It only took about seven minutes into this show and you know this is going to be a disaster. This was a pathetic attempt at trying to film an episode without any material or thought put into the process and then claiming that the public would enjoy such non-sense. I have seen a lot of shows over the many years but I have to say that this is one of the worse attempts at a comedy-sitcom ever witnessed. It was if some juvenile wrote the script as a gag and it slip through the cracks to be made into a show.
Here is the jest of this uninteresting story.-- Parker just has received some photos from home showing the time he was in summer camp as a youth. When an enemy sub bombs the island, Ensign Parker is hit in the head and gets amnesia where he thinks he is back at camp.
Parker runs around thinking the McHale is his Uncle Woody and the crew is his bunk-mates. He goes around playing child games and talking like a spoiled brat child. Binghamton finds out and is happy to lose Parker in a medical discharge.
Watching Tim Conway embarrass himself was bad enough but then you have the rest of the cast having to perform some of the distasteful stunts that the script suggested. You end up feeling sorry, not only for the series, but also for the cast having to act like they enjoyed the story. The low point had to be when they crew dressed up like Indians to rescue little boy Chucky. It is so pitiful, words cannot describe.
From time to time every series has a clunker episode that does not live up to the standards of the show. And after some very good show, perhaps the series was due. Of all the 'McHale's Navy' episodes, this has to be one of the least favorites. In fact, it is a disaster.
Here is the jest of this uninteresting story.-- Parker just has received some photos from home showing the time he was in summer camp as a youth. When an enemy sub bombs the island, Ensign Parker is hit in the head and gets amnesia where he thinks he is back at camp.
Parker runs around thinking the McHale is his Uncle Woody and the crew is his bunk-mates. He goes around playing child games and talking like a spoiled brat child. Binghamton finds out and is happy to lose Parker in a medical discharge.
Watching Tim Conway embarrass himself was bad enough but then you have the rest of the cast having to perform some of the distasteful stunts that the script suggested. You end up feeling sorry, not only for the series, but also for the cast having to act like they enjoyed the story. The low point had to be when they crew dressed up like Indians to rescue little boy Chucky. It is so pitiful, words cannot describe.
From time to time every series has a clunker episode that does not live up to the standards of the show. And after some very good show, perhaps the series was due. Of all the 'McHale's Navy' episodes, this has to be one of the least favorites. In fact, it is a disaster.