Introduction
McHale’s Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from 11 October 1962 to 12 April 1966 on the ABC television network.
The series was filmed in black and white and originated from a one-hour drama titled “Seven Against the Sea”, broadcast on 03 April 1962. The ABC series spawned three feature films: McHale’s Navy (1964); a sequel, McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force (1965); and a 1997 sequel-remake of the original series. A documentary, McHale’s Navy: The Crew Remembers, was aired in 2007.
Producer Edward Montagne set up a female version of McHale’s Navy entitled Broadside, which ran for 32 episodes in the 1964-1965 ABC season.
Background
The crew rescue two French nationals, Mr. Gerard (Marcel Hillaire) and his beautiful young daughter Yvette Gerard (Claudine Longet), off an island that the Japanese have occupied. Yvette agrees to help the guys out, in a plan to raise expense money for the birth of Christy’s child. They are going to have a raffle and the winner is going to get a nice dinner and a date with her. Binghamton finds out and wants to shut the whole thing down, that is, until he finds out Admiral Reynolds has the winning ticket. Sally Mansfield appears as a nurse.
Note: The is the smallest episode appearance of Commander McHale as he only appears in the very first and the very last scene for only about a minute total.
McHale’s Navy Series
You can find a full index and overview of McHale’s Navy here.
Production & Filming Details
- Release Date: 07 February 1963.
- Rating: TV-PG/TV-G.
- Running Time: 60 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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