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McHale’s Navy – season 3
McHale’s Navy season 3 episode list
Editorial review of McHale’s Navy season 3 courtesy of Amazon.com
In McHale’s Navy Season 3, Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine), Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) and the rest of the misfit crew of PT-73 are back in action on the Taratupa Island Naval Base, setting sail for 36 more adventures in hilarity. This is their final season in the Pacific, before the series moves to Italy next year.
From 1962 through 1966, McHale’s Navy was a must-see staple of ABC television. By the show’s third year on the air, the now-familiar crew had become a classic embodiment of American culture-an unforgettable gang of fun-loving guys who were constantly at odds with authority.
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Tim Conway photo gallery
A photo gallery of the famous TV and movie clown, Tim Conway
Tim Conway in a publicity photo for Rango in 1966 
Harvey Korman and Tim Conway 
Tim Conway, Leon Lontok and Peggy Mondo from McHale’s Navy. 
Jan-Michael Vincent and Tim Conway in The World’s Greatest Athlete 
A brick sponsored by Tim Conway in a university building. 
Rochelle Rac and Tim Conway as Ensign Parker at “McHale’s Paradise Hotel”. 
Tim Conway in a bunny costume in a skit on The Carol Burnett Show 
Cast of McHale’s Navy. McHale (Ernest Borgnine), Gruber (Carl Ballantine), and Christie {Gary Vinson), Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) 
Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) and Commander McHale in the TV series McHale’s Navy (1962) 
The Billion Dollar Hobo(1977) starring Tim Conway, Will Geer 
Publicity photo of Claudine Longet and Tim Conway from McHale’s Navy (1963) 
McHale’s Navy season 4, starring Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn, Jay Novello, 
Tim Conway & Joe Flynn in a photo from the Tim Conway Show in 1970 
Dear God — starring Greg Kinnear, Tim Conway, Laurie Metcalf, Hector Elizondo 
Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, and Dick Van Dyke – The Carol Burnett Show in 1977 
The Prize Fighter, co-starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts 
The Private Eyes, starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway 
Tim Conway and Robert Morse in 1968 
Walt Disney’s The Apple Dumpling Gang, starring Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Bill Bixby, Susan Clark 
Mule and Tim Conway in The Apple Dumpling Gang 
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts 
McHale’s Navy – Season Two
Editorial review of McHale’s Navy – Season Two courtesy of Amazon.com
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McHale’s Navy – Season One
Editorial review of McHale’s Navy – Season One
Something of a cross between MASH (it’s set in wartime) and Sgt. Bilko (the emphasis in on ensemble acting, with a ringleader and his band of merry pranksters), McHale’s Navy isn’t on a level with those two immortal sit-coms. But this amiable show, debuting on DVD with all 36 black & white episodes from its first season (1962-63) on five discs, stands the test of time surprisingly well. Not that there’s any important new comedic ground broken here. These half-hour episodes are pretty much all about the same thing: Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale (the always reliable Ernest Borgnine), skipper of Navy PT boat #73, and his crew are stationed “somewhere in the South Pacific, 1943.” They’re capable sailors, engaging the Japanese enemy when duty occasionally calls, but most of the time they hang out on their own private island and have a good time–much to the chagrin of their blustery commander, Capt. Wallace Binghamton (Joe Flynn), who’s constantly trying to rid himself of the regulation-defying McHale and his fun-loving band of miscreants.
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Don Knotts photo gallery
Don Knotts photo gallery – the nervous film and TV clown (more…)
Bozo the Clown photo gallery
Bozo the Clown photo gallery – the character of Bozo was created by Alan Livingston and Pinto Colvig at Capitol Records, and made a worldwide phenomenon by Larry Harmon
Many of the images are courtesy of the International Clown Hall of Fame (more…)
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time – Twilight Zone episode starring Buster Keaton
In a very funny episode of The Twilight Zone, Buster Keaton stars as Woodrow Mulligan, a grumpy janitor living in the year 1890 – as Rod Serling says in the introduction to the episode:
Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, ‘Out of the frying pan, into the fire,’ said fire burning brightly at all times in the Twilight Zone.
Sid Caesar biography
Biography of Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922 – )
Sid Caesar was born on September 8, 1922, in Yonkers, New York, U.S.A. to a family of Jewish immigrants. Growing up, young Sid spent time at his father’s lunch counter, where immigrant workers came to eat. Observing them, Sid Caesar learned to mimic their accents and languages, a skill that he used years later – in fact, he can fool people into thinking that he is actually fluent in a variety of languages, where in reality he only speaks English and Yiddish.
He had a gift for music and originally began his career as a saxophone player. However, World War II interrupted, and Sid Caesar served his country in the Coast Guard, where he organized entertainment for enlisted men. This eventually led him to Los Angeles, where he got a part in the film Tars and Spars, based on an original comedy sketch, and in The Guilt of Janet Ames. (more…)
Imogene Coca biography
Imogene Coca (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress.
She was born Imogene Fernandez de Coca in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of José Fernandez de Coca, a conductor, and his wife Sadie Brady, a dancer and magician’s assistant. She had Spanish and Irish ancestry.
In her youth, she received piano, dance, and voice lessons. She moved from Philadelphia to seek a living as a dancer, while still a teenager, starting in the chorus of the Broadway musical When You Smile. She came to be featured as a headliner, appearing in Manhattan nightclubs, with music arranged by her first husband, Robert Burton. She came to prominence when she began to combine music with comedy: her first big critical success was in New Faces of 1934. (more…)
Harvey Korman biography
Harvey Korman (February 15, 1927 – May 29, 2008)
Harvey Korman, famous TV clown, was born Harvey Herschel Kormen in Chicago, Illinois. He gained much of his initial experience at Chicago’s well-known Goodman Theatre, working as a door-to-door aluminum siding salesman while trying to break into the ‘big time.’ He had minor Broadway roles, as well as appearing in television commercials and cartoon voice-overs (notably on the Flintstones cartoon as the voice of ‘The Great Gazoo’). In fact, this has led to a rather strange distinction for Harvey Korman. He is the only actor to appear in all of the Flintstone movies and cartoons. (more…)
