The BEST episodes of McHale's Navy season 2
Every episode of McHale's Navy season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of McHale's Navy season 2!
A lively, light-hearted romp through the Pacific Theater of operations An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II, and made the Skipper of the Torpedo Patrol (PT) Boat #73 stationed at the U.S. Naval Installation on the island of Taratupa in the Southwest Pacific. Assigned to his command were 6 free-spirited, good-hearted swabbies who loved to have fun, but who, though they usually ignored Navy regulations, did their jobs and did them well when duty called. The 73 'Family' included, among others, a con man and amateur Magician, a womanizing hunk, a dedicated Family man, a guitar-playing, moonshine-making Tennessee good ol' boy, and even a deserter from the Japanese Navy, who was an excellent cook. Second in command was Ensign Charles Parker, a young spit-and-polish, by-the-book Officer from Chagrin Falls Ohio, who was somewhat of a klutz.
#1 - The Balloon Goes Up
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1964
Binghamton is offered a promotion and transfer up to Fleet HQ, but must first reconcile a shortage in the base's equipment inventory. After all is accounted for, except for one item, a barrage balloon, McHale and the crew must race against time in order to locate it and bring it in, in time for Binghamton to be shipped out.
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#2 - The Happy Sleepwalker
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1963
Happy's sleepwalking leads Binghamton to ship him out of the combat zone.
#3 - Return of Big Frenchy
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1964
The French thief and con-artist first talks Binghamton out of a load of Navy supplies, then cons Parker into helping him get them to New Caledonia. McHale and the guys must then follow, rescue Parker, and recover the supplies.
#4 - The Great Impersonation
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1964
Parker, a dead-ringer for an important British General, agrees to put his life on the line by posing as the General, to divert the attention of spies in New Caledonia, while the real General carries out a crucial invasion of a Japanese-held island.
#5 - Scuttlebutt
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1963
Tinker's best girl dumps him for a fighter pilot, so, Gruber, and the rest of the Crew fabricate a tall rumor, to build Tinker up, in the eyes of his sweetheart.
#6 - Is There a Doctor in the Hut?
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1963
The boys need to get to New Caledonia, but Binghamton denies leave. He changes his mind, however, when he finds that Movie Star Rita Howard – On a brief layover at New Caledonia, and, of whom Admiral Rogers is a big fan – Has a ‘cousin’ on Taratupa.
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#7 - Comrades of PT 73
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1964
A Russian Naval Officer reports to McHale for PT Boat training, and soon, disgusted with the 73 crew's lack of discipline, asks to be assigned to another crew. But when Binghamton finds out that the chosen crew will be shipped out to Russia, he talks the Russian into staying with McHale. McHale and the guys must then work up a plan to get out of the situation.
#8 - A Letter for Fuji
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1963
The 73 Crew's heart-sick Japanese friend, Fuji, must get a letter to his best girl back home in Japan. But a secret mission to mail the letter from a Japanese-held island becomes complicated when Fuji's letter gets mixed up in Binghamton's plan to distribute propaganda leaflets to the enemy.
#9 - To Binghamton with Love
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1963
McHale and The Crew are in hot water again, this time, over the mis-use of the 73. But Binghamton drops the charges, when he gets into a bit of hot water, himself, and needs help from McHale and the boys.
#10 - Have Kimono, Will Travel
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1963
While trying to prevent McHale and the 73 Crew from putting on a show for the Taratupa personnel, Binghamton winds up in trouble along with McHale and the boys, and has to put on a show, himself, to help get them out of it.
#11 - Jolly Wally
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1963
Eager to have a well-known War Correspondent do a story on him, Binghamton makes Parker – Who is the Correspondent’s childhood friend – The Base PR Officer. But Parker’s ideas for good press turn out to be not so good.
#12 - A Medal for Parker
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1964
Major complications develop when the guys send a chapter of Parker's war novel including a highly fictionalized account of his sinking of the biggest battleship in the Japanese fleet, to Parker's hometown girlfriend, in an attempt to help him win her heart.
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#13 - The Novocain Mutiny
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1964
Fuji has a bad toothache, and McHale and the crew must figure out a way to get him in to the dentist during an inspection tour of the Fleet Medical Officer.
#14 - Evil-Eye Parker
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1964
When Binghamton refuses permission for McHale and the crew to put on a big show to raise funds for the local orphanage, Parker uses his newly-acquired skill as a hypnotist to make the Captain more agreeable. But the scheme is complicated by the visit of a Senator from the Armed Services Committee.
#15 - Who'll Buy My Sarongs?
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1964
A business venture involving the manufacture and sale of sarongs to the Base personnel, has the guys divided into two separate quarreling groups. When the feud escalates, Binghamton tries to take advantage of its effect on them, during a PT Crew efficiency test, their failure of which, would mean their being shipped out for re-assignment.
#16 - The Dart Gun Wedding
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/12/1964
Binghamton bows to pressure from the snobbish, swinging-bachelor son of his former employer, in the hope of returning to his stateside job after the war. But when the pressure becomes too great, the Captain conspires with McHale and the 73 crew in a plan to get rid of him.
#17 - A Da-Da for Christy
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/19/1964
Christy's little daughter is about to say her first words and his wife has arranged to have it broadcast to him via ham radio. Trouble begins when the crew tries to pick up the channel on an enemy radio, confiscated during a raid.
#18 - Ensign Parker, E.S.P.
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1964
Parker has a premonition that Binghamton will be blown up in an air raid, and gets into big trouble when he tries to keep it from happening.
#19 - French Leave for McHale
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1963
McHale and the boys transport Binghamton to a staff meeting in New Caledonia, and to keep them out of trouble, Binghamton confines them to the boat. But McHale grants the boys 3 hours unauthorized liberty, during which they all get in trouble, including McHale, and are thrown in jail. But their troubles double when during their incarceration, the 73 gets “borrowed.”
#20 - McHale and His Schweinhunds
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1963
Parker is feeling somewhat depressed, after getting scared during a chase after a Japanese patrol boat, especially after Binghamton accuses him of cowardice. But Binghamton changes his mind, when Parker – During a test run, on the 73 – Spots a German U-Boat, and goes after it.
#21 - My Ensign, the Lawyer
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1963
Tinker is arrested for the theft of Binghamton's printing press, and The Captain taps Parker to be Tinker's Defense Counsel in a trial which Binghamton himself will preside over. Parker and McHale must then stall the proceedings while Gruber and The Crew execute a plan to get Tinker off the hook with a bit of creative evidence-tampering.
#22 - Dear Diary
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1964
Binghamton gets hold of Parker's diary, which includes details of the crew's shady activities. After the guys steal the diary from the Captain's safe, Binghamton sets out to personally escort Parker to the Admiral. But after falling into enemy hands on the way, and being rescued by the 73 Crew, Binghamton changes his mind after some gentle persuasion by McHale.
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#23 - The August Teahouse of Quint McHale
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1963
Binghamton is stressed out, and long past due for a leave, and McHale and the boys have a special reason to make sure he gets one.
#24 - Urulu's Paradise West
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1964
Binghamton is ordered to purchase one of Chief Urulu's islands for the construction of a radar station. But Urulu, knowing that he's got the Navy 'over a barrel', inflates the price of his real estate to ridiculous levels. So McHale and the crew try to help the Captain out with a scheme to de-value the Chief's land.
#25 - Babette Go Home
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1964
The Navy is negotiating for the purchase of a nearby island for the construction of a new Supply Depot. But complications arise when the lovely daughter of the owner of the island stows away on the 73, so that she can be near Virgil.