McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965)Cast and Crew

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Cast

J
Joe Flynn
as Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
T
Tim Conway
as Ensign Charles Parker
B
Bob Hastings
as Lt. Elroy Carpenter
G
Gary Vinson
as Quatermaster George Christopher
B
Billy Sands
as Motor Machinist Mate Harrison Bell
E
Edson Stroll
as Virgil Edwards
Y
Yoshio Yoda
as Takeo 'Fuji' Fugiwara
G
Gavin MacLeod
as Seaman Joseph Haines
T
Tom Tully
as Gen. Harkness
T
Ted Bessell
as Lt. Wilbur Harkness
J
Jean Hale
as Sgt. Madge Collins
J
Jacques Aubuchon
as Dimitri
L
Len Lesser
as NKVD commissar
M
Mako
as Japanese Submarine Captain (uncredited)
B
Berkeley Harris
as Vogel

Crew

E
Edward Montagne
Director
W
William J. Lederer
Writer

McHale's Navy Collection

The basic plot revolves around McHale's crew's wacky schemes to make money, get girls, and have a ball, and the efforts of Captain Binghamton (McHale's superior) to rid himself of the PT-73 crew for good, either by transfer or court martial. Although they are forever getting into trouble, they (almost always unwittingly) get out of trouble. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end. The entire show is based on only two locations, one in the South Pacific at a fictional base called Taratupa (the inferred location is in the Solomon Islands) and an equally fictional town in Italy called Voltafiore.