Episodes
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Plot | Director | Writer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "A Million Miles From Clary" | September 14, 1963 | Platoon morale is threatened when an enlisted man uses his friendship with Rice to gain favors. | Don Medford | Ed Waters | |
| 1-2 | "Cool of the Evening" | September 21, 1963 | Rice goes to the aid of a young woman (Kathryn Hays) when he hears her scream in a dark alley, but then finds himself facing serious charges. | Robert Gist | Sheldon Stark | |
| 1-3 | "The Proud and the Angry" | September 28, 1963 | Rice goes undercover as a private to investigate charges that Sgt. Karl Kasten (Rip Torn) is brutal in his training of new recruits. | Andrew McLaglen | Jerome B. Thomas | |
| 1-4 | "The Two Star Giant" | October 5, 1963 | Rice is mistakenly assigned as an aide to General Stone (Neville Brand) just as the general is ordered to Washington to defend his policies at a Senate hearing. | Richard Donner | Beirne Lay, Jr. | |
| 1-5 | "A Very Private Affair" (pilot) | October 12, 1963 | 2LT William T. Rice reports for his first assignment, and is forced to choose between winning the confidence of his new platoon by overlooking a fight or revealing the truth to MCAPT Raymond Rambridge. | Buzz Kulic | Gene Roddenberry | |
| 1-6 | "To Take Up Serpents" | October 19, 1963 | Rice is assigned to an air base for training and comes to the realization that he has a fear of flying. | Andrew V. Mclaglen | Jay Simms | |
| 1-7 | "A Touching of Hands" | October 26, 1963 | Rice offers sympathy to the lonely wife of a fellow officer (Ina Balin), but soon finds himself the subject of malicious gossip. | Don Medford | Sy Salkowitz | |
| 1-8 | "Captain Thomson" | November 2, 1963 | A gruff and tactless guerilla warfare instructor (Paul Burke) makes impossible demands on his trainees. | Leon Benson | Sheldon Stark and Gene McCarthy | |
| 1-9 | "Instant Wedding" | November 9, 1963 | Rice tries to protect a fellow officer's girlfriend from the romantic attentions of a Navy officer. | David Alexander | Ellis Marcus | |
| 1-10 | "A Troubled Image" | November 16, 1963 | Rice trains a group of Vietnamese combat officers and finds one of them is a beautiful woman. | Don Medford | Herman Groves | |
| 1-11 | "Fall From a White Horse" | November 30, 1963 | Rice is assigned to defend a fellow Marine officer who is accused in a hit-and-run accident and is in danger of being court-martialed. | John Brahm | George Eckstein | |
| 1-12 | "Alert!" | December 14, 1963 | Rice falls in love with a business executive's daughter who gives him an ultimatum of either leaving the Marine Corps or breaking off the relationship. | Don Taylor | Lee Erwin | |
| 1-13 | "The Art of Discipline" | December 21, 1963 | Rice loses control of his new platoon when he relaxes discipline to win friends. | Arnold Butler | Archie L. Tegland | |
| 1-14 | "The Alien" | December 28, 1963 | Rambridge conducts a double courtship in an effort to get married as quickly as possible in order to a Korean orphan. | Michael O'Herlihy | teleplay: Gene Roddenberry (as "Robert Wesley"), story: George Eckstein | |
| 1-15 | "O'Rourke" | January 4, 1964 | A famous author (Eddie Albert) decides to prove the contemporary Marine Corps is far less effective that it was during World War II. | E. W. Swackhammer | Jay Simms | |
| 1-16 | "Gone the Sun" | January 18, 1964 | Rice is blamed for the death of a Marine during maneuvers by the parents of the deceased man. Strother Martin plays a taxi driver. | James Goldstone | Robert Dozier | |
| 1-17 | "Between Music and Laughter" | January 25, 1964 | A party girl (Patricia Crowley) asks Rice to help her win back the affections of her ex-husband, Captain Rambridge. | Vincent McEveety | Sy Salkowitz | |
| 1-18 | "Interlude" | February 1, 1964 | Rice's career in the Marine Corps is threatened when he is paralyzed in an automobile accident, but he finds love during his rehabilitation. | Richard Donner | Margaret & Paul Schneider and Robert E. Thompson | |
| 1-19 | "Capp's Lady" | February 8, 1964 | Rice makes an effort to warn Sgt. Horace Capp (James Gregory) that the woman he plans to marry has both a notorious reputation and a police record. | David Alexander | Robert J. Shaw | |
| 1-20 | "Green Water Green Flag" | February 15, 1964 | Rice meets an old adversary just when he is suddenly given command of important maneuvers due to Rambridge's illness. | Leon Benson | Sy Salkowitz | |
| 1-21 | "To Set It Right" | February 22, 1964 (never actually transmitted) |
Rice tries to play peacemaker when he has to resolve a racial dispute between two young members of his platoon. Nichelle Nichols plays the black soldier's fiancee. NOTE: The network never compensated MGM Television for this installment, forcing the company to bear the entire burden of its costs. | Vincent McEveety | Lee Erwin | |
| 1-22 | "In the Highest Tradition" | February 29, 1964 | Rice is assigned as a technical advisor with a film crew making a movie about a Marine lieutenant in World War II. Leonard Nimoy plays a Hollywood producer and actor. Majel Barrett plays the wife of the World War II Marine. | Marc Daniels | Blanche Hanalis | |
| 1-23 | "Tour of Duty" | March 7, 1964 | A Marine (Ricardo Montalbán) returns from overseas and learns that his wife was killed while riding with another man, then takes advantage of Rice's sympathies. | Andrew V. McLaughlin | Art Wallace | |
| 1-24 | "Lament for a Dead Goldbrick" | March 14, 1964 | A newspaper reporter (Robert Duvall) writing an expose of Marine training methods holds Rice responsible for the accidental death of a Marine. | Robert Butler | Sy Salkowitz | |
| 1-25 | "Man With an Edge" | March 21, 1964 | Rice loses his girlfriend to a Naval Academy football All-American (Chad Everett), who also happens to be the nephew of the colonel. | Vincent McEveety | teleplay by Lee Erwin and Beirne Lay, Jr., story by Beirne Lay, Jr. | |
| 1-26 | "Operation Actress" | March 28, 1964 | Rice is shocked when a conniving Hollywood actress announces that she is going to marry him. | Leonard Horn | Robert J. Shaw | |
| 1-27 | "Mother Enemy" | April 4, 1964 | Rice recommends Sgt. John Delwyn (Walter Koenig) for officer's school, but then discovers that the man's mother is a leading member of the American Communist party. | Vincent McEveety | Robert J. Shaw | |
| 1-28 | "War Called Peace" | April 11, 1964 | Rice is assigned to run a surreptitious check on carelessness in security measures that has developed on a top-secret scientific project called "The War Called Peace." | Andrew V. McLaughlin | Anthony Wilson | |
| 1-29 | "To Kill a Man" | April 18, 1964 | Rice is assigned to deliver top-secret military information to combat troops in Vietnam, but when his plane is shot down, he and a Vietnamese aide are forced to fight their way back. | Vincent McEveety | Gene Roddenberry |
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