TV 8 - McHale's Navy Traditional Cache
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Old TV Shows Series
These caches are named after some of our favorite old TV shows from the 50's, 60's and 70's. We hope they bring back some good memories. All are hidden along a frontage road. For the easiest parking, start at TV 1 and you will be on the right side of the roadway.
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom which ran for 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to August 31, 1966, on the ABC network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from a one-hour drama called Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962. Universal commissioned the colorization of the series in the late 1980s for syndication in hopes of reviving its popularity. The series was set in the Pacific theatre of World War II — although in the show's last season the setting was switched to the European theatre in Italy — and focused on the crew of PT-73, again led by Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale played by Ernest Borgnine. The producer of the series, Edward J. Montagne, had had great success with the top-rated series The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959), a military comedy with an opportunistic non-commissioned officer and his loyal platoon constantly putting something over on the base commander. While the pilot had been dramatic, with overtones of Henry Fonda's introspective Mister Roberts, Montagne essentially turned the project into "Bilko in the Navy", and even recruited some of the Bilko actors and writers. If Borgnine had any misgivings about his show's change of direction, he hid them well enough and happily played straight-man to the comedians surrounding him. At the time of the series, then- President John F. Kennedy was well known as being the wartime commander of PT-109. A popular book, PT 109: John F. Kennedy in WWII by Robert J. Donovan had come out the previous year, and PT-109 was sometimes slyly referenced in a few episodes relating to a young commissioned PT-boat officer.
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