Let’s hope the US Navy is never like this! Ernest Borgnine stars as Lt. Commander Quinton McHale, a man loved by his outrageous crew and hated by his boss, Old Lead Bottom. If it weren’t for the fact that he knows the South Seas territory like “the back of his hand,” he’d be swabbing the deck.

CAN YOU SPOT
Marlo Thomas, Ted Knight, Raquel Welch, Sue Ane Langdon, Mike Farrell

DID YOU KNOW
The show was originally supposed to be a military action drama, not a comedy

When characters occasionally discussed the unnamed commander of torpedo boat PT-109, they were referring to then-President John F. Kennedy who commanded the PT-109 during WWII.