To Set It Right

"**To Set It Right**"
"To Set It Right"
The Lieutenant episode
	Publicity photo for "To Set It Right", featuring Gary Lockwood, Dennis Hopper and Don Marshall
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 21
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
Written by	Lee Erwin
Original air date	February 22, 1964 (intended)
Guest appearances
	Dennis Hopper - Cpl. Peter Devlin; Don Marshall - Pvt. Ernest Cameron; John Milford - Sgt. Ben Kagey; Woody Strode - Sgt. Logan Holt; Nichelle Nichols - Norma Bartlett; Preston Pierce - Pvt. Peter Vronsky; Linc Wilson - Pvt. Winston Barlow; Ed McReady - Mr Taylor;
Episode chronology
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"To Set It Right" is the 21st episode of the American military drama television series The Lieutenant, produced for broadcast on NBC. Written by Lee Erwin, it featured a guest cast that included Dennis Hopper, Don Marshall, Woody Strode and the acting debut of Nichelle Nichols. The series followed the lives of members of the United States Marine Corps stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. In this episode, after a racist altercation between Cpl. Peter Devlin who is white (Dennis Hopper), and Pvt. Ernest Cameron who is Black (Don Marshall), Lt. William Rice (Gary Lockwood) attempts to settle their issues by first arranging a boxing match and then forcing them to work together on a march. Notable about the episode are love expressed by a Black couple and frank discussions of surviving day-to-day in a racist world, something that was unheard of on television at the time.

The Pentagon, who had previously aided the production of the series, protested the depiction of the Marine Corps as having racist members.