More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. They're one of the best fighting crews in the Navy, but break regulations when it suits them.
Their commander, Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale Ernest Borgnine , is at times as roguish as his crew, but he puts his foot down when things go too far. They are assigned Executive Officer Ensign Charles Parker Tim Conway , who is by-the-book, but too much of a klutz to command too much respect.
Their nemesis is Captain Wallace B. They're initially stationed in the South Pacific, but moved to Italy in the last season. Batten down the hatches! Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Goofs In some episodes Capt. Binghamton's office door opens inward. In others, outward. Quotes [repeated line] Capt. Alternate versions Also available in a computer colorized version. User reviews 25 Review.
Top review. Interspersed with the shenanigans the crew had to occasionally fight the Japanese, which they did quite well. Very often their heroics caught the attention of an Admiral who would then intercede with Old Leadbottom and excuse them from the infraction for which they were being hounded.
Hiding the fact that they had a Japanese soldier in the crew added to the list of hilarious situations that they found themselves embroiled in. Produced by Edward J. At the time of the series, then President John F. Kennedy was well-known as being the wartime commander of PT A popular book, PT John F. Donovan had come out the previous year. Parker" in the United States Navy, all officers ranked from Ensign to Lieutenant are more often than not referred to as "Mister".
McHale's perpetually frustrated commander is Captain Wallace Burton Binghamton Joe Flynn , known behind his back as "Old Leadbottom" a nickname he received from a bullet wound to the posterior , who is constantly trying to get the goods on "McHale and his pirates.
The one time Binghamton leads the PT into battle, his only success is sinking an enemy truck on land--with a torpedo. The plots revolved around the efforts of McHale's crew to make money, get girls and have a good time, and the efforts of Captain Binghamton to rid himself of the PT crew. In the crew, actor and comic magician Carl Ballantine was featured as confident con man Torpedoman Lester Gruber, whose get-rich-quick schemes often got the crew in trouble.
Paparelli" on Bilko. Quite often, Binghamton is ready to send McHale and his gang to the brig, only to see them pull off a military success against the enemy that impresses Admiral Reynolds Herbert Lytton or Admiral Rodgers Roy Roberts , many times thanks to McHale's knowledge of the area, gained from his service in the South Pacific as Merchant Marine officer.
A running gag is a frustrated Binghamton would then turn to the camera and say, "I could just scream! Why is it always me? Roosevelt; when the Japanese troops arrive, Urulu turns over the picture to reveal a photo of Japanese Emperor Hirohito. The final season saw a major change in scenery, as both Binghamton and the 73 crew are transferred to the recently liberated Italian theater — a change of assignment that was, in the real World War II, so rare that many military historians disagree as to whether such reassignments ever actually happened.
After the war in Europe ended, many high ranking officers of the 8th and 9th Air Force, were sent to the Pacific to create the 20th Air Force. The addition of the clever moneymaking schemes of the Mayor Mario Lugatto Jay Novello and the antics of the citizens of the coastal city of Voltafiore increased the plot twists. Army and is at odds with McHale. The entire Pacific Ocean naval base was built on the backlot of Universal Studios. For many years after the show went off the air, the sets were used as an attraction on the studio tour.
The war ended in August before the boat, the real number of which was PT, could be sent to the Soviet Union. The boat was then purchased by Howard Hughes and used as a chase boat for the one and only flight of his Spruce Goose aircraft. He told Borgnine that he looked familiar, but that he couldn't place him. Borgnine, who had already won an Oscar for his role in Marty , asked the boy if he knew who played the lead character Paladin in the television series Have Gun - Will Travel The boy said, " Richard Boone.
After the boy left, Borgnine called his agent to ask if that Navy pilot was still available. When told that it was, Borgnine told him to accept--and so became a part of what eventually would be his signature television series. In the segment, an employee of a movie studio becomes trapped under the hull of PT when it is being moved on the studio back lot, and the crew from Station 51 came to rescue him.
The hull is visible in the background during a scene when William Shatner is walking across the back lot of a fictional television studio. Conway grew up in Chagrin Falls in real life. The war ended in August before the boat, the real number of which was PT, could be sent to the Soviet Union. The boat was then purchased by billionaire businessman Howard Hughes and used as a chase boat for the one and only flight of his Spruce Goose aircraft.
The boat was then sold to Universal Pictures, as there were few other real PT boats left in existence at the time, and some liberties were taken in reconfiguring it to look like a PT boat.
Vosper PTs did not have machine gun turrets on either side of the pilothouse though, ironically, the real PT, a Higgins design, did as the PT in the show did. Other irregularities are the mainmast aft and a small mast right in front of the cockpit. Shots of the crew aboard the PT were filmed on a full-scale mock-up on a soundstage.
It was destroyed when it broke loose of its mooring near Santa Barbara and washed up on the beach during a storm. During the first season, Ernest Borgnine was the only one of the cast who appeared in the opening credits. From the second season on, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn also appeared. This was initially conceived as a straight military action show. Sometimes a character mentioned an unnamed commander of torpedo boat PT PT was the boat commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II.
Quinton McHale often referred to his men as "eight- balls" or "schlockmeisters". The men referred to him as "Skipper" or "Skip". One of the crew's favorite liberty ports when they were in the Pacific was New Caledonia. Wallace B. Binghamton Joe Flynn got his nickname "Old Leadbottom" from a war wound that he got in his butt.
Throughout the series, whenever something was amiss or trouble was brewing, Fuji Kobiaji Yoshio Yoda would exclaim, "Oy vay!
For many years after the show went off the air, the sets were used as an attraction on the studio tour. Usually, the captain of a PT boat would be a Lieutenant or Lieutenant j. During the final season, Lt.
Binghamton Joe Flynn and Lt. Elroy Carpenter Bob Hastings , were shipped from the Pacific theater of operations to the European theater.
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