (Crew Chief), Beulah Quo (Village Woman), George Shibata (Militia Major), James Shigeta (Capt. Myang Dee), George Sims (2nd NCO), Gus Trikonis (1st NCO), Irene Tsu (Hoa Luu)
LogBook entry by Earl Green