Sketch o’the Week- McHale’s Navy!

Here’s another one for the “Sketch o’the Week” series “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we weigh anchor with a sketch of three of the main characters from “McHale’s Navy”, Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn!

This show was one that wasn’t in syndication as much as some others in my area, so I didn’t see it a lot. For a year or so it was on pretty regularly and I was interested in it not so much for the humor and stories as I was fascinated by Tim Conway being in it. My parents loved “The Carol Burnett Show” and I saw a lot of reruns of that, which of course starred a little bit older Conway. I loved all Conway’s skits on that show, so seeing a younger him in this old sitcom was surreal. 

I never saw “Seven Against the Sea”, which was the one-episode drama that was the basis of the TV show, nor the several feature films that were spawned by the series. I never saw “The Phil Silver Show” either, which I’m told was very much like “McHale’s Navy”. In fact many of the same writers worked on both shows.