Broadside (TV series)
| Broadside | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Written by |
Frank J. Gill, Jr. George Carleton Brown Si Rose Ray Brenner Barry E. Blitzer Benedict Freedman Earl Barret Robert C. Dennis Jack Harvey Bruce Howard Bud Nye Elroy Schwartz Irving Taylor Sam Locke Joel Rapp Stan Dreben Howard Merrill William Raynor Myles Wilder |
| Directed by |
Frank McDonald Sidney Miller Edward Montagne Hollingsworth Morse Don Richardson Jean Yarbrough E.W. Swackhamer Charles Barton |
| Starring |
Edward Andrews Dick Sargent Sheila James Kathleen Nolan Joan Staley George Furth Arnold Stang Jimmy Boyd |
| Composer(s) | Jerry Fielding |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Edward J. Montagne |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television |
| Distributor |
MCA Television NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 20, 1964 – May 2, 1965 |
Broadside is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1964–1965 TV season. The series, produced by McHale's Navy creator Edward Montagne, starred Kathleen Nolan, formerly of The Real McCoys (her character, Lieutenant Morgan, had first appeared on McHale's Navy the previous season).[1]
Synopsis
The series centered on the women of the Navy (WAVES) circa World War II, who found themselves transferred to an island in the South Pacific to run the motor pool in an otherwise all-male environment. Their nemesis was Commander Adrian, who liked things just fine the way they were and felt that having women around would just louse everything up. Fortunately for the WAVES, the other men liked them just fine and often helped the girls foil Adrian's latest scheme to get rid of them.
The series starred Kathleen Nolan, Edward Andrews, Dick Sargent, Sheila James (in her last regular television series role), Lois Roberts, Joan Staley, George Furth, Arnold Stang and Jimmy Boyd (whose character was erroneously assigned to the unit based on his having a normally-female first name, Marion). The series ran for just a single season. Though ratings weren't bad, Universal felt the tropical exteriors being used by it and McHale's Navy—and nothing else—were taking up too much space on the backlot, so Broadside was cancelled and McHale was relocated to Italy (and the studio's more frequently-used European facades).
Cast
- Kathleen Nolan as Lieutenant Anne Morgan
- Edward Andrews as Commander Roger Adrian
- Dick Sargent as Lieutenant Maxwell Trotter
- Jimmy Boyd as Marion Botnik
- George Furth as Ensign Beasley
- Sheila James as Selma Kowalski
- Lois Roberts as Molly Maguire
- Joan Staley as Roberta Love
- Arnold Stang as 1st Class Stanley Stubbs
Episodes
Season 1
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Episode Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "Don't Make Waves" | September 20, 1964 | A quartet of WAVES takes over the motor pool on a South Pacific island, with animosity immediately developing. |
| 1–2 | "The Non-Permanent Wave" | September 27, 1964 | Marion Botnik snaps pictures of the girls in violation of Navy regulations, but Commander Adrian locks the pictures in a safe so that the Admiral can see them. |
| 1–3 | "Kill 'Em with Kindness" | October 4, 1964 | Adrian offers the WAVES delicious, high-calorie foods so that they'll be unable to pass the upcoming fitness test. |
| 1–4 | "Annie Shoots Down the Cupid" | October 11, 1964 | Dissension among the WAVES breaks out after each of them has dated a muscular sailor. |
| 1–5 | "Lt. Morgan's Secret Marriage" | October 25, 1964 | Adrian's visiting nephew ends up causing more trouble for him than the WAVES. |
| 1–6 | "The Great Lipstick War" | November 1, 1964 | Adrian cuts off the WAVE's makeup supply in the hopes that they'll leave, but Morgan quickly sets up a liptick still. |
| 1–7 | "Adrian Gets Nipped" | November 8, 1964 | Adrian and the crew pose as the enemy in order to try and frighten the WAVES into leaving the island. |
| 1–8 | "The Morale of Molly McGuire" | November 15, 1964 | Molly falls in love, so Adrian schedules a psychological test for her in the hopes that the entire motor pool will be shipped stateside. |
| 1–9 | "Adrian's Anniversary Waltz" | November 22, 1964 | A WAVE birthday party results in a raid on Adrian's gourmet food cellar. |
| 1–10 | "Anne Bugs the Enemy" | November 29, 1964 | Adrian sabotages the motor pool in order to get them flagged for inefficiency, so Anne fights back by trying to put a tape recorder in the Commander's headquarters in the hopes that he'll make a damaging admission. |
| 1–11 | "Ranakai Flips Its Wig" | December 6, 1964 | The WAVES are tricked by Adrian into thinking that they're victim of a rare tropical disease known as "galloping baldness." |
| 1–12 | "My Son, the Egg" | December 13, 1964 | Adrian gets the mistaken notion that one of the WAVES is pregnant |
| 1–13 | "Selma, the Love Trap" | December 20, 1964 | The WAVES instruct Selma in the care and feeding of the fragile male ego. |
| 1–14 | "The Obstacle Course" | December 27, 1964 | The WAVES compete against three pre-trained Marines in running a jungle obstacle course and end up using their ingenuity to come out ahead. |
| 1–15 | "Behind the Eight Ball" | January 3, 1965 | After undergoing involuntary hypnosis, Adrian's attitude toward the WAVES swings wildly between love and hate. |
| 1–16 | "The Stowawaves" | January 10, 1965 | The WAVES stow away on a cargo ship and are shocked to see that Adrian is aboard. |
| 1–17 | "The Wolfman Cometh" | January 17, 1965 | A war correspondent uses the power of the press to wangle a date with a WAVE lieutenant. |
| 1–18 | "Taurus to Aries to Chance" | January 24, 1965 | After Roberta destroys Adrian's croquet court while trying to warn him about ominous astrological signs, the other WAVES realize that they have to make Adrian believe in astrology in order to avoid having Roberta court-martialed. |
| 1–19 | "Adrian Goes Gung-Ho" | January 31, 1965 | While Anne is on leave, Adrian uses sleep teaching records to try and get the WAVES to leave. After she returns, she tries the same thing on him and implants the idea that he should volunteer for dangerous duty. |
| 1–20 | "The Arrival of Stanley Stubbs" | February 7, 1965 | World-famous chef Stanley Stang (Arnold Stang) comes to the island after Adrian begs to have him assigned there. |
| 1–21 | "Follow That Pigeon" | February 14, 1965 | After spotting coded messages being sent by carrier pigeon, Adrian becomes convinced that the WAVES are guilty of espionage. |
| 1–22 | "Three Wishes" | February 21, 1965 | Adrian acquires a monkey's paw that's supposed to give the owner magical wishing powers. However, he's unaware that a curse is applied if an evil wish is made. |
| 1–23 | "Lieutenant Love, Sir" | February 28, 1965 | After calling a Navy hearing to try and charge the WAVES with inefficiency, Adrian then has them arrested by Brisbane police so that they won't be present to defend themselves. |
| 1–24 | "Adrian's Phantom Staff Car" | March 7, 1965 | Stanley and Selma allow Adrian's Rolls Royce staff car to roll off a cliff and into a tree and have to scramble in order to try and limit the consequences. |
| 1–25 | "Adrian Gets the Boot" | March 14, 1965 | Adrian orders the WAVES to undergo boot camp training while continuing with their motor pool duties. The WAVES fight back by faking an order that Adrian undergo basic training. |
| 1–26 | "Filet on the Hoof" | March 21, 1965 | Adrian smuggles a steer onto the island and then assigns the process of fattening it up to Anne after he discovers that she's allergic to animal hair. |
| 1–27 | "The Great Ranakai Mutiny" | March 28, 1965 | After Adrian begins shooting at an imaginary polar bear, Ensign Beasley takes command of the base. |
| 1–28 | "Anne Morgan's Home Movies" | April 4, 1965 | Adrian has movies of the WAVES taken during an unguarded moment so that he can use it as evidence that they're neglecting their duties. |
| 1–29 | "Witchcraft a Go-Go" | April 11, 1965 | Roberta develops ESP, which causes Adrian to use him to contact his wife, an 18th Century Hawaiian King, Napoleon's cook and a Chinese emperor who reigned in 6 A.D. |
| 1–30 | "Once Upon an Island" | April 18, 1965 | During the flight to Brisbane for the WAVES' court martial, the airplane door inadvertently opens, which causes Adrian, the WAVES, Ensign Beasley and Lt. Trotter to sail out over the South Pacific. |
| 1–31 | "Miss Ranakai" | April 25, 1965 | Adrian stages a beauty contest in order to create jealousy among the WAVES. |
| 1–32 | "Operation Clip-Joint" | May 2, 1965 | When Molly needs money for her nephew's operation, Adrian suggests a fund-raising party. He then arranges to raid the party in the company of Admiral Bradford. |
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