McHale's Navy follows the wacky schemes of Lt. Cmdr Quinton McHale and his crew to make money, get girls and have a ball. Their nemesis is Captain Binghamton who struggles to rid himself of the headache that PT-73 has become for him. Despite their scheming, conniving, and often lazy and unmilitary ways, McHale's crew is always successful in combat in the end.
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.
The crew steals Binghamton's champagne to celebrate Fuji's one-year anniversary with them. But when Binghampton captures Fuji, the crew have to fake the end of the war to distract him so they can free their friend.
Binghamton cracks down on the crew because of an upcoming fitness inspection. When he hears them talking about killing a griffa bird, he assumes that they want to kill him.
After Binghamton files a charge of cowardice against Parker, he thinks that Parker is faking when the ensign claims to have spotted a German U-boat in Pacific waters. However, it turns out that Parker is right... and he and the 73 crew to have stop an alliance between the two Axis powers.
The crew convinces Binghamton that they can get actress Rita Howard to the base. Once they pull that off, they have to get her there past her officious Army escort... which requires Parker to pose as a doctor.
Binghamton has to impress a visiting admiral with a testimonial dinner in his honor... but no one wants to come.
Binghamton finds out about the crew's upcoming Follies and puts an end to it, forcing them to take him to a Comfleet conference. But when they get hit by a Zero, the 73 is forced to put in at a Japanese island to refuel... and the crew tries out their acts disguised as Japanese minstrels.
Parker tries to impress a new nurse, Georgianna. When she accidentally and continually upstages him, Parker puts in for a transfer... and the crew come up with a plan to rebuild his morale.
Parker knows a visiting war correspondence and convinces him that Binghamton is "Jolly Wally," who laughs in the face of danger. However, when Binghamton overdoes it, the Navy sends a psychiatrist to check him out.
When Tinker's date goes out with a war hero, Gruber starts some scuttlebutt to puff up his friend's reputation. However, everyone soon thinks that the 73 is going on a dangerous secret mission... including the Japanese.
After Binghamton catches a glimpse of Fuji, McHale and the crew launch a scheme to convince Binghamton that he has battle fatigue... and sees Japanese everywhere
While taking some unofficial leave in New Caledonia, the crew ends up in jail... and an old smuggler friend of McHale's steals the 73.
When Happy is too shy to have a love life, he sleepwalks. When Binghamton finds out, he calls for a Navy psychiatrist and Happy will be sent off unless the crew can restore his confidence.
The crew take on a dangerous mission to deliver Fuji's letter to a Japanese-held island and mail it to Japan so that he can hear back from his girlfriend.
The crew steals Binghamton's new printing press. When Binghamton catches Tinker red-handed with it, Parker ends up defending the sailor and stalling for time.
When the Navy orders that married officers have to be sent home after 24 months, Binghamton decides to force McHale to marry an old associate, Kate O'Hara, who is stuck on the island after an emergency landing.
Gruber's scheme to salt fake pearls in the lagoon backfires when Binghamton mistakes them for the real thing and evicts the 73 crew out of their camp.
Parker gets in hot water when the crew sends a chapter of his war novel to Parker's girlfriend Mary to impress her... and everyone thinks the story is real.
To assure that Binghamton get transferred to ComFleet, the crew have to recover a barrage balloon that they traded to Urula.
Binghamton takes advantage among the crew of how to design sarongs to ship McHale out so that the 73 men will fail an efficiency test and get transferred
Parker tries his newly learned powers of hypnosis and discovers that it works on Binghamton... just as they need Binghamton to approve a benefit show for an orphanage.
ComFleet takes advantage of Parker's resemblance to a famed English general to use him as a decoy. Unfortunately, enemy agents decide to assassinate Parker.
Binghamton has to make nice with Chief Urulu when the Navy orders Binghamton to purchase an island for a radar outpost.
Binghamton gets hold of Parker's diary, which details all of the crew's thefts. When he loses the diary, Binghamton decides to call Parker as a witness.
McHale and the crew are in big trouble, when the lovely daughter of an important Frenchman stows away on the 73.
Fuji has a terrible toothache, and McHale and the crew must figure out a way to have his tooth pulled, without his being recognized.
When a big-shot Hollywood director comes to Taratupa to film a documentary, he chooses McHale and the 73 crew as his subject.
Binghamton tries to railroad McHale, the 73, and the crew to Russia, with a visiting Russian naval officer, who is on the base for PT boat training.
The French con man is back, this time to steal thousands of dollars worth of Naval supplies.
Restricted to base, McHale and the crew fix up a wrecked boat to stand in for the 73, while they help some natives rebuild their village, which was destroyed by a pesky Japanese pilot.
Temporarily assigned to the 73 crew, a goldbricking rock and roll star helps McHale and the crew capture a Japanese Patrol.
Parker's in trouble again, when he destroys Binghamton's gift for his wife, and McHale and the boys must come up with $1000, to get him off the hook.
Inspired by a gangster movie, Urulu refuses to sign the deed allowing McHale and the crew the use of their Island. So McHale and Binghamton join forces to make him change his mind.
While Binghamton is laid up in the hospital, acting base commander Carpenter jails the 73 crew, and McHale and Parker plot to get them out.
Admiral Hardesy's daughter is getting married, and Parker must stand in for the chaplain, while McHale and the crew try to retrieve a stolen tea set, given as a gift from Captain Binghamton.
When the spoiled-brat son of Binghamton's former employer decides that Taratupa will be his new home, Binghamton begs McHale's help to get rid of him.
Refused permission to use the base radio, McHale and the boys use a captured Jap radio to try to hear Christy's little daughter say her first 'da-da'.
Binghamton scares the 73 crew into requesting transfers, by making them think that the 73 is cursed.
To help Gruber impress his girlfriend, McHale reluctantly agrees to let him stand-in as skipper, unknowing that Binghamton has volunteered McHale for permanent liaison duty at a British base.
Binghamton orders McHale and his crew to pick up the base payroll, figuring that they'll steal it and he can get rid of them. With everyone else on leave, Parker gets the money... and has it stolen from him.
When Binghamton gets word that a tough-as-nails admiral is coming for a surprise inspection, he feigns sickness and puts McHale in charge so that McHale can set himself up for a fall.
During a visit by a sultan and his three princesses, Virgil borrows the 73, to take one of the princesses for a ride, forcing Parker to stand in for her.
Binghamton summons a fitness board, to have Parker declared unfit for duty. So McHale and the boys try to get him to change his mind, with some nitrous oxide.
A peanut butter loving alligator befriends Parker, and helps in Parker's defense, when Binghamton tries to frame him with the theft of his wallet.
Binghamton assigns a klutzy, bumbling British sub-lieutenant to the 73 crew, in hopes that he will sink the boat, and break up the crew.
Parker gets tossed in the brig after accidentally hitting Binghamton. To get him out, the crew has to convince Binghamton that Parker is the nephew of a famous Senator. Problems ensue when the real Senator shows up.
When the crew's still springs a leak into a nearby stream, Binghamton drinks the water and the crew cover by claiming it's the Fountain of Youth.
To get a local headhunter chieftain to sign a treaty, Parker has to pretend to be a witch doctor. The ruse works... but he ends up obliged to marry all of the old witch doctor's brides.
Thinking that Parker has inherited big money from his great-aunt, Binghamton signs a deal with a crooked Frenchman, to buy some supposedly valuable real estate on New Caledonia, and McHale and the crew try to help him get out of the situation.
Christy tries to smuggle himself out to San Diego to see his daughter's 2nd birthday... just as the top brass arrive and demand to see him.
Binghamton's niece Cynthia arrives and is intrigued by Parker's resemblance to the Missing Link. Binghamton mistakenly assumes that she plans to marry Parker, and chaos ensues.
McHale and the crew take Fuji along to a party with some of the Local Natives, where he falls in love with a lovely native girl, with a jealous boyfriend.
The crew's new mascot – A parrot named Sam – Spills the beans to Binghamton about their new secret Hideaway, to party with the nurses.
Captured by a Japanese patrol, McHale and the crew and Captain Binghamton, put on a show for their captors, while secretly radioing a passing destroyer, with information on their whereabouts.
Binghamton uses sodium pentothal, to get the boys to spill the beans about their shady activities. So McHale, Parker and Molly scheme to use the same method to get Binghamton to rat on himself.
Convinced that he only has 48 hours to live, Binghamton volunteers himself and the 73 crew to go on a dangerous mission, so that he can go out in a blaze of glory.
Binghamton assigns Carpenter as the new XO of the 73, and Parker is reduced to doing the base laundry. So McHale and the boys scheme to get Parker back.
The Admiral issues an order for all Chief Petty Officers to be shipped out, and Binghamton cons the 73 crew into applying for the job, and makes sure that they all pass the exam.
Binghamton's wife pays a visit to Taratupa with the women's Navy League, and confusion ensues, as McHale and the boys try to keep her away from Admiral Rogers, and a 'hoochie coochie' dancer.
Caught with the goods, while trying to return some stolen property, Binghamton jails Parker pending court-martial. But McHale cooks up a plan to free him, by making the captain think he's losing his mind.
Ordered to shut down Maggie Monohan's Noumea 'tea room', Binghamton plans to catch McHale and the crew in the act, but gets caught up in the action, himself.
A bump on the head during a Japanese raid, takes Parker back to his childhood days at old Camp Chinnapookie, and Binghamton tries to railroad him out on a medical discharge.
Christy's little daughter needs a tonsillectomy, and Gruber and the boys cook up a scheme involving counterfeit art, to make the money for Christy to send back home.
With the help of the Easter Bunny, some stolen eggs, and some eggnog, McHale and the crew rescue an Admiral, and capture a Japanese Patrol, while having an Easter egg hunt for some local school children.
When a jade necklace is taken from Binghamton's office, he calls in Naval Intelligence, and tries to frame McHale and the crew with the theft.
The Shah of the oil-rich kingdom of Durani refuses to sign an agreement with the Navy without an Admiral present. So Parker gets a temporary promotion to Admiral until the deal is closed.
McHale and the crew must figure out a way to increase the base hospital's capacity, so that they can schedule a performance by Jerry Colonna.
Binghamton tries to frame McHale and the crew for bootlegging and war profiteering, and winds up as a candidate for a section 8.
Binghamton tries to make the 73 crew obsolete, when a young electronics geek Ensign comes to Taratupa.
A bumbling nurse lieutenant, whom Parker is infatuated with, tries to keep him from being assigned to a dangerous location.
A snooty lieutenant promises Binghamton a post-war job, if he can sell life insurance policies to the 73 crew.
An egotistical movie star pays a visit to Taratupa, looking to create a publicity stunt. But it all falls apart when she stows away on the 73.
Binghamton cons a young recruit into spying on McHale and the 73 crew.
Binghamton, Carpenter, and the 73 crew are transferred to Voltafiore, Italy. McHale and his men soon run afoul of the mayor, who is is almost as big a conman as they are.
McHale and the crew must rescue Binghamton when he's captured by a German Patrol while in the act of stealing a bathtub.
Mama Giovanni talks McHale into performing a wedding ceremony for her daughter, just as Binghamton is cracking down on fraternization with the locals.
McHale's identical Italian cousin helps McHale out, when Binghamton threatens an AWOL charge against him.
McHale and the crew are captured by Germans during a souvenir hunting trip to a nearby town, and it's left up to Parker and Fuji to rescue them.
Lugatto helps McHale try to get Parker out of the brig, by convincing Binghamton that he's 'The Great Liberator', and that his statue will be placed in the town square.
When McHale and the crew are caught having some R&R at the vacated home of Italian royalty, Parker must assume the role of a Contessa, to get them all out of trouble.
Mayor Lugatto cons McHale into using the 73 as a fishing boat, with very positive consequences.
Sent to investigate a German shipwreck, McHale and the crew recover a load of antique furniture, which both Binghamton and Harrigan try to confiscate for their own use.
McHale and the crew stumble across a stash of Voltafiore wine, stolen by the Germans, and McHale devises a plan to return it to its rightful owners, and bag the Germans in the bargain.
Binghamton jails the 73 crew when he catches them stealing supplies to fix up the Voltafiore Opera House. So McHale devises a plan to get them out, by convincing Lugatto to star Binghamton in their next production.
Binghamton jails Mayor Lugatto for running a scam, with his lucky town fountain, and McHale and the crew cook up a scheme to get him out.
Colonel Harrigan claims the beach near McHale's base, for fun in the sun, so McHale, the crew, Binghamton and Carpenter inadvertently join forces to get it back.
Binghamton thinks he's got the goods on McHale and the crew, when he gets hold of Parker's tape recorder, with audio evidence of some of the guys' escapades. So, McHale devises a complicated plan to get them off the hook.
McHale's identical Italian cousin pays a visit to McHale and crew, but soon becomes involved in a serious case of mistaken identity.
Parker takes 3 Italian juvenile delinquents under his wing, and starts a boy scout troop, leading to some serious complications.
Eager to comply with General Bronson's civic improvement program, Binghamton confiscates an old fire engine recently found by McHale and his men, unknowing that they've made certain changes to it.
Parker goes on the lam, when he thinks that he's murdered Captain Binghamton, and McHale and the crew must rescue him, and get him off the hook.
Complications arise, when McHale and the crew cook up a scheme to help an AWOL Wac Corporal meet up with her boyfriend, before she ships out for North Africa.
When he hears that a Congresswoman is coming to Voltafiore, Binghamton tries to nail McHale and the crew, by catching them having a wild party - Which he arranged - On film.
A devious Italian con man dupes Binghamton into building a golf course, using Navy recreation funds, and the Captain must beg for help from McHale and the 73 crew, to get himself out of the predicament.
When a gypsy's mischievous chimpanzee swipes an important document from Binghamton's desk, he inadvertently helps to crack a German espionage ring.
When a by-the-book Wave Ensign comes to the base, to straighten out Binghamton's books, McHale and the crew enlist her help with a beauty contest they're planning to make some much-needed cash.
Binghamton cooks up a plan to get rid of the 73 crew, involving shipping McHale out, and making Parker the new skipper of the 73.
When a timid Army psychiatrist comes to Voltafiore to screen navy personnel for battle fatigue, Binghamton schemes to have McHale and his crew shipped back to The States.
When a lost German patrol stumbles into McHale's camp, Binghamton, and later Parker are taken prisoner. But McHale works out a plan, involving a famous magazine photographer, to rescue them.
McHale has a Jeep that needs an engine, and the local mechanic has an engine that needs a car, to race in the annual Voltafiore auto race.
Parker becomes involved with a certain female, just as the General is cracking down on fraternization with the locals.
Binghamton is delighted, when Parker is challenged to a duel by an Italian Count, whom Parker has disgraced.
Binghamton joins the 73 crew, when he learns that a Washington VIP - With a reputation for turning war heroes into politicians - Is coming to Voltafiore for a visit.
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