The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.
The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | A Million Miles from Clary | 1963-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Cool of the Evening | 1963-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Proud and the Angry | 1963-09-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Two-Star Giant | 1963-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | A Very Private Affair | 1963-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | To Take Up Serpents | 1963-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | A Touching of Hands | 1963-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Captain Thomson | 1963-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Instant Wedding | 1963-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | A Troubled Image | 1963-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Fall from a White Horse | 1963-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Alert | 1963-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Art of Discipline | 1963-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Alien | 1963-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | O'Rourke | 1964-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Gone the Sun | 1964-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | Between Music and Laughter | 1964-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Interlude | 1964-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Capp's Lady | 1964-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Green Water Green Flag | 1964-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | To Set It Right | 1964-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | In the Highest Tradition | 1964-02-29 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Tour of Duty | 1964-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Lament for a Dead Goldbrick | 1964-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | Man with an Edge | 1964-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Operation Actress | 1964-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Mother Enemy | 1964-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | War Called Peace | 1964-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | To Kill a Man | 1964-04-18 | 60 min |
| Production | Norman Felton | Producer |
