Ensign O'Toole

Season

1962

USA

7.2

Ensign O'Toole is a lower ranking officer on the destroyer Appleby. He keeps things lively instigating pranks while avoiding any work and trying to show up his nemesis, Lt. Rex St. John. The regular seaman are his willing accomplices.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Operation Kowana

Thanks to a misunderstanding in language, a Kowanan native believes he's won the Appleby in a poker game.

S1 • E2

Operation: Model T

After St. John accidentally ruins a French Caledonian doctor's Model T while repairing it, the Appleby crew disassembles it to transport it on the ship and reassemble and sell it in San Francisco.

S1 • E3

Operation: Daddy

Just as he's needed to type multiple reports, expectant father Seaman White is diverted from his trip home to Omaha by a series of military mishaps into a trip around the world.

S1 • E4

Operation: Benefit

Trying to raise funds to sponsor all the girls in a Korean orphanage, the crew of the Appleby puts on a talent show.

S1 • E5

Operation: Jinx

When a sailor with a reputation of being a jinx is assigned to the Appleby, things begin to go wrong for the rest of the crew.

S1 • E6

Operation Holdout

17 years after the end of WWII there are still soldiers stuck on an island that don't know the war has ended.

S1 • E7

Operation: Birthday

The crew wants to buy a watch for Chief Nelson as a birthday gift but they don't have enough money. O'Toole devises a plan to get the money from Nelson in a poker game.

S1 • E8

Operation: Dinner Party

St. John loses the money he was entrusted with for the officer's dinner party.

S1 • E9

Operation: Mess

Cook suddenly can't fix anything that the crew can eat, creating turmoil on the Appleby. O'Toole is determined to find the reason for the change and get things back to normal.

S1 • E10

Operation: Impersonation

When Stoner is imprisoned after a drunk driving incident, O'Toole has to impersonate the Captain to free him.

S1 • E11

Operation: Hypnosis

When O'Toole hypnotizes St. John into becoming a by-the-book officer and the Chief into hating gambling, chaos ensues.

S1 • E12

Operation Potomac

O'Toole begins receiving gifts from a secret admirer and in the beginning he's flattered. But the delivery of red dress makes him realize that the mystery man believes he is female.

S1 • E13

Operation: Gaslight

Ensign Clifford Bender, a Congressman's son, arrives fresh from Annapolis and upsets the crew. He fills a notebook with infractions and is determined to find and shut down an on-board crap game.

S1 • E14

Operation: Brooklyn

O'Toole must get Seaman Di Julio, who promised his parents he'd return to Brooklyn and run the family restaurant, to re-enlist in the navy. His plan: invite Papa Di Julio onboard the ship to see how indispensable his son is.

S1 • E15

Operation: Swindle

Chief Nelson is in love and hearing wedding bells, so much so that he fails to realize he's being conned by his Southern sweetheart.

S1 • E16

Operation: Treasure

When the crew comes across a message in a bottle, they're sure they've discovered a map to buried treasure.

S1 • E17

Operation Intrigue

While in Hong Kong, O'Toole gets mixed up with unscrupulous tailors, Scotland Yard, and a jewel-smuggling caper.

S1 • E18

Operation Psychology

Stoner's brother-in-law, an unemployed psychology professor, visits the ship and claims the crew's happy demeanor is hiding a warped personality and the men are insecure and unhappy in their work,

S1 • E19

Operation Royalty

When the Appleby hosts the admiral of the Taburuan navy, they're surprised to discover that he's the nation's 12-year-old prince.

S1 • E20

Operation Whodunit

When the last reel of a murder mystery goes missing, the crew pools its efforts to try to figure out just who killed Lord Mumbley.

S1 • E21

Operation Casanova

O'Toole tries to boost St. John's image with some Navy Waves.

S1 • E22

Operation: Souvenir

While anchored in Japan, Stoner places a ban in bringing souvenirs on board. St. John must find a way to hide the cannon he smuggled.

S1 • E23

Operation Arrivederci

O'Toole falls for a beautiful American artist living in Rome and schemes to introduce her to the Italian art community by hosting an exhibition on board the Appleby.

S1 • E24

Operation Re-enlist

Admiral Hornsby orders Commander Stoner to encourage men on the USS Applebee to re-enlist. Ensign O'Toole, the ship's executive officer, convinces Commander Stoner that a warm, friendly smile is the best way to convince the men to stay on the USS Applebee even though it is contrary to the commander's nature. Naturally, the enlisted men are bewildered and suspicious of the commander's sudden, new attitude, which forces him to double his efforts.

S1 • E25

Operation: Boxer

Because of DeJulio's lack of experience with the signal lamp, O'Toole challenges the crew of another ship to a "boxling," rather than bowling, match.

S1 • E26

Operation Stowaway

While at anchor off the coast of the Soviet Union, the Appleby is boarded by a beautiful defector.

S1 • E27

Operation: Arctic

While stationed in sub-freezing Arctic waters, the crew starts to go stir crazy.

S1 • E28

Operation Physical

Cmdr. Stoner worries that his age will have a negative impact on his upcoming physical. The crew steps in to try to help, but a few plans backfire.

S1 • E29

Operation: Tubby

The crew tries to help an overweight seaman (Stubby Kaye) lose pounds.

S1 • E30

Operation: Sabotage

In a training exercise, the crew of the Appleby must expose the one who is assigned to be a secret saboteur. O'Toole, of course, comes up with a clever method.

S1 • E31

Operation Contest

A mishap with a tanning lamp leads the crew to be quarantined for measles and miss their liberty in Hollywood. They pass the time entering contests, one of which Di Julio wins - with the provision that he bake cookies on live television.