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5.4/10 TV First episode date 20 September 1964 Executive producer Frank Gill Jr. | 8.2/10 IMDb Genre Sitcom Country of origin United States Final episode date 2 May 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Frank J. Gill, Jr.George Carleton BrownSi RoseRay BrennerBarry E. BlitzerBenedict FreedmanEarl BarretRobert C. DennisJack HarveyBruce HowardBud NyeElroy SchwartzIrving TaylorSam LockeJoel RappStan DrebenHoward MerrillWilliam RaynorMyles Wilder Directed by Frank McDonaldSidney MillerEdward MontagneHollingsworth MorseDon RichardsonJean YarbroughE.W. SwackhamerCharles Barton Starring Edward AndrewsDick SargentSheila JamesKathleen NolanJoan StaleyGeorge FurthArnold StangJimmy Boyd Network American Broadcasting Company Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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).
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Broadside 1x01 don t make waves 1964 kathleen nolan as lieutenant anne morgan
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).