Title from container. Originally broadcast on ABC television during the 1962-1963 season. Contains all 36 episodes from the first season. Special feature: Disc 1: "The crew reunion": the crew of PT 73 reunites after forty years and shares their memories of the show. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine, Gary Vinson, Billy Sands, Edson Stroll, Bob Hastings, Yoshio Yoda, Jane Dulo, Gavin MacLeod, Jacques Aubuchon, Bill Quinn, Roy Roberts, Cindy Robbins.
Contents:
Disc 1: An ensign for McHale ; A purple heart for Gruber ; McHale and his seven cupids ; PT 73, where are you? ; Movies are your best diversion ; Operation Wedding Party ; Who do the voodoo? -- Disc 2: Three girls on an island ; McHale's Paradise Motel ; The battle of McHale's Island ; The day they captured Santa Claus ; Beauty and the beast ; The captain's mission ; Send us a hero -- Disc 3: The captain steals a cook ; The ensign gets a zero ; The big raffle ; One of our engines is missing ; The natives get restless ; The confidence game ; Six pounds from paradise -- Disc 4: Washing Machine Charlie ; Nippon Nancy calling ; One enchanted weekend ; The mothers of PT 73 ; H.M.S. 73 ; A wreath for McHale ; Portrait of a peerless leader -- Disc 5: Instant democracy ; Camera, action, panic ; Alias Captain Binghamton ; Parents anonymous ; McHale's millions ; The hillbillies of PT 73 ; The monster of McHale's Island ; Uncle Admiral.
Summary:
Veteran seaman Quinton McHale is commissioned into the Navy Reserve at the start of WWII. He becomes Skipper of Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73, stationed on the island of Taratupa in the Pacific. Assigned to his command are six free-spirited, good-hearted swabbies who love to have fun. McHale and his men are constant irritants to their base commander, Captain Wallace B. Binghamton. Binghamton is forever trying to find a way to get rid of McHale and his rule-bending crew, while McHale & Co. are forever scheming to keep him from succeeding. Despite their hilarious party-boy shenanigans and utter disregard for Navy regulations, when duty calls, the crew of PT 73 does its job and does it well.
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