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Starring Ernest Borgnine as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale
Season 2 (ABC) (1963-64)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
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ABC Tuesdays 8:30 pm EST
36 New Episodes

2.01 [37] McHale's Navy: DAY THE WAR STOOD STILL
17Sep63 ABC Tue
John Mamo (aka John Fujioka) .... The Japanese Captain
Captain Binghamton finally discovers Fuji, the McHale gang's pet POW,
and claps him in the brig as an arch-spy.

2.02 [38] McHale's Navy: BINGHAMTON MURDER PLOT
24Sep63 ABC Tue
Paul Bryar .... Admiral Tucker
Walter Brooke .... Captain Harper
Robin Grace .... Susan Lorimer
Paul Smith .... Commander Carter
Mark Tapscott .... Commander Ellis
Clay Tanner .... The Sentry
The sneaky, sinister actions of McHale and his men convince craven
Captain Binghamton that they are plotting his demise.

2.03 [39] McHale's Navy: McHALE AND HIS SCHWEINHUNDS
01Oct63 ABC Tue
Herbert Lytton .... Admiral Reynolds
Mako .... Lt. Yamasake
Walter Friedel .... The German Lieutenant
Larry Gelbman .... German sub commander
I. George .... Japanese Aide
George Zaima .... Japanese Aide
Ensign Parker destroys part of a valuable island while attacking a German U-boat.

2.04 [40] McHale's Navy: IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HUT?
08Oct63 ABC Tue
Lisa Seagram .... Rita Howard
Bernie Kopell .... Colonel Pryor
Glamorous film star Rita Howard's itinerary does not include McHale's
Island, so the skipper and his men set out to remedy this oversight.

2.05 [41] McHale's Navy: TO BINGHAMTON WITH LOVE
15Oct63 ABC Tue
Bill Quinn .... Admiral Benson
Don Edwards .... First Marine
Louis Quinn .... First Sailor
Tony Franke .... Second Sailor
Hoping to impress Admiral Benson, Captain Binghamton orders McHale and
his men to host a dinner in his name.

2.06 [42] McHale's Navy: HAVE KIMONO, WILL TRAVEL
22Oct63 ABC Tue
Herbert Lytton .... Admiral Reynolds
Syl Lamont .... Yeoman
Allen Jung .... Japanese Captain
Lloyd Kino .... Japanese Sentry
Mako .... First Japanese Soldier
Robert Kino .... Second Japanese Soldier
PT-73 runs out of gas, forcing McHale and his crew to pull in at an island
occupied by Japanese troops.

2.07 [43] McHale's Navy: TODAY I AM A MAN
29Oct63 ABC Tue
Joyce Bulifant .... Geogianna Comstock
Leigh Chapman .... The 1st Nurse
Lloyd Kino .... The 1st Japanese Sentry
Rollin Moriyama .... The 2nd Japanese Sentry
Girl-shy Ensign Parker is assigned to train five beautiful nurses in judo and self-defense.

2.08 [44] McHale's Navy: JOLLY WALLY
05Nov63 ABC Tue
Peter Leeds .... Whit Barrett
Nelson Olmsted .... Captain Saunders
Cantankerous Captain Binghamton becomes Jolly Wally, who laughs in the
face of adversity, to impress war correspondent Whit Barrett.

2.09 [45] McHale's Navy: SCUTTLEBUTT
12Nov63 ABC Tue
Bart Burns .... Enlisted Man Ryan
Bronwyn Fitzsimmons .... Nurse Loretta
Barbara Werle .... Nurse Betsy Gordon
McHale's men try to help Tinker impress his girlfriend by pretending
that a routine PT-73 mission is extremely dangerous.

2.10 [46] McHale's Navy: AUGUST OF TEAHOUSE OF McHALE
19Nov63 ABC Tue
Nelson Olmsted .... Doc Whitmore
Clay Tanner .... The Marine Guard
Binghamton catches McHale apparently trading rifles to the Japanese for
coconuts and draws up treason charges.

2.11 [47] McHale's Navy: FRENCH LEAVE FOR McHALE
26Nov63 ABC Tue
George Kennedy .... Big Frenchy
Dale Ishimoto .... The Japanese Officer
Peggy Mondo .... Fifi
Benny Rubin .... The Police Chief
Eddie Hanley .... The 1st Gendarme
McHale meets up with Big Frenchy, an old friend, who gets McHale and his
men thrown in jail while he makes off with their boat.

2.12 [48] McHale's Navy: THE HAPPY SLEEPWALKER
03Dec63 ABC Tue
Lois Roberts .... Lieutenant Anne Wright
Jackie Searl .... Sgt Flynn
"Happy" Haines' new baldness leads to frustration, woman-wise, which
leads to sleepwalking, which leads to Captain Binghamton's decision to
ship him out of the combat zone.

2.13 [49] McHale's Navy: A LETTER FOR FUJI
10Dec63 ABC Tue
John Zaremba .... Capt. Martin
Lloyd Kino .... The Japanese Sergeant
John Mamo (aka John Fujioka) .... The 1st Japanese Soldier
Clifford Kawada .... The 2nd Japanese Soldier
Mako .... Third Japanese Soldier
Fuji, McHale's pet POW, writes a letter to his girl in Tokyo, and McHale
and his men successfully mail it from a Japanese-held island. A stiffer
task awaits them, however, when they return to the island to answer mail
call and pick up the girl's reply.

2.14 [50] McHale's Navy: MY ENSIGN, THE LAWYER
17Dec63 ABC Tue
Lee Krieger .... Comm. Mathias
Jimmy Joyce .... Yeoman
Pat Colby .... The 1st Sailor
Tony Franke .... The 2nd Sailor
Tinker" Bell has three strikes against him when he is tried for the
theft of Captain Binghamton's cherished printing press.

2.15 [51] McHale's Navy: ORANGE BLOSSOMS FOR McHALE
24Dec63 ABC Tue
Joyce Jameson .... Kate O'Hara
Clay Tanner .... The Marine Guard
When Captain Binghamton learns that married men with two years of overseas
duty are to be sent home, he attempts to have McHale married.

2.16 [52] McHale's Navy: CREATURE FROM THE LAGOON
31Dec63 ABC Tue
Jacques Aubuchon .... Urulu
Tiki Santos .... The 1st Native
Ensign Parker commandeers a salvaged two-man Japanese submarine. He uses
the ship, disguised as a sea monster, to scare a nosy Captain Binghamton off the island.

2.17 [53] McHale's Navy: A MEDAL FOR PARKER
07Jan64 ABC Tue
John Mamo (aka John Fujioka) .... The Japanese Officer
Bill Quinn .... Admiral Elliot
Herb Vigran .... Congressman Fogelson
A chapter of Parker's war novel, in which he takes over the command of
PT-73 and sinks a Japanese battleship, appears in his hometown paper,
compelling a dignitary to meet him.

2.18 [54] McHale's Navy: THE BALLOON GOES UP
14Jan64 ABC Tue
Jacques Aubuchon .... Urulu
Mako .... Sessua
Tita Marsell .... The Hula Girl
Captain Binghamton enlists McHale's aid in locating a $140,000 shortage in the base inventory.

2.19 [55] McHale's Navy: WHO'LL BUY MY SARONGS
21Jan64 ABC Tue
Herbert Lytton .... Admiral Reynolds
Jim Nolan .... Captain Meyers
Tita Marsell .... The Hula Girl
McHale's men are split into opposing camps while vying for the distinction
of designing the most fetching sarongs for the nurses' bazaar.

2.20 [56] McHale's Navy: EVIL EYE PARKER
28Jan64 ABC Tue
Jim Boles .... Senator Block
Clay Tanner .... The Guard
Because of the impending inspection tour of a U.S. Senator with a reputation
for being an efficiency expert, the Captain prohibits the staging of a show
for the benefit of a nearby orphanage.

2.21 [57] McHale's Navy: THE BIG IMPERSONATION
04Feb64 ABC Tue
Walter Brooke .... Capt. Harlow
Henry Corden .... Henri
Susan Cummings .... Renee
Rolfe Sedan .... The Mayor
Ensign Parker, disguised as a British general famed for his heroism,
tremblingly embarks on a dangerous decoy mission.

2.22 [58] McHale's Navy: URULU'S PARADISE WEST
11Feb64 ABC Tue
Jacques Aubuchon .... Urulu
John Mama (aka John Fujioka) .... The Japanese Admiral
Eddie Hanley .... The Sailor
Captain Binghamton arrests Gruber and Chief Urulu for selling lots on
Navy-held Taratupa Island, only to discover he has been ordered to buy
one of Urulu's islands.

2.23 [59] McHale's Navy: DEAR DIARY
18Feb64 ABC Tue
Edward Mallory .... The Co-Pilot
Captain Binghamton handcuffs himself to Ensign Parker and sets out for
fleet headquarters where Parker is to testify against McHale and his men.

2.24 [60] McHale's Navy: BABETTE, GO HOME
25Feb64 ABC Tue
Susan Silo .... Babette
Eddie Hanley .... The Sailor
Babette, the beautiful daughter of a French planter, stows away on PT-73
and is discovered by Captain Binghamton, who accuses McHale of kidnapping her.

2.25 [61] McHale's Navy: THE NOVACAIN MUTINY
03Mar64 ABC Tue
Paul Bryar .... Admiral Harris
Tony Franke .... Schroeder
Richard Jury .... Lt. Frisby
Sandra Gould .... The 1st Nurse
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2.26 [62] McHale's Navy: STARS OVER TARATUPA
10Mar64 ABC Tue
Robert F. Simon .... John Burton
Syl Lamont .... Smitty
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2.27 [63] McHale's Navy: COMRADES OF PT-73
17Mar64 ABC Tue
Sue Ane Langdon .... Commander Krasni
Cliff Norton .... Admiral Gurevitch
Bill Quinn .... Admiral Farley
McHale's men are delighted when Commander M.J. Krasni, a Russian Navy
officer assigned to study PT boat operations, turns out to be a beautiful young woman.

2.28 [64] McHale's Navy: RETURN OF BIG FRENCHY
24Mar64 ABC Tue
George Kennedy .... Big Frenchy
Paul Potash .... Seaman Jenkins
Herman Rudin .... Pepe
When Big Frenchy and his band of swindlers land on Taratupa, they
conspire to steal a boatload of valuable supplies from Binghamton.

2.29 [65] McHale's Navy: ALIAS PT-73
31Mar64 ABC Tue
Tiki Santos .... The Native Chief
Binghamton discovers that McHale and his men were on a neighboring
island enjoying a luau during an air raid on Taratupa.

2.30 [66] McHale's Navy: THE RAGE OF TARATUPA
07Apr64 ABC Tue
Willis Bouchey .... Admiral Steinholtz
Jesse Pearson .... Harley Hatfield
John Mamo (aka John Fujioka) .... The Japanese Officer

Singing sensation Harley Hatfield and his guitar are assigned to
McHale's squadron--and rampant discord ensues.

2.31 [67] McHale's Navy: ENSIGN PARKER E.S.P.
14Apr64 ABC Tue
When Parker's dreams prove uncannily prophetic, McHale's men look
forward to becoming rich.

2.32 [68] McHale's Navy: THE McHALE MOB
21Apr64 ABC Tue
Chief Urulu exercises his legal right and orders McHale and his
men off their luxuriously equipped island.

2.33 [69] McHale's Navy: CARPENTER IN COMMAND
28Apr64 ABC Tue
Bart Burns .... Yeoman Harris
When Captain Binghamton sprains his ankle, mousy Lt. Carpenter
becomes acting commander of Taratupa Base, and promptly a raging lion.

2.34 [70] McHale's Navy: MARRYIN' CHUCK
05May64 ABC Tue
Eleanor Audley .... Mrs. Millicent Hardesy
Jess Kirkpatrick .... Chaplain Conklin
Robert Millar .... The S.P. Officer
John Zaremba .... Admiral Edgar Hardesy
McHale's men peddle some war souvenirs that turn out to be art treasures. Their desperate efforts to retrieve
the treasures result in Ensign Parker's officiating at the formal wedding of the Admiral's daughter.

2.35 [71] McHale's Navy: THE DART-GUN WEDDING
12May64 ABC Tue
George Furth .... Roger Whitfield, III
Peggy Mondo .... Little Flower
Tiki Santos .... Chief Watara
Ensign Roger Whitfield III, son of Captain Binghamton's peacetime
boss, arrives on Taratupa and makes the captain his unwilling flunky.

2.36 [72] McHale's Navy: A DA-DA FOR CHRISTY
19May64 ABC Tue

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