Make Room for Orvie

Episode aired May 25, 1965
TV-G
30m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

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Comedy War

Binghamton pressures a young new member of the 73 Crew into spying on McHale and the guys, to try to gather evidence of any shady activities. But The Captain's plan is foiled by another new ... Read allBinghamton pressures a young new member of the 73 Crew into spying on McHale and the guys, to try to gather evidence of any shady activities. But The Captain's plan is foiled by another new member of the crew, who proves to be not only very intelligent, but an excellent Sailor, a... Read allBinghamton pressures a young new member of the 73 Crew into spying on McHale and the guys, to try to gather evidence of any shady activities. But The Captain's plan is foiled by another new member of the crew, who proves to be not only very intelligent, but an excellent Sailor, as well.

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6.1/10

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Trivia
Goof: Anachronism-Captain Binghamton mentions a skateboard. Primitive boards with roller skate wheels may have been around at that time, but they weren't called skateboards until SoCal surfers started using them in the 50's.

Quotes
Lt. Commander Quinton McHale: [the chimp has just stole the PT 73] Who's ever going to believe that a chimp stole the PT 73. A banana eating chimp. Boy, this is the living end.
Virgil Edwards: Yeah, the end for us.
George Christopher: He'll wreck it for sure.
Lester Gruber: Why couldn't he swipe hubcaps like the other kids?

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References The Danny Thomas Show (1953)

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2/10

Words cannot describe this pathetic attempt.

For the last show of season three, it could have not got worse. I thought I had seen about every stupid idea that the writers could throw but in this show we have a chimpanzee that steal the PT 73, oh the humanity! And to add insult to injury, the chimp destroys a Japanese submarine by firing a torpedo, oh the dubiety! This has to be some of the worse writing in the history of the series.

The episode started out very favorable. A new man, Orvie, has been assigned to the PT 73. The young 18 year old is getting his first taste of Navy life after leaving boot-camp. And Binghamton has got a hold of him and asked him to spy of McHale and his crew for the good of the Navy. The naive Orvie agrees.

This would had made for an interesting episode but the writer felt we needed a large heaping of tomfoolery and projected a chimp that saves the day by guiding the 73 into the choppy waters of the Pacific. Throw in the buffoonery of Ensign Parker and you have an episode more in line for a Saturday morning cartoon. A terrible way to end the third season.