Tour of Duty was an American television drama series on CBS which ran from September 1987 to April 1990. The show follows an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. It was the first television series to regularly show Americans in combat in Vietnam and was one of several similarly-themed series to be produced in the wake of the acclaimed Oliver Stone film, Platoon. The show was created by Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark, and produced by Zev Braun. It ran for three seasons as 58 one-hour episodes.

Not simply an action program, Tour of Duty was also ground breaking as it addressed the issues of racism, suicide, fragging, terrorism, civilian deaths, drug abuse, and the shattered lives and confused feelings of those troops who finally made it home alive. The story focuses mainly on Bravo company’s third platoon under the command of Lieutenant Myron Goldman (Stephen Caffrey), and Staff Sergeant (later Sergeant First Class) Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox). The series, and particularly the first season, can be considered the Vietnam War equivalent of the classic 1960s series Combat! which was set in World War II, with Goldman being analagous to Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Anderson being analogous to Sergeant Chip Saunders of Combat!, although Tour of Duty was even more gritty in content.