Tour of Duty (TV Series) - International Broadcasts

International Broadcasts

In Australia, Network Ten originally aired the series at 7:30 pm. In recent years, repeats have returned to Australian television with the Seven Network repeating the series in 2006 in late night Thursday timeslots airing at 11.30 pm then later bumped to 12:00 midnight. FOX Classics started airing the first series on the 17 September 2012.

In the Netherlands it was broadcast by Veronica on the national television network.

In the United Kingdom Tour of Duty was screened on ITV (now called ITV1) on Friday nights at various times, usually around midnight. It is now being broadcast on the FX channel.

The French-speaking version was called "L'Enfer du Devoir" (The Hell of duty), and aired in France and the Province of Québec (aired on the Historia channel in Québec Monday through Thursday at 5pm, in July and August 2005).

In the Philippines it was weekly aired in English on GMA 7 every Monday night at 9:00 pm. The American service members stationed in the Philippines routinely watched it on the local network because the episodes were newer than the ones on Armed Forces Radio and Television Service's Far East Network.

In Costa Rica it was aired by channel 9 and then by channel 7 as "Misión Vietnam" (Mission Vietnam).

In Mexico it was aired by Televisa's canal 5 as "Misión del Deber" (Duty Mission).

In Argentina it was broadcast by TELEFE as "Nam: Primer Pelotón" (Nam: First Platoon).

In Spain, Telecinco aired the show as "Camino del Infierno" (Poem of Hell) in late night hours Wednesday, and later, on C+ as "Tour of Duty" at 12.00 M.

In Italy the show was aired by a local TV Network Italia7 with the title "Vietnam Addio" (Goodbye Vietnam) in the form of a TV-movie. It was also aired on the national network Italia1.

In Israel the show aired in the mid 2000's on the now-defunct local version of the AXN cable channel under the name "Sherut Kravi" (Combat Service). It was also previously broadcast on the METV channel.

In Germany the show was aired by RTL with the title "NAM – Dienst in Vietnam" ("NAM – Service in Vietnam").

In Japan the show with the title "Good Luck Saigon" was aired through the Wowow, a paid satellite broadcast around 1991. By this reason the show is least known by Japanese public.

In Zimbabwe the show was broadcast in the early nineties, showing on the national television channel ZBC TV1 (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television 1) at nine o'clock pm on Thursdays and developed a cult following, becoming a hit television series throughout its screening.

In South Africa the show was aired with the title "Sending Vietnam" (Mission Vietnam) in Afrikaans by the SABC.

In Sweden the show was originally scheduled by the public service SVT network as "Pluton B i Vietnam" (Platoon B in Vietnam). In the late 1990s, the show was picked up by Kanal 5 under the same name.

In Norway the show was broadcast with the title "Pliktløpet" (Run of duty) by "TV Norge" in the 1990s.

In Denmark the show was broadcast in the 1990s as "Platoon B" on various local-TV networks, mainly on "Kanal 2".

In Brazil the show was aired with the title "Combate no Vietnã" ("Combat in Vietnam").

In Colombia and Chile the show was aired with the title "Misión del Deber" ("Duty Mission"), based in the Mexican dub of the series.

In Poland the show was never aired, but there was a VHS release with the title "Rok w Piekle" ("Year in Hell").

In Sri Lanka the show has been aired at least twice, once in 1990s and once in 2007/8.

In the United Arab Emirates it was aired on Dubai's channel 33.

In Korea (Republic of Korea) the show was aired with the title "머나먼 정글" ("Faraway Jungle") by MBC from 1990. It had been aired on Monday 11:00 PM at first. But it became popular program, so it does on Sunday 6:00 PM, later.

In Taiwan (Republic of China) the show has been aired on China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV) as 霹靂神兵. The Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China) also purchased the series, renamed 天降神兵 and aired it on Chinese Television System (CTS) and CTS Education and Culture.