Battling Baker Brothers (10 Dec. 1987)

When Baker's twin brother visits Bravo Company on their birthday a misunderstanding drives a wedge between them. Things get complicated when Baker's brothers helicopter is shot down and Baker believes that his brother is still alive.

Director:

Bill L. Norton

Writers:

L. Travis Clark (creator), Steve Duncan (creator),

Stars:

Terence Knox, Stephen Caffrey, Joshua D. Maurer

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Terence Knox	...	Sgt. Clayton 'Zeke' Anderson
Stephen Caffrey	...	Lt. Myron Goldman
Joshua D. Maurer	...	Pvt. Roger Horn (credit only) (as Joshua Maurer)
Steve Akahoshi	...	SP4 Randy 'Doc' Matsuda (credit only)
Tony Becker	...	Cpl. Daniel 'Danny' Percell
Eric Bruskotter	...	Pvt. Scott Baker
Stan Foster	...	SP4 Marvin Johnson (credit only)
Ramón Franco	...	Pvt. Alberto Ruiz (as Ramon Franco)
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.	...	Pvt. Marcus Taylor (as Miguel A. Nunez Jr.)
Kevin Conroy	...	Capt. Rusty Wallace
Karl Bruskotter	...	Karl Baker
Kady Tran	...	Crying Woman
Vincent Thinh Nguyen	...	NVA Commander (as Vincent Thingh Nguyen)
Mai Hoang	...	Wounded VC
Khoi Tran	...	AVRN Scout

Storyline

When Baker's twin brother visits Bravo Company on their birthday a misunderstanding drives a wedge between them. Things get complicated when Baker's brothers helicopter is shot down and Baker believes that his brother is still alive.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | War

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 December 1987 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Deuce-and-a-half that appears in this episode, and more, is named 'Big Zev' after the shows Exec Producer' Zev Braun.

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Goofs

Skateboards with colored polyurethane wheels, such as Baker's brother brought him as a present, didn't exist until the mid-1980s.

User Reviews

Double trouble..... too much like a soap opera for my liking

It must have been pretty early on in the series (This was the 9th episode) when Bill L. Norton discovered that Eric Bruskotter had a twin brother, and he then decided to use this to write a story for an episode. The result seemed as if it was just made for the sake of taking advantage of the fact that Bruskotter's brother was also an actor. In "Battling Baker Brothers", Baker's twin brother Karl comes to visit Camp Ladybird on their birthday. They're completely alike in every way, sharing a fondness for surfing and body building, which leads to them fighting in a way to prove their masculinity, all to the amusement of Taylor, Johnson, Purcell and Ruiz. Karl immediately becomes more popular amongst the men, and Baker begins to feel left out... and when Karl organises a truck load of prostitutes to be brought in for the men and they have a secret party, it's the last straw when Karl hits it off with one girl that Baker becomes really fond off. They come to blows, at which point Sgt. Anderson and Lt. Goldman hear the racket and break up the party. As punishment, Goldman the next morning orders the men to fill a thousand sand bags. Karl's leave is over, and his attempts of making up with his brother fail, which sends him off broken and guilty. Things become extremely taunt when Karl's chopper is shot down, and he is captured by the Viet Cong, and Baker refuses Anderson's orders, and runs off on a one man, Rambo-style mission to save his brother. This episode just feels too much of a soap-opera for my liking, and the last half of the episode with Baker jumping off the chopper to find his brother was completely ridiculous. Of course, he somehow manages to find him, and is captured himself, being the idiot that he is, and it's then up to Goldman and the rest of the men to save their hides. A pretty weak episode, seeming to just want to make use of the fact that Eric Bruskotter had a twin brother.

Captain Wallace: "I don't understand why the Army would send two brothers to Vietnam in the first place!"

Lt. Goldman: "Apparently they both wanted to be here, sir." Wallace nods in understanding: "Gung ho, huh?"

Something like that...