McHale's Navy: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of McHale's Navy Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Day the War Stood Still
Sep 17, 1963 · 30 min
During a search for some stolen goods, while McHale and the 73 Crew are out on a recon mission, Binghamton catches Fuji, and holds him as a spy. McHale and the boys then cook up a
The Binghamton Murder Plot
Sep 24, 1963 · 30 min
After laying some unusually harsh punishments on McHale and the 73 Crew, Binghamton mistakenly gets the impression that McHale and his men are out to kill him.
McHale and His Schweinhunds
Oct 1, 1963 · 30 min
Parker is feeling somewhat depressed, after getting scared during a chase after a Japanese patrol boat, especially after Binghamton accuses him of cowardice. But Binghamton change
Is There a Doctor in the Hut?
Oct 8, 1963 · 30 min
The boys need to get to New Caledonia, but Binghamton denies leave. He changes his mind, however, when he finds that Movie Star Rita Howard – On a brief layover at New Caledonia
To Binghamton with Love
Oct 15, 1963 · 30 min
McHale and The Crew are in hot water again, this time, over the mis-use of the 73. But Binghamton drops the charges, when he gets into a bit of hot water, himself, and needs help
Have Kimono, Will Travel
Oct 22, 1963 · 30 min
While trying to prevent McHale and the 73 Crew from putting on a show for the Taratupa personnel, Binghamton winds up in trouble along with McHale and the boys, and has to put on a
Today I Am a Man!
Oct 29, 1963 · 30 min
Parker requests a transfer, when a cute blonde Nurse he's involved with unintentionally demoralizes him. So, McHale, The Crew, and the Nurse work out a plan to make him feel bette
Jolly Wally
Nov 5, 1963 · 30 min
Eager to have a well-known War Correspondent do a story on him, Binghamton makes Parker – Who is the Correspondent's childhood friend – The Base PR Officer. But Parker's ideas
Scuttlebutt
Nov 12, 1963 · 30 min
Tinker's best girl dumps him for a fighter pilot, so, Gruber, and the rest of the Crew fabricate a tall rumor, to build Tinker up, in the eyes of his sweetheart.
The August Teahouse of Quint McHale
Nov 19, 1963 · 30 min
Binghamton is stressed out, and long past due for a leave, and McHale and the boys have a special reason to make sure he gets one.
French Leave for McHale
Nov 26, 1963 · 30 min
McHale and the boys transport Binghamton to a staff meeting in New Caledonia, and, to keep them out of trouble, Binghamton confines them to the boat. But McHale grants the boys 3
A Letter for Fuji
Dec 10, 1963 · 30 min
The 73 Crew's heart-sick Japanese friend, Fuji, must get a letter to his best girl, back home in Japan. But, a secret mission to mail the letter from a Japanese-held island becomes
My Ensign, the Lawyer
Dec 17, 1963 · 30 min
Tinker is arrested for the theft of Binghamton's printing press, and The Captain taps Parker to be Tinker's Defense Counsel, in a trial which Binghamton, himself, will preside over
Orange Blossom for McHale
Dec 24, 1963 · 30 min
A new Navy directive - Ordering all married Officers to be shipped home - Prompts Binghamton to scheme to get McHale married off to a shady saloon-keeper by the name of Kate O'Hara
Creature from McHale's Lagoon
Dec 31, 1963 · 30 min
Gruber and the guys try to make some money with some phony pearl oysters, but their scheme backfires, when a greedy Binghamton takes over their operation. Then, when Chief Urulu mu
A Medal for Parker
Jan 7, 1964 · 30 min
Major complications develop when the guys send a chapter of Parker's war novel - Including a highly fictionalized account of his sinking of the biggest battleship in the Japanese f
The Balloon Goes Up
Jan 14, 1964 · 30 min
Binghamton is offered a promotion and transfer up to Fleet HQ, but must first reconcile a shortage in the base's equipment inventory. After all is accounted for, except for one ite
Who'll Buy My Sarongs?
Jan 21, 1964 · 30 min
A business venture - Involving the manufacture and sale of sarongs to the Base personnel - Has the guys divided into two separate quarreling groups. When the feud escalates, Bingha
Evil-Eye Parker
Jan 28, 1964 · 30 min
When Binghamton refuses permission for McHale and The Crew to put on a big show, to raise funds for the local Orphanage, Parker uses his newly-acquired skill as a Hypnotist, to mak
The Great Impersonation
Feb 4, 1964 · 30 min
Parker - A dead-ringer for an important British General - Agrees to put his life on the line, by posing as The General, to divert the attention of spies, in New Caledonia, while th
Urulu's Paradise West
Feb 11, 1964 · 30 min
Binghamton is ordered to purchase one of Chief Urulu's islands, for the construction of a radar station. But, Urulu - Knowing that he's got The Navy 'over a barrel' - Inflates the
Dear Diary
Feb 18, 1964 · 30 min
Binghamton gets hold of Parker's diary, which includes details of the Crew's shady activities. After the guys steal the diary from The Captain's safe, Binghamton sets out to person
The Novocain Mutiny
Mar 3, 1964 · 30 min
Fuji has a bad toothache, and McHale and The Crew must figure out a way to get him in to the Dentist, during an inspection tour of the Fleet Medical Officer.
Stars Over Taratupa
Mar 10, 1964 · 30 min
Five-time Oscar-winning Director John Burton comes to Taratupa, to shoot a documentary on PT boats, and their Crews, and McHale and the Crew successfully scheme to become the stars
Comrades of PT 73
Mar 17, 1964 · 30 min
A Russian Naval Officer reports to McHale for PT Boat training, and, soon disgusted with the 73 Crew's lack of discipline, asks to be assigned to another Crew. But, when Binghamton
Return of Big Frenchy
Mar 24, 1964 · 30 min
The French thief and con-artist first talks Binghamton out of a load of Navy supplies, then cons Parker into helping him get them to New Caledonia. McHale and the guys must then fo
Alias PT 73
Mar 31, 1964 · 30 min
After being restricted to base by Binghamton, McHale and the guys mock up a damaged PT boat, to look like the 73, so that they can sneak a load of building materials to a nearby is
The Rage of Taratupa
Apr 7, 1964 · 30 min
While temporarily assigned to the 73 Crew, a lazy, pampered, rock and roll star is captured by a Japanese patrol, while out on maneuvers with McHale and The Crew, and holds a capti
Ensign Parker, E.S.P.
Apr 14, 1964 · 30 min
To keep Parker from being shipped out, McHale and The Crew try to help the Ensign raise a thousand bucks, to replace a string of pearls - A gift for Binghamton's Wife - That were d
The McHale Mob
Apr 21, 1964 · 30 min
Impressed by a gangster movie he's recently seen, Chief Urulu plays mob chieftain and refuses to sign the document allowing The Navy the use of McHale's island. So, McHale and the
Carpenter in Command
Apr 28, 1964 · 30 min
In temporary command of the base, while Binghamton recovers from a broken leg, and drunk with power, Carpenter gets the goods on The Crew, and has them up for Court Martial on seve
Marryin' Chuck
May 5, 1964 · 30 min
Gruber and the guys pick up a few souvenirs, during a mission, unknowing that they're valuable items stolen by the Japanese, during the battle of Manila. When one of the items - A
The Dart Gun Wedding
May 12, 1964 · 30 min
Binghamton bows to pressure from the snobbish, swinging-bachelor Son of his former employer, in the hope of returning to his Stateside job, after the war. But, when the pressure be
A Da-Da for Christy
May 19, 1964 · 30 min
Christy's little daughter is about to say her first words and his wife has arranged to have it broadcast to him via ham radio. Trouble begins when the crew tries to pick up the cha