November 13, 2022
The new PBS ten-episode docuseries, American Veteran, is now streaming on YouTube. What's special about this well-produced series is that each episode focuses on a veteran and a special object he or she brought with…
June 25, 2020
Mark Glamack, one of Hollywood's top animators, and a Vietnam War veteran, died May 29 at age 73. He was drafted into the Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, and died of complications of…
March 27, 2019
Last summer we reported on the fact that the award-winning novelist Tim (The Things They Carried) O'Brien, was hired to consult on the upcoming third season of the popular NBC-TV family drama, This is Us. That…
July 11, 2018
It looks as though the upcoming third season of the NBC-TV family drama, This Is Us, will have a significant Vietnam War theme. That's because NBC just announced that the acclaimed novelist Tim (The Things They Carried,…
February 8, 2014
In 1992, former Los Angeles Times police reporter Michael Connelly (above, right ) published The Black Echo, a taut, compulsively readable detective thriller about a quirky L.A. homicide detective named Harry Bosch. A former Vietnam War…
January 3, 2014
James Avery (left, with Will Smith ), the actor best known for playing the self-important Uncle Phil (Judge Philip Banks) on popular 1990s TV show “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, ” died December 31 in Glendale,…
October 5, 2012
The October 2 episode of the PBS television series History Detectives included a moving segment that dealt with the return of the diary of Vu Dinh Doan, a North Vietnamese Army soldier, to his family. A…
July 2, 2012
Pat Sajak, the famed long-time host of "Wheel of Fortune" who served a tour of duty in Vietnam during the war as a radio deejay with AFVN, occasionally steps out from the "Wheel" set to…
April 28, 2011
The NBC weekly one-hour drama series, Parenthood, now it its second prime-time season, is based on the 1989 movie of the same name. The TV show, produced by Imagine Television and Universal Media Studios (Ron…
September 9, 2010
There's an interesting, thoughtful article that touches on the image of the Vietnam veteran in TV cop shows and film in the August 31 The Phil Nugent Experience blog . Titled "In Country, " (where…