McHale's Navy - Season 1

McHale sees potential in a bumbling, klutzy young Ensign, whom Binghamton is trying to railroad, so he orders his crew to shape up, so that they can keep their new XO.

Gruber gets Binghamton's laundry white by towing it behind the 73 in a drum. However, when a Japanese sub torpedoes the drum, the Navy assumes the boat sunk it. Now McHale and his crew have to sink the sub for real.

Parker falls in love with a new nurse, and McHale and his crew try to set things up for the two. When that fails, they try to get Parker closer to the nurse by convincing him that he has battle fatigue.

While out on a moonlight date, Virgil loses the 73, and McHale and the guys must find a replacement, so that they can take a week's leave in New Caledonia.

McHale and the 73 crew protect a Supply Convoy, by using clips from old war movies.

Things get out of control, when McHale arranges for Christy and his fiancée to get married on the sly.

Big Chief Pali Urulu puts a curse on Binghamton, when he refuses to pay for the Navy's damage to Urulu's Island.

When a 3-girl sister act is stranded on a deserted island, McHale and the crew fake engine trouble, to try to have a little hanky-panky.  But the sisters are wise to their plan.

While on a routine reconnaissance mission, McHale and the crew stumble onto a deserted plantation house, which they turn into a kind of resort for R&R when off duty.

Binghamton has chosen McHale's Island as the site for his new Officers Club. So McHale and the guys work up a plan to make him change his mind.

McHale and his crew run into a Japanese ambush while playing Santa Claus to a group of native children.

McHale forbids his men to clean up the boat to avoid taking a lady correspondent on a Pacific tour. 

Binghamton borrows McHale's PT-boat and crew to sail in search of the enemy.

McHale is picked by a congresswoman looking for a hero to spearhead a war-bond tour of the U.S.

Binghamton decides to commandeer the best cook in the Pacific -- said to be McHale's private POW, Fuji 

Binghamton wagers his ship's clock that Parker can outshoot Ensign Dennison 

Christy's wife is having a baby, so Parker and the guys hold a big raffle to raise  money, and the first prize is a date with lovely Yvette Gerard.

The 73's engines are dying, and Binghamton uses the situation as an excuse to get rid of McHale and his crew.

A native girl has eyes for Parker, a situation which comes in handy, when the undersecretary of the Navy visits Taratupa, on an inspection tour.

Sick and tired of being disrespected by the crew, Parker applies for a transfer.  But McHale and the boys lay out a plan to make him change his mind.

Binghamton receives a directive for all overweight combat officers to be shipped out, and makes sure that McHale is over the limit.

A pesky Japanese pilot known as Washing Machine Charlie is wreaking havoc on Taratupa on a daily basis, so, all leaves are cancelled, until McHale and the crew can bring him down.

Information leaked to the enemy, and broadcast on their propaganda radio frequency, is found to be coming from the most unlikely of sources.

His leave denied, McHale and the boys sneak Parker to a local island to meet up with his girlfriend, and wind up destroying a Japanese listening station.

An unintentional letter makes its way to the Pentagon, and Parker, Gruber, and Tinker get a big Mother's Day surprise.

Binghamton cons McHale into taking a permanent liaison position in Australia, so Gruber and Parker step in to help get him out of it.

Binghamton sends the 73 crew out on a nothing mission, so that he can hog the spotlight, when a big-shot war correspondent comes to Taratupa.

McHale is up for a stateside training job, that he doesn't want, so he must convince the appraising officer that he's a bumbling coward.

Binghamton needs Urulu's help to build an airstrip, but the Big Chief makes waves, after Parker teaches him how a democracy works.

A combat cinematographer is sent to Taratupa to film The 73 crew in action. But trouble ensues, when Gruber steals his camera to make home movies for profit.

The 73's new crew member, the spitting image of Binghamton, comes in quite handy, when trying to foil another of Binghamton's court-martial attempts.

When an adorable little Japanese orphan shows up on the island, McHale and the guys try to keep her hidden from Binghamton, until they can find her a new home.

Gruber trades four million dollars worth of what they think is counterfeit cash to Urulu for some native trinkets.   When they find out it's real money, they must get it back by way of a winner-take-all poker game.

Willie is heartbroken, when he gets a 'Dear John' letter from his hometown girl, so McHale and the guys put together a good old-fashioned hillbilly hoedown, to cheer him up, and fix him up with a cute Tennessee nurse.

When a spoiled-brat by-the-book son of an Admiral is forced down on Taratupa, Binghamton stations him on McHale's Island, to take notes.

Hoping for a promotion, Binghamton gives Parker the royal treatment, when he learns that Parker's uncle, an Admiral, is dropping in to pay a visit to his nephew.