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.
McHale's Navy

NR1h 29m6.3

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In this comedy, the crew of a PT boat resorts to operating an underground betting ring, getting into hot water when they owe large sums to marines and inadvertently cause a Japanese submarine to crash due to a disastrous horse purchase gone wrong.

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

G1h 26m5.8

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Ensign Parker goes undercover as an Air Force pilot to take down the Japanese fleet, leaving McHale and the PT-73 crew to watch from the sidelines.

McHale's Navy

PG1h 48m4.6

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A battle-hardened naval veteran joins forces with a motley crew of sailors to take on a formidable foe from their shared past.

McHale's Navy background